On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 4:47 AM 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk <talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > What are these for anyway, other than stalking ?,
Quality assurance (QA). It helps more experienced mappers to see where new people add things. If they spot mistakes, they should engage in a friendly conversation via private messages or changeset comments. Being friendly is not always easy, so sometimes messages can be too rude. And there are people that simply do not engage in conversations, which is often understandable, as there are so many people that make a few edits and disappear forever. Other people are overly protective of "their" area, and change everything to the way they want, which is not really desirable. In general, those tools are used to follow edits in an area, not for following individuals. As Warin pointed out, try to start a conversation with the other mapper, or the local community to find out why he is changing everything you edit. If all else fail, you can contact the DWG, they can e.g. block the other mapper until he reads a certain message. Good luck (and hope you are not too disappointed in OSM due to the behaviour of 1 individual). regards m _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
