<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You can point businesses to <a href="https://www.onosm.org/" class="">https://www.onosm.org/</a> which gives businesses an easy way to add themselves. It generates a note on OSM, that mappers can then turn into an actual node or whatever OSM type is relevant to add the information to the map in a responsible way.<div class="">Martijn<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 30, 2019, at 1:22 PM, <a href="mailto:forster@ozonline.com.au" class="">forster@ozonline.com.au</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi, I'm thinking it might be worth emailing the businesses being advertised and telling them that the SEO company that they engaged is making edits that they might not want their business associates.<br class="">Tony<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Concur. Be ruthless. These people are akin to nuisance callers and<br class="">should be publicly flogged.<br class=""><br class="">Ian<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 30/1/19 7:22 pm, nwastra wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">We seem to be getting a lot of business edits in this form lately with only a name and description tag, often with address details or just spam in the description tag.<br class="">As is usual with spam like business edits, they use a throw away email to make the edit and you never get a response from any query.<br class=""><a href="https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=66761372" class="">https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=66761372</a><br class="">I am in favour of deleting them as SEO spam.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Talk-au mailing list<br class="">Talk-au@openstreetmap.org<br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Talk-au mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Talk-au@openstreetmap.org" class="">Talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a><br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au<br class=""><br class="">_____________________________________________________<br class="">This mail has been virus scanned by Australia On Line<br class="">see http://www.australiaonline.net.au/mailscanning<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Talk-au mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Talk-au@openstreetmap.org" class="">Talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a><br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>