On 24/05/2023 13:31, Greg Troxel wrote:
I just got spam from mapilio, implying that I was a "Mapilio contributor". This was, to my memory, the first I had heard of them.
There have been a handful of mentions on the forum of various lists in the last few months. I too just got spammed by them - quite ironic given the GDPR Compliant logo at the bottom of every page on their web site.
Looking briefly, it seems like a corporate thing with proprietary tooling. They talk about an app in proprietary app stores but do not mention F-Droid :-) The point seems to be to monetize crowdsourced contributions, in a gamified/rewards-ish sort of way.
The address on the web site actually appears to be a coffee shop in Andover so I think we can discount that as a mere correspondence address. The web site appears to have been created by a non-native speaker of english which points overseas. Looking at their "custom iD editor" repository there is actually a single commit from today to add their imagery which was done by a user with a visiosoft.com.tr address so possibly they are the people really behind it? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
