Follow-on block from https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/3375

Hello again JayCBR,

3 hours ago you were asked (following a complaint to the DWG) to “please stop the series of road classification changes that you are making in the UK until you have discussed with the wider UK community. The talk-GB list is probably the best place for that”. Rather than do that you’ve decided to continue, with changeset comments such as “there are signs on every entrance..look it up”. In this example telling people to “look it up” won’t help with the interpretation of “living street” - you’ll need to persuade people that your interpretation, which differs from how it has been used in the UK and elsewhere, is correct, and you won’t be able to do that be simply changing the data and telling people that they’re wrong - you’ll need to discuss it with them first.

You’ll therefore be blocked for a couple of days to let you calm down. We’ll revert the most recent changes that you’ve made to the situation as it was before. Where you believe that there are systematic tagging issues I’d strongly recommend that you discuss these with the rest of the community on talk-GB before diving in and making lots of changes, and then proceed on a consensus basis.

Before you take this as a personal slight, I ask you to consider this - most people don’t clock up complaints from other mappers in the same way as you have seen at http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=2700471 (compare that with, at random, http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=115894 , http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=3937 , http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=84681 and http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=165 ).

OpenStreetMap is a shared map project - we need to work together, and sometimes that means trying to understand the complexities of why something is as it is before just changing it to something else.

Best Regards,

Andy Townsend, on behalf of OSM’s Data Working Group.