I noted that you changed old1_xxx tags to disused:xxx. Please note that in the Nottingham area old_xxx is actually a more common convention, and in this case the tagging is representing more than one previous occupant. The original church was Chelsea Baptist Church from inception to around 2005; then the church was used by Potters House (who may still own it) who moved to the Bluecoat School. Later, perhaps around 2011 the church was occupied by Harvest Army who are still there. The use of and old_name and old1_name were to capture this information succinctly without having to write a long explanation like this one.

@lxbarth Changing valid, albeit incomplete data on OSM by removing information, as is happening all too frequently with this program, is poor practice. I refer you to my answer on the Help site https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/44227/car-park-entranceexits.

Demanding routing of minor service roads is a waste of your staff time & a hell of a waste of volunteer contributors' time when they have to chase & monitor these edits to prevent data degradation.

For heaven's sake get some triage in the system. Not every contributor wants to map parking aisles, and I'd hazard a guess that not many people are routing to Cottingham Cemetery, or if they are will notice the cemetery and not need a sat nav for the purpose.

I'm rather puzzled by these additional roads you added. From memory it's not possible to turn from New Quay directly into Chapel Street & only left turns allowed in coming from Chapel St. A quick check on the Bing imagery confirms this memory. Has the junction been changed recently?

If not, I'd appreciate an idea why you think these roads are necessary.

Thanks for this update. I had noticed that the PO on Lace St/Beeston Road is closed. If the Bargain Booze is labelled as such outside use that for the name, and also add a shop tag: presumably shop=alcohol, but possibly shop=convenience. The shop & amenity tags should do all the work for finding post offices etc.

Damn too busy to make this edit myself!

@ramyaragupathy : streetnames might not be copyrightable but bulk copying from another database is not legal in EU (and not ethical for OSM). Unfortunately bulk copying in this context means 500,000 people doing 1 edit each. After all if we dont follow this rule we have relatively little traction to stop BigCo from getting its crowdserfs to copy individual OSM features.

A more general comment: adding source tags really helps (for instance it would have been obvious that there was another source of aerial imagery in this area). But my Polish edits are only of places I have visited & for which I have GPS traces (and sometimes photos).

You appear to have deleted facilities which exist in the grounds of Trinity College. Do you have a reason for doing so?

My changes were based on survey & my own GPS traces

Yeah can never remember there are at least 3 options with underscore, hyphen or nowt.

If you just want hardware stores use Overpass with the centroid output & you can have them all as JSON, Or even ask me & I can give you a list of hardware stores as centroids (Or you can purchase data from suppliers such as Geofabrik & OpenCageData). OSM is a vast shared database. If you try & make it work for your own personal needs you may break it for others needs. It is emphatically NOT in its raw form likely to be directly suitable for a given data consumer. The idea is that we provide the data & people build services on top of that for needs such as yours.

See my recent blog post (http://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2015/05/retail-outlets-on-openstreetmap.html) about creating a worldwide dataset of retail POIs as centroids using osmconvert. This demonstrates that there is absolutely NO NEED to have everything as nodes.

The addition of a duplicate node for the polygon, if repeated worldwide would seriously skew statistics & force complex processing to determine if a node exists in a similarly tagged polygon.

This node should really be deleted.

Note also OSM expects names to be fully expanded, so "Dr" should be "Drive". A better source would be the latest TIGER data available as a layer in the editors

I wondered why you have removed the name tag from the University of York Heslington Campus. Using name:en is not a substitute for the name tag but something over & above.

We dont use Google Street View for verification! There is a risk that such uses makes OSM a derivative work.

I suggest you check changeset source tags when doing this kind of edit.

You could also have dropped me a message or a note to the effect that the more widely used tag is bookbinder. I much prefer that approach than just changing tags without asking the original mapper.

Not to worry, but really big edits can be a sign of other problems which can be really confusing (someone recently dragged the corner of a building from Finland to USA).

Someone has commented (note/356195) that the footpath connecting Mill Place and Fairfield Place edited in this changeset doesn't exist. To me on Bing it more looks like some kind of service road behind the bigger buildings on Mill Place. I see you are still actively editing in the area, wondered if you'd be able to check.

Can you be careful about not editing very large areas in changesets. I'm sure a parcel of farmland in Scotlands is not necessary for humanitarian mapping in Nepal.

Also please use the tag farmland or farmyard, not farm.

Great thanks for replying.

My information, based on March 2014, was that the road was "There are no Cars, only Motorbikes, between Dhikur Pokhari and Manang." and in particular that a bridge was missing between Bhratang and Dhikur Pokhari.

I know the road has been under construction for quite a while.

It would be great if you could check with your friend for more details. Also if they have any photos showing the condition of the road, perhaps they could upload them to Wikimedia Commons.