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

[Andrew Hain]

I have created a wiki page describing the more unusual mapping practices in Lithuania:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lithuania/idiosyncratic_mapping

I may have left some of them out (please fill in).

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andrew
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From: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
Sent: 05 June 2022 21:31
To: talk at openstreetmap.org <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [OSM-talk] Lithuania fancy tagging rules (was: Re: Andy Townsend is above local community?)

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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