Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-04 Thread Minh Nguyen

On 2014-06-03 11:46, Simon Poole wrote:

Am 03.06.2014 17:48, schrieb Mike N:

Further the area not being surveyed implies that all the value add that
we can offer a cyclist is not there (surface, lanes, shoulders etc).


  Blocking bike routes until everything is surveyed is not realistic
- we'd need to map every parking spot with a potential car door zone,
every storm drain that may cause a road hazard, as well as every road
width in addition to the surface, lanes and shoulders.   Blocking bike
routes only ensures that TIGER deserts remain as deserts for any
number of years until someone randomly happens to take interest, if
ever. Having a bike route will motivate people to start with armchair
improvements and follow with incremental improvements to the roads
that the bike route cover.


I was looking at this the other way around: these routes are a good
opportunity to motivate people out there and get them to survey the
length of the route in person.

Instead of yet another armchair mapping exercise.

Naturally not requiring everything to be perfect, but at least it would
be better than pure armchair mapping and more aligned with why bicycle
routes exist in the first place. The handful of approved routes I looked
at don't seem to be particularly long (aka at most  couple of 100 miles)
and could easily be surveyed by a dozen or two mappers without undue
effort and completed in the upcoming months.

And provide some show casing of why OSM is better, instead of worse.

Simon



Naturally, we should emphasize quality coverage of the route 
infrastructure (trails, roads, parking). Signage is almost never the 
interesting thing about a bike route. To a cyclist, a sign may just be 
another landmark like a water tower or power line.


Yet routes are absolutely necessary to make sense of the very fragmented 
bike infrastructure in this country. Without USBRs and the occasional 
state bike route, our cycle map would be like the uninterrupted sea of 
highway=residential just after the TIGER import. Route relations don't 
necessarily indicate bikeability anyways. Bikeability is indicated by 
the surface tag and so on. Route relations indicate notability.


By the way, even if I've armchair tagged an USBR in Ohio, many of the 
state's trails have already been ground surveyed by OSM mappers. That's 
how I got any trails mapped way back before Bing imagery came along. So 
it isn't pure armchair mapping in the first place. If anyone's 
interested in double-checking our work, USBR 50 in Ohio is 313.3 miles 
long. The western half mostly follows rail trails, so it's very flat and 
straight. The other half, not so much.


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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi,

On 06/03/2014 02:38 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:
 If you see something, map something

I think one of the bones of contention here was that there's not really
anything to *see* that could be mapped.

Bye
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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Minh Nguyen

On 2014-06-02 13:24, Simon Poole wrote:

@stevea you would substantially help your cause if the route data was
available for inspection, best a public source from where it could be
obtained.


Here are the special committee minutes approving the routes (along with 
various U.S. route modifications):


http://route.transportation.org/Documents/USRN%20Report%20May%2029%202014.docx

Each USBR approval links to an application by a state DOT containing a 
full route log, to wit:


USBR 1 (MA):
http://ballot.transportation.org/FileDownload.aspx?attachmentType=ItemID=1167

USBR 10 (WA):
http://ballot.transportation.org/FileDownload.aspx?attachmentType=ItemID=1184

USBR 36 (IL):
http://ballot.transportation.org/FileDownload.aspx?attachmentType=ItemID=1185

USBR 37 (IL):
http://ballot.transportation.org/FileDownload.aspx?attachmentType=ItemID=1186

USBR 50 (DC):
http://ballot.transportation.org/FileDownload.aspx?attachmentType=ItemID=1188

USBR 50 (OH):
http://ballot.transportation.org/FileDownload.aspx?attachmentType=ItemID=1176

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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Simon Poole


Am 03.06.2014 10:42, schrieb Minh Nguyen:
 On 2014-06-02 13:24, Simon Poole wrote:
 @stevea you would substantially help your cause if the route data was
 available for inspection, best a public source from where it could be
 obtained.
 
 Here are the special committee minutes approving the routes (along with
 various U.S. route modifications):
 
 http://route.transportation.org/Documents/USRN%20Report%20May%2029%202014.docx
 
 
 Each USBR approval links to an application by a state DOT containing a
 full route log, to wit:
 
 USBR 1 (MA):
 http://ballot.transportation.org/FileDownload.aspx?attachmentType=ItemID=1167
 
 
 USBR 10 (WA):
 http://ballot.transportation.org/FileDownload.aspx?attachmentType=ItemID=1184
 

Thanks.

Route USBR 10 nicely illustrates my point about GIGO. It starts of in
untouched TIGER country and continues. Implying that nothing has been
surveyed along the route, clearly requiring large amounts of clean up
before even thinking about adding the roads to a route relation (well at
least if you don't want the relation to break n-times when somebody
actually does the clean up).

Further the area not being surveyed implies that all the value add that
we can offer a cyclist is not there (surface, lanes, shoulders etc).

Simon


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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Kerry Irons
Just a point of clarification for everyone:  AASHTO does not choose US
Bicycle Routes.  The state Departments of Transportation develop the routes,
typically in cooperation with bicycle advocacy groups and with the specific
agreement of local road agencies where the route is not on state controlled
roads, streets or trails.  The DOT submits a map and turn-by-turn
instructions as part of their application to AASHTO.  AASHTO makes sure that
the proposed route number is appropriate within the national USBR corridor
plan but does NOT choose the roads, streets, or trails.

Choices of routes are influenced by a number of factors, and sometimes the
route that most bicyclists agree would be the best is not chosen due to
local road agency concerns.  Likewise a route that many bicyclists would not
prefer is used because it connects other portions of the route that have
highly desirable features.  Every route is a compromise between directness,
road quality, scenic features, traffic density, access to amenities, etc.


Kerry Irons
Adventure Cycling Association

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Simon Poole writes:
  Am 02.06.2014 06:28, schrieb Russ Nelson:
   . Let's say that I follow this   
route on my bicycle using a cue sheet and keep a GPS track. Then I load   
my GPS track into JOSM and create a relation and call it USBRS #47 (or   
whatever). How is this an import??
  
  While not quite what you intended,

No, that's exactly what I intended. I think that nobody would be complaining
if I did the above. How, then, does it suddenly become an import if I skip
the step where I bicycled the portion of the route I am entering? I cannot
see how it does.

I'm not arguing about the quality of the route chosen by AASHTO. Maybe they
did a good job, maybe they didn't. I'm saying that the negative
characteristics of an import are completely absent from this project:
   o imports create a whole new set of nodes.
   o imports can have copyright issues.
   o imports can be non-human-scale.
   o imports can be data dumps that don't get maintained.
   o imports make bulk changes to the database.

If an import is completely signed in every case, that doesn't solve any of
the problems caused by an import.

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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Russ Nelson
Simon Poole writes:
  Route USBR 10 nicely illustrates my point about GIGO. It starts of in
  untouched TIGER country and continues.

Best way to get something mapped is to draw attention to it. That's
what Steve is trying to do. Can we move on now, and stop calling this
an import? Permissionless innovation -- that's what OSM is all
about. If you see something, map something (to abuse New York City's
supposedly trademarked If you see something, say something phrase).

Stop with the stop energy already!

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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Mikel Maron
 Stop with the stop energy already!

+1
 
 Permissionless innovation -- that's what OSM is all about.

Right. 

This is a totally weird, overstepping of authority, unnecessary discussion. 
There's nothing wrong or damaging happening here. In fact, some very 
conscientious efforts to improve OSM. I only read that it perhaps could be 
improved even more. Well that's what a wiki is about right? Step by step.

I think we've exhausted the discussion on talk-us. If there is really something 
here the DWG thinks they need to pursue, I'm going to bring it to attention of 
the OSM Management Team for discussion.

-Mikel

* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron


On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 8:40 AM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote:
 



Simon Poole writes:
 Route USBR 10 nicely illustrates my point about GIGO. It starts of in
 untouched TIGER country and continues.

Best way to get something mapped is to draw attention to it. That's
what Steve is trying to do. Can we move on now, and stop calling this
an import? Permissionless innovation -- that's what OSM is all
about. If you see something, map something (to abuse New York City's
supposedly trademarked If you see something, say something phrase).

Stop with the stop energy already!

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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread Mike N

On 6/3/2014 5:34 AM, Simon Poole wrote:

Route USBR 10 nicely illustrates my point about GIGO. It starts of in
untouched TIGER country and continues. Implying that nothing has been
surveyed along the route, clearly requiring large amounts of clean up
before even thinking about adding the roads to a route relation (well at
least if you don't want the relation to break n-times when somebody
actually does the clean up).



 As a counterpoint to GIGO: the only clean road at the start point is 
part of the preliminary bike route.   Cleanup is a known science - many 
US and state route relations were added before a geometry review.   Bike 
routes would break no more than existing routes that are being cleaned 
up by MapRoulette.


 Further the area not being surveyed implies that all the value add that
 we can offer a cyclist is not there (surface, lanes, shoulders etc).

 Blocking bike routes until everything is surveyed is not realistic - 
we'd need to map every parking spot with a potential car door zone, 
every storm drain that may cause a road hazard, as well as every road 
width in addition to the surface, lanes and shoulders.   Blocking bike 
routes only ensures that TIGER deserts remain as deserts for any number 
of years until someone randomly happens to take interest, if ever. 
Having a bike route will motivate people to start with armchair 
improvements and follow with incremental improvements to the roads that 
the bike route cover.




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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread stevea

Martijn van Exel writes:

No more of this please. I'd place this thread under moderation if I
could, but since Ian is on vacation, I will have to rely on you all to
do the right thing and take this wholly inappropriate mode of
discussion offline.


I appreciate and accept your excellent advice, Martijn! 
Concomitantly, I have answered Serge off-list (where I did my utmost 
to keep my mode appropriate).


Simon Poole writes:

@stevea you would substantially help your cause if the route data was
available for inspection, best a public source from where it could be
obtained.


Simon, I couldn't agree more -- but Minh's post beat me to it! 
(Thank you, Minh).  If you look at the Established U.S. Bicycle 
Routes list on the Adventure Cycling page

http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes-and-maps/us-bicycle-route-system/use-a-us-bike-route
you will find links to all the state DOT web sites or other official 
maps of USBRs.  This section will expand as the newly approved routes 
are posted on state web pages.  I think it can be well argued that 
together with these state web sites, OSM does indeed have an 
authoritative source.


Are USBRs always signed?  No, especially the brand-new ones, but they 
often ARE signed on the longer-established routes.  Perhaps we do 
well to posit that USBRs in OSM are an edge case of 
on-the-ground-verifiability, as this is not always universally true. 
(I am not strictly agreeing to this, I just think it might be a 
helpful discussion topic which can offer some light, rather than 
heat).  However, USBRs ARE always verifiable, just not always 
on-the-ground.  This makes them essentially identical to boundaries, 
which are also in our map.  So, we might call boundaries an edge 
case, too.


The suggestion that each route be FURTHER vetted by an OSM volunteer 
actually bicycling it is excellent.  Is this absolutely required? 
No, I don't think so, but I do characterize that as an excellent 
suggestion, and say Thank you for that.


We discuss, we learn, we share, we improve.  Right?

SteveA
California

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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-03 Thread stevea

Simon Poole writes:
(The approved USBRs in OSM could) provide some show casing of why OSM 
is better, instead of worse.


Thank you, Simon!  I'll even go one better than that:  OSM might be 
the best data set in the world of national bicycle network routes, at 
least in the UK and the USA.


That might be true in other countries as well, I'm don't really have 
personal knowledge of that, but I think I can say that about the UK 
(thank you Simon, Sustrans, Andy, and countless others...) and I can 
say it about the USA, too (as of, but certainly not before! July of 
last year).


For example, take a look at this, the Lonvia renderer's Waymarked 
Trails map for bicycle routes:

http://cycling.waymarkedtrails.org/en/?zoom=5lat=38.02101lon=-87.78818hill=0route=1#

I'm especially proud of the correct tags on all the routes:  names, 
ref tags, notes, super-relations, etc.  That took some effort, 
coordination, understanding of OSM tenets and good old fashioned 
project management, ladies and gentlemen.  Sure, the last two routes 
of 10 in Washington (about 40% entered) and 50 in Ohio (about 60% 
entered) still have yet to be completed, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE 
APPROVED LESS THAN A WEEK AGO!  (Sorry for shouting).  But this is 
maybe 6% to 7% incomplete out of 10,000 km or so of a national 
network.  Not bad, eh?  We can get there, and we large have, rather 
well (though there were some mistakes, they are now firmly in our 
past).


And while Simon says (heh!) that (a couple hundred miles) could 
easily be surveyed by a dozen or two mappers without undue effort and 
completed in the upcoming months he puts his finger right on it: 
that might be about the number of people who ARE involved in this 
WikiProject (true, many as widely-disdained armchair mappers, 
rather than long-distance bicyclists), AND I think it could be done 
(mapped AND/OR bicycled) not in months, but in weeks, or even days 
(if just one or two people were to drink a few coffees).


This (OSM) is project which can, and often does, UNIFY us, not divide 
us.  Let's work together!


SteveA
California

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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-02 Thread Martijn van Exel
No more of this please. I'd place this thread under moderation if I
could, but since Ian is on vacation, I will have to rely on you all to
do the right thing and take this wholly inappropriate mode of
discussion offline.

Martijn

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote:
 Serge Wroclawski writes:
   My opinion is that this is a single data source issue. Unlike other
   data that we collect, there is nothing in the ground indicating the
   existence of this as a route. There's no sign indicating where the
   route is, so there's be no way to collect this data other than by
   looking at an external dataset and either importing or tracing.

 You're just a little bit insane, Serge. Let's say that I follow this
 route on my bicycle using a cue sheet and keep a GPS track. Then I load
 my GPS track into JOSM and create a relation and call it USBRS #47 (or
 whatever). How is this an import??

   I think that's an import, because it's taking external data and
   applying it to OSM without even the potential for ground validation.

 You're twigging this as an import because there aren't any signs on
 the ground. What if I post my cue sheet on a sign? Again, how does
 this become an import?

 It bears none of the problems of imports:
   o imports create a whole new set of nodes.
   o imports can have copyright issues.
   o imports can be non-human-scale.
   o imports can be data dumps that don't get maintained.
   o imports make bulk changes to the database.

 This is nothing like that. Your *only* reason for calling this an
 import is because there aren't any signs. Yet. That reason isn't good
 enough to call it an import.

   We have a lot of data that we could include in OSM that would be
   useful.

 Everything that people care about having in a map is useful. You don't
 care about this. Fine. Somebody else doesn't care about something you
 want in OSM. Imagine *cooperating* with other people.

   I think that this kind of data doesn't belong in OSM.

 And when you see it on OpenCycleMap? Does it belong there? Should we
 fork the database now, so that we have a Serge OSM and a Nelson OSM
 and a USBRS OSM? Remember what I said earlier: a little bit insane.

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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-02 Thread Simon Poole
Am 02.06.2014 06:28, schrieb Russ Nelson:
 . Let's say that I follow this
 route on my bicycle using a cue sheet and keep a GPS track. Then I load
 my GPS track into JOSM and create a relation and call it USBRS #47 (or
 whatever). How is this an import??

While not quite what you intended, I believe you do illustrate a major
sore point with building the routes simply from whatever documentation
will/is supplied. It skips actually verifying the individual segments on
the ground which is part of providing a high quality route (signed or
not) in OSM.  It is something that I would be very wary of doing in
areas where we have a consistent road network and definitely will lead
to GIGO in the states.

To put it differently: if the import was combined with systematic
surveying of the routes by OSM contributors instead of them just sitting
at their desk then it would be a lot more palatable.

SImon


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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-02 Thread Simon Poole
@stevea you would substantially help your cause if the route data was
available for inspection, best a public source from where it could be
obtained.


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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-02 Thread Mike N

On 6/2/2014 3:27 PM, Simon Poole wrote:

To put it differently: if the import was combined with systematic
surveying of the routes by OSM contributors instead of them just sitting
at their desk then it would be a lot more palatable.


  I think the appeal to local mappers to pitch in with the new bike 
route relation definitions is part of the logic here.For example, I 
already am familiar with the roads of one of the theoretical future bike 
routes in my area.There's a good chance that a local mapper in that 
state already knows part or all of the roads in the official bike route.


 [  Of course, I'm not putting anything in OSM since it's not even 
under any sort of official development yet.   But if it were, I would be 
able to evaluate the official route definitions against my knowledge of 
the roads. ]



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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-02 Thread Russ Nelson
Simon Poole writes:
  Am 02.06.2014 06:28, schrieb Russ Nelson:
   . Let's say that I follow this
   route on my bicycle using a cue sheet and keep a GPS track. Then I load
   my GPS track into JOSM and create a relation and call it USBRS #47 (or
   whatever). How is this an import??
  
  While not quite what you intended,

No, that's exactly what I intended. I think that nobody would be
complaining if I did the above. How, then, does it suddenly become an
import if I skip the step where I bicycled the portion of the route I
am entering? I cannot see how it does.

I'm not arguing about the quality of the route chosen by AASHTO. Maybe
they did a good job, maybe they didn't. I'm saying that the negative
characteristics of an import are completely absent from this project:
   o imports create a whole new set of nodes.
   o imports can have copyright issues.
   o imports can be non-human-scale.
   o imports can be data dumps that don't get maintained.
   o imports make bulk changes to the database.

If an import is completely signed in every case, that doesn't solve
any of the problems caused by an import.

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[Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-01 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Russ,

My opinion is that this is a single data source issue. Unlike other
data that we collect, there is nothing in the ground indicating the
existence of this as a route. There's no sign indicating where the
route is, so there's be no way to collect this data other than by
looking at an external dataset and either importing or tracing.

I think that's an import, because it's taking external data and
applying it to OSM without even the potential for ground validation.

I did mess up in that I needed to have stated, and will state now,
that I was not talking from the position of the DWG.


We have a lot of data that we could include in OSM that would be
useful. Every so often someone wants to add property lines. I think
those would be potentially interesting, but unsurveyable. These bike
routes are similar. There's nothing on the ground that tells you that
you're on the particular bus route- which means that the only
definitive answer we could have about a bus route is some external
dataset. If two OSMers disagree, the answer will always be What does
the original data say? - rather than What does the ground look
like? - right?

I think that this kind of data doesn't belong in OSM. It's not
something that lends itself well to OSM. It think it could be mixed in
during rendering or for routing, but it doesn't belong in OSM proper.

The issue of tracing vs importing is orthogonal to this question.

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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-01 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi,

Bike Route 1 on Cape Cod, MA is signed. I saw a bunch of them last
summer biking around on vacation.

In my opinion at this point the new routes should go through the
import process, but given that signs are already up, and over time
more are sure to come, I don't see any problem having the data in OSM.

Jason

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote:
 Russ,

 My opinion is that this is a single data source issue. Unlike other
 data that we collect, there is nothing in the ground indicating the
 existence of this as a route. There's no sign indicating where the
 route is, so there's be no way to collect this data other than by
 looking at an external dataset and either importing or tracing.

 I think that's an import, because it's taking external data and
 applying it to OSM without even the potential for ground validation.

 I did mess up in that I needed to have stated, and will state now,
 that I was not talking from the position of the DWG.


 We have a lot of data that we could include in OSM that would be
 useful. Every so often someone wants to add property lines. I think
 those would be potentially interesting, but unsurveyable. These bike
 routes are similar. There's nothing on the ground that tells you that
 you're on the particular bus route- which means that the only
 definitive answer we could have about a bus route is some external
 dataset. If two OSMers disagree, the answer will always be What does
 the original data say? - rather than What does the ground look
 like? - right?

 I think that this kind of data doesn't belong in OSM. It's not
 something that lends itself well to OSM. It think it could be mixed in
 during rendering or for routing, but it doesn't belong in OSM proper.

 The issue of tracing vs importing is orthogonal to this question.

 - Serge

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Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-06-01 Thread Russ Nelson
Serge Wroclawski writes:
  My opinion is that this is a single data source issue. Unlike other
  data that we collect, there is nothing in the ground indicating the
  existence of this as a route. There's no sign indicating where the
  route is, so there's be no way to collect this data other than by
  looking at an external dataset and either importing or tracing.

You're just a little bit insane, Serge. Let's say that I follow this
route on my bicycle using a cue sheet and keep a GPS track. Then I load
my GPS track into JOSM and create a relation and call it USBRS #47 (or
whatever). How is this an import??

  I think that's an import, because it's taking external data and
  applying it to OSM without even the potential for ground validation.

You're twigging this as an import because there aren't any signs on
the ground. What if I post my cue sheet on a sign? Again, how does
this become an import?

It bears none of the problems of imports:
  o imports create a whole new set of nodes.
  o imports can have copyright issues.
  o imports can be non-human-scale.
  o imports can be data dumps that don't get maintained.
  o imports make bulk changes to the database.

This is nothing like that. Your *only* reason for calling this an
import is because there aren't any signs. Yet. That reason isn't good
enough to call it an import.

  We have a lot of data that we could include in OSM that would be
  useful.

Everything that people care about having in a map is useful. You don't
care about this. Fine. Somebody else doesn't care about something you
want in OSM. Imagine *cooperating* with other people.

  I think that this kind of data doesn't belong in OSM.

And when you see it on OpenCycleMap? Does it belong there? Should we
fork the database now, so that we have a Serge OSM and a Nelson OSM
and a USBRS OSM? Remember what I said earlier: a little bit insane.

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