Dear user jdd 3,

OpenStreetMap is a community project. That means, when there is a disagreement about how to tag things or whether to map things, a compromise has to be found.

When, for example, another mapper is interested in improving railway infrastructure, it is not a good idea to engage in edit wars and delete particular nodes or ways without sufficient reason, and without sufficient explanation. E.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7134513953/history which another mapper had just refined, you delete it with the comment “adjusted tags”. In https://osmcha.org/changesets/90946389/ you delete deveral railway platforms that are visible in aerial imagery, and several stop positions maintained by other mappers.

You have already been blocked previously 3 times for short periods for similar actions. Your communications on mailing lists that I remember were full of unfounded accusations.

You are causing the community significant time to repair your work. Please reconsider the way you work in OpenStreetMap with the community and not against.

Kind regards
Tom
Data Working Group

Edit (2021-02-23):

• This block was issued on 2020-10-10 after the user had received 3 previous warnings in 2020-08.
• It was placed after an internal DWG discussion and with consensus within DWG.
• An immediate appeal by the user was rejected, unanimously, by the OSMF board in 2020/Res53