[OSM-talk] is this allowed ?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 5, 2021, 18:14 by miketho16 at gmail.com:

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> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 10:08 AM Maarten Deen <> mdeen at xs4all.nl> > wrote:
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>> I am a bit divided about this. Looking at the changset and everything in it I would classify it as spam and would have liked to be removed completely. 
>> But, it apparently is a genuine business with a physical presence, as such it has a place in OSM. 
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>> I just don't like the way it was entered. 
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> It is unrealistic to expect a business owner, or leader of a nonprofit, to follow all of our norms when we haven't made it obvious to them.  We can clean things up after they enter their information.
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In this case it was a blatant spam, that is clearly unwanted everywhere.

And this all accounts are yet another group of accounts from single entity,
that ignored already many requests to do their edits properly.


> Have we considered having  a very simple, node only editor / web page for such organizations to enter their information? We could have a big warning about spam, and have explicit fields for name, business type, address, etc.
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It is on my list of ideas, on pile "it would be nice to have XYZ".

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