Dear users TravelerHiker and Bartek93ZGL,

both of you are experienced mappers and have been with OpenStreetMap for many years, making good and valuable contributions. Yet you seem to be at each other’s throats and accusing the other of “vandalism”, when that is clearly not the case - everyone makes a mistake once in a while, and as a community we need to handle these cases with respect.

If you find that someone else has made a mistake, maybe because they misunderstood something or accidentally used old imagery or something like that, write a polite changeset comment explaining the problem to them, and if the other mapper is active, give them a chance to fix the problem themselves - else fix it yourself. But don’t use changeset comments like “fixing mistakes made by USERNAME” or “fixing vandalism commited by USERNAME” - that puts the other person on the defensive and will not benefit OpenStreetMap. That is not the behaviour of a grown-up mapper.

Thank you
Frederik Ramm
OSMF Data Working Group
Ticket#2024113010000163