[Talk-us] Difficult USA mapper(s)

[Russ Nelson]

Greg Troxel writes:
 > First, there's the notion that the local mappers should have priority in
 > deciding how things should be tagged.  I don't mean that one shouldn't
 > make non-local edits - I do that after visiting places.  But I don't
 > make edits that I think a local might object to.

Me too. Whenever I see contributions which are obviously made by a
local (e.g. stores), I always edit more carefully. I don't want to
offend a local mapper because 1) that might discourage them, and 2) I
wouldn't want somebody non-local to Potsdam editing here willy-nilly.

 > So if there's a disagreement, and the results lopsidedly reflect
 > one user's view just because that user is far more insistent on
 > making changes and arguing about them, that's a bad outcome,

Yup. You risk letting the decision go to the person with the most free
time, who is not necessarily the most correct person.

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