[OSM-talk-be] Problem in Dison (not Herve)

[Ben Laenen]

Renaud MICHEL wrote:
> I've sent him a message on the 3 (5 days ago) and another the 5, but had no
> answer so far.
> Does the user get a mail notification of the new message, or do we see them
> only when we log in on the website?
> The wiki is not very explicit about this:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact#Contact_a_Mapper
> If it is only on the site he may never see them as he is editing with JOSM.

It sends an email to the address he used to register for an account on OSM. So 
unless he made a temporary mail address he should certainly have gotten the 
message.


> What worries me is that he seems to be copying some map, you can actually
> see it on the map (the roads are cut at a bounding box)
> http://osm.org/go/0DVdwhW2-
> and he even even added a way corresponding to his map
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/38566375

I don't like the sound of that tag "name=Carte Dison"... Now, we don't know if 
he's actually copying something for which he got permission or not, but he 
should clarify this asap, as he's certainly copying something.


> It doesn't seem to be correctly positioned, according to already available
> traces, load for example this region in JOSM or potlatch with GPS traces
> http://osm.org/go/0DVdNL@j
> That's probably the reason he moved the motorway.
> I explained it in my second message.

And he"s also an overzealous user of highway=tertiary and highway=secondary 
apparently...

> More important is that we cannot know if there are no copyright problems.
> I am doing some edits in this area, and I am afraid those might be lost if
> there is some copyright violation and the work has to be removed :-(
>
> I did not find any corresponding user on the wiki (not surprising, I
> registered on the wiki more than a month after on the main site and not
> even with exactly the same user name).
> Do you know of any other mean to contact him?

No, if there's no wiki account and he isn't subscribed to any mailing list, 
the only method to contact is the with the interface like you've done. So 
there are no more methods to reach him. When a user just doesn't want to 
respond there's not much we can do. And given the fact that he keeps editing, 
he's also not on a holiday or something which would prevent him to read his 
mail.

However, since he's copying something, he has to come up with some explanation 
soon, or the only option left would be to just delete all his ways, because we 
then have to assume that he's copying copyrighted stuff... If you send another 
message to him, certainly tell him that.

Ben