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> how can we prevent people to abuse OSM by making false edits intentionally.

I wish they had a method of automatically identifying relevant signs from images with GPS data. Sooner or later, cars and AR-enabled apps will be able to produce these as by-products of normal use.




There's multiple efforts along those lines.

Mapillary provides sign detections to OSM:

https://blog.mapillary.com/product/2017/02/06/towards-global...

Telenav is doing similar through their OpenStreetCam project (but no good link). I'm not entirely sure, but I think they have the goal of running the detection locally.

Mapbox recently used Bing Streetside imagery to detect turn restrictions (which are important for high quality routing):

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/daniel-j-h/diary/43242

Mapbox and Telenav also compare their incoming position data with OSM and flag discrepancies (missing roads, turn restrictions again, stuff like that).




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