We are a team that maps different areas in the world, composed of:
We have been contacted to work on a construction area in Doha, Qatar. They provided us this authorization to use the data in OpenStreetMap: File:Authorization sharing data .pdf - OpenStreetMap Wiki
This area has been changed a lot because of the construction; some roads were destroyed, and many new roads have been changed. You can see the details in this recent image from Sentinel (imagery from Esri or Bing does not show the changes because they are not recent).
Bing:
This is how OSM was mapped, when we started our mapping:
Our first task was removing the area’s nonexistent roads based on Sentinel and the data that could collide with the data provided to avoid overlapping issues.
Then, based on the provided data, we started to map the area, focusing on the geometry of the roads and connecting roads to the existing network.
This is the list of changeset in chronological order of the additions:
- 2025-01-16 13:47 - Achavi
- 2025-01-16 13:47 - Achavi
- 2025-01-16 13:47 - Achavi
- 2025-01-16 14:52 - Achavi
- 2025-01-16 15:53 - Achavi
- 2025-01-16 16:21 - Achavi
- 2025-01-16 17:13 - Achavi
- 2025-01-16 17:33 - Achavi
Our person on the field constantly gave feedback about what exists and what does not exist (removed).
For example, he insisted that this round about does not longer exist (and it could be verified in the sentinel image).
This was our work from yesterday, that shows our focus on geometries and network road connections.
Today, we wanted to start improving the tagging (put service in driveways and other tags), but we faced a massive deletion of our work. We don’t want to enter an Edit war.
The following users from Mapbox:
Performed these changes:
- marinapatsevich - 2025-01-15 13:06 - Achavi
- marinapatsevich - 2025-01-15 13:52 - Achavi
- zelenol – Improved Angie’s work - 2025-01-17 5:29 - Achavi
- zelenol – Delete everything - 2025-01-17 5:45 - Achavi
Now, we can see that this Mapbox team, put the round about (the one at the right) back in the map:
JuanMelo contacted marinapatsevich from internal OSM messaging, but she insisted that we should not touch this area until they finish.
How can we stop this Edit War, and tell Mapbox to stop reverting our changes that do not represent the current reality?