[OSM-dev] Interest in Vandalism Detection Project
Kamalpreet Grewal
grewalkamal005 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 05:01:59 UTC 2016
On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Andy! Thank you for an elaborated reply.
> The first thing that I'd mention is that OSM is really more of a "platform"
> than a "project" - lots of things work with it, and many of the things that
> work with OSM data arenn't joined to other things that work with OSM data
> (you've probably already noticed this from reading [2] below). So there
> isn't really a "central OSM project to detect vandalism", there are lots of
> people using lots of tools to detect anomalies in the OSM data (and fix
> them).
Okay. Found some at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Detect_Vandalism#Tools. I guess
this is what you referred to as 'tools'.
> The second thing is that personally I have a bit of a problem with the word
> "vandalism" to describe what most of these tools do, since most of the data
> problems that people looking for data anomalies find aren't really vandalism
> at all but mistakes of one form or another (for example, only today someone
> noticed that a particular building had been uploaded 26 times by accident).
> There are exceptions (politically motivated renamings is an example of a
> problem that OSM's Data Working Group[4] deals with), but actual vandalism
> is thankfully rare.
Okay, so not considering vandalism alone and taking in account other
anomalies that occur when users edit and update maps, I would shift my
focus to anomaly detection.
<snip>
>
> What I'd also do is try and get a feel for adding data to OSM yourself - try
> and map things in your local area, if you haven't already. That way you'll
> understand what people updating OpenStreetMap are trying to do, and it'll
> help you to "define the problem" above.
I will add data to OSM and see how things work for a clearer picture.
I would like to know the progress of OSM Anomaly Detection project. I
understand it is to detect anomalies in the OSM data. In one email
(back in 2012), I read that it has been abandoned. But it came up
again in 2015 (GSoC). After knowing the current status, I would like
to start working on this project. How should I proceed?
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Kamalpreet Kaur Grewal
Blog: http://kamalpreetgrewal.com/
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