Chris, Andy, Thanks! I haven't found any valid edits from this user. He/she has been tagging any patch of bare ground as building=house. In some cases there might be a building inside that bare patch of ground (difficult to tell with the imagery), but in most cases there is nothing.
Mike On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26/02/2016 20:55, Mike Thompson wrote: > >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37315914 >> >> Should I just manually delete, or would it be better for someone to do a >> revert. >> > > In a a case where someone has made a few valid edits and then something > that obviously isn't, I'd personally start with something like "I think you > may have left your keyboard unattended and your seven-year-old brother has > been playing". It's an (artificial) way of saying "this is not OK" without > saying "you did a bad thing". I'd add this publically to the changeset > discussion so everyone can see what's happening. I'd then go on to explain > why it's not OK to do things like this in OSM, and to point to places where > it might be OK (like OpenGeoFiction, though I'm not sure they're big on > pictures of animals). > > I'd also check the previous edits, to make sure that there was nothing > hidden in there that was also dodgy, and I'd revert the dodgy stuff. It > looks like a straight revert should work here (JOSM revert plugin*). > > Cheers, > > Andy (SomeoneElse, a member of the DWG, but all of the above is doable > without any DWG "special powers"). > > * a slight caveat applies at the moment - when I last looked, the latest > version of JOSM's reverter plugin didn't work with the tested version of > JOSM. If prompted to update plugins by JOSM don't, and you should be OK. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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