[Tagging] amenity spamming?

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Mon Jul 24 17:14:31 UTC 2017


On 7/24/17 1:04 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> There is a user creating a large amount of strange wiki pages for
> "amenities" like
> television, microwave, washing machine, stool, seat, plant, fridge,
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dstool
>
> or tiny perishable objects like natural=flower
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dflower
>
> You find more via the page history -> username -> contribs.
>
> I wonder what to do about it, apparently he even maps some of those:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4944091271
>
> I wonder what to do here. 
you could contact him directly and ask him what he is trying to do, and
attempt to gently dissuade him.

if he is not amenable to reason, well, that's why we have the DWG.

richard

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