These days I'm retired and use my old age pensioner bus pass to grab a free coffee. Often there are strings attached like a group of politicans or journalists etc. floating around.
Today I got cornered by one who had been on the receiving end of a communication from a mapper saying they had made a mistake on their first attempt at mapping. It was a couple of years ago and the message was a little on the aggressive side. The receiver still remembers it clearly and in their mind OSM was a well this not the place to use those sort of words. When you send a message to a mapper you don't know who they are. You are representing OpenStreetMap when you send a message so please put your passion to one side and be gentle with the poor things if only so I can enjoy my free coffee in peace. I do sympathize, I've come across a lot of suboptimal mapping in my time and mentally expressed exactly the same thoughts that were expressed but I do try to count to ten before sending a polite note that says did you really mean to map this this way? Have you read the wiki here which gives guidance? And yes I know those who read this mailing list would always be polite but I couldn't think where else to post it. Thanks John
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