I went looking for any information printed in guidelines or code of conduct about advertising in the attributes of a feature and I couldn't find where it is approved/prohibited or even mentioned. Does anybody know where the rule against this is?
On Mar 18, 2018 6:42 PM, "Shawn K. Quinn" <skqu...@rushpost.com> wrote: > On 03/01/2018 04:44 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > there have also been situations where a local mapper had diligently > > copied a business's sales slogan into the description tag and was > > then upset to see this removed. > > If they are upset about it, tough turkey, it doesn't belong there. > > > As more and more SEO firms start dumping their stuff onto OSM (and > > here I am not talking about those who actually talk to us and listen, > > but those who don't care), this is becoming a fight that needs to be > > fought by the community as a whole. > > My approach this morning was different. I did an Overpass query for a > huge chunk of Texas (west of San Antonio, then going east including > Austin, Houston, and most suburbs, going to somewhere east of Beaumont) > for anything with a description tag. I then saved the layer from JOSM > and edited each occurrence of the description tag by hand (which also > made it easier to do things like just change "description" to "name"). I > made a few other related edits and submitted as changeset 57284276. > Generally speaking, I purged anything that looked like it was trying to > sell me on the business, including ad-copy-like descriptions of local > libraries. I also deleted any description=* that was duplicative of the > content of name=* or which added no useful information, and added > appropriate tags where description=* had been used by a sloppy/lazy > mapper to say things like "bowling alley" or to include opening hours. > > By the time I had gotten around to doing this, I had completely > forgotten about the CSV export, though I was able to go through the > entire chunk I had exported with my text editor in the span of a > half-hour or so (I did a search for "description" and just kept hitting > "next match" when ready to move on). > > My Java programming skills are nearly non-existent, but it is tempting > to (re-)learn enough to write a plugin to automate the process from > within JOSM, perhaps naming it something like "AdTerminator". > > -- > Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> > http://www.rantroulette.com > http://www.skqrecordquest.com > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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