On 2016.12.27. 10:15, David Kewley wrote: > I thought this might be a big problem at first, but now I think it's > probably a net good thing. > > In Southern California, I saw about 40 users join in the first 24-48 > hours after the video was posted (Dec 22), who immediately started > mapping footways and similar. A few were bad, most improved the map > incrementally, if not with great skill, completeness, or accuracy. The > rate of new people joining and adding footways and similar has gone way > down since the first 24 hours. > > I just now used Overpass-Turbo to check for new footways in the past ~2 > days in all the western U.S. (to just west of San Antonio, not including > Alaska and Hawaii), zoomed in briefly on each locality in turn, and > found with this quick ad hoc eyeball survey only two users who were > obviously gaming OSM for Pokemon Go in an unhelpful way. I'll address > them or send them to DWG. All the others looked reasonable upon a first > pass, although I might have missed a few. Some I didn't see may already > have been cleaned up, of course. > > So the potential problem is big, but I think the actual problem is not > too big, and can probably be contained with our current level of effort. > Meanwhile there are tons of incremental additions that are probably net > improvements to the map, and a few of these folks will continue to > improve the map over time. I've already seen a few of these new users > branch out into non-Pokemon-related improvements. Plus it gives OSM > wider awareness. > > One other thing to look out for, which most people are doing well, but a > few are doing inappropriately, is changing school grounds from > amenity=school to =college or =university. > See > https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/5jv1c4/i_think_i_figured_out_why_pokemon_never_spawned/. > I had to change one secondary school back to =school after an apparent > Pokemon user changed it to =college. I also changed one community > college from =school to =college when I noticed it was mistagged while > looking at new footways drawn there. Hope it helps them have fun with > their game. :) > > I've also seen fake parks, piers, lakes, and similar area objects get > added in an apparent attempt to help Pokemon. Footways may be the most > common manifestation of this wave of activity, but not the only one.
could you please share the overpass query you used ? i'd like to review such additions around here as well. i am following the edits of new users, and so far contributions of 2 or 3 have been worthy a revert. it would be also useful to have a list of tags/changes the pokemon go players make. footways are the most obvious, but i've also seen (incorrect_ recreational_grounds added. several users have also changed existing residentials, pedestrian streets and tracks to footways - incorrectly in all the cases. > Fun fact: On 12/22 I actually stumbled across a deletion of the footway > added in the video, before I was aware of the existence of the video and > the Pokemon-related editing. That issue is since resolved. The > videographer is pretty local to me, and in the video he hikes in hills I > know. A brush with a weird kind of notoriety, I guess. > > David ... -- Rihards _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
