[talk-ph] On users copying from GMaps

[Jherome Miguel]

Hi,

It was since January that we discovered certain users mass adding POIs from
Google Maps. I first brought up this issue on GitHub, where Timmy has
discovered that one user I mentioned copied from Google Maps using Map
Compare evidence. Those fly-by-night users (as I described them), having
done a thousand edits within a week and a month, are suspicious enough to
be reported and blocked. A mass revert would be required, since the POIs
were added in a single changeset (it would be easier to revert if the POIs
in one large edit, which is not the case).

Sorry for bringing this issue to your attention late, but since I reverted
several of those user’s edits around Lipa, along with some fixes from
previous travels, one of those users (a JPBaje) has returned back after I
found suspicious edits and POIs in Bocaue.
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