OpenStreetMap
Politically motivated vandalism on OpenStreetMap
Posted by tukangsampat on 2 September 2025 in English.In 2025 alone I found vandalism incidents specifically targeting map of Indonesian parliament compound twice, in March and now in late August. Thankfully these are all restored.
What made me sad that some Indonesians don’t understand the OpenStreetMap at all, what they only know in their head is political activism. They do by erasing - or editing - the place of institution they despise. Not really sure if these incidents are unique to maps in Indonesia or there’s international example of politically motivated vandalism of OSM maps?
Discussion
Comment from Venerdì (Michi) on 2 September 2025 at 12:07
Hi, as now I’ve never seen something like this in Italy, I don’t know the political situation in your country, in any case I believe that political activism also passes through annoying acts, and Openstreet Map as an open system is subject (fortunately or unfortunately, it depends on the points of view) to this too.