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

[David Chiles]

I also don't think it's reasonable to represent every lane of a toll booth
as a different way or as trunk. I've also tried to contact this user and
received no response.

I think a better representation is using the lanes tag and
or  maxspeed:advisory.

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

>
> 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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