Keeping an eye on the map

You could try Owl - http://owl.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ but I’ve not got anything out of it yet.

There were unusual numbers of editors working on India last week according to OSM stats, but they did not add many nodes.

It was this woodland.

Now the city of Chennai has vanished! This seems to have been some time ago by the look of things, because it cannot be seen at any resolution. I can’t find it, and because I’m not sure where the original was exactly it is difficult to find the area history and figure out how it happened. The history of a congested city centre is complicated.

I’ve replaced it with a basic place=city/ name =Chennai node. But ideally we would find the original and revert its undeletion / change, since it will have a load of other useful information on it (names in other scripts, population, et.c.). If anyone knows how to retrieve it, that would be useful.

I’ve located the deletion and replaced the node and the tags (though not all the relation links for the city node). A new user seems to have been experimenting. It would be useful if anyone with knowledge of Chennai near the beach looked at his/her work, some of it looks dubious.

Now someone has deleted Chikmagalur. How does one revert?

No, the town is still there (Chikkamagaluru, the standard Kannada name), I can’t see a deletion or anything in its history.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/history#map=13/13.3181/75.7776

The forest polygon that overlays this area needs to be adjusted, the place is actually surrounded mostly by farmland as one would expect.

I’ve adjusted the name:alt value to ‘Chikmagalur’.

Oh! In the morning when I searched, I got the error ‘Node doesn’t exist anymore’.

here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/245619852

Just unclassified a bunch of local roads in Chikkamagaluru that were tagged tertiary. Also any clue if this is actually a reservoir, looks like it used to be an airstrip? http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/10778#map=13/13.3118/75.8010&layers=N

Noticed that User Android team has added more than 3k Mysuru=Mysuru tags in and around Mysuru few weeks back.

This one’s the huge mechanical edit - http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34317657

http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34317657 this changeset is now reverted. :slight_smile:

In response to PlaneMad’s query of 21st August

‘Also any clue if this is actually a reservoir, looks like it used to be an airstrip? http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/10778 … 0&layers=N’

See this NEWS9 broadcast video on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhnf6XJMH7A . The geographic coordinates of the airstrip can be seen on a signpost in the video. I’ve therefore marked it as such and changed the area tag for the surround area from wetland to grass, though the land might possibly also flood at times from what seems to be a stream that can be seen on the south side.

Hi,

is there somebody they can take care about this guy:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Rajesultanpur/history#map=12/26.7547/81.9598
around 850 changesets of invented data. He invents airport/railway stations/ big roads/shops and so on.
I dont speak Hindi maybe somebody from India can take care and tell him that he destroy the Indian Navigation Maps. I wrote him many times in English without any result.

Best regards

Thanks for doing that, but can I possibly suggesting using changeset discussion comments rather than OSM messages to do that? They’re public rather than private, which means that other people will know that there’s a problem and can act accordingly.

(my apologies if you have been using changeset discussion comments to communicate - I had a look back through the last 14 days and didn’t notice one)

Yes you are right but I see no other way.
History:
first block from dwg, but this time I can not reach anybody:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/961
some changeset comments from me and others
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43207528#map=14/26.2616/83.0650
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/42850786#map=14/26.3362/83.0707
there are many more but mor then a month ago

Best regards

Are any changesets pending revert? If you see any problems in the future, please let do the DWG know.

I deleted a lot of wrong things. But nothing in the last 14 days.
I wrote on 2. November to this adress:
data@osmfoundation.org
Without any answer. Was this the wrong adress?

We were aware of the user already (they were blocked previously in https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/961 ). Looking at that day I see 17 DWG-related emails one of which (after cross-referencing changeset discussion comments with the forum name here) I presume was from you. It looks like it was acted upon (some other investigation was done), but it looks like there was a misunderstanding about who was going to perform the next action, and one of the things that didn’t happen was an acknowledgement to you that your mail had been received.

Do I read “I deleted a lot of wrong things. But nothing in the last 14 days.” to mean that “there has been no problem data added by this user in the last 14 days” or “they have continued to create problems, but I have given up fixing them for the last 14 days”? If the latter, are any changesets pending revert? What I don’t want to do is to block them again if 14 days ago they started making sensible (even if not very high quality) edits to the map and stopped making fantasy ones.

One of the things mentioned so far was that they may not have a good command of English, so it would be helpful if users of this forum could regularly monitor http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions?c=India and if they see a changeset discussion comment in a language that a local mapper may not understand to add a translation. I’m guessing here that that would mean Urdu?

Hi,

I wrote three mails in past regarding this user. The other 14 are from different users. 14 days ago I tried to inform the DWG group but nothing happend. The main problem is, that he invent a lot of data thats never exist. e.g this airport : http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/26.7955/82.1593
Furthermore he creates railroad station that not exists and so on. Also a lot of roads are complete / partly wrong. In this area we was mapping the correct ref numbers but he change them on his own way and invent new numbers. He mappes bridges that not exist, and so on… . I reverted that shit in the past regulary, but now he change everything in small steps. It is a lot of work to revert this shit and I have not the time to do this. Please revert everything and block this user!

Furthermore he has some other accounts. I will inform you if he activates one of them.

Best regards