Bitcoin Map spams OpenStreetMap

~~It looks like the Bitcoin Map website adds points illicitly to OSM through a Google Maps interface. This is rather bad.~~

Update: they’re fixing this …

Here’s a test run I took to see if the data was really being added to OSM:

Screenshot from 2015-03-04 21:52:38 — Bitcoin Map website showing a location near me in Google Maps

Screenshot from 2015-03-04 21:56:34 — Adding fake POI info (including massively fake city address, for lulz)

Screenshot from 2015-03-04 21:57:05 — Confirmation that Bitcoin Map has accepted my edit

Screenshot from 2015-03-04 21:58:26 — Checking the details on the website

Here’s the POI data, in raw OSM XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<osm version="0.6" generator="CGImap 0.3.3 (28262 thorn-02.openstreetmap.org)" copyright="OpenStreetMap and contributors" attribution="http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright" license="http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/">
 <node id="3383877893" visible="true" version="1" changeset="29257856" timestamp="2015-03-05T02:56:47Z" user="BitcoinMaps" uid="2135320" lat="43.7298277" lon="-79.2721787">
  <tag k="addr:city" v="Bemidji"/>
  <tag k="addr:housenumber" v="134"/>
  <tag k="addr:street" v="Woodfern Drive"/>
  <tag k="contact:email" v="name@example.com"/>
  <tag k="contact:phone" v="+1 416 555 1234"/>
  <tag k="contact:website" v="http://example.com/"/>
  <tag k="description" v="i have totally made this up to see if it will be added to OSM even though the location was derived from Google Maps"/>
  <tag k="name" v="Entirely FictitiousName"/>
  <tag k="payment:litecoin" v="yes"/>
  <tag k="shop" v="books"/>
 </node>
</osm>

Screenshot from 2015-03-04 22:24:41 — The node is still (temporarily) on the map, despite deleting it. It’ll be gone soon.

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