[OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam

[Serge Wroclawski]

It depends on which contributors are which.

We have a few contributors who are the shop owners and they make a single
edit, adding their stores.

But we also have people who have taken a list of stores and either:

1. Plugged the store into Google to find the location
2. Plugged the address into Nominatim to find the location

The reason I know the first scenario is true is that there was a post about
it on Reddit, with the poster putting it on the subreddit r/openstreetmap
(which I moderate).

I began to investigate the issue, but (frankly) became overwhelmed with the
amount of data, and the hostility I received from some (not a majority of)
coinmappers.

I don't mind if a person comes in, makes an imperfect edit of their own
store and then leaves, but working off a list is an import, and what they
did was to circumvent the import process.

- Serge
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