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

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

Personally I have found Andy to be fair, polite, and even-handed in his DWG
role, even in cases where I've been in the wrong.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 1:40 PM Tomas Straupis <tomasstraupis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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