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Ruining hours of works by other mappers seems fine

Дасланы Gone 10 Чэрвень 2010 на English.

So the other day I found out that some mappers where blindly merging nodes that should not be merged or worse, removing some nodes effectively truncating some objects.

I contacted some of the users but did not get a reply. They did not fix their mistakes leaving the map even worse than before their edits.

Some people pointed me to the mailing lists where I asked one particularly harmful changeset to be reverted but unfortunately nobody undid that particular changeset.

One of the persons doing the merges said he would stop. At least a positive point here.

But in the end several people ruined hours of my and probably others mapping time, they won't fix it and nobody seems to really care.

Yes it is a community and error happens but couldn't just people follow a minimum of rules (as in Automated edits/Rules of conduct), cleanup after their mess and follow the basic principle that "If it's not broken don't fix it".

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Камэнтар JohnSmith ад 10 Чэрвень 2010 у 12:57

I don't think it's that no one cares, I just don't think you went through the motions properly to achieve the outcome you were hoping for, I wrote this wiki page so I didn't have to keep typing up the same advice:

osm.wiki/Australian_Vandalism

Камэнтар 42429 ад 10 Чэрвень 2010 у 15:52

Please describe WHO does WHICH automated edits with two or three typical examples, so we can take a look at the errors. Bots like woodpeck or xybot need a feedback in order to improve their rules.

Камэнтар Gone ад 12 Чэрвень 2010 у 20:11

@JohnSmith, the page you point to suggest to message the user (done) and then use the mailing lists (done). I do not figure out where I did not go throiugh the motions properly.

@FK270673. I contacted all the appropraite users. I am not interesting in pointing specific names, just in getting the data repaired.

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