Update: I have already reported one user (“JPBaje”) to DWG via the main
site, but progress is slow (and I’ve sent a second report to follow up,
which I received a reply). Someone may help with reverting on affected
areas just before DWG does. Plus, one of the users (“JPBaje”) has since
mapped in Nigeria, and stopped editing (or just rested) after 5,300 edits.
5,000+ edits in a few months are somewhat very suspicious.
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 5:23 PM Jherome Miguel
wrote:
> (Resending, with modifications)
>
> Hi,
>
> It was since January that we discovered certain users mass adding POIs
> from Google Maps. I first brought up this issue on GitHub, where Timmy has
> discovered that one user I mentioned copied from Google Maps using Map
> Compare evidence. Those fly-by-night users (as I described them), having
> done a thousand edits within a week and a month, are suspicious enough to
> be reported and blocked for copyright violations. A mass revert (to be done
> by DWG) would be required, since the POIs were added one by one, with one
> edit involving addition of one POI (it would be easier to revert if the
> POIs were added in large edits, which is not the case). This incident
> reminds of another previous incident in Batangas last December 2019, and we
> shouldn't let something like this slip through the cracks.
>
> Sorry for bringing this issue to your attention late, but since I reverted
> several of those user’s edits around Lipa, along with some fixes from
> previous travels, one of those users (a JPBaje) has returned back after I
> found suspicious edits and POIs in Bocaue. The user has never attempted to
> answer comments about their edits, and I already reported the user pending
> a block and a mass revert. We are also monitoring another user mapping for
> the Para Safe app, also involved in the same issue.
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:13 PM Jherome Miguel
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It was since January that we discovered certain users mass adding POIs
>> from Google Maps. I first brought up this issue on GitHub, where Timmy has
>> discovered that one user I mentioned copied from Google Maps using Map
>> Compare evidence. Those fly-by-night users (as I described them), having
>> done a thousand edits within a week and a month, are suspicious enough to
>> be reported and blocked. A mass revert would be required, since the POIs
>> were added in a single changeset (it would be easier to revert if the POIs
>> in one large edit, which is not the case).
>>
>> Sorry for bringing this issue to your attention late, but since I
>> reverted several of those user’s edits around Lipa, along with some fixes
>> from previous travels, one of those users (a JPBaje) has returned back
>> after I found suspicious edits and POIs in Bocaue.
>>
>
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