[talk-ph] Is this spam? (boracay)

Marloue Pidor murlwe at mail2Engineer.com
Wed Mar 3 07:04:29 GMT 2010


Now here's a Spam!

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2032644

Jun Domingo is all over Davao advertising his brokerage firm as he did
with Google Earth/Map

I already informed him to remove his ads but he has legitimate edits as
well.

Best,

murlwe

<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Eugene Alvin Villar [seav80 at gmail.com]
>Sent: 2/28/2010 11:55:30 PM
>To: raw at develo.ltd.uk
>Cc: talk-ph at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Is this spam? (boracay)
>
>I guess Ian thinks it's spam because a user account adding stuff
related to the
>username is spammy in Wikipedia. But OSM operates in a different manner
so I
>agree that it isn't spam.
>
>
>
>2010/2/28 Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd. <raw at develo.ltd.uk>
>
>Personally, I don't think so. The hotel is not represented any
different from
>the other hotels on the island. If they had set the name to "Boracay
Residences
>- rooms from P500", then yes, bus as it stands, it seems perfectly fine
to me.
>
>I've personally added shops I like to the map, both to improve the map
and to
>give them a (at least theoretical) competitive edge. For example one
time my
>wheel bearing broke down completely and a very friendly vulcanazing
shop in
>Angeles (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/494626516) helped me
get the
>parts and assemble it very quickly, without overcharging me, even
though I am a
>foreigner :) As I was tracing anyway, I of course put his shop on the
map
>(although the map doesn't seem to display vulcanizing shops yet). There
are
>hundreds of other vulcanizing shops in the area, but I didn't have time
to put
>them all. Would that classify as spam?
>I doubt it, it's just improving the map bit by bit, isn't it?
>
>Ronny.
>
>ianlopez wrote: 
>
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Boracay%20Residences/edits
>
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