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.