Re: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam edits

[Clifford Snow]

Ethan,
If DWG's interaction proves constructive, can you ask for their help
getting the word out to other SEO firms? I'm convinced we need to work with
them or be constantly faced with fixing or deleting there edits.

Is there any key publications/blogs they all follow? Who are the industry
leaders? What would they like from OSM to help them?

(Its late if this doesn't make much sense)

Clifford

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Ethan Nelson 
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> On Mar 13, 2018 22:09, "Paul Johnson"  wrote:
>
>
> > So what was the story
>
>
> It was the case of someone uploading data erroneously. After a block, they
> made contact to let us know.
>
>
> Best,
>
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Re: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam edits

[Ethan Nelson]

On Mar 13, 2018 22:09, "Paul Johnson"  wrote:


> So what was the story


It was the case of someone uploading data erroneously. After a block, they made 
contact to let us know.


Best,

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Re: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam edits

[Paul Johnson]

So what was the story?

On Mar 13, 2018 22:06, "Ethan Nelson"  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> We've heard from the mappers and have (hopefully) solved the issue.
>
>
> Thank you for your vigilance!
>
>
> Best,
>
> Ethan aka FTA with the DWG
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Re: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam edits

[Ethan Nelson]

Hi all,


We've heard from the mappers and have (hopefully) solved the issue.


Thank you for your vigilance!


Best,

Ethan aka FTA with the DWG

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Re: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam edits

[Clifford Snow]

Let us know if anything good comes of the block. I'm sure you'll hear
otherwise.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The DWG is (now) aware of it :)
>
> There are 8 accounts with changeset comments matching this pattern
> right now. Hoping they don't change it once they start getting
> blocked.
>
> Toby
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 9:04 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us>
> wrote:
> > I haven't seen anything like that in Washington State. Still getting the
> > occasional "updated" changeset comment.
> >
> > Paul - it seems like they should be reported to DWG. The first user on
> your
> > list, Mike Gothie has 83 edits. One was pure garbage. If the others are
> like
> > that I'd report them all.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com
> > <jacknst...@sprynet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Same thing is popping up in the Denver, Colorado area. I've sent
> messages
> >> to the new users. If no reply, I will begin deleting.
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-
> >> From: Paul Johnson
> >> Sent: Mar 14, 2018 4:08 AM
> >> To: Talk Openstreetmap
> >> Subject: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam
> >> edits
> >>
> >> Seem to be getting a large number of spam edits all with comments
> matching
> >> aa, where a is any single lowercase letter and b is any single
> >> digit, have appeared in the last 48 hours.  So far the items being
> mapped
> >> have had name=* matching the same pattern, area=yes, and not much of
> >> anything else, and certainly don't seem to be of any value or
> decipherable
> >> to any casual observer.  These have started appearing in Oklahoma,
> which is
> >> why I noticed them in OsmCha.
> >>
> >> Users that I've noticed so far that are doing this, totalling 261
> >> changesets, all fitting this pattern:
> >>
> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mike%20Gothie
> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/t-max
> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ghostsail
> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mrana3
> >>
> >> I strongly suspect there are more accounts doing this across the US
> (since
> >> the mrana3 one only had a bounding box that intersected Oklahoma, no
> edits
> >> within it, but did have them on either coast), and the oldest account
> >> appears to be from March 5, 2018.
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Re: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam edits

[Toby Murray]

The DWG is (now) aware of it :)

There are 8 accounts with changeset comments matching this pattern
right now. Hoping they don't change it once they start getting
blocked.

Toby

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 9:04 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote:
> I haven't seen anything like that in Washington State. Still getting the
> occasional "updated" changeset comment.
>
> Paul - it seems like they should be reported to DWG. The first user on your
> list, Mike Gothie has 83 edits. One was pure garbage. If the others are like
> that I'd report them all.
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com
> <jacknst...@sprynet.com> wrote:
>>
>> Same thing is popping up in the Denver, Colorado area. I've sent messages
>> to the new users. If no reply, I will begin deleting.
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Paul Johnson
>> Sent: Mar 14, 2018 4:08 AM
>> To: Talk Openstreetmap
>> Subject: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam
>> edits
>>
>> Seem to be getting a large number of spam edits all with comments matching
>> aa, where a is any single lowercase letter and b is any single
>> digit, have appeared in the last 48 hours.  So far the items being mapped
>> have had name=* matching the same pattern, area=yes, and not much of
>> anything else, and certainly don't seem to be of any value or decipherable
>> to any casual observer.  These have started appearing in Oklahoma, which is
>> why I noticed them in OsmCha.
>>
>> Users that I've noticed so far that are doing this, totalling 261
>> changesets, all fitting this pattern:
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mike%20Gothie
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/t-max
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ghostsail
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mrana3
>>
>> I strongly suspect there are more accounts doing this across the US (since
>> the mrana3 one only had a bounding box that intersected Oklahoma, no edits
>> within it, but did have them on either coast), and the oldest account
>> appears to be from March 5, 2018.
>>
>>
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Re: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam edits

[Clifford Snow]

I haven't seen anything like that in Washington State. Still getting the
occasional "updated" changeset comment.

Paul - it seems like they should be reported to DWG. The first user on your
list, Mike Gothie has 83 edits. One was pure garbage. If the others are
like that I'd report them all.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com <
jacknst...@sprynet.com> wrote:

> Same thing is popping up in the Denver, Colorado area. I've sent messages
> to the new users. If no reply, I will begin deleting.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Johnson
> Sent: Mar 14, 2018 4:08 AM
> To: Talk Openstreetmap
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam
> edits
>
> Seem to be getting a large number of spam edits all with comments matching
> aa, where a is any single lowercase letter and b is any single
> digit, have appeared in the last 48 hours.  So far the items being mapped
> have had name=* matching the same pattern, area=yes, and not much of
> anything else, and certainly don't seem to be of any value or decipherable
> to any casual observer.  These have started appearing in Oklahoma, which is
> why I noticed them in OsmCha.
>
> Users that I've noticed so far that are doing this, totalling 261
> changesets, all fitting this pattern:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mike%20Gothie
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/t-max
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ghostsail
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mrana3
>
> I strongly suspect there are more accounts doing this across the US (since
> the mrana3 one only had a bounding box that intersected Oklahoma, no edits
> within it, but did have them on either coast), and the oldest account
> appears to be from March 5, 2018.
>
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Re: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam edits

[Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com]

Same thing is popping up in the Denver, Colorado area. I've sent messages to the new users. If no reply, I will begin deleting.-Original Message-
From: Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org>
Sent: Mar 14, 2018 4:08 AM
To: Talk Openstreetmap <talk@openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam edits

Seem to be getting a large number of spam edits all with comments matching aa, where a is any single lowercase letter and b is any single digit, have appeared in the last 48 hours.  So far the items being mapped have had name=* matching the same pattern, area=yes, and not much of anything else, and certainly don't seem to be of any value or decipherable to any casual observer.  These have started appearing in Oklahoma, which is why I noticed them in OsmCha.Users that I've noticed so far that are doing this, totalling 261 changesets, all fitting this pattern:https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mike%20Gothiehttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/t-maxhttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ghostsailhttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mrana3I strongly suspect there are more accounts doing this across the US (since the mrana3 one only had a bounding box that intersected Oklahoma, no edits within it, but did have them on either coast), and the oldest account appears to be from March 5, 2018.


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[OSM-talk] Large number of seemingly automated, non-SEO spam edits

[Paul Johnson]

Seem to be getting a large number of spam edits all with comments matching
aa, where a is any single lowercase letter and b is any single
digit, have appeared in the last 48 hours.  So far the items being mapped
have had name=* matching the same pattern, area=yes, and not much of
anything else, and certainly don't seem to be of any value or decipherable
to any casual observer.  These have started appearing in Oklahoma, which is
why I noticed them in OsmCha.

Users that I've noticed so far that are doing this, totalling 261
changesets, all fitting this pattern:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mike%20Gothie
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/t-max
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ghostsail
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mrana3

I strongly suspect there are more accounts doing this across the US (since
the mrana3 one only had a bounding box that intersected Oklahoma, no edits
within it, but did have them on either coast), and the oldest account
appears to be from March 5, 2018.
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