[Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

[Jack Burke]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 8:02 PM Brian May <bmay at mapwise.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> An example unhelpful comment:
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>     "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."
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> WTF
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> Brian aka grouper

That is one of several of his comments that convinces me he doesn't
really want to work with the community.


> On 9/28/2020 7:29 PM, Evin Fairchild wrote:
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> 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?

He has been invited here, to Slack, and the OSM web forum by no less
than 3 different people (and maybe more--I haven't examined all of his
changesets).