[Talk-us-massachusetts] non-local paid mappers deleting landuse=conservation

[Nicholas Davidowicz]

I also reviewed and fixed some erroneous changes from a Mapbox employee
recently. Mostly non-existent road connections (like service roads going
through fences or other barriers; they obviously aren't doing physical
surveys). They must be targeting our area.

Nick

On Mar 16, 2018 10:53 AM, "Jim Snyder-Grant" <jim.snyder.grant at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not to pile on to the mapbox whining or anything... but mapbox has stopped
> bringing over our trail and landuse changes into mapbox. They used to
> automatically refresh with OSM data, now they curate, and haven't been
> responsive to our requests to update things like meadow sizes and
> locations, bridges on trails, and other items important to a trail map. We
> are responding by slowly doing more of the OSM data extraction ourselves,
> and relying less and less on the mapbox data for our Acton maps.  Still
> loving and using the styling support and the tile creation & caching of
> mapbox.
>
> Jim Snyder-Grant
> 18 Half Moon Hill
> Acton MA 01720
> 508 572-2985 <(508)%20572-2985>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I just came across a case where landuse=conservation had been removed
>> from conservation land by someone who appears to be a paid mapper for
>> mapbox.   I added it back, and sent them an OSM message explaining that
>> landuse=conservation is in use in MA.  (I think it's even paid attention
>> to in Jason's trail map, or at least I think it should be. :-)
>>
>> (I'm leaving out the location and username because I see this as a
>> mapbox problem more than an individual problem and I don't think calling
>> the person out publically is helpful.)
>>
>> So please be aware of the issue with non-local paid people "helping".
>>
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