[Talk-GB] Routing and other problems west of Uttoxeter

[SomeoneElse]

On 08/08/2011 11:47, Paul Williams wrote:
> I've found that there is still a big problem with unconnected roads in
> the area west of Uttoxeter (including in Stoke-on-Trent)
...
>
> I've so far fixed some of the problems along the A50 in Stoke and am
> currently working on sorting out the Longton area, but could do with
> some help to fix the rest.
>

Thanks Paul.  Stoke's not really an area that I'm particularly familiar 
with, unfortunately, although east of there I connected up a bunch of 
unjoined roads (where it was obvious that there was a road from other 
sources) or added fixmes (where it wasn't) over the weekend.

Keepright link in case it helps:

http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?zoom=13&lat=53.02459&lon=-1.90509&layers=B00T&ch=0%2C50%2C231%2C232%2C313&show_ign=1&show_tmpign=1

(basically, go west from there)

At least one other person (Andrew T Finney - not sure if he's on this 
list but he did message me about it over the weekend) is also sorting 
out these errors (I regularly check for changesets from darren39 and 
found that Andrew had beaten me to fixing most of the recent errors).


Presumably there comes a point where we have to say "enough is enough"?  
The general guidlines on the 
"http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism" see relevant here (even 
though I'm pretty sure that this isn't vandalism - just incompetence).

Along with other people, I've tried to contact darren39 several times 
over the last year and have never had a reply.  He's actually been 
editing since October 2008 but is still adding unconnected streets with 
misspellings such as "Shakespere Court" and "Tigar Yard" and with 
dubious positional accuracy.

What does the community think the next step should be?  Is it an email 
to the data working group or is that only relevant for actual vandalism 
rather than just crap mapping?  Obviously this would have to take place 
in parallel with fixing the data - but we've repainting that particular 
Forth Bridge for 3 years now* and patching the gaps in the A52 and A523 
gets tedious when you do it for the third time.

Cheers,
Andy


*http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2008-November/006764.html