The OSM-PH community have been monitoring this user for years. Since his previous edits were mostly in the Philippines, we are trying to resolve this within the local community. But lately, we noticed he has started editing in other parts of the world and on "highly valuable" OSM features. We feel we should escalate monitoring by sharing this to the larger OSM community.
OSM userid: 688302, 698612, 2041564, 3179745, 3318041, 3431335, 3611662
We think these are vandalism/harmful edit accounts of the same person (identfying as he based on username) for the following reasons:
- My initial contact via OSM private message was ignored. We reported the user to DWG and was blocked.
First contact message
User block message
- Fictitious edits which he himself admitted.
- Does not provide useful changeset comment and instead of engaging in discussions, he adds rants in the data itself. Sample: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/36963220
- Everytime we flag his edits either by sending message, commenting on changesets, reverting edits, he changes his username to cover tracks.
- While he edits in many parts of the world, we think he is the same person because he keeps on editing in the same area. See this overpass query of edits in Gandara, Philippines: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/cWf
