lukhav, can you explain two things: (1) was this spam deletion your very first contribution to OSM or have you created this secondary account for that purpose alone? It is unusual for new users to delete thousands of things with JOSM. And (2) what method did you use to identify what you believe to be spam and how did the node pointed out by mavl above get selected?

Fedor, your logic is flawed, You cannot take data from booking sites just because the hotels have freely added this data to booking sites. Also, you keep adding "ourhotels.com" links even though you were asked not to. I am sorry but I have to remove your edits now.

Dear aleksielias, welcome to OSM! It is customary to add a short comment describing your edits when you upload - not just ".". See osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments for details. Your future contributions would be even more welcome if you could add such a comment.

Dear AVDP987, please specify human-readable changeset comments when you upload data to OSM. "#hotosm-project-16538 #tm-project #MissingMaps #Ethopia #NLRC #redcross #rodekruis # woredas1" is not human-readable. Also, creating large circular residential landuses may not be ideal since they are grossly approximated anyway - consider using less points to draw the area.

Why did you delete way/1248998920 which is clearly visible on aerial imagery? It should have been changed to highway=construction if it isn't yet open, instead of deleting it!

Dear Fedor Filimonov, thank you for adding data sources to your changesets as requested, and for documenting your efforts on osm.wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Hotels,_Motels,_Guest_houses. Sadly, neither "booking services" nor Google are a legal source for adding data to OpenStreetMap; the databases kept by Google and booking services are subject to database rights and/or copyright, and without explicit permission from these services we must not use that data.

Dear Fedor Filimonov, the correct website for the "Drummond Island Resort & Conference Center" is https://www.drummondisland.com/ and not the "ourhotel.store" link that you have provided. Please stop adding any hotels with a website tag that points to "ourhotel.store".

Also, if you intend to continue adding hotels, please make sure that you specify the source of your contributions in the changeset; you have added hotels across the planet and it seems unlikely that these are from survey.

If you are making these edits as part of your job, then please also comply with OpenStreetMap's "organised editing guidelines" at https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines which require you to seek community input on your activities and document whom you are working for.

Dear user "Map_Team", please choose better changeset comments than "Vetiflette". See osm.wiki/FR:Bons_commentaires_de_groupe_de_modifications for an explanation. Also, please never upload un-edited GPX tracks. The JOSM editor will allow you to simplify a geometry before uploading; we don't want one node every few meters along a straight line ;)

Hab mal eine "note" geöffnet: note/4280701 - vielleicht schaut ja jemand vor Ort vorbei.

Thank you for your response. The approach of "delete everything once a month and replace it" is not something we do in OSM, ever. If the third-party data really is so much better than our own data then users should simply load the third-party data in addition to ours, but we shouldn't degrade OSM to be a "delivery vehicle" for third-party data.

Also, it is still completely unclear to me if IETT even agrees to having their data copied into OpenStreetMap.

These are things that need to be discussed with the whole Turkish community before an import can proceed.

I have now removed the data that has been imported by you. Thank you for making your script available; the Turkish community can take this up if they're interested and after they have clarified the legal situation.

Hello ManeraKai, importing data into OpenStreetMap requires prior discussion (see osm.wiki/Import/Guidelines). Have you discussed these imports with the Turkish community beforehand? Is the data source from which you scraped the information according to your message on Telegram even a legal data source for OSM?

Can you explain why you upgraded way/1181411487/ - a dead-end, unpaved road leading up into the mountains - from "track" to "tertiary"?

way/1268330700 which you created in this changeset is recorded as a building but it contains other buildings on the inside. This does not look right!

Please do not add "addr:street" tags to roads; a street name in the "name" tag is fully sufficient.

Hallo Andreas, dieser Parkplatz, den Du in diesem Changeset von "access=permissive" auf "access=customers" umgetaggt hast, für wessen Kunden ist der denn gedacht? Jemand hat sich beim FOSSGIS beschwert, es wäre *kein* Parkplatz sondern Privatgelände. Vom Luftbild her scheint es mir ja schon zum Parken benutzt zu werden... ist es vielleicht einfach access=private statt access=customers?

osm.org/user_blocks/16113 changeset/152274723

Please do not mis-label legitimate OpenStreetMap quality assurance as "harrassment". We are making this map together, and we're all interested in OSM being a high quality map - which includes being legally spotless.

You say that you have recorded these street names in person. A good way to bolster that claim in the future is to take a few photos of street signs which proves that you've actually been there. It's not something we would ask of someone adding the odd street name, but if someone adds streets names for a whole quarter and they just happen to be the same as Google's, then a few photos will go a long way to lift suspicions.

Your claim to be adding maps to Tom Tom, Google, and Apple simultaneously sounds implausible, especially as, while the NAMES in your OSM mapping are all identical to Google's, the geometries are not. If this is a story you want to stick to, we'll need some proof that allows us to see that roads have actually been added to these maps at the same time as they have been added to OSM.

Your work for the county GIS system is commendable but please keep it separate from OSM; the county might have a different bar for contributions than OSM.

I suggest to raise the matter in a public discussion on the OSM forum. It is likely that you are right (and any "Zones" of any sort in Gaza declared by IDF should be removed) but it cannot hurt to bring this to the attention of whoever has created "#hotosm-project-16446", otherwise it might turn out to be a fight against windmills.

Danke für Deinen Einsatz!

Hello cm81447, it is highly unusual for a new contributor to OSM to embark on such a massive road re-classification scheme as you apparently have; and even more unusual to ignore requests of other mappers to take it slow and consider if maybe things are like they are for a reason! I've reverted your edits of the last four days, and I second Joseph's request above to discuss your plans before you execute them The community forum on community.openstreetmap.org is a good place for this.