[Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

[Brian May]

I'm Florida based, have seen Floridaeditor's changes and noticed an 
eagerness to change a lot of road classifications. I didn't pay a lot of 
attention until now. Of course, trunk can be a tricky one, but if you 
got one lone guy on a mission who is arguing with everyone along the 
path, reverting any differences of opinion, etc - that is getting 
abusive and needs to stop. It is certainly NE2ish behavior. Other than 
NE2s behavior towards people who didn't agree and subsequent banning, he 
taught me a good bit, did a lot of good for FL and was actually 
inspirational in the beginning of my OSM journey showing what was 
possible and the impact a prolific editor could have. Sucks that he 
couldn't play well with others. Pretty sure he was based out of Orlando. 
Floridaeditor started editing in the Melbourne area not far from 
Orlando. His editing behavior is somewhat similar to NE2 in that they 
are / was editing a fairly wide variety of feature types. Also a focus 
on highway types in many other states and forcefully arguing with others 
in other states / local stomping grounds.

Anywho, seems like collective wisdom should rule the day with most 
things OSM, right? Especially long-time editors who have been through 
the wilderness and put a lot of thought into how features be mapped and 
tagged. And importantly are engaging with others in a respectful way.

An example unhelpful comment:

     "YES!!!! GEORGIA IS BADLY-TAGGED TRUNK FREE! Control is provided by 
floridaeditor; i.e., if anybody tries to change one back I will review 
the edit and keep/revert as needed."

WTF

Brian aka grouper

On 9/28/2020 7:29 PM, Evin Fairchild wrote:
> I totally support reverting Floridaeditor's changes in order to 
> restore all these divided highways to trunk status. I believe that 
> floridaeditor has been given the opportunity to participate in this 
> discussion, right?
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 3:54 PM Jack Burke <burkejf3 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:burkejf3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 3:15 PM Evin Fairchild
>     <evindfair at gmail.com <mailto:evindfair at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > We've always tagged non interstate freeways as motorways. They
>     are often designed to interstate standards and there is literally
>     no distinction between them and interstate freeways except that
>     there's no interstate shield.
>     >
>     > As for Floridaeditor's edits, I noticed him doing this awhile
>     ago, but didn't really feel like doing anything. Glad someone is
>     sending him and trying to get this resolved. Many of his
>     downgrading from Trump to primary were completely unjustified.
>
>
>     Throughout this entire discussion, it sounds like there's pretty good
>     agreement that trunk is perfectly acceptable to use as a road
>     classification in OSM for the eastern US, and at least some general
>     agreement that the examples I cited are reasonable examples of trunk
>     roads?  Am I mis-interpreting anyone?
>
>     And also, that I'm not the only one who's very much disturbed by
>     floridaeditor's changes?
>
>     Does anyone have a strong problem if I continue going through Georgia
>     and reversing most of his trunk-to-primary changes?
>
>     --jack
>
>
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