I’ve come to the conclusion it is the latter - in the last 6+ months of looking at the material posted.
It still concerns me that material is so easily identified - GPD coordinates for everything and houses, vehicles (registration), signs, etc all readily visible - there is no effort to obscure such things. If the report is to some so-called ‘authority’ like a local council, why is there a need for this to be publicly visible to all? why not just the poster?
It also concerns me that people using the app are publicly anonymous while people registering at the site ‘less so’.
Case in point - an increasingly common report to council of … a weed …
I notice weeds everywhere and this isn’t a particularly nice one. Notice the gum leaf for scale - this monstrosity must be at least 15 cm tall. Glad they called the council rather than take a risk dealing with it themselves
This trolley was reported to council. I wonder whether it was collected by them and delivered to Kmart or whether they coordinated the capture and repatriation with Kmart?
… there were dozens and dozens of trolley reports just in my local area, including this one admittedly from some time back - glad they never expire, its an important record:
… closed by the council because they were on private property (the supermarket car park) and, amazingly enough, they were parked in the trolley return corral …
Then there are rubbish reports, such as this example of rogue dumping:
Yes. A single VB can.
Of the various potentially useful reports of potholes (bigger than a walnut shell), (significantly) uneven pavement, damage to public property, etc, my estimate is that less than one in six reports has any merit - the rest just waste the time of various ‘authorities’ that are paid for by tax or rates … another thing that seems abundantly clear - some people have way too much spare time on their hands
Another point of vague interest is the site identifies app users by their hardware type - Android or Apple …
I’d be interested what people see in their own area - it is not a requirement to register to see all the ‘reports’.