<html><head></head><body>+1. There's also temper and civility issues that make it difficult to amicably resolve issues that have been persistant for a very long time now. His contributions about geography on Wikipedia are a bit stronger and less controversial, perhaps "going with what you're good at" is apropos in the long term.<br>
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Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Serge Wroclawski <emacsen@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: monospace">On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2@gmail.com> wrote:<br />> I see I have some new enemies, and the old ones are coming back to slander<br />> me.<br />> "threatened to remove whole cities from the map", "stomping local knowledge<br />> in Oklahoma", reverting a bunch of relation fixup because you don't like one<br />> particular element - what a crock of shit.<br /><br />This response belies what many of us are feeling, which is a great<br />deal of frustration. And the idea that you call people who disagree<br />with you "enemies" shows that you aren't listening to our feedback.<br /><br />Here's an archive of your threat to remove cities from the map:<br /><br /><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2010-November/004777.html">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2010-November/004777.html</a><br /><br />You talked about a
proposal that you would execute to remove any<br />Census designated places in the US (starting with Florida), and<br />defended this position even after several of us showed you how this<br />designation was useful in other places, such as Silver Spring,<br />Maryland (where I live), Bethesda, Maryland, etc.<br /><br />The theme running through all of our frustration is that you override<br />local knowledge with your assumptions of how things should be.<br /><br />If you want to edit your area, using local knowledge, go ahead, but<br />make up a lot of mapping rules that simply don't apply to other<br />places, and harm the work of other mappers.<br /><br />- Serge<br /><br /><hr /><br />Talk-us mailing list<br />Talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>