<div dir="ltr">Great of you to do the research Stewart, and not limit it to Scotland or Europe!<br><br>My thought process has just been:<br>* Maybe this should be forwarded to the imports mailing list as they may have discussed (or want to discuss) that user and their API.<br>* We can't see private messages on OSM, but a recent feature is (public) discussions on changesets.<br>* I'll look up the changeset of the node you quoted, to see if anyone has complained about it.<br>* No discussion started, might aswell check the user link now to just be sure the API isn't explained on the profile.<br>* No profile text, diary = 0, but blocks received = 1, hmm... <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/611">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/611</a><br><br><div>The user is blocked and can't make any further changes until they log in (and read the block message). So there is no need to send your own message to them.<br><br>The node in question should be deleted (by any of us reading this) because it is derived from Google Maps. However, perhaps someone in Canada will respond as they may want to make use of local knowledge.<br>* check there is no cafe floating in the link there<br>* use our usual sources (search for the cafe website, or go and find where it actually is) to check the data and correct location<br>* add/move the cafe to the right place.<br><br>There are plenty of great OSMers in Toronto. Including Richard W, perhaps he could plan his next jog to go past this "cafe" and check it out. :)<br><br>Gregory.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 March 2015 at 02:57, Stewart C. Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scruss@gmail.com" target="_blank">scruss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font size="+1">Hi,<br>
<br>
Following on from a comment on <i>talk</i><i>-scotland</i> about
bitcoin-related spam appearing on the map, I had a dig around
locally in Toronto. It seems that there's a user <b>BitcoinMaps</b>
who is either randomly placing business locations on the map, or
is using a really terrible algorithm to place markers on behalf of
some other website's users.<br>
<br>
F'rinstance, here's one of the user's nodes:<br>
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<pre><node id="<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3295611361" target="_blank">3295611361</a>" visible="true" version="1" changeset="28221482" timestamp="2015-01-18T00:17:52Z"
user="BitcoinMaps" uid="2135320" lat="43.6390092" lon="-79.3354046">
<tag k="addr:city" v="Phoenix"/>
<tag k="addr:housenumber" v="11225 "/>
<tag k="addr:street" v="N. 28th Drive, Suite A-110"/>
<tag k="amenity" v="cafe"/>
<tag k="contact:phone" v="602-595-8393"/>
<tag k="contact:website" v=<a href="https://www.facebook.com/AshleighsCafeLakeShore" target="_blank">"https://www.facebook.com/AshleighsCafeLakeShore"</a>/>
<tag k="description" v="Breakfast and Lunch served. Bagels, breakfast burritos, skillets, lunch meat sandwiches on whole grains and rye, croissants, wraps, melts, Chicago dogs and salads. "/>
<tag k="name" v="Ashleigh's Cafe"/>
<tag k="payment:bitcoin" v="yes"/>
</node>
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<font size="+1">This would be all well and good (minor tagging
oddnesses aside) for a cafe in Phoenix, AZ, but the marker is in
Lake Ontario, a little south of Toronto. I have e-mailed the user,
particularly requesting information on where they get their
locations, and how change comments automatically created through
an API (created_by="BitcoinMaps API") all reading “</font>This
place has been automatically created.<font size="+1">” could ever be
anything other than an automated import.<br>
<br>
I have no problem with people tagging businesses that use
bitcoin*, as long as they at least try to meet some community
norms. Spattering the map with noise, however, irks me royally.<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
Stewart<br>
<br>
*: everybody knows that Dogecoin is better, though. Very currency,
wow.<br>
<br>
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