I just came across this OSM user diary which links to yet another article on how to manipulate OSM for Pokemon: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/-karlos-/diary/40684
The bothersome part is the replies to the diary entry where people bring up the new edits they've made for the game. Since I'm nowhere near any of them, I don't know if they're good or bad edits..... On the plus side, the linked article ( http://pokemongoinformer.com/create-your-own-nest-in-pokemon-go/) very clearly and specifically says that OSM is used for a lot of things and for people NOT to create items near their homes just for their own use, and to only create things that exist in the real world. --jack On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:34 PM, Brian May <b...@mapwise.com> wrote: > Been following the thread - my two cents on what I'm seeing around > Florida. > > 1) Seems like a major increase in new mappers and edits in just the past > two weeks, and before that an increase overall since the pokemon / osm > connection was publicized. > 2) Many /most of the influx of new mappers are adding footways, parks, > meadows, and water. > 3) A decent number of are completely fake - 15%? > 4) Some are a mixture of real and fake. > 5) Most are small edits, like adding a few features in one or two > changesets, but some are very prolific adding hundreds of features in many > changesets. > 6) Many edits are not very spatially accurate, but some are really great. > 7) A few mappers are breaking every rule in the book and making really bad > edits. > 8) Overall its a net gain, but its a lot of work to try and review these > edits, make contact, do reverts if necessary, cleanup, etc. > > In some cases, I'm not sure what to do. For example, one mapper is really > prolific, but just mostly wrong in they way they are mapping things. > > Another case, looks like a mapper mapped a large paved area next to a road > as a park, and named it whatever he wanted (he has also named many paths > and lakes what appear to be fantasy / fake names). I asked him if there was > really a park there and the reply was there was street art displayed there, > so its a park. > > Another mapper converted a section of a primary road running through South > Beach Miami to a footpath and extended a park to cover it. The changeset > comment was something like "making the park look more like it does in real > life." Another mapper and I commented on his changeset, he didn't respond, > I reverted and cleaned it up, and he appears to be doing more edits that > are tied to reality. > > Another one said "a park is here" and put the park over relatively new > single family houses. > > Overall, its really interesting to see such a large and focused group > descending on (embracing?) OSM so quickly. So now I'm thinking how do we > get large numbers of other sub-groups as interested in adding to the map as > the pokemon people? Is this a one off random thing? Or is it possible to > influence and steer large focused groups towards OSM? And at the same time > provide enough guidance so these new groups are adding useful features to > the map with a minimal amount of mistakes and fake features. > > Brian > > > On 1/30/2017 7:09 PM, Will Senechal wrote: > > I do in fact know one of the areas that he edited quite well. He added > "Mission Koi Pond" at a location that contained a large building (shown on > the Bing imagery) that I can confirm was still there yesterday. It is the > site of Mission Neurology, at 890 Hendersonville Rd #200, Asheville, NC > 28803, see http://www.mission-health.org/the-nervous-system.php#locations. > I would guess the edits are this person's home and work addresses, again to > try to cheat at Pokemon Go. > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 27/01/2017 22:49, ajt1...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> On 27/01/2017 06:20, Will Senechal wrote: >>> >>>> I'll try to keep an eye on activity around here, and will try to >>>> continue updating my area. >>>> >>> >>> They've just "edited" again, and I've blocked in >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1169 , so I'd be grateful if >>> people could keep an eye out for other problematical edits in the area from >>> other names too... >>> >> >> The Data Working Group have just had a mail from the mapper saying that >> although the _previous_ ones were fake, their _last_ edit >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/45573753 was actually valid (and >> said "If there needs to be photographs taken I will gladly"). I replied >> suggesting that they might want to post here to explain what happened, and >> accepted their offer of photgraphic evidence. I have to say I'm still >> somewhat sceptical - the features in http://www.openstreetmap.org/c >> hangeset/45573753 were remarkably Pokemon-friendly, and the "cars parked >> in something now mapped as a duck pond" made it seem even more unlikely. >> >> I'd be delighted to be wrong of course - it'd be great if this really was >> someone trying to map real things (but perhaps not making a very good job >> of it as this is their first non-fake edit). If anyone's in a position to >> check the validity or otherwise of it please do (you can visualise the >> change in https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=45573753 - some >> things should be easy to spot like the stream >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/469546360/history "Glen Meadows >> Subterrain Spring"). >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Andy >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing > listTalk-us@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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