Dear user MikeGargiulo,

I notice that three months ago, you have mapped something named “YE OLDE GAMBUTI RESIDENCE” and tagged as a brothel in Woodstock, New Jersey; and you also have drawn an area marked as swamp and named “Swamp girl lives here” (ways 263908488 and 263908486).

It may seem like a harmless joke to you but such actions can tarnish OpenStreetMap as a whole - we are not for graffitti, we are for proper surveying. You have made many other edits that look good at first sight - but how am I to know that there’s really a pizza place where you say when you’re entering wrong information elsewhere? If we can’t trust your edits then we might be forced to remove them all which would be a loss.

In addition to all this, and while I’m not familiar with US laws, I should not be surprised if publicly claiming that someone’s house was a brothel could actually incur legal proceedings against you. So don’t do it.

Please fix the two objects I have mentioned immediately, and if there are any others where you have taken a playful attitude towards reality, repair them as well.

Thank you
Frederik Ramm a.k.a. woodpeck
OSMF Data Working Group