Re:Google Maps is filled with false business addresses prete...
by myself248 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:15PM
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OSM's Slack is full of people patrolling spammy SEO edits and stuff. It's swiftly dealt with.
If the problem were much larger, it might overwhelm the people currently cleaning it up, but if OSM were higher profile, it would also presumably attract more volunteers.
Crucially, it would empower the people wronged by spam to do something about it, which is precisely the opposite of what Google's system does.
If the problem were much larger, it might overwhelm the people currently cleaning it up, but if OSM were higher profile, it would also presumably attract more volunteers.
Crucially, it would empower the people wronged by spam to do something about it, which is precisely the opposite of what Google's system does.