[OSM-talk-be] created_by = mpconvert

[Ben Laenen]

Did you contact him through 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jorissynaeve ?


On Friday 03 October 2008, Lennard wrote:
> I was browsing around, and I found the following area:
>
> http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/?zoom=15&lat=51.15151&lon=4.07492&layers
>=B000000F
>
> Every name in that area is in CAPS, and some ways even have stranger
> names, like:
>
> - WEDUWE VOS~[0x1f]WEGEL
> - Data0=(51.14303,4.06756),(51.14719,4.07850)
> - GROTE~[0x1f]BAAN
>
> All made by user "jorissynaeve", and they are tagged with
> "created_by=mpconvert", and edited/created at "Sat Sep 27 09:15:34
> +0100 2008".
>
> Even non-road data, like this restaurant, has been treated the same
> way:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/300235421
>
> My questions:
>
> - What is 'mpconvert'?
> - What is the source of the data?
> - Why are all names in CAPS?