Is josm.poloha.net legit or a scam?
Legitimate OpenStreetMap Czech community tool for JOSM data import, maintained by volunteer contributors with no malicious signals.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
MT Intelligence
This domain is a subdomain of poloha.net, an established Czech OpenStreetMap service provider. Our antivirus network shows zero detections across 92 engines, the hosting IP has a clean abuse score, and SSL is valid. Web research found three positive references from OpenStreetMap Czech community forums and mailing lists discussing the site's postal-box import tool as recently as 2024. The project is maintained by Marián Kyral (mkyral) and contributors as a volunteer effort with no formal company registration — typical for open-source community projects. No scam reports, complaints, or malware mentions exist. The page appears to be a technical tool interface rather than a consumer-facing service, which aligns with its purpose as a JOSM plugin provider.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for josm.poloha.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- josm.poloha.net is a subdomain of poloha.net, which provides OpenStreetMap-related services for the Czech Republic including RÚIAN address imports, building data, and JOSM plugins/tools.
- Specific page josm.poloha.net/cz_pbox/ is used for importing Czech post box (poštovní schránky) data into OSM, with public statistics and updates discussed in OSM Czech community forums and mailing lists as recently as 2024.
- poloha.net and related subdomains (ruian.poloha.net, mapserv.poloha.net) are maintained by Marián Kyral (mkyral) and contributors; acknowledged positively in OSM community resources.
- Domain poloha.net is long-established (consistent with 4601 days age for the subdomain); GitHub organization github.com/poloha-net exists for the project.
- No scam reports, malware complaints, or negative mentions found across web searches including targeted queries for scam/podvod.
- Appears exclusively in technical OSM/JOSM contexts with no commercial branding or consumer-facing services that could be impersonated.
- OpenStreetMap Czech mailing listopen
"[talk-cz] josm.poloha.net/cz_pbox/ - nová čísla DEP"
- OpenStreetMap.cz forumopen
"Dnes: Schránek celkem: 19823 Schránek v OSM: 16748 Schránek propojeno: 16501 http://josm.poloha.net/cz_pbox/"
- poloha.netopen
"Data jsou přímo přístupná z mapového editoru JOSM. Velkou zásluhu na to má Marián Kyral a celá jeho rodina"
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for josm.poloha.net and found zero scam reports or complaints. Instead, we identified three positive references from OpenStreetMap Czech community forums and mailing lists, with discussions of the postal-box import tool dating to March 2024. The project is maintained by recognized OSM contributor Marián Kyral as a volunteer effort. The absence of any negative mentions, combined with active community discussion and acknowledgment in OSM resources, indicates this is a legitimate technical tool rather than a consumer-facing service.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on josm.poloha.net and not a lookalike like j-osm.poloha.net.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on josm.poloha.net. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- josm.poloha.net passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 82/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. josm.poloha.net presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 29 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- josm.poloha.net is 12.6 years old, registered on 11/6/2013 through WEDOS Internet, a.s.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report josm.poloha.net as clean.
- No. josm.poloha.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- josm.poloha.net resolves to an IP operated by Contabo GmbH in FR (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 12, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around josm.poloha.net have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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