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Fake University has Fake OSM maps?

Publicado por nyampire o 14 de Xuño de 2018 en English.

Japanese famous (prank and imaginary *note) university “Shinsyu University of International” announces they have switched their access map to OpenStreetMap. It shows their campus in interactive map.

It was reported via twitter, and I have checked if it causes vandalism or something worse.

But curiously, there are no such a campus data on osm.org.

As checked html source of the page, I found they built their own map instance. From their html,

OSM本家に負荷をかけないよう、またまぜか国際信州学院大学が表示されない(おそらく知名度不足)ので12以上でズームしていてキャンパスの近くなら自前の地図で表示

In order to avoid harm to OSM website, and due to OSM does not show “Shinsyu University of International” in their map (Probably we are not so famous), so render our map if zoom level upper 12 and near the campus.

Nice joke, I’m tricked :)

*note: SUI claims they are REAL university.

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Comentario de Warin61 no 14 de Xuño de 2018 ás 07:06

Did Donald Trump go there?

Comentario de Piskvor no 14 de Xuño de 2018 ás 11:24

It does say “© OSM contributors / modified by SUI”, but I would not have noticed and would have fallen for it, too :D

Comentario de GOwin no 15 de Xuño de 2018 ás 02:36

Nice find! We need all the laughs we can get. ;)

Comentario de l3BAM no 15 de Xuño de 2018 ás 05:32

They say anyway in French language at the top of the page: “Les choses sur cette page sont fictives” (The things on this page are fictive). So yes they warn the readers. It’s fun.

Comentario de k_zoar no 20 de Xuño de 2018 ás 01:15

The student from SUI explains in detail how to make that map in their blog. https://scc.kokushin-u.jp/2018/06/15/add-object-to-osm-locally-for-univ/ (This articles are in Japanese)

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