[OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam

[Andrew Guertin]

On 12/03/2013 09:55 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> 
>> However, in the case at hand, it seems that the interest is not to
>> improve OSM but instead we're just a vehicle for people to show up on
>> the "coinmap", a business directory for bitcoin-accepting businesses.
> 
> I don't think we should worry about people's motivations. What's the
> problem here? That there are business POIs in OSM that are missing tags. It
> doesn't sound all that different to me from any other data quality problem.
> Either we fix the missing tags (if possible), or delete them as junk. And
> if the business in question doesn't deserve a mention in OSM (eg, a mail
> order place with no shop front), again, just delete it.
> 
> No?
> 
> Steve

There seem to be people already interested in improving the data quality
of these new POIs. For example, I noticed this user in my area
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Dafmaster/history -- new as of late
last month, with ~100 edits adding addresses, phone numbers, websites,
yelp links, and other tags as appropriate. I've seen other users doing
quality control too--some new, some with thousands of OSM edits over 5+
years. And many of the nodes seem to be originally contributed by
long-time mappers, and well-tagged to begin with.

--Andrew