[Talk-GB] Odd edit in Oxford

[Andy Townsend]

On 11/11/2016 18:46, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
>
> Is there anyone in/around Oxford that can check the appropriateness of 
> this recent changeset https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43516570 
> concerning https://www.openstreetmap.org 
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/99933769>
>

Hi Robert,

Thanks for reporting it.

At first glance, it looks like pretty obvious spam to me - I suspect 
they've searched for "IT Services" and updated something that matched 
that.  There have been lots of these, mostly in the US, but increasingly 
elsewhere.  Obviously the tricky bit is allowing businesses to add 
themselves to OSM without problems, but still detecting and dealing with 
the rubbish like this.  I've mentioned it internally (to the person in 
the Data Working Group who's been mostly dealing with these) to see if 
he wants to do anything with it beyond a simple revert, but I suspect 
it'll be gone very shortly.

Best Regards,

Andy

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