<html><head><style id="outgoing-font-settings">#response_container_BBPPID{font-family: initial; font-size:initial; color: initial;}</style></head><body style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: initial; line-height: initial;" contenteditable="false"><div id="response_container_BBPPID" style="outline:none;" dir="auto" contenteditable="false"> <div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">> If efforts to resolve the issue through discussion are unsuccessful perhaps this is an issue for the Data Working Group (DWG)?</div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">If this is where I think it is, I believe that I'm already offering advice to a complaint from one side of this dispute. </div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">I think that what happened was that 10 years ago some NHD river data was imported - a large 131km stretch in one multipolygon. That's quite complicated and "tends to break". I believe that one party to the dispute was trying to cut it into more manageable chunks, and accidentally deleted a way that was an outer on the MP. A person who noticed this responded in a tone that was seen a less than friendly, and that's more or less where we are.</div> <div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"> <br style="display:initial"></div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">I don't believe there's any malice towards OSM data on either side, it's just that mutual understanding and cooperation haven't quite happened yet.</div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">More generally there are probably lots of other ex-NHD multipolygons, and it might be worth splitting some of the more complicated ones up, so that (for example) a change in one area that might not be visible in that area doesn't break something else miles away.</div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">Also (and apologies to anyone to whom this is an obvious suggestion) after a complicated edit viewing it in something like "achavi" can help show where things have been deleted, perhaps accidentally.</div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">Best Regards,</div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">Andy</div><div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"><br></div> <div id="blackberry_signature_BBPPID" name="BB10" dir="auto"> <div id="_signaturePlaceholder_BBPPID" name="BB10" dir="auto"></div> </div></div><!--start of _originalContent --></body></html>