{"id":1832195,"date":"2024-06-19T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1832195"},"modified":"2024-06-19T13:19:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:19:01","slug":"openstreetmap-is-dealing-with-some-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/06\/openstreetmap-is-dealing-with-some-vandalism\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStreetMap Is Dealing with Some Vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It seems OpenStreetMap has had to deal with a wave of vandalism attacks lately. If you see some nonsense on OSM, this post<\/a> on their community forum outlines what to do about it (it may have already been taken care of even if it\u2019s still appearing, so check for that; also, don\u2019t post screencaps, because propagating the nonsense is what the vandals want). The OSM ops team provided this update on Mastodon<\/a> today: \u201cOpenStreetMap is now stronger with improved monitoring, automatic blocking, and respectful limits on new accounts. The default osm.org map is now quicker at fixing large-scale vandalism. Offline actions are also progressing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems OpenStreetMap has had to deal with a wave of vandalism attacks lately. If you see some nonsense on OSM, this post on their community forum outlines what to do about it (it may… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,114],"tags":[1267,386],"class_list":["post-1832195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-map-errors","category-web-mapping","tag-map-vandalism","tag-openstreetmap","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786219,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/09\/anti-semitic-map-vandalism-strikes-mapbox\/","url_meta":{"origin":1832195,"position":0},"title":"Anti-Semitic Map Vandalism Strikes Mapbox","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 September 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"An incident of map vandalism roiled the Internet last week. 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