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Closed over 1 year ago by olehz

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• Comment from Friendly_Ghost over 1 year ago

  Hello olehz,

  Your changeset comment is bullshit. You're mapping power infrastructure in Ukraine here.

  The Ukrainian OSM community urges us not to edit the map of Ukraine during the war, so why are you mapping sensitive infrastructure in an active war zone?

  For completeness, here is a link to the relevant OSM mapping guideline: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Ukrainian_war

• Comment from olehz over 1 year ago

  https://vfr-demo-map.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/power.html#5.84/52.053/35.866 - 99% of my last edits are Russian powergrid. In this particular case, I was a little wrong, but I've not added important info about the infrastructure. These are minor lines. I fixed a minor topological error. I need this to calculate the aftermath of a missile attack (graph theory)

  Btw, real bullshit is to remove bridges, airports, substations, if this information is already easy to find in other sources. Part of the community is not very smart. Remove all roads/paths, why only airports, RWY, TWY? So I don't care about the opinion of paranoid vandals. 3 kids who added nonsense to the wiki - this is not yet a community.

• Comment from Friendly_Ghost over 1 year ago

  You said that 99% of your last edits are Russian powergrid. I did notice you spamming small edits in Russia and Belarus all with false descriptions, but that doesn't take away that you are also a major contributor of power, place and waterway objects in Ukraine since the war broke out.

  I agree with you that it's not the smartest choice of some mappers to delete already mapped infrastructure in Ukraine at will. If there was really any broad support for this, we would have seen such edits in a more organised fashion.

  That said, the appeal of the Ukrainian mappers is respected by enough people now that you can see it clearly in the statistics. I wrote a forum post about that here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/ukrainian-osm-community-appeal-re-edits-of-osm-data-during-russian-ukrainian-war/995/12

  Last but not least, could you just stop mapping infrastructure in the eastern half of Ukraine for the duration of the war, please? Even if the data can be found elsewhere, we don't want to make OSM a part of the information war and we don't want to start edit wars with mappers who have different opinions about what should and shouldn't be mapped in this area. I hope this isn't too much to ask.

• Comment from olehz over 1 year ago

  Ok. I won't touch the east again. In any case, everything there is destroyed and not relevant.

• Comment from Friendly_Ghost over 1 year ago

  Thank you. Have a good day.

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