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One company recently had some incident because their client had no possibility to choose the delivery location. Apparently someone changed the openstreetmaps wh
by p0w3n3d 3y ago
One company recently had some incident because their client had no possibility to choose the delivery location. Apparently someone changed the openstreetmaps which they're using on their page, in the way that their customer's street was renamed to some bad words on Andy Townsend
- RicoElectrico 3y agoSorry, I don't buy this. The vandalism only persisted in the rendered map tiles due to CDN caching. Actual map data (which is input to the geocoding) was reverted very quickly by the DWG (moderators). This is also possibly a violation of Tile Usage Policy, you're not supposed to use OSM infrastructure in volume. OSM data is free, but hosting not so. Either self-host or use other providers.
- Freak_NL 3y agoYeah, there was a bad bit of vandalism recently. The data was quickly restored though. This is not too different from vandalism on Wikipedia, but instead of facts getting mangled, navigation can be impacted. Odd that that company hit one of the bits of map which was impacted though; the chance of anyone actually hitting the bad data seems quite small (as in, lottery jackpot winning small).
- idoubtit 3y ago> the chance of anyone actually hitting the bad data seems quite small (as in, lottery jackpot winning small). I saw it on a small cycling site that uses OSM's tiles. I was surprised and checked OSM's site for this French back-country and a few random places, and the offensive messages were still there. Even if the vandalism was purged after a few (dozens of) minutes, I suppose there were more witnesses across this short period than winners of lottery jackpots across this century.
- p0w3n3d 3y agoIf company runs 24/7 deliveries it's really not hard to hit the vandalized time interval