[Talk-GB] Road refs

[WebMaster@Killyfole.org.uk]

Dave,

The objection is that you are undoing the effort and time spent by mappers in 
these areas for your own agenda.  Mappers, like myself, have added these tags 
for a reason at considerable time and effort and that had basically been 
trashed in a matter of seconds.  Not only that, you are being extremely 
arrogant towards contributors who do not want your edits, even considering 
banning users for an editing war.

KDDA 

On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 12:39:33 IST Dave F wrote:
> Hi Toby
> 
> You've been given the link to the previous discussions, which explains
> the reasons.
> 
> What is your objection to the reasons given for this amendment?
> 
> The wiki is a guide, not the law. It hasn't been updated yet as you &
> others still wish to discuss the situation. If it had, I suspect there
> would have been complaints that it was amended before being discussed
> (even though it has).
> 
> It's the responsibility of the creators of the software to ensure they
> keep up to date with the ever changing database.
> 
> Cheers
> DaveF
> 
> On 27/08/2018 19:15, Toby Speight wrote:
> > Recently, all the tertiary roads in my region had their ref tags
> > removed, and replaced with "highways_authority_ref".  A week later the
> > unclassified and residential roads suffered similar attack.
> > 
> > * Who is supposed to benefit from hiding these data?
> > * Who is responsible for documenting what this tag means, and when it
> > 
> >    should be used in place of the standard tagging?  So far, there's no
> >    mention of it on its own tag wiki, nor on key:ref
> > 
> > * Who is responsible for coordinating the related changes to software -
> > 
> >    editors, renderers, converters and QA tools - that are required?  I
> >    see no sign of any of this having started.
> > 
> > In short, what's going on, what's wrong with the standard tagging, and
> > how can we get the data back where they belong?
> > 
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