Re: [Talk-de] unusual cluster of German accounts
Hello Richard, this is really strange. After looking at a few of the accounts it looks like each of the users has worked on a different part of Germany. From what I have seen the edits were just adding nodes for businesses. I also found some discussion about this in the German forum [1] dating from end March 2010. There has been some speculation about this being a bot for example since the changesets have created_by = (unkown). So there had been some discussion about reverting the changesets. But at least user essenfassen seems to have responded to a mail. This user told that she had created a list of POIs in Excel and then had imported them. This post also refers to user lampe4, showing the same usage pattern. Best regards, Michael [1] http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=6926 ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
Re: [Talk-de] unusual cluster of German accounts
Am 10.01.2012 09:38, schrieb Michael Krämer: Hello Richard, this is really strange. After looking at a few of the accounts it looks like each of the users has worked on a different part of Germany. From what I have seen the edits were just adding nodes for businesses. I also found some discussion about this in the German forum [1] dating from end March 2010. There has been some speculation about this being a bot for example since the changesets have created_by = (unkown). So there had been some discussion about reverting the changesets. But at least user essenfassen seems to have responded to a mail. This user told that she had created a list of POIs in Excel and then had imported them. This post also refers to user lampe4, showing the same usage pattern. The users never showed up since the forum entry. So the best way to deal with these uploads is just wait until the non-odbl-data is erased. Greetings, ajoessen ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
Re: [Talk-de] unusual cluster of German accounts
Richard Weait wrote: Hi All, I've found a cluster of accounts that mapped in Germany. This cluster seems unusual to me. There are nine accounts. They all contributed only for one day. They all mapped in places in Germany. They all contributed a large number of changesets (on their first day of mapping). Each account uses similar changeset comments in German and English. None of the accounts has responded with respect to CT/ODbL. Looking further into the activity of these accounts, they each appear to make a test edit, followed later by larger edits. I don't know what to make of the seeming shared behaviour other than to say that it seems unusual. Could mappers in the effected areas have a look at the contributions and offer opinions? If these account have not been contacted w.r.t. CT/ODbL, perhaps they will all agree at the same time? List of unusual accounts with some similarity graphs. http://rweait.dev.openstreetmap.org/daily/cluster.html Best regards, Richard ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de Good morning, Richard, one possible explanation is that there mapped the participants of a seminar. But if you analyze the other contributions, it looks indeed a little curious. All users started at Wednesday, March 17 2010 around 03:05. Maybe a mapping party ? WernerP ___ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
