[Talk-us] Finding one-trick ponies

Hi, in case someone wants to run their own analyses on what might constitute spam edits, here's a couple steps I did to come up with the numbers posted over in the "SEO Damage" thread. Some Perl required! 1. Download the latest changeset dump (changesets-latest.osm.bz2) 2. Here's a small Perl

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: MEDIA REQUEST/DEADLINE TOMORROW MORNING

Charlotte, you got that because you're on the pr...@openstreetmap.us email list. We get requests like that occasionally. It's probably legit. On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: > Hello, all, > > Did anyone else get this? Anyone know if it is

[Talk-us] Fwd: MEDIA REQUEST/DEADLINE TOMORROW MORNING

Hello, all, Did anyone else get this? Anyone know if it is legit? Charlotte Authentication-Results: cdptpa-imsmta10 header.DKIM-Signature=@openstreetmap.us; dkim=pass Authentication-Results: cdptpa-imsmta10 x-tls.subject="/C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

Hi, On 06.07.2017 13:01, Mike N wrote: >In the larger picture, what damage is being done to OSM by the > 'spam', once the correct and standard tags are being used? ... and we can be reasonably sure that whoever said the business was at this location, actually knew and not just guessed ;)

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

On 7/6/2017 5:42 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Reverting all these edits would probably create a lot of collateral damage. We could manually go through them and revert all that contain marketing speak, but even that would probably throw out a few babies with the bathwater here and there. In the

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

Hi, On 05.07.2017 23:05, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I've done some numbers, maybe it helps. The CSVs I uploaded were a bit difficult to process because of lack of escaping. I've made a new one here http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/one-trick-ponies.csv To recap, this file contains all changesets

Re: [Talk-us] SEO Damage to OSM

On 06/07/17 04:42, John F. Eldredge wrote: The "mechanical Turk" term is not an ethnic slur, but instead an allusion to a famous 18th-century chess-playing automaton, made to resemble the upper body of a man in traditional Turkish clothing, mounted on a cabinet. It was eventually revealed to