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

[Tomas Straupis]

2022-06-05, sk, 23:36 Frederik Ramm rašė:
> 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.
> <...>

  It's all understandable. My question is why Lithuanian mapping
community was not contacted to resolve this tagging issue (it has a
very simple resolution which would be fine for everyone)? NO email was
sent to talk-lt to resolve it. Instead Andy made unqualified decision
based on partial information, Mateusz copy-pasted some other mapping
rules as our "decision" and Brian simply re-tagged based on how he
understands. Was it so hard to write an email to talk-lt before doing
all that?

> 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.

  Well there is a cost of having higher quality data, and quality
aligned with the purpose - with practical things we do with that data.
There is not a day when some accidental mistake is fixed and explained
to the mapper, most people say thank you for noticing and fixing, some
get angry. Look at error point maps and you will see Lithuania being
much cleaner. That is because we look at QA not as a point and shoot,
but as a holistic process. I understand, OSM could be not suited for
high quality data, maybe some strategic decisions will have to be
made.

  But the main thing - I'm not the only one in Lithuania, and
disregarding all other mappers in Lithuania is a dictatorship.

-- 
Tomas