Apologies everyone (and thanks John for stepping forward) - I have the wrong Ottawa. My school isn't even in Canada. Sorry for the noise, I'll have to ask elsewhere.
On 02/22/2018 07:58 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > DWG has received a complaint about a fictional village in Africa, > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/16.36752/-3.47617 > > and after investigation it turns out that a total of 120 user accounts > have been created on January 25th, using email addresses that point to > one particular unified school district in Ottawa. > > 76 of these have made edits, some of which are legitimate tracings of > buildings in Africa, but the majority are "funny" edits like the ones > you see in the link above, in various places in Africa and occasionally > the US. Objects with names like "Get dunked on", "The Ocean of > Awsomeness with Vianey, Sarah, Maddy and Aubrey not Abby", "the abanoned > mushroom railroad", "some fenced in area", "The Monkey Park" - the usual > teenage stuff. > > I don't have the time to sort the good from the bad, and given that none > of the pupils/students were active after January 26th, I'll probably > revert the lot. > > Would anybody be willing to try and make contact with the school > district in question, and try to find out who is responsible? It is > certainly a good idea to introduce young people to OSM, but apparently > with 120 in one go, teachers/instructors were unable to provide the > necessary guidance for this to become a success. (I have not seen any > attempts of organised cleanup either.) > > It would be good if the organisers responsible had a contact into the > Ottawa OSM community so they could ask for support next time they plan > something like this. > > (As a side note, most accounts seem to have been set up using real > names, which perhaps also is not best practice for teenage editing, > *especially* if most of the data contributed is actually detrimental to > OSM.) > > If someone steps forward, I would furnish them with details in a > personal email so as to avoid publicly tarnishing the reputation of the > school in question ;) > > Our aim is not to accuse, but to help them understand the issue, and do > better next time. It would be ideal if whoever steps forward possesses > the diplomacy skills necessary to get that across. > > Bye > Frederik > -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
