Dear user Maddison Savage,

in the last couple of days you have amended restaurant information in OpenStreetMap based on a web site called “chefonline”. You have been informed by other users that doing so violates the copyright of that web site (osm.org/changeset/80903630); yet you have continued making the same kind of edit this morning. This is a waste of time on your side and on ours since these edits will have to be deleted again (as most of your edits already have).

We are also interested in your motivation for making these edits. Of course we welcome any improvement to OSM, but you seem to be very specifically interested in some Indian restaurants across the UK; not all restaurants, not even all Indian restaurants. What are your selection criteria here?

If you are doing this not as a hobby but as a job, then our “organised editing guidelines” set out some steps that you should follow: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines - most importantly, you would be expected to be transparent about what you’re doing and who’s behind that, potentially by filling in your user profile.

This message blocks your account until you have read it; you can continue editing normally afterwards. But please note that we will have to block your account for longer if you ignore this message.

Best regards
Frederik Ramm
OSMF Data Working Group