[OSM-talk] Thousands of small changesets by Tim Proegler

SLXViper SLXViper at gmx.net
Wed Jun 24 18:56:19 BST 2009


> > Does anyone know why Tim Proegler
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/timproegler/edits has made so many
> > small edits under the name of KMLManager in such a short space of time
> > (1 day as a member)? The recent changes page was at one point full of
> > his changesets. Is this legitimate, or a mistake? 
>   

This looks like some automated mass import of fuel stations (of many
different companies) in Germany, all tagged only with note=[name],
without any check whether these stations already exist. I don't know the
source of this but I suspect (until proof for the opposite fact is
supplied) that this user mass-imports copyrighted material into osm. I
don't know of any import of such data in Germany. "KMLManager" sounds
like some kml file with a lot of fuel stations from some unknown source
was imported.






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