[Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

[Andy Robinson]

Oh joys J

 

On the plus side there are a lot more new users in those 30 ish who have added more than one item and one or two who have added some really good new stuff, so in some ways the attention will have some upsides.

 

Just need to be vigilant around our own patches.

 

Cheers

Andy 

 

From: SK53 [mailto:sk53.osm at gmail.com] 
Sent: 27 January 2017 16:16
To: Andy Robinson
Cc: talk-gb; talk-gb-westmidlands
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

 

Hi Andy,


These are Pokemon Go edits driven by the fact that the South Korea release of the game is definitely using OSM as the base map.

Total number of editors has picked up massively worldwide in the past few days with a ridiculous peak of 3000 new users a minute sometime this afternoon (although this may be a SEO-driven peak in the US).

Certainly whatever the basis of the influx its quite a lot to handle for existing 'data curators'. See the current range of changeset discussions. It's difficult to be sure, but I think there's an uptick in other edits too.

Jerry

 

 

 

On 27 January 2017 at 16:03, Andy Robinson <ajrlists at gmail.com> wrote:

There has been a large number of new editors in the wider midlands over the
last few days (32 since Monday) most of which have been adding new or adding
to exiting park areas. Some are fine first edits (a little awkward in placed
but not unreasonable) but others are not, so if it's also happening in your
area keep a close eye. I'm reverting those in my watch rectangle that are
obviously inappropriate and I, along with I note some others, have added
some changeset comments to try and make contact where appropriate, though
thus far no responses.

Mostly these seem to be id edits so I'm guessing perhaps a University course
or something.

Cheers
Andy


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