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Hi,

a company named "Logistics Plus" donated GPS track data for Kosovo; this might be similar to what you are thinking about. See details at osm.wiki/Kosovo_LogisticsPlus_Tracing2 and osm.wiki/WikiProject_Kosovo

Hi,

you could use the XAPI to query the OSM database for objects of a certain type in your area of interest. See osm.wiki/Xapi for details.

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I really like it!

Just had a quick check: The rel=nofollow is also missing on most of the spam diary pages, so the "way around it" seems to work there as well. Is the "way round" sufficiently unusual that we can assume no one uses it accidentally? This would hint that all links without the nofollow attribute are indeed created by spammers. This would include quite some entries where the users have denied being spammers; and that would support the theory that spammers are currently checking out how they have the most success here.

I had just looked at the latest spam suspect (user Jhorell) and didn't see a rel=nofollow, so I assumed no measures would be in place. It appears that the "way round" is well known to spammers already.

Thanks for the info, I didn't know about that feature. rel=nofollow is indeed set on links in diary pages, so it should just be set in user profile pages as well.

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You might want to have a look at
osm.wiki/OSM_on_your_own_website

No harm done, I hope. Did anyone mention yet that the "about us" link at the bottom of your page is broken? Should probably go to the same page as the "about" link on top.
Now, can we (the OSM community) learn something from this? Maybe we need a text like "Help, my business/street/village/whatever is missing on the map! What can I do?" in some prominent location on the main page?

Well, the entry did not yet exist when I wrote my comment. Seeing a multitude of blog entries from new users with some vaguely map related text and including one or several links to commercial websites got on my nerves, apparently.
So, I apologise for calling "spam" what might be an innocent blog entry.

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