[Talk-us] Mapcarta with wrong info in Utah - whom to contact?

Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 20:57:44 UTC 2020


https://mapcarta.com/About_Mapcarta lists a contact email address:
mail at imedia.io.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 3:16 PM Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> does anyone have contacts with Mapcarta?
>
> https://mapcarta.com/Eagles_Campground_2422656
>
> lists a camp ground that is not on OSM, and has never been, together
> with a phone number that belongs to the USDA forest service and they're
> not super stoked about would-be campers calling them to book.
>
> MapCarta claims to be using OpenStreetMap data (hence why the USDA
> forest service contacted us). But clearly this campground comes from a
> different source. (Which is just as well because Mapcarta doesn't have
> proper attribution.)
>
> (The phone number in question was indeed recorded for a different camp
> site in Utah, Monte Cristo Campground, and I've removed it from there.
> Doesn't solve the Eagles Campground riddle though.)
>
> Mapcarta doesn't have any point of contact on the site and the whois
> doesn't return anything useful either.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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