[Talk-us] pokemon go related vandalism in asheville, north carolina

[OSM Volunteer stevea]

In my own small way, I monitor my local area (several counties in California) for obvious Pokemon Go vandalism.  It is often a small lake or pond (natural=water feature) adjacent to a leisure=park.  I use a changeset comment or send a missive to the author (usually brand-new) and ask them to remove these data.  Firmly, but leaving open the door to "nice" in case there is more future interaction.  After a few days to maybe ten days, I remove the data myself.  Some of these people can indeed be "turned" into good OSM contributors, it is partly how nice/kind my/our approach as we do this, it is partly how willing they are to feel a sense of the true mission of OSM when they are shown the errors of their ways.  So there are better methods to do this, and sometimes they work.

YMMV.

SteveA
California