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

[Zeke Farwell]

It is also worth noting that Fluffy's lack of communication with other
mappers is not limited to the United States.  For example here are two
changesets that were clearly not well received by the local communities in
Germany and Denmark:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/90225929
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/96220099


On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 1:19 PM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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