[Talk-scotland] local spam locations from user BitcoinMaps

[Gregory (LivingWithDragons)]

Great of you to do the research Stewart, and not limit it to Scotland or
Europe!

My thought process has just been:
* Maybe this should be forwarded to the imports mailing list as they may
have discussed (or want to discuss) that user and their API.
* We can't see private messages on OSM, but a recent feature is (public)
discussions on changesets.
* I'll look up the changeset of the node you quoted, to see if anyone has
complained about it.
* No discussion started, might aswell check the user link now to just be
sure the API isn't explained on the profile.
* No profile text, diary = 0, but blocks received = 1, hmm...
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/611

The user is blocked and can't make any further changes until they log in
(and read the block message). So there is no need to send your own message
to them.

The node in question should be deleted (by any of us reading this) because
it is derived from Google Maps. However, perhaps someone in Canada will
respond as they may want to make use of local knowledge.
* check there is no cafe floating in the link there
* use our usual sources (search for the cafe website, or go and find where
it actually is) to check the data and correct location
* add/move the cafe to the right place.

There are plenty of great OSMers in Toronto. Including Richard W, perhaps
he could plan his next jog to go past this "cafe" and check it out. :)

Gregory.

On 5 March 2015 at 02:57, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Following on from a comment on *talk**-scotland* about bitcoin-related
> spam appearing on the map, I had a dig around locally in Toronto. It seems
> that there's a user *BitcoinMaps* who is either randomly placing business
> locations on the map, or is using a really terrible algorithm to place
> markers on behalf of some other website's users.
>
> F'rinstance, here's one of the user's nodes:
>
> <node id="3295611361 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3295611361>" visible="true" version="1" changeset="28221482" timestamp="2015-01-18T00:17:52Z"
>  user="BitcoinMaps" uid="2135320" lat="43.6390092" lon="-79.3354046">
>     <tag k="addr:city" v="Phoenix"/>
>     <tag k="addr:housenumber" v="11225 "/>
>     <tag k="addr:street" v="N. 28th Drive, Suite A-110"/>
>     <tag k="amenity" v="cafe"/>
>     <tag k="contact:phone" v="602-595-8393"/>
>     <tag k="contact:website" v="https://www.facebook.com/AshleighsCafeLakeShore" <https://www.facebook.com/AshleighsCafeLakeShore>/>
>     <tag k="description" v="Breakfast and Lunch served. Bagels, breakfast burritos, skillets, lunch meat sandwiches on whole grains and rye, croissants, wraps, melts, Chicago dogs and salads. "/>
>     <tag k="name" v="Ashleigh's Cafe"/>
>     <tag k="payment:bitcoin" v="yes"/>
> </node>
>
>
> This would be all well and good (minor tagging oddnesses aside) for a cafe
> in Phoenix, AZ, but the marker is in Lake Ontario, a little south of
> Toronto. I have e-mailed the user, particularly requesting information on
> where they get their locations, and how change comments automatically
> created through an API (created_by="BitcoinMaps API") all reading “This
> place has been automatically created.” could ever be anything other than
> an automated import.
>
> I have no problem with people tagging businesses that use bitcoin*, as
> long as they at least try to meet some community norms. Spattering the map
> with noise, however, irks me royally.
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
>
> *: everybody knows that Dogecoin is better, though. Very currency, wow.
>
>
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