stephankn
(Stephan Knauss (he/him))
1
Hello,
has anyone noticed more of such edits?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/87374264#map=18/16.50215/104.74574
User registered just a few days ago and edits areas with uncommon tagging and unclear source.
Sounds like we have another organized edit going on.
Any idea what “#DVBD2020 enumeration” could be?
The school looked certainly more correct on the initial location, based on the aerials.
Stephan
Russ_McD
(Russ Mc D)
2
No idea - but I have corrected a couple. Lets see if it elicits a response … as it did last time !
I Googled #DVBD2020 and all that came up was Swedish Flower Appreciation Society !
DVBD would be Division (Bureau?) of Vector-Borne Diseases. Likely the same project brought up in this post.
stephankn
(Stephan Knauss (he/him))
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Any objections of simply reverting such changes?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/72169906
Whatever their good intention is. It does not belong in OSM. It is certainly no place to publicly document malaria cases. This is IMHO a clear violation of people’s privacy.
On top of that: Their mapping ob anything what looks like a building does uesually not even remotely follow the outlines of the buildings in current imagery.
Russ_McD
(Russ Mc D)
5
I agree Stephan. The map is already full of junk edits. I agree with reversion in this case.
Can you also clean up those poorly drawn “shapes” that are simply labeled area=yes. They serve no purpose, often lie over roads, and bear very little relation to actual building outlines.