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I don't know terrible many vandals who would enjoy breaking OSM (that not terrible many people use yet) of very distant lands by breaking it in subtle ways. Va

I don't know terrible many vandals who would enjoy breaking OSM (that not terrible many people use yet) of very distant lands by breaking it in subtle ways. Vandals usually do bright, bold things. Deface, draw over, swear. What they did here speaks either sabotage or personal hatred. I guess there are particularly devious people, but why a sizable number of those would suddenly contract for google india?

jrockway 15y ago
This is simply not true. As someone who was very destructive growing up, I can tell you that it's fun to destroy things simply for the sake of destroying things. You may not understand it, but that's because you don't have that destructive tendency. As I've mentioned in other comments, I've vandalized wikis before. I did it because it was funny to people standing around. It doesn't involve much imagination to see someone opening up OpenStreetMap, clicking "reverse direction of street", and then gathering up some nearby coworkers to show. "Hey guys, watch this! Reverse! Reverse!" "Hahah, 8th Avenue doesn't go that way! Hilarious!"
- guard-of-terra 15y ago
  Would you do a hundred of such changes over a time span without telling anyone? Would you do that in a map of city located on the other side of planet? That's psychologically improbable and becomes gravely improbable if there were more than one vandal.
  - jrockway 15y ago
    Well, I'll tell you this. There's no corporate mandate at Google telling employees that it's OK to vandalize OpenStreetMap. In fact, we even sponsor OSM as a Google Summer of Code project: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code If you want some "Google is evil" fodder, this is not it. Sorry.
  - kevinh 15y ago
    I simply don't think you understand what people are willing to do. I know many people who would play Wikipedia Jenga - you edit Wikipedia with bigger and more ridiculous edits and the person who gets the article reverted is the "loser". It's not ridiculous to assume that they could be playing a similar game with OSM, especially if they viewed it as "competitor". I don't believe Google is stupid enough to advocate vandalizing an opponent's products.
  - rmc 15y ago
    Given that there are 6 billion people in existance, it's quite possible that there are some complete ass holes.
eli 15y ago
a "sizable number" being two?
- guard-of-terra 15y ago
  If there were just two of them, google should mention that fact and provide some background on why they did that. Of course it makes the issue much less severe.
  - eli 15y ago
    It's in the first sentence of the linked article.

jrockway 15y ago

This is simply not true. As someone who was very destructive growing up, I can tell you that it's fun to destroy things simply for the sake of destroying things. You may not understand it, but that's because you don't have that destructive tendency. As I've mentioned in other comments, I've vandalized wikis before. I did it because it was funny to people standing around. It doesn't involve much imagination to see someone opening up OpenStreetMap, clicking "reverse direction of street", and then gathering up some nearby coworkers to show. "Hey guys, watch this! Reverse! Reverse!" "Hahah, 8th Avenue doesn't go that way! Hilarious!"

guard-of-terra 15y ago
Would you do a hundred of such changes over a time span without telling anyone? Would you do that in a map of city located on the other side of planet? That's psychologically improbable and becomes gravely improbable if there were more than one vandal.
- jrockway 15y ago
  Well, I'll tell you this. There's no corporate mandate at Google telling employees that it's OK to vandalize OpenStreetMap. In fact, we even sponsor OSM as a Google Summer of Code project: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code If you want some "Google is evil" fodder, this is not it. Sorry.
- kevinh 15y ago
  I simply don't think you understand what people are willing to do. I know many people who would play Wikipedia Jenga - you edit Wikipedia with bigger and more ridiculous edits and the person who gets the article reverted is the "loser". It's not ridiculous to assume that they could be playing a similar game with OSM, especially if they viewed it as "competitor". I don't believe Google is stupid enough to advocate vandalizing an opponent's products.
- rmc 15y ago
  Given that there are 6 billion people in existance, it's quite possible that there are some complete ass holes.

eli 15y ago

a "sizable number" being two?

guard-of-terra 15y ago
If there were just two of them, google should mention that fact and provide some background on why they did that. Of course it makes the issue much less severe.
- eli 15y ago
  It's in the first sentence of the linked article.