[Talk-GB] unwanted advertising in OSM in the UK

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

I've identified around 60 locations in the UK that sound very much like
advertising in the "description" tag.

I haven't inspected them, but more often than not such POIs don't only
sport marketing copy in the description tag, they also tend to lack the
usual shop/amenity/whatever tags that tell you what this is supposed to be.

If someone is interested in having a look:

http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/seo-uk.txt

or as a .osm file

http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/seo-uk.osm

(note if you want to use that in JOSM you should do "update data" first
in case someone else has already dealt with some)

These likely aren't the only "spam POIs" but they're the most obvious.
Some of them are close calls, where the description only has a list of
services, or where the advertiser is a non-profit or even an over-eager
mapper copying from a sign. Hence I'd rather see UK mappers have a look
and decide what of this is worth keeping, than deciding it from the
comfort of my armchair.

Bye
Frederik

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