On 06/30/2017 11:21 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: > Edits, from what appears to be a search engine optimization company > (SEO), have damaged a number of ways in the US. Martijn Van Exel pointed > out the problem on Slack the other day. What they did was to add their > client to a street, often changing the name of the street to the > company. Fortunately they made it easy to find using overpass [1] by > adding in the clients address, phone number, source and website. The > query looks for addresses and websites on ways. [...]
This has been ongoing for a while. I honestly think calling it "SEO damage" is charitable. This is hit-and-run vandalism done by people who happen to be engaged in SEO as a business, and it needs to be handled similarly to how we would normally handle vandalism. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
