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71184812 over 6 years ago

They are major roads that used to be provincial highways. There is no rule that primary highways must be provincial, and following that convention leads to too few primary roads. If you revert these changes, I will revert them back.

72217346 over 6 years ago

I used Esri World Imagery. I think the area is obvious from source imagery - it looks industrial. If it were an import, it would have tell-tale signs, like excessive nodes or not sharing nodes with existing ways. I'm also not aware of a source for this sort of landuse data.
I should say that I occasionally re-use nodes of ways that have been imported.
Danny

71233692 over 6 years ago

I've done a bit of research, and it appears that this branch is a "TD Help & Advice Centre", not a "TD Canada Trust". I'm not sure if amenity=bank is actually appropriate here, since it doesn't offer all banking services.
Jarek, please do not contact me to complain in the future - do your own research, and make the changes that you think are appropriate.

71345469 over 6 years ago

To solve this problem, this is what you need to do:
1) only make road/address changes based on data in the OpenData Ottawa portal.
2) Delay your changes to take into account the time to change signs. The easiest way to do this would be to make changes in a batch each year.

71345469 over 6 years ago

1)You are still using ArcGIS as a source, which is unacceptable for OSM. The email is not an acceptable source either, since it is not verifiable by others.
2) Saying that the signs will eventually change isn't good enough.

Since I apparently wasn't clear enough last time, let me repeat myself: I will view any further street name changes as a personal and deliberate insult. That also goes for address additions (that are based on data in ArcGIS, not Open Data Ottawa).

71345469 over 6 years ago

Other problems:
1) You are using the city's ArcGIS server (the backend of GeoOttawa) as a source. This is in violation of the terms of service of GeoOttawa, and the data is not in compliance with OSM's licence. In fact, it is not clear if the public is even meant to have access to this data. I think it is fair to describe this as a wholesale copyright violation.
2) You are not verifying the correctness of the new road names on the ground. I am almost certain the street signs weren't all changed yesterday, so you are changing the road names incorrectly.
3) You aren't keeping the old road name (as old_name, for instance).

71345469 over 6 years ago

One problem (not the only one) i that I asked you not to rename the roads, and you did so anyway. I view this as a deliberate insult, and would appreciate an apology.

71345469 over 6 years ago

Matt,
I specifically warned you not to rename roads. Please let me do this in the future, since I have to go back and review your edits anyway.
Danny

70640323 over 6 years ago

I think we will have to agree to disagree. As usual, OSM discussion achieves nothing.

70640323 over 6 years ago

Yes I can. Some RBC signs say "RBC Financial Group" instead of just RBC, and some CIBC signs say "CIBC Banking Centre" instead of just CIBC. Restaurants also have abbreviated names (Kelsey's not Kelsey's Original Roadhouse).

What I really care about is that the same name is used everywhere, and that the name matches the id preset. For Starbucks, that preset is "Starbucks" not "Starbucks Coffee" (although Coffee is part of the signage in Canada and parts of the US).

70640323 over 6 years ago

The "Coffee" is a description, not part of the name. Good work PelleB!

70676734 over 6 years ago

I used to favour separate areas for businesses, but it becomes a real mess, and it is much more time-consuming. So I generally just add points now, unless it is easy to separate the footprints based on aerial imagery.

67300540 over 6 years ago

I think I thought the station building was some sort of church or temple. I've deleted the area - thanks for pointing this out.

70330952 over 6 years ago

I agree, most rural roads should be unclassified. I will review highway=residential to make sure they should be that, and not highway=unclassified

70330952 over 6 years ago

I agree highway=unclassified is better. I have been using that in later changesets.

62680270 over 6 years ago

If you can't find the trail, feel free to delete it. Looking at my notes from that period, I may have interpreted a bushwhack as a trail.

68187844 almost 7 years ago

This is a great change. It is much better to have a different building tag for portables then for other school buildings.
Good work.

67686901 almost 7 years ago

I will also wait before making further imports, at least a week, and likely longer (until consensus is reached).

67686901 almost 7 years ago

To be clear, I am willing to further discuss importing - blocking me would be a severe over-reaction, and would be interpreted as a personal attack.

67686901 almost 7 years ago

There was a discussion, issues were raised, the problems (to the extent that they existed at all) have been addressed. I plan to continue importing, unless a *specific* valid issue is raised. Please do not contact me again unless you have such an issue.