[Talk-us] NE2 doing mass retaggings

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see I have some new enemies, and the old ones are coming back to slander
> me.
> "threatened to remove whole cities from the map", "stomping local knowledge
> in Oklahoma", reverting a bunch of relation fixup because you don't like one
> particular element - what a crock of shit.

This response belies what many of us are feeling, which is a great
deal of frustration. And the idea that you call people who disagree
with you "enemies" shows that you aren't listening to our feedback.

Here's an archive of your threat to remove cities from the map:

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2010-November/004777.html

You talked about a proposal that you would execute to remove any
Census designated places in the US (starting with Florida), and
defended this position even after several of us showed you how this
designation was useful in other places, such as Silver Spring,
Maryland (where I live), Bethesda, Maryland, etc.

The theme running through all of our frustration is that you override
local knowledge with your assumptions of how things should be.

If you want to edit your area, using local knowledge, go ahead, but
make up a lot of mapping rules that simply don't apply to other
places, and harm the work of other mappers.

- Serge