I've removed the offending tags from areas I know well,having walked them off and on for 30 years,i.e Snowdon massif, Glyders and Berwyns. I've left the poylgons suitably commented.
Regards Brian On 9 February 2017 at 10:10, SK53 <[email protected]> wrote: > Despite the problems of these edits (incorrect tagging, bad polygons) more > than anything they reflect that OSM as a project lacks good tags for many > of these boreo-temperate upland features, and whilst that is true there > will be always be someone abusing existing tags. I think most mappers > remember the initial thrill of seeing changes come through on the main map > style: for some people it's probably still a primary motivator. > > I therefore think Brian's suggestions of working collectively to map these > areas better together with a more in-depth consideration of the relevant > tagging is the way to go: and landuse=unimproved_grassland at the very > least has the advantage of being correct. I have compared several location > in Wales with my own photographs and the former CCW Phase 1 Habitat shape > file, and acidic or neutral unimproved grassland is the classification of > the majority of these locations. (I'm not sure of the status of this latter > data: my copy is for private use only, but if it was released as Open Data > it would be very useful. One word of caution the data was compiled over a > long period and in some places will be out-of-date.) > > I'm always reluctant to delete stuff from OSM, unless it can be replaced > by something better. Grassland tagging is a mess in OSM: let's use this as > an opportunity to improve it for OSM in the UK. > > One last thing: I'm not very keen on calling people out on a public > mailing list. The nature of OSM is that one knows nothing of many mappers > (Frederik talked about this at SotM-14): there is always a risk of doing > more than hurting their feelings. > > Regards, > > Jerry > > > > On 8 February 2017 at 21:46, Brian Prangle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I came across glucosamine during the farmyards quarterly projectwhere >> she/he'd tagged place=farm to every group of isolated buildings all over >> Herefordshire. I think he/she means well just misinterprets tagging >> conventions and then rolls on regardless. >> >> Might we tackle this task under the general heading either of "landuse >> fixes" or "uplands" as our next quarterly project? That gives us some time >> to discuss approaches, conventions , progress tools etc so that we can hit >> the ground running so to speak on day 1 >> >> Regards >> >> Brian >> >> On 8 February 2017 at 21:35, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Marco Boeringa wrote: >>> > There may be more... All of these "users" are prolific, leave almost >>> > no changeset comments, and seem to be editing all day. It seems >>> > to me these are editors working professionally for some OSM >>> > related company. >>> >>> Thanks for the detective work and for persisting with this. >>> >>> I think it's very unlikely, however, that these users are editing OSM >>> for a >>> company. Probably the majority of edits in the UK are done by what you >>> might >>> call "lone mappers". Generally this works well and people plough their >>> own >>> furrows successfully, happily modifying their practice if particular >>> issues >>> are pointed out to them. But occasionally we have people who (perhaps >>> because of limited social skills) find it difficult to follow established >>> practice and co-operate with other contributors. There have been several >>> examples in the past and I'm sure many regulars here will be aware of a >>> few >>> of them. >>> >>> That's what I think we have here. I have no knowledge as to whether >>> Glucosamine, Dyserth and Sam888 are the same person or not - it wouldn't >>> surprise me either way. But they/he very much fit the "uncommunicative >>> lone >>> mapper" model. >>> >>> cheers >>> Richard >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com >>> /Large-swaths-of-heath-in-Wales-tp5890778p5890908.html >>> Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-GB mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >> >
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