Thanks for keeping the features up-to-date in San Carlos City.

I hope we can count on your help for the #OSMaPaaralan project, to locate the schools volunteers failed to verify in San Carlos: https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges?challengeSearch=123.16326141357423%2C10.43919552993234%2C123.58795166015626%2C10.674440919290118&keywords=osmapaaralan&location=intersectingMapBounds

Hi there. Please do not use public_transportation tags for stations that no longer exist. These tags are meant for active stations in use today.

If there are any remnants of these historical features, they may be tagged with how they are on the ground today.

If you are keen on mapping historical features, please check out https://openhistoricalmap.org project.

Hi @Rafael_Serapio. Welcome to OpenStreetMap, and thank you for your edits.

It seems that you're keen on railway-related features. Me, and some mappers I know, are also keen to find where the old railways are now. One I know who's from Rizal, always reminds us how these old narrow railways could have been made into bicycle highways/greenways today, but that's more a theoretical discussion since most of these railways were already razed.

Anyway, you should take note, however, that historical features , (i.e. the feature is no longer in active service) should not use the tags that represent amenities in current use.

For example, this "Old PNR Guadalupe Station" you modified is incorrectly tagged as a public transportation station (public_transport =station.) It may have been one in the past, but that's no longer true. You may remove the tag altogether, or tag it as (razed:public_transport =station.)

Look into the life cycle prefixes more more information: osm.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix

If you need any help fixing these edits, please feel free to say so. You can also ask questions in any of these local community channels: osm.org/wiki/PH

OSM is more focused on what's on the ground, and what's being in use, and of course, historical features may also added. If you're more interested in the latter, you might want to check out https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/

It's probably better to use a direct URL to an image of your hotel for the "image" tag.

That way, third-party apps who consume OSM data will display a nice photo of your hotel instead.

Hi there! Thank you for your school grounds edits in OpenStreetMap. They've been very helpful, and complements the on-going OSMaPaaralan project: https://hackmd.io/5WA7UUsbS4eEJNIz44nZBw

Your mapping style appears very similar to another contributor, @JveTheSvyr .

Do you know each other? Also, do you happen to be working with the local DepEd office, since your edits seems focused mostly on schools?

Cheers
/GOwin

By the way, are you, by any chance, connected with DepEd?

Hi there! Thank you for adding these school grounds.

It made some of the harder OSMaPaaralan tasks much easier. You might want to take a look at the project, in case you're keen to add more schools in the region.

Here's the project's micro-tasking manager: https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/9413

And there's more information about the initiative here: https://hackmd.io/@osmph/HyPPrC6Z7

The response, and appropriate action is appreciated. Thanks!

We appreciate your team's contributions, but please be mindful of the edits next time.

Please do not modify street names based solely on street sign boards.

If you review the whole stretch of this highway, it's called "P. Sanchez Street", and "Sanchez" is only a short-form.

Use the short_name tag, if you like.
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You mentioned KartaView as a source for this edit, but I don't see any publicly available imagery for this area:

https://kartaview.org/map/@14.60312777142336,121.00099567742188,21z

Can you please elaborate?

Hi there.

I noticed that your team in Grab is modifying a lot of street names, and reducing the information quality of the feature.

This street is originally called "M. dela Fuente Street", and despite what the shortened name you see from the sign board, this is still popularly referred to as "M. dela Fuente Street".

Use the short name tag if you like, if that's appropriate, but be very careful when qualified names are already supplied by local mappers.

I am restoring the feature name to the original.

Is this a courhouset? Check whether `amenity=courthouse` is more appropriate to use: osm.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcourthouse

Hi @Tikbalang! Glad to see your new edits!

This college you added, you might want to add amenity=college to the school grounds itself, and add the rest of the attributes there..

Right now, what you did is add the college building itself.

You can review the nearby schools, to give you a better idea how this done. Of course, for basic education, amenity=school is used, instead of amenity=college.

Hi there! Can you please elaborate on the source of the name change you made on way/893235782 ?

Based on my local knowledge, this street is V. Pozon, which starts at the intersection of the streets of F. Manalo and J.B. Miguel, then ends at E. Jacinto.

The OSMaPaaralan task for Bambang Elementary School along this highway also identifies the street as V. Pozon.

You mention KartaView as a source, but I don't see any available imagery in this area.

Hi there. Thank you for contributing to OpenStreetMap.

In OSM, we value and respect the privacy and personal information of individuals, and adding the surnames of owners are residents are not acceptable, even if you have the permission of these persons.

If you wish, you may add other public information, like house numbers and street names instead. If you do this, these POIs become properly searchable.

Thank you for this more nuanced explanation instead of your changeset/107130566 comment "I have changed the classification of roads based on the surrounding area."

I know see that I left this area incomplete, leaving you to think that the "classification gap" is an error.

QA flags for "classification gaps" , especially in developing countries like ours, should not be automatically thought of as errors by mappers. Many of parts of our road networks are in development, and information from the ground is vital to reflect local use.

Next time, please ask or discuss the changeset to clarify the issue, rather than making a unilateral change that may cause loss of information from the ground.

Thank you.

*OSM, not ISM.

Thank you adding detailed information, like street names and POIS. That will make it easier for other people to use the data/map for navigation or when searching for POIs.

No, OpenStreetMap is not an authoritative source for defining real property. For that, you should rely on legal sources in the Philippines

The edits you make ISM can affect navigation, routing, name look-ups for apps that use them.

Could somebody in your project kindly review your group's edits in this region again?

Sadly, the #grab edits appear to be adding buildings that already exist resulting in many overlapping buildings.

Before making these changes, it would've been appreciated if you bothered to discuss it first in the changeset.

These classification reflect the highway classification convention of the local community. You may review them here: osm.wiki/Philippines/Mapping_conventions#Roads