What seems to be the general purpose of his edits? His change sets have no comments, so could it be that this is just a case of an inexperienced mapper, at worst a vandal?
Chris On Mar 18, 2014 5:08 AM, "SomeoneElse" <[email protected]> wrote: > There has been a large series of recent edits to major road junctions > across England such as: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/21125717 > > There have been about half a dozen by the same mapper near me (I'm in > North Derbyshire) which are problematical for a number of reasons: > > a) Bus routes are broken (ways are deleted and new ones added, and route > relations not updated) > > b) non-highway tags such as "sidewalk" and "lanes" are missed when > replacement ways are added > > c) roundabouts are inevitably drawn so that the entry node of one road is > shared with the exit node of the next. These may be correct in some cases, > but in all of the places it's been done near me it isn't. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2#map=19/ > 53.79430/-1.62130 > > shows the effect, actually after another mapper has done some tidying up > there. It doesn't look to me that you can get from the southeast to the > southwest there without going on the roundabout (and that picture also > shows broken bus route relations and a random unjoined untagged way > http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/266435029 as well). > > d) The roundabouts are often drawn to look "artistic" rather than to > actually reflect the layout suggested by the underlying GPS traces. > > e) Roads have flares added where in reality the carriageway is not divided. > > I'm mentioning this here because my attempts to contact the mapper > concerned over the last 5 weeks or so have failed. I've messaged them a > couple of times and had no reply, so I'd suggest that people keep an eye > out for well-meaning but damaging edits such as these. Lobbying for a block > may be one option, but it would surely make sense to try and talk to them > first. > > Cheers, > > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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