Interesting. The skill is in how to spot the difference between a description and an over-the-top SEO description. I'd love to see someone train an AI on this.
- Jez On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 at 00:29 Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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