Hello,

Your contributions are public. Please do not contribute Group names and regions that are only specific to your editing groups.

Dian.
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Hello,

VEhicles are not permitted to turn left from the main Nepean Hwy carriageway into the carpark at this point. There is a "No Left Turn" sign at that location accordingly. Traffic must use the service road.

Dian
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Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hello,

Thank you for your contributions in the Footscray/Yarraville area.

It appears as though you're part of a group that's making quite a few changes to the area. Is there someone in charge of your class/club/project that I could get in touch with?

There are a couple of issues with the mapping data being contributed (particularly address tagging) that I'd like to discuss.

Dian Agesson

Hi JRavesi,

Thanks for your contributions to the Yarraville, and welcome to OpenStreetMap.

I can see you're using the "name" field to store the full address of each house, which isn't quite the best way of doing capturing this information.

It's more widely accepted to record addresses using specific address fields, such as addr:housenumber and addr:street. This house (way/900636416) nearby is a good example to follow.

If you have any questions or would like a hand, feel free to reach out!

Dian

Hi Philt3r,

Thanks for your contributions to Mt Waverley, and welcome to OSM!

You've mapped the houses accurately, I wanted to give you a heads up about the naming of each house.

The name tag shouldn't be used as a description in the way you've tagged these houses. If you are interested, there is a range of different documentation and resources available on the OpenStreetMap wiki: osm.wiki/Editing_Standards_and_Conventions

I've removed the names from these houses, but if you have any questions I'm more than happy to help.

Dian.

Hi Dean.

Thanks for your contributions around Rowville.

In this edit you've added several turn lanes as separate ways at the corner of Lakeview and Fulham roads, which is incorrect. Roads should only be drawn as separate ways if there is physical separation, such as a barrier. osm.wiki/Dual_carriageway

Instead, you can use the turn keys: turn=*

I've reverted the change at the intersection, but there is plenty of further reading if you are interested. :) https://labs.mapbox.com/mapping/mapping-for-navigation/modeling-intersections-for-map-navigation/

Dian
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Thanks Supt,

Modelling the roads in the way you have done does seem to have been happening, at some scale, for a long time; I've looked at tonnes of different intersections and some are indeed quite old.

I've reached out to multiple avenues and groups of editors to establish what the best practice is: mailing lists, discord communities, etc. The response has been universally that intersections should look like https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/428214296695144458/990919048546119710/unknown.png rather than https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/428214296695144458/990919048902639656/unknown.png or https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/428214296695144458/990919049305272330/unknown.png, for much of the same reasoning as I've already provided.

I did quite a bit of research to establish why the alternative method persists despite this response: it seems that there are two possible, frequent errors that other editors have been making.

The first issue stems from confusion about u-turn lanes and slip/link raods. Many editors (and, myself included when I started out) may hve been misinterpreting a section of the guidelines which mention how a u-turn link road between a dual-carriageway should be trunk_link (or whatever is appropriate), and then applying that logic to intersections where u-turns are permitted. For example, if u-turns were permitted at, say way/573681578 here, then the road should be a _link road rather than the classification of the road travelling through it.

My guess is that other editors have noticed these link roads in unusual places, and simply removed the "link" part of the highway classification.

I've updated the line I believe was causing the most confusion on the wiki, but the Link (highway) page already had a pretty good explanation: "Similarly, a minor road that intersects a dual-carraigeway road with a higher classification is not a link between the two major road halves, and should be tagged as normal."

Hope this helps, Dian.