Albert Pundt writes
> Many towns and suburbs in my area are only CDPs, and having proper boundaries
> for them seems like it'd be useful, especially in more densely populated
> areas. It's not like there's any fuzziness with them either, since they're
> defined by the Census Bureau and could o
Hi,
over the past year or so, I have recreationally hunted down advertising
on OSM and removed it. In many cases it's a clear-cut situation (there
were cases where advertising borders on vandalism, with whole streets
being named after a business), but there have also been situations where
a local
Hi Frederik,
I disagree that this is a "fight". Have we attempted to reach out to the
people running this operation? Have we asked the Operations team to
correlate IP address for the accounts that are created and used once? Have
we looked at what email addresses they use when signing up for clues?
Thank you Frederik, thank you Ian. Yes! To both of you.
I am glad to see Frederik encourages me to do what I (somewhat timidly, at
first) already now do in earnest: sweep up when I see some poop in our map.
It took me many years to grow my confidence as an OSM volunteer as "somebody
who kno
I phoned a local business owner from Frederik's list and learned he used
"Bright Valley Marketing" (https://www.brightvalleymarketing.com) out of
Sacramento, California: it was they who apparently are the culprit. The
business owner was happy to recognize and vaguely seemed to understand the h
This is a good time to bring up the subject because the recent
'locksmith' advertising was most bothersome: partly because the
locksmith industry as a whole in the US is as shady as you can get while
being barely legal, and partly because I'm sure the physical locations
had no relevance; almost
Sent to Bright Valley Marketing via their website Contact text box:
How can you help me? More like how can YOU help Bright Valley Marketing?!
OK: you can stop putting advertising into your clients' OpenStreetMap (OSM)
nodes. Phone, website, opening_hours, addr: fields: those are all OK. The
On 3/1/2018 7:36 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
Sent to Bright Valley Marketing via their website Contact text box:
Since there are several SEOs out there doing this, it would also be
interesting to talk to one of them to find out where they got this idea.
If there is some SEO blog that g
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