[Talk-us] Cam4rd98 just doesn't get it

[stevea]

>Folks, talk-us@ is a place for discussion, not personal attacks.
>
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Apologies to all.  I did/do not wish to attack anybody, just note 
what seemed ironic or even humorous.  I hereby promise to be more 
careful with my tone here.

While NE2 is no longer contributing, and many of his contributions, 
to put it mildly, were "controversial," I do believe he made many 
important contributions.  For example, his assertions about national 
bike routes, while quite premature compared to which routes AASHTO 
has vs. hasn't approved, DID spark important discussion between 
American Cycling Association and one OSM contributor (me), and I have 
gone to great lengths in the last few weeks to improve the situation.

In some cases this includes deleting a "state=proposed" or 
"ncn=proposed" tag from a route relation (which is correct, as AASHTO 
hasn't approved it -- a state has not made such an application and it 
was quite premature of NE2 to have "jumped the gun" here), I am 
regularly leaving NE2's relations in the OSM database as "dummy 
placeholders" so that when/as Kerry and I better coordinate state 
teams who are doing this work in the present and future, much of the 
work of adding highway segments will have already been completed (by 
NE2).  True, they'll have to correct 2% to 10% of what NE2 did (it 
varies on each ncn route he asserted), and they'll have to add back 
the tags so that OpenCycleMap and waymarkedtrails.org renderers pick 
up and render those routes, but that is much better than starting 
from scratch.  In that sense, I'd like to thank NE2 for that work, 
even if what he did was foment a national bicycle route conversation 
and how it is mapped in OSM in a "jump the gun" kind of way.

This message really is meant to convey that there is an important 
(off-line now, but started here on talk-us) discussion going on about 
national bicycle route mapping, and even thanks a person whom I was 
described as attacking.  Again, I do not wish to attack, I wish to 
discuss.  Thank you also to this talk-us forum for the opportunity to 
do so.

Renderings at 
http://cycling.waymarkedtrails.org/en/?zoom=5&lat=39.3&lon=-92&hill=0&route=1# 
of national bike routes are quite accurate (I'd say 98%) as of right 
about now.  That's a result of literally dozens of tedious emails 
back and forth between me and Kerry, and me JOSM-ing my stubby thick 
fingers off, almost exclusively what I've been doing the last couple 
of weeks.  OSM, I don't seek accolades, although you are welcome (we 
are welcome?).  And yet, there is still so very much more to do!

SteveA
California
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