[OSM-talk] Andy Townsend is above local community?

[Tomas Straupis]

Hello

  Can somebody explain to me, how did we come to a situation where
Andy Townsend is knowingly breaking decision of the local community?

  https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/121943595

  Mapping of Lithuanian official road classification to OSM road
classes was agreed by Lithuanian community years ago, it was later
revised, classification changed (db updated) according to new schema.
Decision was not my alone (part of discussion was on talk-lt list),
re-tagging to new schema was also not done by me (which also indicates
that it was not my personal decision).

  While I understand, that some aspects of this schema might be in
question for people not in local community, but we had some very good
reasons to do so. And in my understanding it is a decision of local
community how we map. Andy Townsend having never been on the spot,
having never spoken to local community, having no understanding of
region should not be above local community. Andy claims he have red
local rules which state very clearly how things should be mapped, but
he made what he calls "interpretation" and mapped differently, knowing
that it contradicts local decision.

  Has an official rule that OSMF does not dictate how we map was
dropped recently?

Note: this mail is not about the tagging decision itself (we can
discuss it in a separate thread), but about Andy with his DWG hat on
knowingly breaking it.

-- 
Tomas