A very strange issue

[Jörgen]

Hi,

some one from Austria send me a screenshot with a message, see pic.

The Text on the white lines.

I ask him where this is. It is below "Enzersdorf im Thale" surrounded by the B40.
I tried to find it, but can not see it on my PC.

My screenshot:

And his screenshot:

How is this possible and where are these strange messages are coming from?

Is it only visible in Austria?

I tried it an a windows PC with Chrome browser and on iphone, all with openstreetmaps.

Ah, he is using the free MRA version.

[richtea999]

@Jörgen It's something to report to OpenStreetMap I think, Jörgen. Someone has managed to add road segments to the map data, and maybe there's no pre-publish checking since OSM is free.

It doesn't appear for me, so maybe someone else has already reported it, but an additional report would not do any harm.

[M. Schrijver]

Try a VPN server and connect to an Austrian server. See what happens.
It doesn't solved anything but it makes clear what happens.

What kind of road is this.
When i compare the 2 screenshot i see some strange roads. Is it militairy is something like that?

[Con Hennekens]

Hacked maps...? That's a new one...
I assume your Austrian friend is not this Andy, is it?

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Jörgen yeah, thanks for reporting! We’ve got multiple reports about this. Something with OSM

Open sourced stuff is nice but this kind of abuse sometimes can happen.