[OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam

[Jo]

So these are not even the "shop owners" themselves which are spamming us
with useless information?

Jo


2013/12/4 Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>

> Steve,
>
> You're right, in theory, but there's a bunch that Frederik has omitted.
>
> First, the coinmap people have not merely been documenting places, but
> doing whole copying from map to map. They even had a video on how to do it,
> but that's gone.
>
> Secondly, they don't verify the information they add. They are working off
> lists of places which they simply enter into OSM.
>
> Thirdly, the problem with this view on mapping "Someone will fix it later"
> is that it shift responsibility downward. OSM is predicated on doing the
> best you can do at the moment. It may not be perfect, but we've seen a
> number of import efforts (coinmap included) which use bad practices for
> finding and placing locations, or using bad tags.
>
> Put another way- this is an import that was done without the import
> process, and if it had gone through the process, we would have judged it
> technically lacking (and possibly not usable license-wise).
>
> - Serge
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> 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
>>
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