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Every item on OSM (node, way, relation) is versioned and has a history. If you can link us to your changes I’m happy to try to help find out why your change wa
by habi 4y ago
Every item on OSM (node, way, relation) is versioned and has a history.
If you can link us to your changes I’m happy to try to help find out why your change was reverted.
Usually that’s only the case for blatant errors, copying from proprietary maps (ehm, Google Maps) or vandalism.
We’re trying to be a friendly bunch, and I’d like to get you back as an editor.
- shp0ngle 4y agoI don’t want to ask here (don’t want to mix up my identities), where should I actually ask? In what forum
- Aachen 4y agohttps://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels any of these (some may be more or less active). If you're looking for a forum specifically, the answer is https://community.openstreetmap.org https://community.openstreetmap.org
- n4r9 4y agoOne option you have is to find the changeset that undid your edit and start a discussion with the user in question. To find the changeset, navigate to the location on openstreetmap.org, right-click, query features, and select the feature in question. The web page should then look like this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/93668654/ https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/93668654/ In the left pane click "View history" to see all the changesets affecting that feature. Find the one you want, then click the link next to "Changeset #". The web page should then look like this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/104465654 https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/104465654 The comment on the changeset might already contain enough information to answer why it undid your edit. If not, the left pane now has a text box for you to add a comment to the discussion. The user in question should receive a notification/email when you comment, and will hopefully engage in the discussion.
- Freak_NL 4y agoIf they don't, or are otherwise uncivil, you can contact the local mapper community. Often you can find them on this Discourse forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/ https://community.openstreetmap.org/ The local (mostly national) community can often explain why an edit was reverted (if the mapper who did it won't), or mediate with that mapper if they are in the wrong. Just keep in mind that we are all volunteers.
- habi 4y agoDo as the others said here. Sometimes one can find specific local communities here, too: https://openstreetmap.community/ https://openstreetmap.community/
- ryandrake 4y agoI remember quite a few years ago when I once went into OSM and fixed some streets in Las Vegas by "unbraiding" the intersections, in other words converting intersections with ways that joined at one point to ways that joined in a tic-tac-toe pattern. I believe this was considered best practice at the time in OSM. Well, a few days later, I got a very angry private message from some guy complaining that I edited "his" nicely braided roads and demanding that I revert the edit. I was kind of a newbie at the time so I did what he said and stopped editing for a while. I've since gotten back into editing here and there, but the initial experience likely prevented me from really getting into OSM and becoming some kind of editing master.
- habi 4y agoMapping can be very opinionated, but sending angry private messages to people genuinely trying to make the map better is definitely not necessary.