I noticed it via my RSS feed of Pittsburgh area changes. Wasn't too hard to put 2+2 together when the same changeset comment kept popping up today with different users.
-James ________________________________ From: Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 6:49:22 PM To: Ian McEwen Cc: OSM Talk US Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Best way to contacting users who are taking a class, but are possibly damaging data at same time? Hey, I emailed Tom Mueller asking if it is indeed his class and if it is, to sign up for this list if he hasn't already and post a little bit of info on the class and the students' editing assignments. I am curious about this work and hope we can learn something about OSM in the classroom! I haven't looked at the edits myself but that's a keen eye, James! How did you discover this pattern? Martijn On Apr 11, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Ian McEwen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I'm equally inexperienced in the contact department, so take what I say with that gain of salt. This appears to be a class at California University of Pennsylvania (calu.edu<http://calu.edu/>), and the last of the users you link appears to be Dr. [Tom] Mueller himself. Perhaps someone with some degree of officialness can contact the professor directly (via institutional email, I'd guess) to start the conversation in a good-faith fashion. On April 11, 2016 3:13:39 PM MST, James Mast <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I've been noticing today in my local area that there are several users (6 of them [1]-[6]) using the same changeset comment of "GEO100 Dr. Mueller's class". Several of these changesets are their first ever, so it seems to me that this class just started. Only 1 of the accounts seems to be older than 1 month, and possibly might be the teacher [6], but can't be 100% sure. Any recommendations on how to contact the users about this, or does somebody who has had previous experience with something similar want to take lead? Don't want to mess anything up that might give us some new mappers. -James [1] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BradleyMann [2] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gdelre [3] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/catiehamel [4] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/glo6735 [5] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cortazzo [6] - https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TomM4 ________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Ian Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail._______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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