They appear to be pulling straight from Google, which is probably driving a whole lot more traffic to that telephone number than MapCarta: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Eagles+Campground/@41.2627649,-111.6961183,17.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8753a519e0bdd163:0x85fa260f95cdae2a!8m2!3d41.2637729!4d-111.6944602?hl=en
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020, at 4:14 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone have contacts with Mapcarta? > > https://mapcarta.com/Eagles_Campground_2422656 > > lists a camp ground that is not on OSM, and has never been, together > with a phone number that belongs to the USDA forest service and they're > not super stoked about would-be campers calling them to book. > > MapCarta claims to be using OpenStreetMap data (hence why the USDA > forest service contacted us). But clearly this campground comes from a > different source. (Which is just as well because Mapcarta doesn't have > proper attribution.) > > (The phone number in question was indeed recorded for a different camp > site in Utah, Monte Cristo Campground, and I've removed it from there. > Doesn't solve the Eagles Campground riddle though.) > > Mapcarta doesn't have any point of contact on the site and the whois > doesn't return anything useful either. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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