<html><head></head><body>Thanks for the heads up. Words are really powerful so its wise to weigh them carefully before disclosure. <br><br>I have no intentions of highlighting the errors of others just for the sake of it. Individual errors are not interesting, but they can give input to a healthy discussion. <br><br>I have ideas for improving OSM and raise the quality. I can see that it helps to be friendly and diplomatic so I'll try being that.<br><br>I will try moderate my criticism and sleep on it when I have something to suggest instead of posting right away.<br><br>I'm really passionate sometimes and I guess it spills over into my emails.<br><br>No harm intended.<br><br>Have a nice day.<br><br>Cheers <br>pangoSE <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Andy Townsend <ajt1047@gmail.com> skrev: (22 augusti 2020 11:23:11 CEST)<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 22/08/2020 09:12, pangoSE wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Here is yet another example of bad data in our database:<br><br></blockquote>(to "pangoSE", via the list):<br><br>Sometimes it helps to think about how we react to things in the spur of <br>the moment. Martijn's anecdote was about something that he mapped 9 <br>years ago that was _correct at the time_ .<br><br>People occasionally claim that open mailing lists are "toxic" or <br>similar, because they allow people to say things quickly without <br>thinking, and anything posted can't later be deleted because it has been <br>emailed to everyone. Posts like the above don't help people who might <br>be reserved about posting here from doing so.<br><br>Some of your recent posts (e.g. <br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2020-August/085281.html">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2020-August/085281.html</a> ) <br>look indistinguishable from those that a troll might make to me. You <br>probably don't think of yourself as a troll - you just thing that you <br>are asking "serious and pertinent questions". You're right that there's <br>a discussion to be had about exactly how OSM and wikipedia et al are <br>linked, but taking unrelated comments out of context doesn't help your <br>argument - it'll just make it more likely that people will file all of <br>your posts in the "round filing cabinet in the corner of the room" <br>rather than read them.<br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Andy (writing in a personal capacity, and not - thankfully - any sort of <br>list moderator here)<hr>talk mailing list<br>talk@openstreetmap.org<br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>