Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

[Andy Robinson]

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


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Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

[Andy Robinson]

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


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Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

[Nick Allen]

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
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Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

[Michael Booth]

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


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Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

[Tom Hughes]

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

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Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

[SK53]

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
>
>
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Re: [Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

[SK53]

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
>
>
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[Talk-GB] New editors working on parks

[Andy Robinson]

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


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[Talk-gb-westmidlands] New editors working on parks

[Andy Robinson]

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


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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM #340 17/01/2017-23/01/2017

[weeklyteam]

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
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[Talk-gb-london] community mapping party in Millbank this Saturday

[Nicolas Fonty]

Hi London mappers.

If you are interested, the 7th JustMap mapping workshop will be organised
this Saturday 11am with the Millbank community.
It will take place inside a very inspiring exhibition dedicated to map the
area : the Millbank Atlas.
+ friendly lunch at 1pm with local !

All the details here :
http://justplace-london.blogspot.co.uk/p/second-coming-workshop.html

It is not a proper OSM mapping party because we focus more on community
ressources and proposals. But a lot of ressources could me mapped in OSM
(and are already mapped for a large part). We edited on our base map the
OSM POI, it will be the opportunity to see if some are outdated, misplaced
or missing.

here what we map :
http://n.fonty.free.fr/JustMap/Millbank/3-JM-Millbank_ReadMe.pdf
here the basemap :
http://n.fonty.free.fr/JustMap/Millbank/1-JMap-Millbank_A0x2-january13.pdf
here the OSM POI legend :
http://n.fonty.free.fr/JustMap/Millbank/2-JM-Millbank_OSM-legend.pdf
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