Hi Mulone, This UN Dispatch article(1) mentions some of the main streets in Jalalabad, Afghanistan having "joke" names. Note this has since been fixed by those same mappers.
Hameed who is mentioned in the article also spoke at last years State of the Map Conference. -Kate (1) http://www.undispatch.com/how-afghan-mappers-punked-apple On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:28 PM, 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 > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Interesting-cases-of-vandalism-tp5750346.html > Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
