Since the British forum seems little frequented compared to the British ML I publish what I wrote there¹ here once again with tiny enhancements.
This summer I hiked Snowdonia National Park from Machynlleth to Conwy. Doing so I collected about 843 waypoints in Wales and 140 in the Restof GB. As usual I uploaded my logs to OSM and quite an amount of the pictures to Mapillary (the rest will follow soon). I also started adding and enhancing highways and POI to OSM. Now user Dyserth had added some data I could not verify in reality. Although this holidays I wanted to do a little less on OSM compared to last year (which wouldn't be hard to achieve :)²) I could not resist to capture three gems of highway=track, tracktype=grade1 like this: http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/QkMEYGK64gxtupnGWfHwXA/photo https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/244474174/history Also the names "Ancient Trackway" and "Old Coach Road" on a lot of different ways caught my eye. I changed these and a several other ways to what I believed what I found and walked and also asked the previous mapper for his sources. After I found that he reverted one of my changesets and edited some more data to IMHO not matching reality I wrote a second message which he replied to rather unhelpful and not too friendly. The messages I sent can be found here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/33841330 Just as I wrote the posting for the forums Dyserth commented another changeset and edited the data in a way which confirms my opinion to skip mapping Wales: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34006163 In short: After I split a way its new way segments shouldn't have the name which was there before I even touched it. This makes me think twice if I should care to map in Wales anymore since it seems Dyserth * interprets reality (if he knows it at all) to his liking * doesn't want to name his sources neither in changeset comments nor on request * seems to think he needs to protect "his data" and thus will change (not only my) contributions back to what he thinks is best. I can think of better ways to contribute to OSM than to add stuff which I can be certain will not be there for long. By the way: For mapping only 1,5 years Dyserth has made an impressive amount of edits. But I doubt that he collected all the data by ground survey nor has – regarding what I saw on the ground and mapped – reliable sources. Best Regards Thomas ¹ http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=540545#p540545 ² http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/malenki/diary/23935 _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
