Hi, On 05/30/2015 09:48 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: > Thank you for informing the community. Do you actually have substantial > evidence of a mechanical edit or something similar?
There are a couple individual complaints and license issues (people taking names from a collection of military maps published in Russia in 2008, or from Wikipedia which is CC-BY-SA licensed). Quite a few users have already been blocked about mass-adding name:ru in the past (eg http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/563). But without going into details about these, I believe statistics alone tells you that there's something going on: The top 10 "name:ru" mappers have between themselves added over 150,000 name:ru tags world wide. Approximately 45 people have added more than 1,000 name:ru tags each. That doesn't mean that adding more than 1,000 name:ru tags is wrong; but we'll certainly have a closer look and where this happened over a short time span and in a concentrated fashion we will ask questions, and if we spot cases where it is obvious that names were taken from some sort of dictionary or database and copied into OSM without the requisite local knowledge, we'll revert. This lack of local knowledge does often manifest itself in accidental translations. To give a fictitious example: The German city of München is called "Monaco di Bavaria" in Italian, and "Munich" in English. There's also a Munich in North Dakota. Now if suddenly someone were to add "name:it=Monaco di Bavaria" to Munich, North Dakota, then I could be relatively sure that they did so without local knowledge (in fact, without knowledge about North Dakota and without knowledge about Italian) and that the other 1000 name:it "translations" they did in the same changeset are as worthless as this one. (For name:uk, the top 10 editors have added 70,000 names, and just 18 people have added more than 1,000.) I'm reluctant to discuss individual users or individual changesets here especially as long as we're still investigating the matter. If you can spare the time though, I'm sure the DWG would welcome an application from someone with your analytical skills! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
