Data vandals changed New York City to 'Jewtropolis' on Snapchat maps and others TechSpot

Ars Technica reports that the problem arose due to an incident of “data vandalism” on the crowd-sourced mapping project OpenStreetMap (OSM). The project is used by many applications including Wikimedia to provide labels, street maps, and GPS traces over area maps. Unfortunately, any time you open something to the public,...





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