[OSM-talk] Large number of incorrect or suspicious edits in China by one user

Florian Lohoff f at zz.de
Fri Feb 5 22:54:52 UTC 2016


Hola,

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 07:16:28PM -0500, Andrew Wiseman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was looking around China and saw a ton (thousands of changesets) of edits
> by user jamesks (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jamesks)
> 
> He seems to be using something called Tracks2OSM, adding lots and lots of
> GPS tracks of roads. I'm not sure where they're from or if he has the
> license and permission to use them. He doesn't seem to be doing the driving
> himself, he appears to be in Edinburgh, and the edits are all over China.
> His OSM profile mentions something about "exploring library sources" in
> relation to OSM too, which worries me.

I have done some editing in northern China based on Bing imagery and most
of the Data i saw from JamesSK at that time seemed to be originating
from Bing imagery e.g. it stopped at clouds etc ... Some of
it was based on old bing imagery which was misplaced and replaced by
newer imagery which was more accuratly georeferenced. A lot of
edits were years old ...

I did not find anything suspicious about his edits - although its a vast
amout of data he/she/it added.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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