Indeed, the revert script had a bug where those nodes that it wanted to delete (because they were deleted before, and had been re-activated in the changeset to be reverted) were instead moved to 0,0. Thank you for fixing this.

Did you read the block message? Thousands of un-attributed and un-used nodes, often re-using node IDs from across the globe that were long since deleted, re-activating these buggy notes without comment after they were deleted by a community member, and not reacting to questions asked about these issues are reason enough for a short-term block to find out what happened. (No response from the mapper so far so we still don't know...) - This seems to be a recent phenomenon, all previous edits of that mapper seem ok.

This changeset has been reverted fully or in part by changeset 56782000 where the changeset comment is: remove vandalism

They were added by a SEO company (using 4 different throwaway accounts that will not respond to comments, and are not interested in learning how to make correct contributions to OSM). The SEO company took care to get all the contact data right but there wasn't a single shop or amenity or other tag that would actually tell us in OSM what these were about. What they did was just "write a name on the map" without caring for how we here in OSM work with data. I was faced with a choice of either finding out the correct tagging and spending my free time completing the shabby job a paid company has done, or rejecting their input. I chose the latter. I would have acted differently had this been the work of a newbie but from a company taking money for adding data to OSM, I expect that they don't cause more work for the volunteers.

Hi d_berger, reverting these edits was the right thing to do, but writing "FU", "Plonk", and "moron edits" was not. If your temper makes it impossible for you to show some politeness towards someone who has made a mistake, then simply let someone else do the revert.

+1, alle Änderungen, bei denen Du ein "building=<irgendwas spezifisches>" auf das weniger informationskräftige "building=yes" reduziert hast, sollten rückgängig gemacht werden.

(Falls das nicht klar war: Die Daten, die Du hier einträgst, sind öffentlich einsehbar!)

Hallo LottiKarotti, bitte füge keine persönlichen Daten (wie hier geschehen: E-Mail-Adressen) zu OpenStreetMap hinzu. Erstens verletzt Du damit u.U. die Privatsphäre der Betroffenen, zweitens sind das keine überprüfbaren Geodaten. Bitte entferne alle E-Mail-Adressen, die Du eingetragen hast, wieder.

This edit, and the edits you made in January 2018, do not correspond to actual features on the ground. Please refrain from adding fictional data to OpenStreetMap. I have reverted the edits in question.

FSVO "know", yes. I know from my work at DWG that they all come from the same IP range in Asia and most have signed up with an email address pointing to an US SEO business.

I have a couple 100 more of these across the US that I would like to weed out but while I do have strong opinions on the matter, maybe I should leave it to the local community to decide, and simply post a list? It's likely that the community would invest time to make these "advertising graffitis" into something useful - a gift that in my eyes, the SEO company and their clients don't deserve. But if someone wants to do it anyway...

Not only were these purpose-built hit-and-run accounts that will never respond to anything you would ask of them, they were also created by an SEO firm that has zero interest in our map other than putting their customer's name on it. This is much worse than an individual owner adding their own business - in which case you could at least hope they're local and they will also update their POI if something about their business changes. None of these had any shop/amenity/whatever tags - they were essentially graffiti: "write this business name on the map at this location", nothing more. We have tags for e.g. an acupuncture practitioner, but osm.org/node/4454478635 was, in OSM's data, not an acupuncture practitioner, just a label on the map. -- We at OSM are ok with people using our map to advertise their business name and location, and contact info, and we expect very little in return, namely that they invest the minimal effort to find out how to do it properly. Faced with a business that adds thousands of what is essentially advertising labels across our map, and charges their clients for it, and does it in such a shabby fashion that the data is practically useless for us, deleting it is the only language these people understand. Yes I could have added proper shop/amenity/... keys for each based on the name or looking up the URLs given - but contrary to the SEO business that added this advertising, I am not paid for this. I am willing to use my spare time to improve a bumbling newbie's work, but not a bumbling SEO provider's.

Der Way osm.org/way/478918750 (und vielleicht auch andere - ich habe nur diesen stichprobenartig gegriffen) ist in diesem Changeset als bearbeitet markiert, wurde aber gar nicht verändert. Hast Du dafür eine Erklärung - könnte das ein Bug in einem Plugin sein o.ä.?

Hallo, woher stammt der Name "Casa de Chela"? Bist Du selbst vor Ort gewesen und hast den dort erfasst, oder könnte der eventuell "aus Versehen" auch aus einer anderen Karte stammen?

In this changeset you have added the name "212" to a number of hiking paths. Your source is "bing, knowledge". Since the number cannot come from Bing: Where does your "knowledge" come from? Have you been there and surveyed the path, has there been a sign with that number on it, or have you perhaps taken the number from another map?

Hallo, Du hast hier einen Weg angelegt mit dem Namen "106". Wo kommt dieser Name her, hast Du den selbst vor Ort von einem Schild abgelesen oder könnte es sein, dass der aus einer anderen Karte kommt?

I am investigating a pattern where a SEO firm has created a single account for each of their clients, and used that account to add one POI only, and added that POI with a focus on getting the business name and website URL into OSM, without respecting OSM customs (often using spammy descriptions; not specifying an amenity/shop/office/... tag; adding a suite number to the addr:street tag). It is true that I *could* have guessed the leisure=tanning_salon from the name or looked up the URL given, but I felt that it is not my job to help the SEO company earn their money. In my mind, a POI that is just there to get a business name on the map is advertising. But I am making this edit as a private individual and not as a member of the OSMF data working group and if you, as a local mapper, would rather have the old node back then I'm happy to revert, or let you revert.

Please use source=survey only when you have been there and looked at something (which I find unlikely in this situation). I noticed that you changed a lot of relations to type=cluster which is a very rare value, and doesn't seem to be documented anywhere. Is this the result of some discussion, or just your personal idea of what the best tag for these archipelagos is?

Hello, can you explain why you created this object in Iceland with area=yes (and no other tags): osm.org/way/553783240

In diesem Changeset werden viele Gebäude gelöscht und neu eingezeichnet. Waren die alten denn so schlecht, dass das sein musste? Normalerweise versuchen wir, das zu vermeiden, weil man damit die Erfassungsgeschichte entfernt. Manchmal sind die Umrusse aus dem Sachsen-Atlas auch recht seltsam und passen so gar nicht zum Luftbild, wie hier: osm.org/way/151916292 ... was bedeutet das "survey" in Deiner Quellenangabe?

In this changeset you have modified 17 and added around 50 new names for the Cook Islands, many of these in languages that do not use Roman script. You claim that this information was sourced through "investigation", but could you shed more light on this?