Hi,
On 02.03.2018 00:21, Ian Dees wrote:
> I disagree that this is a "fight". Have we attempted to reach out to the
> people running this operation?
I've come across a lot of edits where mappers had written changeset
comments against one of these one-off accounts, and were met with
silence. It's
Hi,
On 02.03.2018 01:17, Mike N wrote:
> 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
Hi Frederik
> * Should we have some MapRoulette task or OSMCha automatism or OSMI view
> to detect potential advertising?
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Detecting these change sets should be quite straightforward. Here is a
Keras sample that could be easily modified to process change sets. The
model in this example is ti
Sorry for the late posting - I've been working on another project for the
past few days.
Frederik wrote "You will be surprised about the breadth of marketing blurb
that has already crept into OSM."
Unfortunately no, I'm not surprised. Marketing is a very competitive world.
SEO firms are using eve
It seems like encouraging SEO firms to operate within OSM guidelines by
providing an easy way to add the OSM appropriate information in bulk (with
data validation) in one step would be a good thing. Easier to contact,
manage and block or revert as needed.
An idea for catching the throwaway accoun
I would agree that better tools to help add appropriate information are
likely more helpful then trying to police the endless stream of new bad
edits. If we can guide these users to a tool that allows adding the
information in a constructive manner while restricting the spammy parts
that would go a
Even as I knew my "contact one SEO/Marketing firm, see what happens" approach
was quite pedestrian in the grand scheme of "fighting advertising," I still
though it valuable to share with the talk-us list so others could experience it
too, put on their thinking caps and offer additional approache
On 3/2/2018 4:11 PM, Dale Puch wrote:
It seems like encouraging SEO firms to operate within OSM guidelines by
providing an easy way to add the OSM appropriate information in bulk
(with data validation) in one step would be a good thing. Easier to
contact, manage and block or revert as needed.
Hi,
On 03/03/2018 12:32 AM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
> Even as I knew my "contact one SEO/Marketing firm, see what happens" approach
> was quite pedestrian
I'd like to think of your approach - contact the business that is
advertised, through the contact channel they voluntarily publish, and
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Mike N wrote:
> On 3/2/2018 4:11 PM, Dale Puch wrote:
>
>> It seems like encouraging SEO firms to operate within OSM guidelines by
>> providing an easy way to add the OSM appropriate information in bulk (with
>> data validation) in one step would be a good thing.
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Clifford Snow
wrote:
>
> To me that leaves us with a couple of choices. One, we continue to develop
> more sophisticated tools to identify and revert the spam or two, we develop
> tools to help SEO firms add data to OSM in a manner acceptable to us. Or
> maybe som
On 3/2/2018 9:40 AM, Clifford Snow wrote:
Sorry for the late posting - I've been working on another project for
the past few days.
Frederik wrote "You will be surprised about the breadth of marketing
blurb that has already crept into OSM."
Unfortunately no, I'm not surprised. Marketing is a
So many good things being said by so many good people here. This is OSM at its
best: organically growing goodness and correct actions by right-thinking
people. Be bold, we might say out loud, as in "I delete spam and even just
plain bad mapping when and as I see it." (Whether front door, bac
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