Try using JOSM and the buildings toolplugin currently you're adding a node outside the building occasionally

These days I spend a fair bit of time going over the map. Adding tags to untagged buildings, zapping duplicate buildings etc. Changing residential to service isn't the worst thing I've seen, my favourite was an apple mapper who retagged lots of highway unclassified to track contrary to the African highway wiki.

There are lots of places that don't yet have the settlements or highways mapped and here we have a highway that has been retagged ten times?

If you think about data consumers and I know we don't usually think about them mapping consistently to something like the African Highway wiki makes life easier for them.

End of conversation.

John

Some of these roads have connections at both ends they are through highways. A short asphalt paved highway connecting a major highway to a warehouse even in Africa can be tagged highway=service.

highway=service doesn't say anything about the width or surface there are separate tags for those.

African highways has path available. I wasn't aware there is a separate HOT standard for OpenStreetMap that is different to the OpenStreetMap standard.

In this case service is tagged that it has no connecting function but the mapper has converted residential to service even though these highways do connect to other highways.

Trouble is JOSM validation picks it up as a warning. Hopefully they'll document it in OSM features so the warning goes away. My personal view is 9,000 of them many that look very similar to a normal village is suspicious. Still the locals know best.

You're missing winterlude in Ottawa, it's a barmy minus 26 this morning, well minus 31 with windchill.

Cheerio John

The comment is for a number of highway=residential you changed them to highway=service even though they had a connecting function which is contrary to the wiki.

Changing to highway=path would be fine.

I don't understand the word compromise here.

You appear to have changed building=yes to building=tomb.

building=tomb does not appear in OSM features.

why did you change it and who came up with the tag?

thanks John

Pierre Béland did a lot of work on tags for highways in Africa.

osm.wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa

Please read the section on residential and service tags.

What you've changed will probably stay the same for fifteen years and the problem comes with routing software. Can a nurse use these to cycle to give out vaccinations etc? service has no connecting function so the software may decide not to use it.

Did you changeset comment the highways and did the other mappers agree with your logic before making the changes?

highway=path or residential works, one difference is do the buildings have a metal roof? If they do then the consensus is in order to get it there it must be a residential rather than a path.

John

You seem to have changed a number of highway residential to service. Some of which are long and are lined with houses. connect to other highways? Any special reason?

You seem to be mapping over a group of buildings as a single building. Not only that but you seem to be mapping buildings twice some mapped by other mappers and some by yourself.

Please be more careful.

John

You appear to be adding a lot of detail such as height from imagery? and duplicating a building you mapped from microsoft/buildingfootprints a few hours earlier.

You appear to have removed the tags from some buildings when adding solar panels. I've added them back in as building=yes

Could you please revisit this object and tag a few untagged ways please. Also it comes up with building within a building.

Thanks John

You could have added building=yes to the buildings tagged source=microsoft/BuildingFootprints

I've added a few.

You appear to have mapped a a building=yes over some two dozen other buildings. I'll tag it AI mapped rather than building=yes

You appear to have imported the buildings twice. I'll clean it up.

Did you really mean to put lanes=1 on a secondary highway?

You seem to have imported and to be using area=20881 rather than area=yes or no.

Is it possible to clean it up? Change area to description perhaps?

Thanks John

building=yes should not be on a highway. I've corrected it.

You seem to be importing over existing buildings.