[Imports-us] DWG Action on Blacksburg, VA Building and Address Import

[Ian Dees]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> The buildings and addresses are in separate changesets by the same user.
> >
> >
> > Serge,
> > Do you know if any attempts have been made to contact the user and if
> they
> > responded? It looks like the user hasn't been active in over a year.
>
> "Contact the user" is generally a first step when reporting an issue
> to DWG.  So, I'm guessing that yes, Serge knows, but it is none of our
> business.  :-)
>
> I presume that the original reporter, and or DWG did so, and that the
> response indicated that the user will not be part of the solution.  A
> user not being part of the solution might indicate any one or more of
> the following:
> - no response
> - email bounce or other communication failure
> - response, but no longer interested in OSM
> - response, but insufficient technical abilities to participate
>
> None of these is necessarily an indictment of the user.  Things
> happen.  Looks like DWG is just moving towards improvement of the
> OpenStreetMap data, and matters regarding the user are not relevant.
>
> Now, if the user was out of contact and is now contributing under a
> new email and screen name, perhaps they will join in.  :-)


You're making a lot of presumptions about a process that isn't defined
anywhere. Clifford's question is perfectly valid and I'd love to see more
details about contact attempts from Serge and/or DWG.
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