Dear user fedc,

I am sending you this message in order to notify you of complaints that Data Working Group have received about your editing.

You are not blocked from OSM and you can continue your work as soon as you have read this message.

However, many members of the Italian OSM community have issues with your mapping, and especially with the way you seem to evade any public discussion about it. You do reply to individual messages but not to public changeset comments, and you don’t participate on the mailing list or forum; for a prolific mapper like yourself, it would be prudent to explain yourself publicly when questioned rather than send individual messages, so that others can take part in the discussion.

People are concerned about the way in which you often delete data from the map in order to re-trace it in a supposedly “better” way, but you are too careless about it and you lose information, for example you deleted a named soccer pitch here

osm.org/way/124198134/history

and then re-created it without a name

osm.org/way/398448795

You should really only delete and re-draw things in exceptional circumstances; out of respect for the work of others, if something just needs a little geometric refinement, modify the object instead of throwing out what others have done completely!

Here’s an instance where you removed a historic=castle designation without any comment and replaced it with building=yes:

osm.org/way/124206392/history

Here is a building you created as a multipolygon

osm.org/relation/5860719

but you deleted seven individual buildings that were there before, and so on, and so on. And all this with a changeset comment of “Continuo con le campiture” which is next to worthless and does not adequately describe the edits made here.

Your edits are not wrong in themselves but they are so wide-ranging that you are essentially putting your mark all of the Milan area and beyond, mapping it to your personal standards and likings, and you are doing so much of that that other mappers feel you are rejecting and overwriting their efforts.

Please try to see OSM as a social activity - engage in public discussion. When someone writes a changeset discussion entry to one of your changesets, answer publicly. When your work is discussed on the forum or mailing list, participate. When five other mappers tell you not to do something, then stop doing it or at least think about it for a while, as they might be right! OpenStreetMap is not your personal playground where you can do whatever you think is right.

Thank you
Frederik Ramm aka woodpeck
OSMF Data Working Group