[Talk-GB] Problems with "armchair" edits of major road junctions in England

[Filip Chirita Rares Cristian]

What seems to be the general purpose of his edits? His change sets have no
comments, so could it be that this is just a case of an inexperienced
mapper, at worst a vandal?

Chris
On Mar 18, 2014 5:08 AM, "SomeoneElse" <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:

> There has been a large series of recent edits to major road junctions
> across England such as:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21125717
>
> There have been about half a dozen by the same mapper near me (I'm in
> North Derbyshire) which are problematical for a number of reasons:
>
> a) Bus routes are broken (ways are deleted and new ones added, and route
> relations not updated)
>
> b) non-highway tags such as "sidewalk" and "lanes" are missed when
> replacement ways are added
>
> c) roundabouts are inevitably drawn so that the entry node of one road is
> shared with the exit node of the next.  These may be correct in some cases,
> but in all of the places it's been done near me it isn't.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2#map=19/
> 53.79430/-1.62130
>
> shows the effect, actually after another mapper has done some tidying up
> there.  It doesn't look to me that you can get from the southeast to the
> southwest there without going on the roundabout (and that picture also
> shows broken bus route relations and a random unjoined untagged way
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/266435029 as well).
>
> d) The roundabouts are often drawn to look "artistic" rather than to
> actually reflect the layout suggested by the underlying GPS traces.
>
> e) Roads have flares added where in reality the carriageway is not divided.
>
> I'm mentioning this here because my attempts to contact the mapper
> concerned over the last 5 weeks or so have failed.  I've messaged them a
> couple of times and had no reply, so I'd suggest that people keep an eye
> out for well-meaning but damaging edits such as these. Lobbying for a block
> may be one option, but it would surely make sense to try and talk to them
> first.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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