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120604136 about 3 years ago

I'm aware that you've had a personal dispute with an one mapper in NYC. I don't think they've done anything wrong.

120479827 about 3 years ago

Also, mappers have been having problems with your work nationwide. As I'm sure you're aware, everything in the US you have changed to shop=yes has been reverted:

osm.org/changeset/120647255

120479827 about 3 years ago

I've looked through your changesets and changeset comments, and the only hostility I'm seeing is from you. The rudeness from other mappers looks to be a response to your own rudeness.

When other mappers have disagreements with what you are doing, you need to come to common ground with them and find guidelines that work for everyone. OpenStreetMap has been a community-based volunteer project for a decade and a half. It's essential to get along with others in such a collaborative space. I would recommend you take an approach to communication that is more respectful of other, more experienced mappers, and the substantial amount of time they have spent creating the map you are looking at.

120604136 about 3 years ago

No, you haven't been threatened with a ban.

Here are details on the Data Working Group: osm.wiki/Data_working_group

120479827 about 3 years ago

Is there any reason you're being so rude and hostile to local mappers who point out problems with your edits? I don't think it's necessary to insult others for following consensus-based mapping practices that we've had years to develop. Since you're new, I would recommend you slow down and learn more about the history of OpenStreetMap, and try to build good relationships with local mappers in areas where you edit.

120479126 about 3 years ago

What mods do you speak of? There are no "mods" on OSM.

120604136 about 3 years ago

According to BlindSquare's own website, they do not use OpenStreetMap for points of interest at all. None of the changes you are making to points of interest will show up on BlindSquare:

"Although BlindSquare does currently use both Foursquare and Open Street Map data, it only downloads street map data and no information about other points of interest from Open Street Map."

As for the comment about "OSM mods", OSM does not have a concept of a moderator. There is a Data Working Group that is empowered to temporarily block users when they have done significant damage or refuse to communicate with the local community.

But nobody you have talked to so far is a representative of the DWG. We are all just regular mappers who care about OSM being an accurate reflection of reality. I would recommend you not berate other mappers for their perceived lack of maintenance of an area, especially since many of us have been volunteering this effort in our free time for years, and you are new to this project.

120183073 over 3 years ago

Machine translation from Czech: "Your comment is not clear to me. The rules of service and marshalling yards are generally the same worldwide (perhaps outside 3 countries)."

I would prefer that you continue this conversation in English, or at least attempt a machine translation to English, because the mapping community in the United States generally uses English to discuss local tagging issues.

How do these marshalling and service yard rules you speak of correspond to OSM tagging? What is the relationship between them and the North American concept of "track other than main track"? What tagging guidelines are you using here?

120050660 over 3 years ago

The way you are tagging railways in North America is not in accordance with tagging guidelines. This is, what we call in North America, "track other than main track". Please restore the service=* tag to the segments of railway where you have removed it.

120183073 over 3 years ago

I am still not sure what you are trying to say here, but the way you are tagging railways in North America is not in accordance with tagging guidelines. This is, what we call in North America, "track other than main track". Please restore the service=* tag to these segments of railway.

120559744 over 3 years ago

Hi, could you please answer the questions on other changeset comments before you continue editing railroads in Houston? You can see your changesets with comments here: http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=11276832

120183073 over 3 years ago

I am not sure what is meant by the sentence "is it the main or secondary or military or tourist railway?"

Here is a yard track where you removed the service=yard tag in this changeset. The previous tagging was correct: osm.org/way/1054881652

120050660 over 3 years ago

I am not sure what is meant by that sentence.

Here is a spur track where you have removed the service=spur tag in this changeset. The previous tagging was correct: osm.org/way/41428007

120183073 over 3 years ago

Hi HaPe-CZ,

The railway you retagged from service=yard to usage=industrial should not have been changed. This is a yard track, not a main track. Why did you change it?

120050660 over 3 years ago

Hello HaPe-CZ,

Why did you change all these segments of service=spur track near Houston to usage=industrial? Nearly all of the tracks you have retagged as usage=industrial are track other than main track. You have tagged a lot of railways wrong and it will take a lot of work to clean up this damage.

And could you be more specific in your changeset comments than "fix railway"? It is not enough to say you have "fixed" something. What did you add, remove or change?

-Clay

115962719 over 3 years ago

Hi there—I noticed you retagged the station building as a train station here. When mapped as an area, railway=station is meant to cover the entire station grounds, including platforms. Baltimore Camden Station is currently mapped as a node, which is also acceptable. Station buildings should be building=train_station, without railway=station.

I went ahead and fixed this here: osm.org/changeset/120000388

119644926 over 3 years ago

If it is the case that your own copyrighted work has been plagiarized, then I would strongly recommend talking directly to the Data Working Group. You can email them at data@openstreetmap.org

119644926 over 3 years ago

Hi maplovr,

What you are doing here is not redacting; it is reverting. 'Redaction' implies it being purged from the database, which you and I don't have the power to do. The history of the objects remains publicly available when you revert a changeset.

If you are concerned about copyright violation, perhaps you could discuss it with other mappers or bring it up to the Data Working Group to be certain that it doesn't belong on OSM. I see you have not commented on any changesets of the mapper who originally added this data. Have you attempted to contact them?

118699309 over 3 years ago

Hi Trevor,

I had originally tagged the segment of FM 351 north of US 59 as trunk because it is signed as a truck route. It carries all the long-distance truck traffic as an alternative to US 59 through the center of town.

What should we do in situations like these? I know Andrews and Crane are a couple other towns where long-distance truck traffic must follow a bypass roadway. They're already tagged with the proper values of hgv, but since they effectively split the stream of traffic in two through town, I'm not sure how that should affect classification (if at all).

118457079 over 3 years ago

Fair enough. I agree, the administrative boundary on OSM should have the name of the reservation, not the name of the ethnic group.

The addition of multilingual and alternative names are generally okay, as long as they refer to the reservation and not the tribe. We may need to review NFZANMNIM's edits to ensure that the rest of the country's reservations retain their reservation names. I'll post this on the OSM-US Slack and ask for others' thoughts.