hello,

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:03:10PM -0800, aaron brownlee wrote:

Noticed some wikispam on the SF guide. Wondering how active that guide is, if there is someone that admins there, and if there are plans to combat spam bots and remove spam pages from the revision history?

i set that one up when i was staying in SF for a while and dreaming about public transport scheduling / emulation stuff. I filled a bit of it in with the few places i went and was familiar with, so there is a streak running up mission street and a scattering of places in the haight.

I have been back in london awhile and not paid much attention to the SF guide. I used it a bit for experiementation; it uses Geo::Coder::US to look up addresses and plugs into the mapbureau.com web mapping service. I never figured out what would make those additions really good as opposed to vaguely interesting.

I never had a serious attempt to publicise the SF guide though i did post it to the dorkbot list once. Craigslist is very big over there. I had a braindump at the craigslist people, http://frot.org/geo/craigslist.html i never really heard more from than than "oh er yes well thanks very er much"

think i did try to impose simple cookie-based 'am i human' filtering on the SF guide; that didn't work; recommendations on simple filtering strategies getaefully receieved...

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