Changesets reverts

I have tried to contact the user sivan00 about several edits, but got no answer. Since the messages were sent, the user continued to be very active editing the map, as seen in the user’s history.

Is there something else that can be done to get sivan00’s attention before contacting the Data working group with a suspicion of vandalism!?

Zeev

On 19-Mar-2016 I wrote in Hebrew about 4 questionable edits in changeset 37367934:

On 23-Mar-2016 I wrote in English

Here he reveals his name, if it’s helpful.

http://forum.mapfactor.com/discussion/6906

I have forwarding my above post to sivan00 in a private message and to reply in this forum.
Yesterday I received a response in a private massage.

I’ve asked sivan00 again to respond in this thread since the issues are not private.

I hope he is responsive. Lots of damage, also in דרך המעיינות near Ein Carem.

Folks,
I’m terribly sorry if some errors were introduced as part of the modifications/corrections I have been making to OSM. Throughout my work I have encountered countless number of errors and corrected them to the best of my knowledge. If in some cases, someone thinks I made a mistake he is welcome to correct it. I the future, I will avoid correcting trails I’m not sure of, as this seems to be the main issue here.

Dear Sivan,

Mistakes happen, especially if you’re new to this and that’s okay. We appreciate your enthusiasm in correcting OSM mistakes.
That said, you seem to have introduced countless misrepresentations of paths as tracks. Think of all the grief caused to people planning 4x4 trips based on OSM and getting stuck. I believe it is your responsibility, rather thand the community’s, to go over these errors and correct them one by one.

Thanks

Sorry for missing this thread. I should have posted my previous reverts here. User Haim Eliezer Rogovin appears to be creating random castles. Two reverts so far.

I’ve reverted three changesets so far. User unresponsive to PMs or discussion comments.

I’ve sent them a “message that has to be read before continuing mapping” in case they’re just not seeing emails for whatever reason:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1353

Thank you :slight_smile:

I removed 8-year old vandalism nodes.

Interestingly, they were introduced by an apparently good user with lots of good contributions. I’d advise scanning the user’s history to see if more bad nodes were pushed among the good ones.

As expected, user had other issues.

I reverted a cafe spam in the Gaza strip. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Samir2017

I think the user should be suspended. Totally unresponsive. I PMed the DWG.

Can anyone check if this parking lot is still there? https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/51621119

A new user deleted it (and not fully). And this might be a mistake needing revert.

I think the edit is probably correct, judging by Tel Aviv’s GIS system - the 2016 aerial photo shows the parking lot, but the 2017 aerial photo shows the entire stadium is now a construction site.

https://gisn.tel-aviv.gov.il/iview2js/index.aspx?extent=177337,662033,177845,662245&layers=&back=1&year=2017&overview=1&opacity=0.9

Thank you for the info. I’ve removed the forgotten highway part.

There’s an oddly empty area in the middle of meadows. Could this be a removed residential area? How would I find the id of whatever used to be there?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/32.7032/35.4064&layers=N

I tried looking at this tile using http://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/
but non of the changes listed there seem to have deleted anything. It could be that this app is incomplete and doesn’t list all changes, or it could be that there was never really an area there. I don’t know how to tell for sure.

Also, it’s not really a residential area, but rather a boarding school:

https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%99_%D7%9B%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadoorie_Agricultural_High_School

Potlatch 1 advanced / undelete is a good start: https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch#map=17/32.70309/35.40705 but I don’t actually see any deleted ways there.

Could someone check what’s wrong here? https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/32.05252/34.94248

There are two overlapping tracks (I don’t think that’s ok, even if there are two trials in the area), and too many “Track” roads inside the junction.