Re: [Talk-us] changeset 25081346 spanning contiguous United States

2014-10-07 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2014-10-06 09:53, Peter Dobratz wrote: For amenity=post_box, I add an operator tag. The official blue mailboxes get United States Postal Service and I also tag other common providers United Parcel Service and FedEx. These same values for the operator tag could be added to post offices and

Re: [Talk-us] changeset 25081346 spanning contiguous United States

2014-10-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-10-06 18:33 GMT+02:00 Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us: I don't think that sweeping changes like this across large geographic areas should be made without communication of some kind. Yes, you are right, there are also guidelines/policies for this kind of edit, which do indeed require

[Talk-us] changeset 25081346 spanning contiguous United States

2014-10-06 Thread Peter Dobratz
Hi, I noticed the following changeset which touches UPS Store objects across the whole contiguous United States: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/25081346 I have contacted user andrewpmk inquiring about communications prior to making this change and I have not received a response. After

Re: [Talk-us] changeset 25081346 spanning contiguous United States

2014-10-06 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Peter, It's great you reached out to the user. The DWG is really the best place for such complaints/concerns at this point. The email for the DWG is d...@osmfoundation.org I've forwarded your email to the DWG and you should receive a reply about it shortly from a DWG member (most likely

Re: [Talk-us] changeset 25081346 spanning contiguous United States

2014-10-06 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Peter Dobratz wrote: After checking a few of the objects, it looks like this change removed shop=copyshop and added amenity=post_office. I don't necessarily disagree with this change. In my mind I had

Re: [Talk-us] changeset 25081346 spanning contiguous United States

2014-10-06 Thread Harald Kliems
I use the operator=* tag and sometimes double it up with brand=* Harald. On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Eric H. Christensen e...@christensenplace.us wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Peter Dobratz wrote: After checking a

Re: [Talk-us] changeset 25081346 spanning contiguous United States

2014-10-06 Thread Serge Wroclawski
There is... this is something I'd consider a contentious edit but not *strictly* incorrect. The author of the changeset should have consulted the US/Canadian community before making it, and if he had done so, would have seen that he should have added an operator= or some other tag indicating that

Re: [Talk-us] changeset 25081346 spanning contiguous United States

2014-10-06 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Eric H. Christensen e...@christensenplace.us wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Peter Dobratz wrote: After checking a few of the objects, it looks like this change removed shop=copyshop and added amenity=post_office. I don't necessarily