Hi, Following on from a comment on /talk//-scotland/ about bitcoin-related spam appearing on the map, I had a dig around locally in Toronto. It seems that there's a user *BitcoinMaps* who is either randomly placing business locations on the map, or is using a really terrible algorithm to place markers on behalf of some other website's users.
F'rinstance, here's one of the user's nodes: <node id="3295611361 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3295611361>" visible="true" version="1" changeset="28221482" timestamp="2015-01-18T00:17:52Z" user="BitcoinMaps" uid="2135320" lat="43.6390092" lon="-79.3354046"> <tag k="addr:city" v="Phoenix"/> <tag k="addr:housenumber" v="11225 "/> <tag k="addr:street" v="N. 28th Drive, Suite A-110"/> <tag k="amenity" v="cafe"/> <tag k="contact:phone" v="602-595-8393"/> <tag k="contact:website" v="https://www.facebook.com/AshleighsCafeLakeShore"/> <tag k="description" v="Breakfast and Lunch served. Bagels, breakfast burritos, skillets, lunch meat sandwiches on whole grains and rye, croissants, wraps, melts, Chicago dogs and salads. "/> <tag k="name" v="Ashleigh's Cafe"/> <tag k="payment:bitcoin" v="yes"/> </node> This would be all well and good (minor tagging oddnesses aside) for a cafe in Phoenix, AZ, but the marker is in Lake Ontario, a little south of Toronto. I have e-mailed the user, particularly requesting information on where they get their locations, and how change comments automatically created through an API (created_by="BitcoinMaps API") all reading “This place has been automatically created.” could ever be anything other than an automated import. I have no problem with people tagging businesses that use bitcoin*, as long as they at least try to meet some community norms. Spattering the map with noise, however, irks me royally. cheers, Stewart *: everybody knows that Dogecoin is better, though. Very currency, wow.
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