It depends on which contributors are which. We have a few contributors who are the shop owners and they make a single edit, adding their stores.
But we also have people who have taken a list of stores and either: 1. Plugged the store into Google to find the location 2. Plugged the address into Nominatim to find the location The reason I know the first scenario is true is that there was a post about it on Reddit, with the poster putting it on the subreddit r/openstreetmap (which I moderate). I began to investigate the issue, but (frankly) became overwhelmed with the amount of data, and the hostility I received from some (not a majority of) coinmappers. I don't mind if a person comes in, makes an imperfect edit of their own store and then leaves, but working off a list is an import, and what they did was to circumvent the import process. - Serge
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