[talk-ph] On users copying from GMaps

[Jherome Miguel]

(Resending, with modifications)

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 for copyright violations. A mass revert (to be done
by DWG) would be required, since the POIs were added one by one, with one
edit involving addition of one POI (it would be easier to revert if the
POIs were added in large edits, which is not the case). This incident
reminds of another previous incident in Batangas last December 2019, and we
shouldn't let something like this slip through the cracks.

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. The user has never attempted to
answer comments about their edits, and I already reported the user pending
a block and a mass revert. We are also monitoring another user mapping for
the Para Safe app, also involved in the same issue.

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:13 PM Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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