[Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

[Clifford Snow]

Jack,
First off - lets name names. Who is this person? We did have a discussion
on Slack a while back about an editor changing trunk to something other
than trunk. As far as I know we were successful in reverting many of those.

Not everyone is comfortable using Slack and I understand. However, they
should respond to changeset comments. Especially from someone familiar with
the road. If they ignore you, then I would recommend involving DWG. If they
just want to argue then but won't join Slack, then I'd invite them to to
this mailing list discuss why they feel a particular road should be changed
from trunk to primary.

Best,
Clifford

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 6:35 PM Jack Burke <burkejf3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Recently, someone has taken it on himself to downgrade most (all?)
> highway=trunk roads in the eastern U.S. to just primary.  The odd
> thing is that the very wiki page he cites as his reason fully supports
> keeping them as trunk.  Many of them I'm personally familiar with, and
> even absent the wiki's definition, they actually make more sense as
> trunk from a driving perspective.
>
> A few other editors have been getting involved in discussions with
> him, some helpfully, others not quite.  He was specifically invited to
> join this mailing list (and tagging), to discuss things, but as far as
> I can tell hasn't done so yet.  Andy from DWG also suggested that he
> join the OSMUS Slack channel, but I can't tell that he's done that,
> either.
>
> Of particular concern to me isn't just his downgrades, but his
> attitude about them.  Some of his changeset comments basically tell
> anyone who disagrees with him to appeal his decision to him, and he'll
> decide if the appellant is right or not, and if he catches anyone
> reversing his changes, he'll just revert it back.  Given his
> already-posted attitude about his edits, I'm not sure that trying to
> message him privately will do much good.
>
> I'm going to go ahead and put out here that I've gone ahead and
> changed some of them back to highway=trunk anyway, because as I said,
> they just make more sense that way, *and* meet the wiki's definition.
> And I'm quite sure that he'll revert them as soon as he notices.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions, comments, questions, jokes, etc.,
> about the situation?
>
> Regards,
> Jack
>
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