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

[John Packer]

I'm from Brazil, and recently the community started reporting similar
notes, though translated in portuguese, and with the same problems...
Besides some obviously wrong values, there are some you can't even say
where exactly they would apply to.
There's been at least some 60 of those in portuguese so far.
I saw a similar note in Spanish too, so they are probably even more
widespread...

Besides the report of speed limit, I also saw some "Can't turn left."
note[1], which are likely to be from the same origin.

Agree with all Michał said.

[1]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/205281
 Em 28/07/2014 20:16, "Toby Murray" <toby.murray at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Interesting. The coverage of these notes is almost global. I don't see any
> in South America or Australia but otherwise there are some on each
> continent.
>
> I also see some reported speed limits in the U.S. in km/h which is most
> likely not correct.
>
> Once upon a time I suggested adding a kind of created_by type of field to
> notes that would eventually be required for 3rd party applications posting
> anonymous notes. But it seems no code has magically appeared to do this yet.
>
> Toby
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Michał Brzozowski <www.haxor at gmail.com>
> 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 ;-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michał
>>
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