[Talk-us] US-wide highway reclassifications by Fluffy89502

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

As you know, the question of highway classification is an item of
significant debate in the US mapping community.  There are near-daily
conversations on what the standards should be and users in fourteen states
have drafted wiki guidelines on how the road classifications should be
applied.  We have tried to draw in as many people as possible into the
conversation, both in multiple threads here and of course in Slack.  In
this context, there is a fair amount of frustration with this particular
user who typically makes unilateral edits and only rarely responds to
changeset comments or other attempts at communications.  You might note a
thread in this mailing list from last year where this was brought up before:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2020-September/020714.html

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 12:52 PM Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the DWG has received a complaint about recent highway reclassifications
> by user https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Fluffy89502 - these seem to
> affect various states; there's no rationale given about the
> reclassifcations, and comments from different users remain unanswered.
>
> Could I have an assessment from the community about this? Wholesale
> revert? User block and request to engage with critical voices? ...?
>
> The user has been blocked for similar activities last year, and been
> asked to be more responsive to changeset comments.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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