I also don't think it's reasonable to represent every lane of a toll booth as a different way or as trunk. I've also tried to contact this user and received no response.
I think a better representation is using the lanes tag and or maxspeed:advisory. On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > > James Mast <[email protected]> writes: > > > Does anybody think it is a good idea to downgrade 'motorways' around > > toll plazas to 'trunk' highways? I just noticed a user did this in > > mass in NY and MA along I-90/I-87. [1] [2] He's even done this in PA a > > few times. [3] > > No, this is not reasonable. While one might object philosophically to a > tollbooth on an Interstate highway, that's the way the world is, and > noting it as a tollbooth is adequate. > > > I've also noticed several problematic changesets this user has done in > > the past. I've left several comments on some of his changesets [4] > > [5] and he's never responded to them except once, and that was after > > sending him a few PM's (1 per month) till he finally responded only > > partially to my question in it. [6] That leads me to believe that he's > > either completely ignoring the e-mails, or he's not even getting them. > > Also, in that one comment that he did leave (in [6]), he pretty much > > completely ignored my question (if he had been there and saw shields > > for this 'new' route since I don't want to delete 'valid' data) and > > said that he works '12 hour days'. Honestly, if he can still find > > time to do big OSM edits and work for 12 hours a day, can't he spare a > > minute or two to respond to a comment left for him instead of taking 2 > > months to reply? I mean, even if I was busy and somebody left a > > comment on a changeset I did, I would try to make a few minutes to > > respond back within a day or two (week tops) of the comment. This is > > a community project and everybody needs to work together and not > > ignore each other. > > I agree that we should have higher expectations of people working within > the project vs just editing by themselves. > > > Another problem with this user is that he almost always keeps using > > the same changeset comment of "using bing imagery to update map" which > > is completely useless to tell what he's really doing in each > > changeset. > > I also agree that we should have higher expectations of both > geographically smaller changesets (except in limited cases where they > are clearly completely uncontroversial) and more descriptive comments. > Unfortunately it seems that making edits without being willing to engage > with others and non-useful changeset comments are correlated. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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