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

[Paul Berry]

Plenty of humans on the case already:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/47688939

Regards,
*Paul*

On 8 March 2018 at 09:44, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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