> From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 2:11 PM > To: Talk Openstreetmap > Subject: [OSM-talk] Bitcoin Spam > > Hi, > > we're seeing a rising number of new ways and nodes which seem to be > added by people who create an account for just one purpose, namely > adding a business to the map. > > This could be great - if every business were to add themselves to the > map, we'd have a nice collection of POIs. > > However, in the case at hand, it seems that the interest is not to > improve OSM but instead we're just a vehicle for people to show up on > the "coinmap", a business directory for bitcoin-accepting businesses. > > It seems that a name and "payment:bitcoin=yes" is sufficient for that > site, with an optional advertising slug in the "note" tag. But for us, > not so much. First of all because advertising has no room in OSM; second > because many of these businesses seem to be not really "on the ground" > (but just a mail-order place that wants to have some marker somewhere), > third because they often don't contain even minimal information that > would make them useful to us.
Thanks to Frederik for putting the required time together to document what myself and others have been seeing, primarily from bitcoin edits. http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1G1 shows objects like this via overpass. Some of the places I've been seeing exist solely as a service within a private post office, where they may not even have a physical mailbox but instead have their mail scanned and emailed. OSM is great for a shop that has a physical presence ("bricks and mortar") but we're not a general-purpose directory of online-only entities. This is inherent in the "geo" part of "geodata". _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
