Matt McCutchen's Comments
Changeset | When | Comment |
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169796802 | 4 days ago | Hey! This changeset appears to consist mostly if not completely of spam, similar to the spam we previously saw from unknown246's account (discussion on osm.org/changeset/169357242). For now, I've gone ahead and reverted the whole thing in osm.org/changeset/169829340 . What happened? Was your account hacked too? If you are intentionally creating new accounts in order to continue spamming, I'll have to ask what tools the Data Working Group has available to stop this. If you believe some of your edits to elements are valid, please explain which ones and where you got the data (your changeset has an unhelpful description and no source) and we can reinstate those edits. Thanks for your cooperation. |
169357242 | 4 days ago | OK, I reverted the remaining parts of your changesets 169310048 through 169373059, even the parts that looked potentially valid. (Technicality: I didn't revert discardable tags.) I think this is the best way, to make sure that other users don't contact you with questions about data you didn't intend to submit. If any of the changes are valid and important, someone can redo them later. I didn't touch your changesets after 169373059, except I reverted osm.org/changeset/169482172 because I didn't think it made sense to leave the business with a city, state, and zip but no house number or street. If you can vouch for all the address tags, feel free to resubmit them. Thanks again for your cooperation. I'm glad to see that this incident apparently hasn't turned you off of contributing to OSM. |
169793607 | 4 days ago | See osm.org/changeset/169357242 for discussion. |
169357242 | 11 days ago | I've cleaned up almost all of the 5TDGBRCH4MS037831 stuff as well as some links to irrelevant photos on Flickr. However, some of the same changesets that included the obvious spam also included other edits that look like they could be either truthful or bogus. unknown246, did you intentionally make any edits to OpenStreetMap since July 21, or can I assume that all the edits from your account in that time period are from the hacker? If the latter, then I will revert the rest of the edits. (I was going to leave them alone, but then I noticed osm.org/changeset/169310048, with stream names that look pretty unlikely to be truthful.) Thanks for your cooperation in getting this mess cleaned up. |
169320029 | 11 days ago | See the discussion on osm.org/changeset/169357242 . I'm already working on reverting the "5TDGBRCH4MS037831" spam in all of unknown246's changesets. But I'm a relatively junior user; if DWG wants to take this over and has better tools, go for it. Is there a better place to put a notice so other mappers don't inquire on more individual changesets? |
169357242 | 12 days ago | Oh, that makes sense. Thanks for letting us know what's going on. I assume you already locked the hacker out (e.g., by changing your password and revoking any OAuth authorizations they could be using)? I'll work on cleaning up the 5TDGBRCH4MS037831 stuff. |
169357242 | 12 days ago | Hey, why did you name so many elements "5TDGBRCH4MS037831"? I don't see how this could be accurate. Did your editor go haywire? |
168531616 | 20 days ago | This change looks good. Thank you for the contribution! I only found two minor issues:
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168872338 | 20 days ago | Looks good. Thanks. |
168872189 | 20 days ago | The change itself looks good. I'd encourage you to specify the source as you did on some of your other changesets. I know the iD editor doesn't make this obvious (https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/7755 for the record). |
168872107 | 20 days ago | The change looks fine to me. Thanks for contributing. It looks like there are some other service roads internal to the plant that have no access tag. If you think it's safe to assume they're private too, you could consider tagging them so.
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168619255 | 20 days ago | Thanks for pointing this out. I performed the deletion in osm.org/changeset/168986891. To delete part of an OSM way, you would select both the way and the cutoff point, use the "split" command, and then delete one of the two ways left after the split. In the future, if you need a change made to the map but are not sure how to perform it, it's better to create a note with the information (osm.wiki/Notes) than to add dummy data to the map. Thanks for your contributions! |