On 23/08/2025 08:57, Steven Hirschorn wrote:
I haven't emailed the mapper yet, but was wondering about these edits:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Amelia%20Harper/history#map=12/51.5288/-0.1589
- Many are tagged with the "Holiday Inn" brand and wikidata though I
can't see evidence they are operated by Holiday Inn.
- They all include links to a different website, eatbu.uk
<http://eatbu.uk>, which would seem unusual if any of them are run by
Holiday Inn.
- Sometimes additional tags for a rental apartment have been added to
an existing building (eg. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/24951392,
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/100608763)
Am I being paranoid? Locations of guest houses with links are useful
in OSM.
No, I don't think that you're being paranoid.
OSM has had a history of people creating websites for pre-existing
businesses and then adding that website to OSM (sometimes replacing the
business's own one). Some of these edits do look dubious - for example
the website on https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1211040396 is surely
not the website for the whole building.
More widely an overpass search in the UK for "eatbu" finds
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2ap4 (the two outside of London are
legitimate and unrelated). More widely taginfo finds 362 pages (of
mostly individual values)
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=eatbu#values . Some of those
may be entirely valid (where the business owner is fully aware and
complicit in the OSM editing), some may not - the DWG has had at least
one previous report of issues from central Europe.
The DWG is aware of these edits and someone will be dealing with it
(initially by asking the mapper about them I suspect).
Cheers,
Andy (from the DWG)
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