Gerrit appears to have a real obsession with getting a line drawn on the map, around parcels. It’s not entirely clear why he wants that, but the wish is consistent and lasting.
- In 2015 he managed to draw lines with the tag boundary=administrative, which renders as a thin black line on the standard map. See the first message on the thread https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=52948 for an example.
Once others mappers noticed he filled the place of Staphorst with these tags, he received explanation that this was ‘tagging for the renderer’, a cardinal sin in OSM land. Eventually, all faulty tags were removed. This caused other mappers a lot of work, discussion, and patience with Mr Dankelman.
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In January 2016 he started all over with parcel mapping, this time (ab)using barrier=fence to reach the same effect on the map - a thin line.
See https://forum.openstreetmap.org/post.php?tid=53129&qid=571705 .
Any attempt to explain why ‘tagging for the renderer’ is wrong remained fruitless. Once again, he had already mapped many gardens with barrier=fence, which all had to be undone. -
Earlier this month he started mapping parcels with landuse=residential with addr:full=.
See https://forum.openstreetmap.org/post.php?tid=52948&qid=617163 .
This was also turned down by other mappers. -
And now he wants to start again… (see https://forum.openstreetmap.org/post.php?tid=52948&qid=617240)).
This time he discovered a (faulty) use of barrier=wall in Leuven, and he suggests (again) to use this for marking a parcel.
As far as I can see, this is the fourth (!) attempt to abuse tags for marking a parcel, over a period of two years (!).
It has become a true obsession with him. Gerrit just does not get the concept of ‘tagging for the renderer’, or why this is wrong. It has been explained over and over, but without success…
Furthermore, he will start mapping the parcels before discussing it with the community, which is annoying. Plus, it’s not just one or two parcels he will map, but large numbers, causing a lot of work to repair it.
And this parcel thing is just one of the things he is doing wrong.
I personally, am completely fed up with Mr Dankelmans contributions. For the large part, his edits are wrong, not useful and costing us a lot of time. It is database pollution.
Please let this stop.