OpenStreetMap
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.
討論
由Warin61於2018年6月14日07:06發表的評論
Did Donald Trump go there?
由Piskvor於2018年6月14日11:24發表的評論
It does say “© OSM contributors / modified by SUI”, but I would not have noticed and would have fallen for it, too :D
由GOwin於2018年6月15日02:36發表的評論
Nice find! We need all the laughs we can get. ;)
由l3BAM於2018年6月15日05:32發表的評論
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.
由k_zoar於2018年6月20日01:15發表的評論
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)