I deleted most of the of suspicious POIs in question, on changesets where I also made major edits to improve building and road alignment with existing imagery, adding/remapping municipal and barangay boundaries to include barangays mapped as part of the Taal Volcano eruption response. I think those can be remapped on an future mapping party.
--TagaSanPedroAko On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 3:04 AM Jherome Miguel <jheromemig...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm getting more suspicious about the mapping activity when I noticed some > of the POIs added seems to have been copied wholesale from Google Maps, > especially around Taal. Not only that, some duplicate those already mapped > and many also are on odd places (such as the bunch of POIs along the > Diversion Road at barangays Halang and Latag), quite typical of GMaps > coverage in the Philippines. > > --TagaSanPedroAko > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 11:05 AM Jherome Miguel <jheromemig...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm agree it's possibly not the right time to contact the LGUs in >> question for the meantime, but what I don't know is whether any of you >> attempted communication with them since I opened the papercut_fix ticket >> last December. I repeatedly posted updates and pinged you on the GitHub >> ticket, but there has been no response as well. Pardon me, but I'm aware >> you might be too busy for Christmas that we haven't gave this urgent issue >> much attention, and only this time I escalated this matter since attempts >> to communicate with some of the users involved in the suspicious organized >> editing activity failed. >> >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 7:54 PM maning sambale < >> emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> TagaSanPedroAko, >>> >>> > and asked GOwin and maning on GitHub to contact directly any of the >>> LGUs involved, but there has been no response since then. >>> >>> I'm not sure what else I can do here, you mentioned that you already >>> contacted 3 users and there was no response. >>> Secondly, these LGUs are likely swamped with work due to the Taal >>> response, asking about this issue at this time seems inappropriate. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 4:35 AM Jherome Miguel <jheromemig...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > It has been a month ago since I raised quality issues on map data >>> added on a possible local government-led mapping project in some >>> municipalities in Batangas near Taal Volcano. Last December, we have seen a >>> spike in mapping activity around the municipalities of Taal, Lemery, San >>> Luis, San Nicolas, and Santa Teresita in Batangas, and involves around 24+ >>> users, many mapping using accounts with their real names. I opened a >>> papercut_fix ticket (https://github.com/OSMPH/papercut_fix/issues/56), >>> partially cleaned up the questionable edits, sent private emails to some of >>> the users involved, and asked GOwin and maning on GitHub to contact >>> directly any of the LGUs involved, but there has been no response since >>> then. Since the 2020 eruption of Taal Volcano, I have thought of a >>> possibility the organized mapping project has something to do with disaster >>> preparedness (taking in account the location of those municipalities around >>> Taal Volcano), though it also equally possible the editing is also for land >>> use planning (for Comprehensive Land Use Plan maps) and other purposes. Can >>> someone follow up attempts to contact the LGUs, especially through their >>> disaster risk reduction/management or planning/development offices (though >>> this may not be possible due to the lockdown on the volcano danger zone), >>> or bring up any previous attempts to contact them? >>> > >>> > >>> > --TagaSanPedroAko >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > talk-ph mailing list >>> > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org >>> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> cheers, >>> maning >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden >>> https://github.com/maning >>> http://twitter.com/maningsambale >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>
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