[Talk-GB] unwanted advertising in OSM in the UK

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

I've identified around 60 locations in the UK that sound very much like
advertising in the "description" tag.

I haven't inspected them, but more often than not such POIs don't only
sport marketing copy in the description tag, they also tend to lack the
usual shop/amenity/whatever tags that tell you what this is supposed to be.

If someone is interested in having a look:

http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/seo-uk.txt

or as a .osm file

http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/seo-uk.osm

(note if you want to use that in JOSM you should do "update data" first
in case someone else has already dealt with some)

These likely aren't the only "spam POIs" but they're the most obvious.
Some of them are close calls, where the description only has a list of
services, or where the advertiser is a non-profit or even an over-eager
mapper copying from a sign. Hence I'd rather see UK mappers have a look
and decide what of this is worth keeping, than deciding it from the
comfort of my armchair.

Bye
Frederik

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[Talk-GB] OpenCage Data join OSM UK

[Rob Nickerson]

Hi all,

Just a quick email to welcome OpenCage Data Ltd on board as a corporate
member of OSM UK.

Associated blog post:
https://osmuk.org/uncategorized/opencage-data-join-as-a-corporate-member/

Best regards,
*Rob*
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Re: [Talk-GB] Postcode Changes

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

On 6 March 2018 at 23:36,   wrote:
> I was looking at Robert Whittaker’s Postcode Stats chart today and noticed
> that there seems to be an increase in Sectors with 0 or less than 5%
> postcodes mapped where the community had previously got over 5% of postcodes
> mapped.
>
> Checking for my local area they seem to be Council Offices, do we know if
> Royal Mail have added lots of new postcodes for council offices or if they
> have moved from the sorting office.

I think most of what you were seeing at
http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/addresses/pc-stats/ was a mistake on my
part. I imported the new version of Code-Point Open yesterday, and
forgot to run the script that marks sectors that comprise only
non-geographic postcodes. Those marked sectors get excluded from the
counts of poorly mapped sectors. I've now run the script, so hopefully
things should be back to normal now.

Robert.

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