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

[Tom Hughes]

On 28/07/14 23:38, Michał Brzozowski wrote:

> Recently I saw anonymous notes being added of the form "Incorrect
> speed limit. Reported speed limit is X km/h".
> Here's a search query:
> http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/notes/search?q=Incorrect%20speed%20limit.%20Reported%20speed%20limit%20is
>
> As they all are generated from a template, I guess this is some app
> which allows users to report back errors.
> But it remains a mystery: Who is author of this software?
>
> As you can see, there are quite a lot of 0 km/h notes, so I am not
> particularly enthusiastic about validity of the data.
>
> I would rather suggest that the author either made an account for
> their app or otherwise stated in the body of a note. And for goodness'
> sake, validate what your users input against obvious errors ;-)

Those notes do all appear to be coming from one source - I have sent 
them an email to try and make contact with somebody so we can discuss 
how they can improve things.

Tom

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