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

Jez Nicholson jez.nicholson at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 09:44:02 UTC 2018


Interesting. The skill is in how to spot the difference between a
description and an over-the-top SEO description. I'd love to see someone
train an AI on this.

- Jez

On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 at 00:29 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> 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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