[Talk-GB] Spam GPS traces

Dave F davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com
Wed Nov 14 19:59:08 UTC 2018


Looks fine to me

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.1752/-2.1234&layers=G

A cock-up in JOSM? Report it to them.

On 14/11/2018 17:09, Silent Spike wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm editing this area 
> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/57.17591/-2.12320) in JOSM and 
> the GPS data in the area contains some traces uploaded which look like 
> spam (loads of horizontal lines which seem to form the shape of the 
> river and other features).
>
> I'm unsure of the extent of the data, but it looks as though they are 
> all marked as recorded from 01/01/70 01:00 - 01:00.
>
> Is there somewhere to report this so that they can be removed? I had a 
> look around the wiki and found the data working group, but it's not 
> clear whether they deal with GPS traces and I couldn't find anywhere 
> that specifically discusses them except a figure caption on the page 
> for vandalism.
>
> Here's a screenshot from JOSM <https://i.imgur.com/JjRd7Zz.jpg> since 
> private traces aren't visible on the website
>
>
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