Hi please consider the comment to your previous changeset changeset/117865871#map=16/51.7856/-1.5027

You're continuing to add fictional names and duplicated highways.

Regards Bernard.

Hi, Please take a look here at a lot of duplicated sections of highway that you've mapped:- https://tinyurl.com/2hv277by

Could you please remedy these duplications? Also remove the fiction names from the driveways. The footpaths don't usually have individual formal names so unless there are verifiable formal footpath names ought also be removed.

The OSM tag leisure=garden refers to all types of gardens, are these ones publicly accessible? If not they should be tagged access=private.

There are several instances where you've tagged a house address with the number in the addr:housename= tag and the name=tag, an example is Way: 88 (1031032473) the house number should only be in the addr:housenumber= tag.

I hope you can remedy these problems, if you need help please just ask.

Regards Bernard.

Hi Billy, Thanks for responding. It's not a mess the learning curve went a bit astray!

I look at fixing routing problems, (among other things), and noticed the duplication problems reported here:- https://tinyurl.com/2ekrjuxf I didn't pick this up for any particular reason I just like to help out.

Duplicated highways can mess up routing and logically there can only be one highway on the ground on any one line. To overcome the different names of routes that are on the same section of highway relations are used. Thus only one section of highway is mapped but that section can be included in several relations. Each relation holds the route name and all individual sections of highway making up that route. Various other things can be added to the relation as described here:- https://tinyurl.com/mz8h6jzj (One thing folk often forget is that a hiking route can be over different types of highway, path, track, road, etc, a route relation can hold various types of highway.)

I hope this makes sense. Looking again at the park paths I wonder if they are routes as they don't make circles? Are they on a website?

Regards Bernard

Hi, You've duplicated a lot of sections of paths in this park. One section has three paths on top of each other. It would be better to create route relations for the different named routes. Then the route relation would hold the name rather than the path sections. No highway should be duplicated.

Need any help please just ask. Regards Bernard.

The gardens should be tagged as gardens, that is what they are, that is what you have said. It is OSM practice to map the overall area as residential.

Hi, I just wanted to point out that within landuse=residential (Way: 403095226) you have mapped lots more small areas tagged as landuse=residential. I've amended the small areas to access=private
leisure=garden as this seems a better description of the areas.

Regards Bernard.

Hi, First while fresh in my mind, as of 7th Dec 2021 (last cycle-travel data update), this track was described by them as "rough unpaved trail Docking's Lane", depending on your point of view that's correct. So folk using the track would now its probable condition in certain conditions. You can add notes to sections of a route in cycle-travel but I don't know if the note is visible/accessible to other users. (I've now added surface=grass as cycle-travel takes surface into consideration.)

A Byway Open to All Traffic is legally what it says, a highway open to all forms of traffic no matter the condition of the highway. The track can be seen in the Bing, Maxar, Esri, and Mapbox imagery. If a

Whats can legally be expected of a public RoW is described under the section "Maintaining and protecting public rights of way" here:- https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-rights-of-way-local-authority-responsibilities#maintaining-and-protecting-public-rights-of-way Though what you find on the ground is often a very different matter. Your reporting to the council is commendable, I wish you luck!

Discouraging a way is subjective and not really something that can be accurately described in OSM. This way will likely be very different in the summer. Anyone might easily use it one day but not the next.

Regards Bernard.

Hi, Welcome to OpenStreetMap and well done for your first edit of the database.

I'd like to point you to some info intended to guide OSM editing:- smoothness=* this page implies the test for smoothness=impassable is that no 4WD vehicle can proceed. Clearly not the case here as the track shows evidence of vehicular use in the imagery. The tag tracktype=grade5 describes to surface and thus the probable surface smoothness as detailed here:- tracktype=* I would have thought bikes designed for off-road use (which this is), would have no problems. Thus I've removed that tag.

I've reinstated the bicycle tag as bicycle=designated, cycling is a legally designated form of access on this track. It's a byway open to all traffic, BOAT.

Please don't be deterred from editing, there's just a lot to it.

Regards Bernard.

Hi, I've removed your duplicated highways.

Regards Bernard.

Hi, Welcome to OpenStreetMap.

I can see no evidence of a cafe here. Are you sure you've positioned it correctly?

Regards Bernard.

Hi, It's OSM practice to anend/correct existing features rather than draw new ways on top of the existing. I've removed the duplicate way. Need any help amending/correcting please just ask.

Regards Bernard.

Amended tagging to crossings.

Hello, It seems like this was the changeset that added lots of duplications that I've amended.

There is advice on address mapping here:- addr=* I'd like to point out that address=place ought not be used when highway=??? is used, the place is determined automatically from the database geometry. Also, province ought not be used, (the county is automatically taken from the database geometry), there are no provinces in the UK.

Regards Bernard.

Hi, I just wanted to let you know I've removed lots of duplicated features from this changeset, woods, farmland, recreation, several leisure=playground from inside the same area, and hedges. Also made lots of gaps in hedges as seen on imagery.

I think I've amended all the problems but I'm not sure, smaller changests would have been easier to check and then you might have been able to address the issues given by JOSM.

Regards Bernard.

Hi, the playground is already mapped as Way: Cassiobury Park Pools Playground (519963671). I've removed the duplicate park outline.

Regards Bernard.

The path duplicated the PRoW drawn as a track, duplicate removed.

Are you trying to add your business, I might be able to help, just ask.

Please don't advertise the business on your profile, it doesn't meet OSM good practice.

Regards Bernard.

Hi, Welcome to OpenStreetMap.

It looks like you've only added a few nodes but these have dragged features out of alignment. I've removed the un-needed nodes, all's OK now.

Need any help please just ask, Regards Bernard.

I've reinstated the service road as it's a genuine feature seen on imagery. If you know that it is private and not accessible to the public you could tag as such.

Regards Bernard.

Shortcut tagged as
highway=path, description=shortcut