[Talk-us] Advice On Data Removal Problem

[Greg Morgan]

I sent him a note back at the beginning of September concerning the
problem. I don't think he's even worried about map rendering.  I am
guessing it is more about what he feels should be in the map. As a by
product, I've seen landuses being removed too.


On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> Have you spoken with the offending mapper about your concerns?  In
> particular, I'd remind him of the maxim of "Don't torque the data for a
> specific renderer."
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Greg Morgan <dr.kludge.gm at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> So there is a fairly new mapper in the Phoenix area removing valid data.
>>  I would like advice on what to do.  I don't to want dampen this mapper's
>> efforts.  However, another mapper has complained to me about the problem as
>> this mapper has removed both of our work.  Change set
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/18867333 is an example
>> where CartoCrazy even uses a change set description of "Cleaned up
>> clutter of pedestrian crossing markers,..."  I am all for data revisions
>> but this is an example of vandalism where the mapper doesn't realize that
>> highway crossings are valid map data.  The damage isn't limited to highway
>> crossings.
>>
>> I could go and revert all of his change sets but that would start other
>> problems.
>>
>> Please Advise,
>> Greg
>>
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