Brutal Vandalism

Hi all,

There is a user deleting the entire area of Iraq and leaving it all empty. Can someone who has authority in OSM ban this user permanently?

user: Iraqi http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/iraqi
area affected: http://www.openstreetmap.org/history#map=11/34.1897/43.9069

It is a huge area, everything is left blank now. It is horrible :frowning: I have emailed the Data Working Group

look at these changesets:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/45158990#map=10/33.9958/43.8354
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/45158878#map=9/34.0436/43.9481
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/45158990#map=10/33.9958/43.8354

There are over 20 of these changesets. This is just geographical terrorism. :frowning: People have spend years mapping it

Someone has imposed a temporary block http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1151

In general first offenders will not get more than that.

The Arabic changeset comment appears to translate as โ€œchangesโ€, so is not helpful.