flohoff's diary

Vandalism or thoughtless clicking ....

Found deleted Roundabouts in the Area i was mapping exclusively for the last weeks. After i put them in again i found more bogus edits tonight. Foot/Cycle/Waterways which are definitly not there. Footways without any connection although i know there is one etc.

The user seems to just map from memory and using potlatch. He is not really carful doing edits and i already tidied up a bit by deleting points and ways without any tags and connections etc.

Now i'd like to contact that user but there seem to not be any standard way to map a username to an e-mail address

Coordinates:
51.8091247960835; 8.4295301082753
(map / edit)
Posted by flohoff at Wed May 07 22:56:57 +0100 2008


Comment from davidearl at Wed May 07 23:44:30 +0100 2008

You can find out who created a Way in JOSM (and it can't be anonynmous because Potlatch doesn't allow anonymous users) - download the offending area, select an offending way and the user name shows up in the appropriate panel. You can then contact the user through the messaging facility at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ (remembering to replace anty spaces in the name with %20)


Comment from smsm1 at Thu May 08 21:24:44 +0100 2008

There us a special user plugin that will take you to the user page of the user who made the last edit.


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