Changeset: 56164208
remove adverstising
Closed by woodpeck
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Discussion
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Comment from azsr
I really don't think any of these edits were necessary. Even though these were added by purpose-built hit-and-run throwaway accounts specifically for adding their businesses on the map, they still added map data without having annoying descriptions. What was there is on the ground, anyways, but we're left now with just a bunch of addresses.
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Comment from woodpeck
Not only were these purpose-built hit-and-run accounts that will never respond to anything you would ask of them, they were also created by an SEO firm that has zero interest in our map other than putting their customer's name on it. This is much worse than an individual owner adding their own business - in which case you could at least hope they're local and they will also update their POI if something about their business changes. None of these had any shop/amenity/whatever tags - they were essentially graffiti: "write this business name on the map at this location", nothing more. We have tags for e.g. an acupuncture practitioner, but https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4454478635 was, in OSM's data, not an acupuncture practitioner, just a label on the map. -- We at OSM are ok with people using our map to advertise their business name and location, and contact info, and we expect very little in return, namely that they invest the minimal effort to find out how to do it properly. Faced with a business that adds thousands of what is essentially advertising labels across our map, and charges their clients for it, and does it in such a shabby fashion that the data is practically useless for us, deleting it is the only language these people understand. Yes I could have added proper shop/amenity/... keys for each based on the name or looking up the URLs given - but contrary to the SEO business that added this advertising, I am not paid for this. I am willing to use my spare time to improve a bumbling newbie's work, but not a bumbling SEO provider's.
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Comment from azsr
Thanks for your quick reply. Do we know the SEO that does this?
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Comment from woodpeck
FSVO "know", yes. I know from my work at DWG that they all come from the same IP range in Asia and most have signed up with an email address pointing to an US SEO business.
I have a couple 100 more of these across the US that I would like to weed out but while I do have strong opinions on the matter, maybe I should leave it to the local community to decide, and simply post a list? It's likely that the community would invest time to make these "advertising graffitis" into something useful - a gift that in my eyes, the SEO company and their clients don't deserve. But if someone wants to do it anyway...
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