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I just had a look at the editing pattern of the users involved in
this. Many of the edits were just adding roads or landuse. And the
POIs that were added are quite spread out. It seems to me that the
mappers were just adding a bunch of POIs that were of personal
interest to them.<br>
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It's very different from the pattern of Para mappers which always
added a very high density of POIs along selected roads and never
added any roads or landuse.<br>
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The main issues that I noticed are descriptive names, missing tags
and bad geometries. As I suggested on the papercut ticket, maybe
each of us can just pick a few users, review their edits and then
tick them off on the list.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021-07-05 02:12, Jherome Miguel
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<div dir="auto">FYI, I provided a short timeline of events
regarding this suspicious organized mapping activity:</div>
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<div dir="auto">1.) December 15, 2019: Unusual increase in map
activity reported around the municipalities of Taal, Lemery, San
Nicolas, Santa Teresita and San Luis. OSMPH ticket created.
Contact with three editors attempted.</div>
<div dir="auto">3.) December 20, 2019: Last edit reported.</div>
<div dir="auto">4.) January 24, 2020: POIs copied from GMaps
discovered through Geofabrik Map Compare. New ticket created for
reverts of all POIs believed to be illegally copied.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Now we’re also dealing with issues about mapping
by Para Apps, I’m also looking if some of the users could be
really Para map editors (not sure if any of the municipalities
where the suspicious mapping activity do have launched tricycle
services using the Para app). Some of the names of the users
involved do raise red flags, but so far, that’s just my gut
feeling; there’s little evidence they could be.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 10:47
PM Jherome Miguel <<a href="mailto:jheromemiguel@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">jheromemiguel@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="auto">As of now, we have been tackling issues
with edits from PARA Systems Inc, which has some of
its users involved in Illegal copying from Google
Maps, but I would also like to revive the
investigation regarding a huge organized mapping
activity covering several municipalities in Batangas
last December 2019 (see <a href="https://github.com/OSMPH/papercut_fix/issues/56" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/OSMPH/papercut_fix/issues/56</a>).
There has been illegal copying of GMaps data in that
case (and much of the edits from that activity
reverted), editors have failed to communicate
regarding concerns about data quality and sourcing,
and the nature of the mapping activity remains
unknown. I have long guessed this one could be a LGU
mapping activity, and reviving investigations should
bring more details to light.</div>
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