Hi,

Please don't change bicycle=unsuitable to bicycle=no - they're different things. bicycle=unsuitable is not a very good tag but =no is actively wrong in this instance.

cheers
Richard

Thank you :)

Hi - I think you added an erroneous 'access=private' to Troy Road in this changeset. I've fixed it but you might want to check your workflow for future edits.
cheers - Richard

Hi - why have you marked this road as private?

Hi! This is definitely not a route=bicycle - it breaks common expectations for what that is. It's a route=mtb. If you need it to show up prominently on a particular map rendering then please contact the people who run that rendering.

Hi - great to see the work you're doing. A quick heads-up - if you map a stile, it should only be on the path, not on the road. Putting a node near the junction and tagging this as a stile will achieve this. I see this one's already been fixed but you might want to keep an eye out in the future!

I've reverted as much of this changeset as could be done automatically (in changeset/103251722), but several ways had been subsequently edited so will need to be mended by hand.

@US Editor, your intentions are great and thanks for your commitment, but we don't use the name= tag for descriptions like that - it's purely for the actual name of the road. OSM isn't just about the display map you see on www.openstreetmap.org; although your change might look good there, it will break other consumers of the information such as routers or data analysis.

This changeset has been reverted fully or in part by changeset/103251722 where the changeset comment is: Revert edit which added a description to the name tag

Hi,

You haven't cut out the islands from the polygon. This means that for anything which renders water above land, the Channel Islands will now appear submerged. Could you fix this please?

Hello - could you tell me what evidence you have that cycling is permitted on this path?

Oh, when you said "is the bridge over the A48 in use?", I thought you were referring to whether the bridge over the A48 was in use. Mea culpa.

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I think you probably want to direct your questions to the person who mapped the greenway, mostly as highway=cycleway. As you can see there are no v1s in this changeset, which was just tidying a relation that was in a problematic state.

Sigh.

Hi, good to see your contributions. This massive edit looks like it should have gone through the Automated Edit Policy process - could you point to where this happened?

cheers
Richard

Ah yes - if it's a blue background then it's regional (bit confusing as the stickers do say NCN, but basically it's a Regional Route which is part of the National Cycle Network)!

Thank you. Reported at https://twitter.com/richardf/status/1363909152582627328 .

"now i get blamed for that" - yes, because MapRoulette doesn't give you carte blanche to break stuff just because some rando who uploaded a challenge says so.

Maproulette is not infallible, and in this case is wrong. Can you provide a link to the Maproulette challenge?

This is silly. Of course a Facebook page is a website. It's delivered over HTTP (the "web") and accessible on a consistent, unchanging URL ("site"). It is none of our business whether a company has chosen to use Facebook, Wix, Squarespace, Wordpress or any other off-the-shelf hosting/design solution for their site.

By doing this, you are making it significantly less likely that data consumers will make use of mappers' contributions. For example, on cycle.travel, I show cyclists the website tag for a ferry (where available) so that they can look up current times of operation, charges, etc. I use the website tag for this. Under your change, I'd have to fall back to scanning every contact:* tag to see whether any of them begins with /https?:\/\//. Pretty obviously, lots of consumers aren't going to do this, so you've just made OSM data less accessible.

Please (a) stop doing this (b) go outside and do some useful mapping (c) in future, discuss mass changes like this in advance. Thank you.

Hi! As I understand it this is either national route 585, or regional route 55. National route 55 is somewhere else entirely (Telford-Stoke-Macclesfield-Manchester way). Do you know how this Redditch-Birmingham route is currently signed?

If you tag it with a bad surface tag then any halfway decent router will know to route around it. Similarly for roads - anything with (say) highway=trunk, maxspeed=70 mph, oneway=yes should set alarm bells ringing with the router. Certainly cycle.travel (my site) will do the right thing in both of these cases and I'm pretty sure CycleStreets will as well.