Hi. Am 2015-10-07 um 10:03 schrieb Colin Smale: > I am not sure it would be vandalism - It is more likely a > misunderstanding of the intention of the tracks=* tag. But it is very > damaging, and potentially hard to revert as this has been going on for > some time and newer edits may have been made. It may need something like > this: > > * Get all changesets from WJtW > * get all railway tracks from those changesets with tracks>1 > * search back through the history to find where the tag was added > * see if it was user WJtW that did it > * If so, remove the tracks=* tag.
I (a German railway mapper) have been notified by another user about WJtW's edits last week. I [1] have already started reverting parts of his edits. That's the way I did it: - Search for railway=rail + tracks=2 via Overpass Turbo (with meta as output variant) - Pick out one way of the result. If its last edited was done by WJtW, I had a lookat the changeset which did this edit using Achavi. If the changeset was mostly adding of tracks=2, I reverted it. Sometimes I did partial reverts if only parts of the changeset were bad. - If the last edit of the way was done by another user, I had a look into the way's history and looked for the bad changeset(s) there. You have to repeat this until the area which you are going to clean is free of tracks=2. Note: If you are looking at the area between Dortmund and Cologne – there are lots of ways with tracks=2 from old times (about 4 to 7 years ago) because tracks=2 has not been removed when the second track was added to OSM. > But in Dutch (as you will know) there is a wonderful expression about > trying to mop up (a flooded bathroom) while the tap is still running. We > need to turn the tap off and stop this getting any worse. > > It's starting to sound like a candidate for a user block until the user > engages in some kind of dialog. I have asked DWG to block him (0-hour-block) because he has been notified about his errors several times: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34049497 (21 days ago in German) https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34264606 (11 days ago in English) http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34313237 (7 days ago in English) It is not the first time that a user used tracks=2 the wrong way. There were/are users from time to time who add tracks=2 because there was a map by ITO rendering tracks=2. I asked the people from ITO to shut down this map a few days ago to prevent future abuse of tracks=2 as tagging for the renderer. I thank ITO for their quick reaction (the took the map offline). http://www.itoworld.com/map/group/1 Best regards Michael aka Nakaner [1] via my cleanup account Nakaner-repair -- Per E-Mail kommuniziere ich bevorzugt GPG-verschlüsselt. (Mailinglisten ausgenommen) I prefer GPG encryption of emails. (does not apply on mailing lists)
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