Any idea of why France has so much more issues in the Atlas Check than the rest of the world?

Thanks for asking! This is a great question. Issues in France are mostly flagged by ConcerningAngleBuildingCheck, which attempts to identify buildings that need to be squared. We haven’t made any edits using this check yet, as we are aware that this check may not be applicable in all countries. Developments are still ongoing for certain checks and we are always working towards improving accuracy.

@GrizzlyTTU

Thank you for sharing your feedbacks and taking the ground survey to help verify the road name. Further contributions from you and your team are very welcome.

Yes. Also, if a road is “colloquially known as Pikachu Pass” then “loc_name=Pikachu Pass” is entirely appropriate too.

Some real-world names and tag combinations do appear unlikely at first glance - http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=128265146 is or was apparently a nice steak house in Burkina Faso (see changeset/16601166), but has been “corrected” to be a burger joint on a couple of occasions. People making corrections like this aren’t helping to improve the quality of the data in OSM.

It’s also true that “new mapper errors” aren’t in any sense vandalism. The appropriate course of action there is to educate new mappers about how names are used in OSM, and what they can do to see the data that they are interested in (perhaps use a different map or app if the one that they are using does not show what they have just added).

All that said, it should be relatively easy for everyone to follow this activity - as required by the OEG osm.wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Facebook#Atlas_Checks says that “ Atlas Checks detections are given the following hashtag: #AtlasChecks”.

We totally agree there are names that look strange but appear to be real names of the map features. Before taking action on the flagged names, our mapping team will investigate each of them to decide the next step. Activities from our mapping team can be followed by tracking the hashtags listed in our OSM wiki

What actually determines “profanity” here? Would e.g. the loc_name on way/854436697 be a problem? That loc_name is easily verified. What steps are taken to ensure that valid names considered “profane” in some dialects of English aren’t removed?

Thank you for you feedback! To detect profanity, we collected and evaluated a list of profanity words and used this list as the library to train our detection model. The detection is just a starting point. It helps us to identify potential candidates of profanity and vandalism. Our mapping team investigated each candidate to decide what action should be taken.