[Talk-us] Senseless Germans, again.

[Bryan Housel]

Do you live in Austin, TX?
If not, why do you care whether the students want to map sidewalks there?

Since you seem confused about “what the purpose of this is”, and can’t even be bothered to look up any of the “long-ish discussions”,  I’ve done a Google search for you to find this:  https://www.opensidewalks.com/ <https://www.opensidewalks.com/>

Threatening to delete all the work from the OpenSidewalks project just because you found one poorly mapped thing is not very nice.  Hope you’ll reconsider.  

Thanks, Bryan



> On Jul 25, 2018, at 2:32 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we had a long-ish discussion here (or was it over at imports?) about
> adding sidewalks, especially related to a project called "OpenSidewalks"
> which boldly announced a massive attempt at doing so.
> 
> I recently stumbled across this changeset in Austin, TX:
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/603909001
> 
> In it, an untagged line was added 24 days ago, with a vague promise of
> using JOSM later to add relevant tags, which hasn't happened yet.
> 
> What's more, there are some erratic sideways in the same area,
> un-connected to the road network and un-connected to each other, see e.g.
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=id&way=603909004#map=21/30.28318/-97.74670
> 
> and as such hardly usable for anything like pedestrian routing. And they
> don't even look good on the map. I really wonder what the purpose of
> this is. At least they're all tagged with "project=OpenSidewalks" which
> makes it easier to delete them once the project has run out...
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
> -- 
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