Firstly, it’s good to hear about the reasoning for you changing the speed limit. It sounds unusual that the speed limit signs were removed, but stuff like that does happen, and I agree that waiting to see if it was a permanent or temporary change made sense. That resolves my question about the 20mph → 30mph change, thank you.

I gave a reason for why I removed those tags at the time. Changing the speed limit from 20mph to 30mph is a really unusual change (the council almost never increases speed limits), and unusual changes, even more so than other map changes, need to come with supporting evidence. Your changeset comment at the time said “swarthmoor 20 zone”, with no mention of a change to 30mph or why that might be. If you’d have mentioned in your changeset at the time about the speed limit signs being removed, that would have made everything clear to other mappers who look at this in future.

I care about the quality of the map. While you might interpret my comments and changes as “personal animosity”, that’s not my intention. I only comment when something is questionable or provably wrong (on _any_ edits in the north west, not targeting yours), and you’ve made a lot of edits like that. List your sources, as the DWG requested you to, and as many other mappers manage to do on a routine basis, and I will stop.

My comments on your changesets have become more blunt over the months only because you don’t reply to any of them. I’m open to a friendlier working relationship — we’re both obviously quite invested in editing the map, and that’s not going to change. I think the first step towards that is continuing a dialogue. :)