Am 08.03.2015 um 10:20 schrieb Christoph Hormann: > On Sunday 08 March 2015, Tom Hughes wrote: >>> >>> Wow. This constitutes an extremely simple way to mount a DoS attack >>> on the OSM tileservers. I will have to assume that the Operations >>> WG is already thinking of ideas on how to prevent this possibility >>> in the future. >> >> I think I can safely say we're not. >> >> Of course if you have a brilliant idea how to do such a thing then >> I'm sure we'd love to hear it. > > The OSM inspector already has a display mode for ways with long > segments - it currently however seems it is not working: > > http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=geometry&overlays=ways_with_long_segments,long_segments > > And it has a fairly low threshold (0.3 degrees - that is ~40km) so it > highlights quite a lot of stuff. With an additional layer highlighting > only the very long segments (like above 300km segment length) you could > quickly see such issues. And editors of course also should prominently > warn about such edits.
Sounds like work for the editor software if the api is not capable to prevent moving a node hundreds of kilometres. cu colliar [1] https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11215
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