[OSM-talk] Tests in the Antarctica?

Shaun McDonald shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Mon Jul 20 14:25:06 BST 2009


On 20 Jul 2009, at 14:10, Peter Childs wrote:

> 2009/7/20 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
>> Does anyone know if these are real-world representations or just  
>> spam?
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-66.662&lon=50.799&zoom=11&layers=B000FTF
>>
>> cheers,
>> Martin
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> Its spam, I think a Secondary Road with the name of "Test", with 3
> Tertiaries and 2 Railway Lines crossing at 90 degrees some on bridges
> some not, In Antarctica, edited by someone called Polar Bear kind of
> gives the game away,  I'm not sure you get that many trains in
> Antarctica and why would they call it Test... (If it was not one)
>

The changset is http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/1378057

Seems the user has been doing lots of other useful edits in Ireland  
(with detailed changeset comments):
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Polarbear/edits

Shaun

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