[talk-ph] PARA mapping activity in OSM (was: Another user possibly illegal copying from GMaps)

[Jherome Miguel]

Now it’s becoming clear Para is behind our latest incident of mass copying
of data from GMaps and we have ongoing discussions with one mapper who
disclosed connections with the company as well as Para corporate officers,
I agree we defer any action, whether it be reverts or reporting users to
DWG, except where a lot of existing data has been lost. I was reverting a
bunch of Jan Rei’s edits around BF Homes when I received his reply to my
DM, but I decided to continue with it because there has been much data loss
(his edits deleted a lot of buildings, POIs and land use that are of better
quality).

On the question on JP, I can safety conclude he’s also working for Para as
well, now we have strong evidence linking Para map editors with recent
edits in Enugu, Nigeria, including those of Jan Rei.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 7:16 PM Erwin Olario <govvin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for looking into this, Timmy.
>
> I think I found the Nigerian connection: PARA9JA . It appears to be an app
> specifically for Enugu City in Nigeria and is made by the same
> company/developers Para Apps, Inc.
>
> Reviewing the top contributors since January 2021  Jan Rei Gallardo who
> only started mapping three weeks ago,  is the region's top contributor with
> 2,163 edits, beating local mappers several times over.
>
> By the way, I'm consolidating all Para Apps related issues in the
> PaperCut_Fix repo in this ticket [2].
>
> For now, even with all these observations gathered so far, that we defer
> any specific actions about their edits, and give them a chance to elaborate
> on their process. If they fail to do so, then we can elevate this to DWG
> (and present our findings to them), or if we're inclined to do so, tackle
> this ourselves.
>
> [0]: https://fb.com/PARA9JA
> [1]: http://paraappsinc.com/
> [2]: https://github.com/OSMPH/papercut_fix/issues/83
>
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