Dear Carlitos Gomez,

I am writing to you because of a rising number of concerns with your mapping activities. Mostly this relates to older activities:

http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=520055

but there’s also a recent complaint that you have ignored:

osm.org/changeset/77836236

(you have received that message on 17 December but have since uploaded four changesets in which you used the same description).

On your user page you write that you are a GIS officer for REACH, and we can see that you have performed a lot of editing over many years. Being an experienced mapper, and a mapper tasked by an organisation to add data to OSM, should make you extra diligent, and respectful towards your fellow mappers. But time and time again you have ignored what other people told you. You are regularly performing imports without going through the required vetting steps (see osm.wiki/Import), and you are using sources where the copyright situation is unclear or at least not clearly documented to OSM. Our “organised editing guidelines” at https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines explain some expectations we have when people add data to OSM on behalf of an organisation, like you do.

You will not be able to go on contributing like you have in the past, ignoring almost every problem that other mappers point out with your contribution. Please understand that REACH is not the body who can decide what goes into OSM and what not; this is an authority that lies with the OSM community. If you cannot contribute data in line with OSM’s guidelines then your future contributions must be rejected.

Also, for your past contributions where the data source was questioned by other mappers, it would be helpful if you could add information about the legal status of the source, so that we can decide whether the data needs to be removed for copyright reasons, or can stay in OSM.

Thank you for your cooperation. Please let us know (at data@osmfoundation.org) if you need any help.

Frederik Ramm
OSMF Data Working Group
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