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 -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
