It may be worth pointing out that you can have different view of the same data. For example ITO have a map highlighting the former railways: http://www.itoworld.com/map/198#fullscreen&lat=52.58151540618443&lon=1.0302901709739063&zoom=9
Shaun ITO World Developer On 18 Feb 2013, at 14:24, "Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)" <[email protected]> wrote: > New user MATTHEW NIBARI [1] has created just two changesets [2], both > yesterday (17th February). The OSM History viewer views of these are > as follows: > > http://osmhv.openstreetmap.de/changeset.jsp?id=15065237 > http://osmhv.openstreetmap.de/changeset.jsp?id=15066769 > > I've been though every way listed there, and every single change in > both of these changesets involves changing railway=abandoned or > railway=disused to railway=rail, and removing any highway=* tags. I > haven't checked every way, but I expect that all these railway lines > are indeed disused or abandoned, and so the previous tagging was > correct. > > I sent Matthew a message a couple of hours ago through the OSM system > to explain that our tagging should reflect the current reality, and > that his changes are therefore inappropriate. His reply was that he > was trying to track down old railway lines and make them easier to > find in OSM. He didn't seem to see a problem with changing the > tagging. His user page [1] includes the text "If people are having > problems please note the edited sections must not be changed for any > reason so if anyone inbox me or changes it back, I will revert back if > its put back" suggesting he may revert any changes to his new tagging > regardless of other's views. I've sent a second email half an hour ago > to explain in more detail why current roads need to be tagged as roads > and not railways, and suggested that he should discuss things with the > community on talk-gb to find a suitable way to achieve his ends > without messing up the map data for everyone else. > > At that stage I'd only found a couple of road->rail changes in one > changeset, and wasn't aware of the History Viewer, so didn't know that > *every* change was removing highway tags and changing to railway=rail. > I thus wasn't sure whether the whole changeset would need reverting or > just a part of it, and so I asked Matthew what his changes had > involved. However, I think it's now clear that the whole of both > changesets [3,4] need to be reverted. Presumably, this should be done > as quickly as possible to avoid the risk of subsequent edits > complicating things. I don't have any recent experience of doing > reverts, so is there anyone reading this who would be able to do them > instead? > > I haven't had a reply from Matthew to my second message yet, but once > this has posted, I'll send him a web link to this thread. > > Many thanks, > > Robert. > > [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MATTHEW%20NIBARI > [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MATTHEW%20NIBARI/edits > [3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/15065237 > [4] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/15066769 > > -- > Robert Whittaker > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
