I’m going to be honest with you both. I’m Autistic/ADHD as heck and can barely keep up with the weird stuff I do right now. I highly doubt I could do anything prolonged locally as far as event planning. Something like that is just not something I’d even be able to handle.

The GNIS project is actually a lot more interesting than the TIGER ones because most of the time you’re taking existing information, and converting it into NEW information, like areas and such.

TIGER data can be a chore because in quite a few Mississippi counties it isn’t just misaligned, it’s misaligned, mis-shaped and sometimes even mis-placed.

I forgot to put a link to the GNIS School, Church, and Graveyard task here… so for anyone else who wants it, you can find it here: https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/27638

I actually do some work on a college campus with a decently sized geography program. They even hold a yearly GIS convention. There’s potential to do something with all that, but I wouldn’t be sure where to even start.

I think a huge hurdle for both myself and others, is that data validation and fixing isn’t nearly as fun as adding new data to the map.

Thank you for writing this. I was aware the map builder was a thing, and aware it was controversial, but this adds a whole lot of context that was missing, and brings up some very good points.

I think the much more interesting part of this saga was that the user deleting the trail was participating in a local despute IRL and trying to intentionally block a public trail.

This is just awful reasoning. The whole Tertiary->Trunk hierarchy is based on importance. If a road is important enough, it can be a trunk. Hell, even a dirt road in a developing country could be a trunk if it meets the importance on the hierarchy of roads. Don’t be so full of yourself. This is an open collaborative map and you’re expected to work with others. If you can’t work with others and keep causing map edit wars the DWG will get involved. Even after all this time the people of Alabama and Georgia are still working on cleaning up your trunk downgrades. None of the local communities you downgraded were OK with your changes.