[Talk-ca] Fwd: Revisiting exits with “names” in Ontario and Quebec

[Jherome Miguel]

Ngah, should have replied to all. Not just you.

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From: Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Revisiting exits with “names” in Ontario and Quebec
To: john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>


And what if their tagging practices are in major conflict with good
practice? Mapping for the renderer in particular.

On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 5:48 PM john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> By the way that little group of mappers are local to Ontario and Quebec.
> I think you'll find that in OSM what the local mappers want and decide
> goes.  Living in Alberta doesn't really make you a local mapper.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2021, 19:37 john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And your problem is?
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2021, 19:09 Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Every person do have their own mapping styles as well. Unfortunately,
>>> that do sometime lead to conflicts and edit wars.
>>>
>>> Back on the issue, this appears to be a reboot of a related thread from
>>> 2018:
>>>
>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2018-November/008852.html.
>>> Looks like we’re continuously in war with a small camp of mappers who want
>>> to keep the mess they’ve created. It has been planned two times these
>>> “names” should go; one is successful, but has been undone, and the second
>>> appears to have stalled (MapRoulette challenge set up, but looks like
>>> nothing changed for Ontario and Quebec. All other provinces have been
>>> cleaned up except a few legit instances of named interchanges).
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 4:38 PM John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> OSM is all about local mappers and North America does it this way
>>>> doesn't really mean much.
>>>>
>>>> Quebec in particular likes to show it's independence.  Ottawa maps it's
>>>> buildings differently to other locations in Canada.  When asked about it
>>>> the local mappers simply said they like the way it was done.
>>>>
>>>> Talk first if you must on talk-ca but I don't see any enthusiasm for
>>>> what you are proposing especially if it means reeducating people.
>>>>
>>>> Cheerio John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jherome Miguel wrote on 7/4/2021 5:42 PM:
>>>>
>>>> we use throughout North America.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>
>>>
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