[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap US update

[Greg Troxel]

Nellie Blair <nellie at openstreetmap.us> writes:

> 1) With the support of volunteers and land managers, the OpenStreetMap US
> Trails Stewardship Initiative is launching our first statewide campaign
> aiming to update trail information on 60,000+ miles of trails in
> OpenStreetMap across Utah public lands. Learn more in our latest blog post:
> https://openstreetmap.us/news/2023/10/trails-utah-campaign/

Reading this, it smells like "a group of land managers is going to
remove data from OSM that they don't like even if it is accurate".  Can
you point to someplace public that talks more about this "initiative",
who the members are, and why we should be confident that the actions
taken are in line with OSM community norms?

I second Mike's concerns in general, and find the phrasing "official and
approved sources" concerning.  This is effectively an import, and it
appears not to be doing the quality control required to validate that
this "official" data is accurate enough.

Also, it looks like people that don't accept Slack's terms are excluded
from participaing or finding out what is going on.

Greg (mapper since 2009, often mapping trails)