Changesets reverts

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.

All the nodes of one track are also in the other track. It looks like en editing mistake since one track is part of the Israel Trail relation and the other is part of the “שביל אופניים מים לי-ם”. This is not the first time a bike trail is added on top of existing ways, rather than re-using them…

The strange junction topology error is probably a result of incorrect splitting of road 444 into two parallel tracks

Fixed in changeset 53002855

P.S., this thread is about reverting changesets, when specific changesets or users damage the map, not about other map issues.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/54959183 look like private map data, can someone start reverting procedure?

The process usually starts by contacting the editor, using a comment on the changeset page, politely describing the potential issues with this edit and asking the person to correct them or agree to a revert. There are also added values to this step - the person may learn not to repeat a naive mistake and the discussion is public in case of repeated issues.

A revert can be done later if the person is either unresponsive or prefers not to correct by himself.

User ForceJ is messing with bus stops and other things. It seems the intentions are good but the edits have multiple issues. I’ve been cherrypicking the bad things to revert, but I don’t have the time. I am tempted to revert everything. What should we do? See this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/55307717

Ideally we’d go through the edits, fix or revert the mistakes, and keep the good parts. Which of his changesets have you reviewed? We (collectively) can go through the rest.

I’ve reverted the bus stop changes across all changesets, plus removed several duplicate POIs. I did not thoroughly inspect the rest.