Dear Dariaa_P,

you are adding data to OpenStreetMap in a way that is very similar to that done by accounts AnnaTai, Elinorzag, Oksana C, and Lucila Silbermann. We believe that you must be part of the same team of mappers. We sent your colleagues the message below but we have not heard back from them yet:

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We would like to get in touch with you about your mapping. It appears that you are part of an organised group adding various POIs in the USA, however we have had some complaints about the quality of your additions, and one of you (Oksana C) has not replied to several questions about data sources (see osm.org/user_blocks/2874).

If you are part of an organised mapping team then you should be listing that in your user profiles, and you should be documenting your project (see https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines), and you definitely have to reply when other mappers ask you something about your work.

Please get in touch with the OSMF Data Working Group at data@osmfoudnation.org so that we can discuss your contributions.

Please do not add more data to OSM before you have made contact. This request also applies to other members of your team.

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Your mapping exhibits the same problems, for example large, overlapping buildings liek here osm.org/#map=19/32.77063/-117.25238 - “Beach House” is just a small building with some outdoor seating; “Wings” and “Sun Diego” are duplicate, overlapping buildings, and the whole is covered by several overlapping tourism=theme_park areas. The retail area drawn in osm.org/way/696137004 is certainly not publicly known under the name “Broadway Retail Corridor S”, if it exists at all.

Also, you are adding commercial POIs all over the USA without specifying a data source which is not credible. We need to be sure that the data comes into OSM from a permitted source and is not copied from a copyrighted source.

Because of all these Issues we asked your colleagues to get in touch, and we’re extending this request to you. Please, before you continue mapping, tell us what you are doing and on whose behalf, and we can help you make positive and useful contributions to OSM.

The contributions made by your and your colleagues will be removed, and we can see which of them we can re-add once we understand what is going on.

Thank you
Frederik Ramm
OSMF Data Workign Group