Illegal activity and spamming Posted by Maps Man on 14 June 2024 in English. Someone is littering openstreetmap with streets that do not exist. A Russian hacker is the cause and one other person.
Discussion
په 14 June 2024 په 21:34 باندې د Maps Man تبصره
Also someone is deleting powerlines that do exist in the real world.
په 14 June 2024 په 21:59 باندې د JosephAbboud تبصره
I was gonna say, there are suddenly a bunch of random straight roads going in all directions.
په 15 June 2024 په 00:04 باندې د SomeoneElse تبصره
For the recent “straight line” vandalism, see https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/the-osm-standard-tile-layer-looks-wrong-white-lines-abusive-comments-etc/111583/305 . If you are aware of other problems (deleting data etc.) please email data@openstreetmap.org .
په 15 June 2024 په 10:32 باندې د farhadGuli تبصره
hope this get fix soon , such a fool and bad peoples have in this world
په 15 June 2024 په 11:48 باندې د ivanbranco تبصره
The irony is that the vandal is ukrainian. Not helping their cause at all.
په 16 June 2024 په 08:49 باندې د Keio7000 تبصره
Someone already corrected this, but I guess whatever hacktivist is responsible is doing this for the Ukranian cause.
Reading the different streets littered on the map I saw (bad words ahead):