This is a good time to bring up the subject because the recent
'locksmith' advertising was most bothersome: partly because the
locksmith industry as a whole in the US is as shady as you can get while
being barely legal, and partly because I'm sure the physical locations
had no relevance; almost no one goes to a 'locksmith shop' to get their
car door unlocked, and many of them just operate out of their residence.
On 3/1/2018 5:44 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Advertising is often added to OSM in blatant disregard for what we want;
for those adding advertising to OSM, we are just another vehicle to
carry their marketing message across.
Ironically, OSM in the US is nearly a black hole to advertisers. As
I last knew, adding something unique to OSM does not mean that it will
ever show up in Google. So I infer that we don't allow Google-bots to
sniff the OSM changeset list. If advertisers get things right, the best
their client could hope for is to attract OSM app users. If they get
the factual part wrong, it goes nowhere.
In this list for my region, I recognize at least 2 people who live in
the area because they made additional relevant edits that only a local
would know. Otherwise, I haven't bothered to remove the advertising
text because it's only space in the database, and a tiny percentage of
the overall data.
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