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I have created a wiki page describing the more unusual mapping practices in Lithuania:</div>
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<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lithuania/idiosyncratic_mapping" id="LPlnk557713">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lithuania/idiosyncratic_mapping</a></div>
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I may have left some of them out (please fill in).</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 05 June 2022 21:31<br>
<b>To:</b> talk@openstreetmap.org <talk@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OSM-talk] Lithuania fancy tagging rules (was: Re: Andy Townsend is above local community?)</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Tomas,<br>
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first off, naming people in E-Mail subjects is considered not nice.<br>
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I think in general local communities have a lot of leeway in OSM but <br>
there are limits.<br>
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The idea of tagging a small bit of bridge in the middle of a long <br>
tertiary road as "secondary" just because it happens to have a different <br>
surface due to being a bridge, is something that doesn't make sense. <br>
Therefore I think it is valid to override the Lithuanian community in <br>
this regard, and frankly I believe that many many members of the <br>
Lithuanian community will breathe a sigh of relief because they are <br>
tired of you imposing your strange tagging ideas on them.<br>
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There's hardly a month in which DWG doesn't get some complaint about you <br>
(and by that I mean you, Tomas, not you, the Lithuanian community) <br>
because they have strayed into Lithuanian territory, dared to map <br>
something that would have been ok in any other part of the world, and <br>
been told off by you.<br>
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This can happen once or twice but if it happens a dozen times a year <br>
then the questions needs to be asked, what is wrong here? Is Lithuania <br>
such a totally different country? Or is Lithuania an average country but <br>
the Lithuanian community consists of people who believe they always know <br>
better? Or is it maybe this one guy named Tomas Straupis who seems to be <br>
the only voice of the Lithuanian community?<br>
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I'm the first person to take the side of the little guy when some <br>
self-proclaimed tagging expert from another continent "streamlines" <br>
tagging in the little guy's country. But with Lithuania and with you <br>
specifically, I sometimes get the idea you come up with random and very <br>
inflexible tagging rules on purpose, just piss off everyone else.<br>
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I think you should stop any and all OSM contributions for a year, I'd <br>
love to see how the map in Lithuania develops outside of your stranglehold.<br>
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Bye<br>
Frederik<br>
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