On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Mulone <mul...@rome.com> wrote: > (Apologies for cross-posting) > > Hi all, > I am an academic researcher and I am studying the issue of vandalism in > OpenStreetMap > (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism> for a general discussion). > I am very interested in the motivations that lead users to vandalise > OpenStreetMap. > Can you point me to specific instances of vandalism that have an > *identifiable reason*? > > Examples might include: > - People changing borders of countries in conflict zones > - People renaming famous places with their name/interests > - Companies damaging data to prevent competition (such as the alleged > vandalism by Google’s contractors) > - People damaging symbolic places (e.g. deletion of the White House or the > Eiffel Tower) > - People damaging data to bully locals/other users > - People creating imaginary places > - People who are frustrated with the editing tools and start using them to > damage data > > Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences! > Mulone
Are you only looking at intentional vandalism? One common thing I've seen is new users not understanding that they are editing *THE* map. They just want to make some simplified map for an event they are doing or something. So they delete all the rivers and some minor roads. Toby _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
