On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 8:02 PM Brian May <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm Florida based, have seen Floridaeditor's changes and noticed an eagerness > to change a lot of road classifications. I didn't pay a lot of attention > until now. Of course, trunk can be a tricky one, but if you got one lone guy > on a mission who is arguing with everyone along the path, reverting any > differences of opinion, etc - that is getting abusive and needs to stop. It > is certainly NE2ish behavior. Other than NE2s behavior towards people who > didn't agree and subsequent banning, he taught me a good bit, did a lot of > good for FL and was actually inspirational in the beginning of my OSM journey > showing what was possible and the impact a prolific editor could have. Sucks > that he couldn't play well with others. Pretty sure he was based out of > Orlando. Floridaeditor started editing in the Melbourne area not far from > Orlando. His editing behavior is somewhat similar to NE2 in that they are / > was editing a fairly wide variety of feature types. Also a focus on highway > types in many other states and forcefully arguing with others in other states > / local stomping grounds. > > Anywho, seems like collective wisdom should rule the day with most things > OSM, right? Especially long-time editors who have been through the wilderness > and put a lot of thought into how features be mapped and tagged. And > importantly are engaging with others in a respectful way. > > An example unhelpful comment: > > "YES!!!! GEORGIA IS BADLY-TAGGED TRUNK FREE! Control is provided by > floridaeditor; i.e., if anybody tries to change one back I will review the > edit and keep/revert as needed." > > WTF > > Brian aka grouper
That is one of several of his comments that convinces me he doesn't really want to work with the community. > On 9/28/2020 7:29 PM, Evin Fairchild wrote: > > I totally support reverting Floridaeditor's changes in order to restore all > these divided highways to trunk status. I believe that floridaeditor has been > given the opportunity to participate in this discussion, right? He has been invited here, to Slack, and the OSM web forum by no less than 3 different people (and maybe more--I haven't examined all of his changesets). _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
