Clifford, If I'm going to name names, I may as well include a few relevant links, too.
The editor in question is "floridaeditor" https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/floridaeditor and he has a diary entry about what he's doing (in addition to what he has on his profile page about it). He changed *every single* trunk road in Georgia to primary, and from what I can tell, in Florida, too. I haven't yet expanded my examination into other states yet. One example changeset comment can be found here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/87987046 Another (where he reverted someone's reversal of his edits) is: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/88299504 I myself haven't added any comments to some of his changesets yet because of his borderline belligerent attitude in his remarks. He essentially sets himself up as the judge and jury about whether or not he will "accept" any requests for a change back to trunk. A few other people have (one of whom did so in a less than helpful manner, even though he's local and from what I can tell, should likely be familiar with the roads in question), but I'm just being an observer on that for now. I'm on Slack, and I originally posted a comment about this editor on some roads in Florida (that I'm familiar with), but the responses I saw seemed to be somewhat "meh" so I didn't pursue it. If there's another thread about it there, I'd love to read it, because (1) I missed it, and (2) if it's about the same person, y'all weren't very successful in reverting the changes. --jack On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 10:21 PM Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > > Jack, > First off - lets name names. Who is this person? We did have a discussion on > Slack a while back about an editor changing trunk to something other than > trunk. As far as I know we were successful in reverting many of those. > > Not everyone is comfortable using Slack and I understand. However, they > should respond to changeset comments. Especially from someone familiar with > the road. If they ignore you, then I would recommend involving DWG. If they > just want to argue then but won't join Slack, then I'd invite them to to this > mailing list discuss why they feel a particular road should be changed from > trunk to primary. > > Best, > Clifford > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 6:35 PM Jack Burke <burke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Recently, someone has taken it on himself to downgrade most (all?) >> highway=trunk roads in the eastern U.S. to just primary. The odd >> thing is that the very wiki page he cites as his reason fully supports >> keeping them as trunk. Many of them I'm personally familiar with, and >> even absent the wiki's definition, they actually make more sense as >> trunk from a driving perspective. >> >> A few other editors have been getting involved in discussions with >> him, some helpfully, others not quite. He was specifically invited to >> join this mailing list (and tagging), to discuss things, but as far as >> I can tell hasn't done so yet. Andy from DWG also suggested that he >> join the OSMUS Slack channel, but I can't tell that he's done that, >> either. >> >> Of particular concern to me isn't just his downgrades, but his >> attitude about them. Some of his changeset comments basically tell >> anyone who disagrees with him to appeal his decision to him, and he'll >> decide if the appellant is right or not, and if he catches anyone >> reversing his changes, he'll just revert it back. Given his >> already-posted attitude about his edits, I'm not sure that trying to >> message him privately will do much good. >> >> I'm going to go ahead and put out here that I've gone ahead and >> changed some of them back to highway=trunk anyway, because as I said, >> they just make more sense that way, *and* meet the wiki's definition. >> And I'm quite sure that he'll revert them as soon as he notices. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions, comments, questions, jokes, etc., >> about the situation? >> >> Regards, >> Jack >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > -- > @osm_washington > www.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
