Edits, from what appears to be a search engine optimization company (SEO), have damaged a number of ways in the US. Martijn Van Exel pointed out the problem on Slack the other day. What they did was to add their client to a street, often changing the name of the street to the company. Fortunately they made it easy to find using overpass [1] by adding in the clients address, phone number, source and website. The query looks for addresses and websites on ways.
West of the Mississippi has been fixed. There are some false positives when running the query, they are all park polygons with both leisure=park and highway=pedestrian. The website url is of the park. If someone would like to help clean up the rest of damage they did, just run the overpass query for an area, state, county, etc. to get a list of ways that match the query. From there just select the way which will open OSM in another tab where you can use your favorite editor to fix. Use the history feature or TIGER data to get the correct road name. The addr:street they added may not be anywhere near your way. [1] http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/q5A Thanks, Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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