[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Import Progress

[ajt1047 at gmail.com]

On 19/03/2017 12:52, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On 18 March 2017 at 18:52, Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm off for a break and I'm leaving a couple of key imports partially
>> complete so I thought it best to give you an update of where I'm at:
> I'm told that Brian has been blocked for these edits This is
> outrageous.

No, he was sent this message:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1271

because it appeared that the link between changeset discussions and his 
email inbox was broken.

> There is clearly consensus for them in the local mapping
> community, and a well-defined and transparent plan for the process has
> been published.

That was one of the questions asked in changeset discussions - can you 
please link to where the "well-defined and transparent plan" for the 
"trees" import was published, and where discussion took place?

> A well-respected member of the community should not be treated this way.

No-one doubts that Brian is well-respected member of the OSM community - 
few if any have put in as much effort as him over the years.  
Unfortunately even well-respected community members can have email 
filters go rogue on them - it's not the first time that it's happened 
and I'm sure it won't be the last  :)

Best Regards,

Andy

(cc:ing talk@ because I know there's been discussion, including on IRC, 
outside the West Mids about the trees import and as similar sort of 
council work is being outsourced elsewhere, it's useful to discuss it 
more widely).