Quality issues with 2-year-old indoor data at Wichita University

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The DWG has received the following complaint about data added by user vineelachaluvadi:

If you have the tools, would you consider reverting all of vineelachaluvadi’s edits.

osm.org/user/vineelachaluvadi/history

The user has imported thousands of nodes/ways as a supposed representation of the internals of a number of buildings at Wichita University - doors, walls &c. See, for instance, osm.org/edit?changeset=135953925#map=19/37.717903/-97.295687

The issues are: - inappropriate level of detail - volume of nodes and ways presented through the standard editing interface slows it to a crawl - too voluminous a contribution to consider rectification by hand - no source adduced for the data - see also the comment at osm.org/changeset/135953851#map=19/37.717680/-97.295885

The user edited between April and May 2023, and has not been seen since.

What is the community opinion on this? Kick out the data, or leave it in? I’m not sure whether this was an import, it might well have been manual editing, however the funny tags mentioned in the changeset comment linked above suggest some sort of import activity.

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My gut reaction is density is not really a reason to remove data if it is accurate. But I haven’t looked through the data to see if it is.

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I see lots of descriptive names (name=OFFICE, name=class room, etc.) and while I’m very much a fan of micromapping, I don’t think the quality level here is acceptable. Even I have to admit that “standard indoor walls as areas” is probably a bit too far - not to mention that nothing here is square or lines up between levels.

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Given the amount of time/effort that likely went into this, I’d reach out to the users (or their professors that led the effort, if that’s the case?) and see if they’re willing to clean up the bad data before deleting it.

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