[Talk-us] Downgrading 'motorways' around toll plazas?

[Greg Troxel]

James Mast <rickmastfan67 at hotmail.com> writes:

> Does anybody think it is a good idea to downgrade 'motorways' around
> toll plazas to 'trunk' highways?  I just noticed a user did this in
> mass in NY and MA along I-90/I-87. [1] [2] He's even done this in PA a
> few times. [3]

No, this is not reasonable.  While one might object philosophically to a
tollbooth on an Interstate highway, that's the way the world is, and
noting it as a tollbooth is adequate.

> I've also noticed several problematic changesets this user has done in
> the past.  I've left several comments on some of his changesets [4]
> [5] and he's never responded to them except once, and that was after
> sending him a few PM's (1 per month) till he finally responded only
> partially to my question in it. [6] That leads me to believe that he's
> either completely ignoring the e-mails, or he's not even getting them.
> Also, in that one comment that he did leave (in [6]), he pretty much
> completely ignored my question (if he had been there and saw shields
> for this 'new' route since I don't want to delete 'valid' data) and
> said that he works '12 hour days'.  Honestly, if he can still find
> time to do big OSM edits and work for 12 hours a day, can't he spare a
> minute or two to respond to a comment left for him instead of taking 2
> months to reply?  I mean, even if I was busy and somebody left a
> comment on a changeset I did, I would try to make a few minutes to
> respond back within a day or two (week tops) of the comment.  This is
> a community project and everybody needs to work together and not
> ignore each other.

I agree that we should have higher expectations of people working within
the project vs just editing by themselves.

> Another problem with this user is that he almost always keeps using
> the same changeset comment of "using bing imagery to update map" which
> is completely useless to tell what he's really doing in each
> changeset.

I also agree that we should have higher expectations of both
geographically smaller changesets (except in limited cases where they
are clearly completely uncontroversial) and more descriptive comments.
Unfortunately it seems that making edits without being willing to engage
with others and non-useful changeset comments are correlated.
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