[OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

[Marc Gemis]

Yeah, just created a dedicated OSM account and start adding points and
ways, who cares that they have that password. It does have to be your
normal OSM account with "serious" password.

My point is that it might attract people that just upload data without
any benefit to OSM (wrong data or data that is added in many
changetsets (because that determines the ranking) instead of 1, as you
would normally do..
You can even write a script that creates a point in one changeset and
deletes it in another. Over and over again.

I fear that we might have to do more QA when this gets widely known.
I'm not thinking about honest mappers here, just about people that
misuse the system to earn bitcoins.

regards

m

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:20:05 -0300
> Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The reason why I didn't try this yet is that they unnecessarily ask
>> me for my OSM *password* when signing up. There are much better ways
>> to verify the account...
>
> "We will give you money once you will share your password" sounds like a
> standard unimaginative scam.