[OSM-talk] "Incorrect speed limit" anonymous notes - who is behind that?

[Andreas Vilén]

The user in question now told me he's been using the Wisepilot app:
http://www.appello.com/apps/wisepilot/ and seemed totally oblivious to it
being a mystery, and that it creates strange and unhelpful notes in most
cases.

I'm guessing Wisepilot doesn't make it very clear what happens when someone
reports an error in the app.

/Andreas


On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Andreas Vilén <andreas.vilen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Uhm, no, that's not it... Look at
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.9221/12.5033&layers=N for
> example. Also, at least 40-50 notes have been created on this exact
> location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/215471 That leads me to
> believe that that position is the "zero position" of the app used to create
> these notes.
>
> It would be really great if the person who managed to figure out what app
> creates these notes could speak out. The guy I contacted about this also
> doesn't seem to want to answer questions... Why is everything so cryptic?
>
> /Andreas
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:36 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  On 08/16/2014 01:34 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
>>
>>  2014-08-16 8:28 GMT+02:00 Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl>:
>>
>>> On 2014-08-16 01:48, Andreas Vilén wrote:
>>>
>>>> This continues to be really annoying, and the obvious spam seems to
>>>> cluster at a few locations, where 10-20 notes can be created with the
>>>> same information. The maker of this app must be made clear that notes
>>>> can't work like this, and users would at least be required to give
>>>> some contact information. Most of the notes that come from this app
>>>> are useless and will probably stay in the database forever.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  And the notes may be anonymous, but IMHO it is prudent to put in the
>>> message or the metadata which app reported it. That way you don't have to
>>> go on a wild goose chase to see where it is coming from.
>>>
>>> Maarten
>>>
>>
>> If the useless notes are concentrated at a few points, it may mean that
>> someone who lives there or passes through on a regular basis is
>> alpha-testing or beta-testing an app.  I agree that both a user contact and
>> the identify of the app are needed.
>>
>> --
>> John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
>> "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
>> Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
>> Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
>>
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