[OSM-talk] Lithuania fancy tagging rules (was: Re: Andy Townsend is above local community?)

[Frederik Ramm]

Tomas,

first off, naming people in E-Mail subjects is considered not nice.

I think in general local communities have a lot of leeway in OSM but 
there are limits.

The idea of tagging a small bit of bridge in the middle of a long 
tertiary road as "secondary" just because it happens to have a different 
surface due to being a bridge, is something that doesn't make sense. 
Therefore I think it is valid to override the Lithuanian community in 
this regard, and frankly I believe that many many members of the 
Lithuanian community will breathe a sigh of relief because they are 
tired of you imposing your strange tagging ideas on them.

There's hardly a month in which DWG doesn't get some complaint about you 
(and by that I mean you, Tomas, not you, the Lithuanian community) 
because they have strayed into Lithuanian territory, dared to map 
something that would have been ok in any other part of the world, and 
been told off by you.

This can happen once or twice but if it happens a dozen times a year 
then the questions needs to be asked, what is wrong here? Is Lithuania 
such a totally different country? Or is Lithuania an average country but 
the Lithuanian community consists of people who believe they always know 
better? Or is it maybe this one guy named Tomas Straupis who seems to be 
the only voice of the Lithuanian community?

I'm the first person to take the side of the little guy when some 
self-proclaimed tagging expert from another continent "streamlines" 
tagging in the little guy's country. But with Lithuania and with you 
specifically, I sometimes get the idea you come up with random and very 
inflexible tagging rules on purpose, just piss off everyone else.

I think you should stop any and all OSM contributions for a year, I'd 
love to see how the map in Lithuania develops outside of your stranglehold.

Bye
Frederik

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