On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:28 PM, James Mast <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thanks for doing this Steve. > > However, is there a way to report script kiddies who are running a script > to just rack up points that aren't doing anything to help out OSM and just > want to win the prize? Should I just report them to the DWG, especially > since he hasn't talked to talk-us about running the script? The reason I'm > asking is because I've already spotted one of these type of users who is > just running a script that is just changing tags from one to another type > to rack up the edits. Heck, he's also somehow editing some nodes just to > make them his without doing anything to them (no idea how he's doing that!). > It looks like he's looking at recent change sets of other mappers. Then he looks for a tiger or gnis tag to change into incomplete an addr:* like so http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3506764/history. Perhaps Telenav needs to refine the contest rules? I am thinking that adding modification of existing data to contest rules has the unintended consequences of abuse like these edits. Otherwise, Telenav's good idea could become a black eye on everything that the company is trying to do to enhance their support of the community.
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