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The Open Data Survey application
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spam entries #25

Closed harry-wood closed 12 years ago

harry-wood commented 12 years ago

On the map here: http://dashboard.opengovernmentdata.org/catalogs/ ...first thing I did was zoom in on central London. Right on the London label there's a marker for "Cyber world uk store" "Cyber world uk ltd is one of the UK’s Top Upcoming Suppliers of Mobile Phone Accessories UK 2012 online." ....where'd that come from?? Looks like spam

mihi-tr commented 12 years ago

Indeed it is, the data comes from datacatalogs.org and it's a spam entry there, will remove it!

rufuspollock commented 12 years ago

@harry-wood fixed that item in main datacatalogs.org (was a spam of the main London DataStore). Need to pass that through to the geo-coded dataset.

mihi-tr commented 12 years ago

Ok was just doing the same - couldn't figure out why it didn't work first but then showed up, just updating the dataset.

harry-wood commented 12 years ago

Aha. Two things indirectly related:

I couldn't immediately figure out where the site is sourcing the listings from. Is that described somewhere?

Zooming in on London I was actually expecting "London datastore" as a listing, since it is itself a datasets catalogue (for the whole of London) but I guess it's also a catalogue of catalogues. Sometimes I think there are more open data portals and listing sites than there are sets of open data! :-)

mihi-tr commented 12 years ago

@harry-wood indeed this is something we need to point out, I'll opened issue #26 for this. The entry you mentioned is the london data store vandalized.