Re: [Talk-us] Screw-up of borders

2011-03-26 Thread Russ Nelson
Charlotte Wolter writes: Nathan, I read on the Talk US forum that I have made a mistake on a state boundary near Four Corners. Specifically, you said I had screwed up the border. It would have been helpful if you had contacted me directly and worked with me to fix that

[Talk-us] Screw-up of borders

2011-03-25 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Nathan, I read on the Talk US forum that I have made a mistake on a state boundary near Four Corners. Specifically, you said I had screwed up the border. It would have been helpful if you had contacted me directly and worked with me to fix that mistake. I wish you had given me the

Re: [Talk-us] Screw-up of borders

2011-03-25 Thread Richard Welty
On 3/25/11 1:53 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: Also, before you post publicly that someone in OSM has screwed up, I think that, at the least, you should discuss the situation with that person off-list. Using terms, such as screwed up, is not helpful to our mutual effort of creating an open-source

Re: [Talk-us] Screw-up of borders

2011-03-25 Thread Steven Johnson
+1 Please discuss errors with users off-list first. There may be occasions for publicly shaming someone, (e.g. deliberate vandalism) but honest mistakes do not meet this threshold. Thanks, -- SEJ t: @geomantics: sejohnson8 A serious and good philosophical work could be written