Thanks for the advice everyone. I have moved on to my normal editing. About the soft approach to tiger removal. I see no reason not to look into it. Do i bring up these questions on github for Josm & iD?
On Jul 12, 2017 10:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Hans, > > I sincerely hope you’ll reconsider because I know that you have a lot of > positive energy to bring to the US community. > > I think what you might take away from this is that a single thread on the > mailing list is not always enough to gauge the temperature of the > community. There are many mappers who are not on the mailing list at all > or, like me, are on it but pay only occasional attention to it. Once you > start to get negative feedback on edits, I think it is a signal to pause > and rethink, and perhaps spend some more time discussing. Not necessarily > to give up! Criticism and negativity are cheap commodities on the internet, > and OSM is no exception. > > I think there is value in your idea to remove redundant TIGER tags but > perhaps a different approach is called for. Frederik had some good advice > to share in that regard. Perhaps a more gentle way to go about it is to > discuss extending the set of tags that are automatically removed when > editing a TIGER way in JOSM (and iD?). > > Best > Martijn > > > On Jul 8, 2017, at 2:37 PM, Hans De Kryger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So last month i started a discussion about a project i took on removing > Tiger zip data across the U.S. I brought it to the community after i > received concern from quite a few mappers in the U.S. After getting more > unfriendly changeset comments and messages in my inbox i'm officially > done. The Project is done for good. Not really wanting to get in an > argument daily with the messages I've gotten in my mailbox. I've learned > first hand just how unfriendly the osm community can be. It makes me quite > sad to see that side of the it. I've been apart of osm for 4+ years and > this type of response from the community makes me never want to contribute > ever again. > > *Regards,* > > *Hans* > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > >
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