Changesets reverts

New candidates on revert by MtaX
17701432 deleted playground added by dimka
17686086 deleted whole Azriely area
17704368 546 nodes, 88 ways and 1 relation deleted
17686141 deleted Nip Tower
17686116 deleted Toyota tower
17686199 deleted Arlov tower and Discount Bank Tower
17686277 deletion
17686302 deletion
17686338 deletion
17687226 deletion
17686096 deletion

Checked all changesets by this user up to 17818422. All newer changesets must be checked.

Please revert changeset 21556937

As it includes only errors:

  1. The entire coastline between Tirat Ha-Carmel and Cesarea (way 96762889) was changed to a straight line.
  2. Incorrect tag changed for the Mitzpe Ramon boundary (way 27243339) by setting “name:he”=“мицпе раион”, and deleting both “name:en” and “name:ru”
  3. Created an dummy (!?) area using a self intersecting way with no meaningful tags

The same user also created changeset 21503216 that includes an unidentified way (no meaningful tags) which is not related to any feature in the Bing photos.
Please consider reverting it too.

Reverted both 21503216 and 21556937 and contacted user via PM

There is a troll named “saifaldin” who vandalized ways and area’s near Netivot. Can someone revert the vandalism? :open_mouth:

Please provide specific changeset numbers and an explanation of the vandalism for each one of them.

This ways were deleted or changed by user saifaldin
25692063, v13 - Deletion
175699358, v2 - Deletion
175699368, v2 - Deletion
93879807, v5 - Deletion
175699584, v11 - Deletion
93887889, v11 - Deletion
95428950, v2 - Deletion
93887896, v9 - Deletion
219662905, v5 - Deletion
220025716, v2 - Deletion
220026270, v9 - Deletion
49671281, v11 - Deletion
95458489, v4 - Deletion
58534225, v14 - Deletion
127603819, v2 - Deletion
120234822, v2 - Deletion
61176969, v4 - Changed location
61168376, v4 - Changed location
277555115, v1 - Changed location
277555113, v1 - Changed location
277555110, v1 - Changed location

ok, he has only one changeset 21976920
And as far as I can see - he deleted large landuse areas, rivers, wadis and some boundary ways.
For sure this one isn’t a good edit. I’ll revert it immediately.

Reverted.

Great! Thanks :smiley:

Please revert Changeset: 25905849

Below is the correspondence with its editor:

Reverted. See Changeset 26462429
Probably changes done in other changeset 25937437 was affected because of revert conflict. Please recheck relation Area B 3791784.

Thanks!
Area B issue is fixed, and I’ll update the Israel Hiking Map accordingly.

The changeset analyzer is currently down, so I have no idea what changes were made to Area B in changeset 25937437

Hi,

In changeset 29429445, user sivan00 has deleted part of Matzok HaTzinim Natural Reserve (שמורת טבע מצוק הצינים) - way 318954262.

I assume this was done by mistake, but the user did not respond to my message, despite being active in map edits.

Please restore this way.

Thanks, Zeev

Matzok HaTzinim Natural Reserve (318949395) was restored (Changeset 29981070)

This way “soli’s road”

http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/315635020

seems completely bogus - it intersects many of the existing ways, reuses many of the existing nodes, and its type is “footway”, which is wrong in most places. It was uploaded by this user:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/soli5151

which seems to be useless too.

It’s easy to delete. What is the proper protocol (ask the user and wait for reply? or delete right away?)

Contacting the user as a first step is always a good policy. In many cases, people are trying to do good, but they make mistakes along the way, especially at their first steps. It is in everybody’s interest to help them become contributing members of the community.

I suggest writing a welcoming message to the user, explaining the issues with the edit, asking what was the intended result and if he/she needs help in fixing it. If there is no reasonable response after a couple of weeks, put a revert request here.

In most cases people were willing to fix or let me fix by myself.

Zeev

This user sivan00 has done a few problematic (unless someone convinces me otherwise) changes: changing “highway=path” to “highway=track” on some ways:

example, example, example (twice).

I tried to contact him through Open Street Map messaging 10 days ago; got no reply.

So I have two questions, one technical and one administrative.

  1. How can I review the changesets that this user did? (I expect there to be a lot of helpful changes and a few problematic ones)
  2. What should we do? I have changed the “highway” type on some of these ways myself in the past; if I do anything now it might be interpreted as an edit war.

Also, do we even care? A distinction between “path” and “track”, while important for me, is maybe not so important for most people?

anatoly77g,
I think the only way to review all changesets is to go one by one, I don’t see any faster way.
You can use Achavi Boomarklet to make review easier.

If you are sure that these roads are tracks - just change them back. Even wiki suggests this:

Maybe will not harm to recheck them after some time to ensure this user doesn’t make same mistake again.

Maybe it wasn’t clear from my post - these are not "track"s. There is no way a vehicle can pass there. These are hiking trails.
Actually, I daresay that one of them is the most important hiking trail in Israel!

Sorry, that was my fault :slight_smile:
But same rule applies: if you sure - change it! :slight_smile:

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