Are there ever single character comments by users who are logged In? If so, has anyone asked them what website or program they were using at the time?
-- Andrew ________________________________ From: ajt1...@gmail.com <ajt1...@gmail.com> Sent: 09 July 2017 10:28:37 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Has anyone cracked the code yet? Over the last few months there have been lots of single-character note comments - initially in China and Russia, but recently more widespread (see for example http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/369774 ). The single-character comments seem to include cyrillic characters, which may suggest that they're related to the Russian-language "bridge detector" that adds notes such as http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1056574 , but it's difficult to see why someone's adding these note comments. Related, there's an issue raised over at github about the wider issue of allowing anonymous note comments https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1543 (not specifically just these). Does anyone have any thoughts as to what benefit there might be to someone adding these? About the only thing that I can come up with is that it's an OSM API test - people clone a project and run it, and the result is these notes (a bit like the OsmApi "My First Test" nodes that keep appearing near "null island"). Best Regards, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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