[Talk-us] Senseless Sidewalks Part 2: Crisis Averted

[Kevin Kenny]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 6:32 PM Nick Bolten <nbolten at gmail.com> wrote:
> First, the title: Frederik Ramm noticed that 9 ways, representing a total of 18 nodes, in Austin, Texas were untagged, and they should've been tagged as sidewalks (footways). I fixed them. It took less than two minutes as I also cleaned up the area a bit to add some crossings, curb ramps, and fixmes.
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> Those edits were made by a collaborator of mine, and I'll look into why we didn't see the changeset comments to fix the data errors earlier. If in doubt, you can always contact me about these issues, but I know that's not going to be widely advertised and is a bit of a hassle - so we'll fix our end.
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> As for the rest of the comments: I am very confused as to why a fairly small number of data errors (ignoring the massive data contributions) seems to result in an existential crisis on OSM mailing lists. I don't mean that noticing and pointing out data errors is bad, just that the response is completely disproportionate, full of contempt for others, and leads to pointless infighting. As a community project that depends on volunteer efforts, these forums should be much more welcoming and seek to build consensus with constructive feedback. All I need to know is that there was a data error and I'll fix it / have someone fix it.


Good to know that the affair appears to be turning out to be a tempest
in a teapot. Thanks for the update!