[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #340 17/01/2017-23/01/2017
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 340, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/8656/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages where?: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/weeklyosm-is-currently-produced-in_56718#2/8.6/108.3 ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] New editors working on parks
There has been a large number of new editors in the wider midlands over the last few days (32 since Monday) most of which have been adding new or adding to exiting park areas. Some are fine first edits (a little awkward in placed but not unreasonable) but others are not, so if it's also happening in your area keep a close eye. I'm reverting those in my watch rectangle that are obviously inappropriate and I, along with I note some others, have added some changeset comments to try and make contact where appropriate, though thus far no responses. Mostly these seem to be id edits so I'm guessing perhaps a University course or something. Cheers Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks
Hi Andy, These are Pokemon Go edits driven by the fact that the South Korea release of the game is definitely using OSM as the base map. Total number of editors has picked up massively worldwide in the past few days with a ridiculous peak of 3000 new users a minute sometime this afternoon (although this may be a SEO-driven peak in the US). Certainly whatever the basis of the influx its quite a lot to handle for existing 'data curators'. See the current range of changeset discussions. It's difficult to be sure, but I think there's an uptick in other edits too. Jerry On 27 January 2017 at 16:03, Andy Robinson wrote: > There has been a large number of new editors in the wider midlands over the > last few days (32 since Monday) most of which have been adding new or > adding > to exiting park areas. Some are fine first edits (a little awkward in > placed > but not unreasonable) but others are not, so if it's also happening in your > area keep a close eye. I'm reverting those in my watch rectangle that are > obviously inappropriate and I, along with I note some others, have added > some changeset comments to try and make contact where appropriate, though > thus far no responses. > > Mostly these seem to be id edits so I'm guessing perhaps a University > course > or something. > > Cheers > Andy > > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks
On 27/01/17 16:03, Andy Robinson wrote: There has been a large number of new editors in the wider midlands over the last few days (32 since Monday) most of which have been adding new or adding to exiting park areas. Some are fine first edits (a little awkward in placed but not unreasonable) but others are not, so if it's also happening in your area keep a close eye. I'm reverting those in my watch rectangle that are obviously inappropriate and I, along with I note some others, have added some changeset comments to try and make contact where appropriate, though thus far no responses. Mostly these seem to be id edits so I'm guessing perhaps a University course or something. I suspect Pokemon Go is a more likely explanation. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks
It's been mentioned on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/5q4ctl/warning_players_of_pok%C3%A9mon_go_may_be_editing_osm/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/5pvkkn/about_openstreetmap_and_pokemon_go People are commenting on changesets but if new users don't read their emails or it goes to their spam folder then there's not much chance of a reply. Needs to be an indication on the website like with user messages. Some are just carrying out drive-by vandalism by adding fake parks, etc. - easily reverted. Others are adding more features which is good but they usually have the newbie mistakes of paths not connecting to roads etc. - hopefully they respond to the comments and stick around. On 27/01/2017 16:03, Andy Robinson wrote: There has been a large number of new editors in the wider midlands over the last few days (32 since Monday) most of which have been adding new or adding to exiting park areas. Some are fine first edits (a little awkward in placed but not unreasonable) but others are not, so if it's also happening in your area keep a close eye. I'm reverting those in my watch rectangle that are obviously inappropriate and I, along with I note some others, have added some changeset comments to try and make contact where appropriate, though thus far no responses. Mostly these seem to be id edits so I'm guessing perhaps a University course or something. Cheers Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks
Hi Andy, I update http://learnosm.org/en/ and I'm seeing many searches on the site concerning pokemon go. Also, some visitors are from https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/5q4ctl/warning_players_of_pok%C3%A9mon_go_may_be_editing_osm/ & other sections on reddit. Maybe connected? Nick (Tallguy) On 27 Jan 2017 16:04, "Andy Robinson" wrote: > There has been a large number of new editors in the wider midlands over the > last few days (32 since Monday) most of which have been adding new or > adding > to exiting park areas. Some are fine first edits (a little awkward in > placed > but not unreasonable) but others are not, so if it's also happening in your > area keep a close eye. I'm reverting those in my watch rectangle that are > obviously inappropriate and I, along with I note some others, have added > some changeset comments to try and make contact where appropriate, though > thus far no responses. > > Mostly these seem to be id edits so I'm guessing perhaps a University > course > or something. > > Cheers > Andy > > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks
Oh joys J On the plus side there are a lot more new users in those 30 ish who have added more than one item and one or two who have added some really good new stuff, so in some ways the attention will have some upsides. Just need to be vigilant around our own patches. Cheers Andy From: SK53 [mailto:sk53@gmail.com] Sent: 27 January 2017 16:16 To: Andy Robinson Cc: talk-gb; talk-gb-westmidlands Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks Hi Andy, These are Pokemon Go edits driven by the fact that the South Korea release of the game is definitely using OSM as the base map. Total number of editors has picked up massively worldwide in the past few days with a ridiculous peak of 3000 new users a minute sometime this afternoon (although this may be a SEO-driven peak in the US). Certainly whatever the basis of the influx its quite a lot to handle for existing 'data curators'. See the current range of changeset discussions. It's difficult to be sure, but I think there's an uptick in other edits too. Jerry On 27 January 2017 at 16:03, Andy Robinson wrote: There has been a large number of new editors in the wider midlands over the last few days (32 since Monday) most of which have been adding new or adding to exiting park areas. Some are fine first edits (a little awkward in placed but not unreasonable) but others are not, so if it's also happening in your area keep a close eye. I'm reverting those in my watch rectangle that are obviously inappropriate and I, along with I note some others, have added some changeset comments to try and make contact where appropriate, though thus far no responses. Mostly these seem to be id edits so I'm guessing perhaps a University course or something. Cheers Andy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
