Finally found some basis for changes http://www.dursleyglos.org.uk/html/dursley/news/jul_2018/long_street_clearance_9jul2018.htm

Ah, you beat me to it. I hadn't uploaded my changes because I think the edits to Chestal, Victoria Close & Long Street look odd (Chestal has been diverted from a line of buildings where the stream runs

Yeah, wanted to avoid amenity=gym; I guess it's leisure=fitness_centre, sport=fitness

Cant see any reason to keep them; or even how they got created in the first place.

Hi Estelle,

Great to hear it. Your bit of Rutland certainly looks as if there's plenty more to add. As you say every little bit helps, for walking I think field boundaries (hedges, walls etc) are probably most useful & you get to see the detail appear on the map.

Many of us find exploring paths to add data to OSM a great way to get to know a bit of countryside. I've written a few blog posts about it which may give more of a feel of what others are up to: http://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/search/label/footpaths. Also this talk by dudone provides a good overview of his approach in the Peak District.

If I you have a specific query or want more advice either send me a private message through the OSM site or email at SK53 dot osm at gmail dot com.

Cheers,

Jerry

Welcome and many thanks for contributing to OpenStreetMap (OSM).

As I presume this is an area I know, I'd just like to check my assumption that this is a public bridleway. It's not marked as such on OSM, but the original contributor is a very active member of The Ramblers, so its usually a safe bet. However we can actually make that information explicit with additional tags (designation=public_bridleway) so I thought I'd just take the opportunity of your edit to ask.

BTW this map distinguishes between paths/trails/tracks marked as rights of way and other paths https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=14&lat=52.74037&lon=-0.69545. If you look near Scalford N of Melton you can see just how much information can be added.

Best wishes,

Jerry (aka SK53)

Hi Dudley, You mapped this area as a school way/331977095, but I'm pretty sure its the village hall (and mapped it as such because I used iD & didn't notice the school polygon). FHRS do have a playgroup based there. Cheers,
Jerry

Sorry didn't change changeset: this was adding skiing & pitch to Plas y Brennin ski slope

In general we cant use firms websites to add stuff to OSM, UNLESS they have given us permission. A number of firms have done this.

There are, however, a lot of other useful sources of info which can be used. For something like this case what we usually do is add a note saying something like "All shops branded as Bunnings now reverted to Homebase with a link, say, to a press article". This alerts people who live or work locally to check. You may find that there are some notes about which Homebase stores are closing already (e.g., note/1589983). You can use overpass-turbo to find locations (e.g., all Homebase: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Eaa), so that you can often avoid referencing a website.

There are two schools of thought about updating stuff remotely: some think it's a no-brainer, others think that having out-dated information makes it more obvious that an area needs a comprehensive overhaul. If you see a BHS store you immediately know that no-one has checked the area for a while, whereas if only that was updated many other changes would be missed. Probably the community is split 40/60 on this issue.

There's an occasionally updated wikipage on UK Retail chains which tries to collect information about proportion mapped, closures etc. osm.wiki/Retail_chains_in_the_United_Kingdom.

In principle we could also alter data as a post-processing step, so that the map data would remain until re-surveyed but the for making a map we could, for instance mark chains which have closed as XYZ (closed). However no-one has done this yet.

HTH in terms of scratching a shop mapping itch.

Noted a prominent Toys R Us store from the train over the weekend. Someone not knowing the chain was in administration would look for this as a prominent marker.

Hi, You requested a review. I think in your first attempt you accidentally overwrote the information about your town. The second node added with just the office=advertising agency is fine. I apologise that I deleted it when putting back Faridkot as a town. I've now restored it. It should show up shortly as a blue dot, and should also be searchable.
Regards,
Jerry aka SK53

Did you change the direction of this way based on aerial imagery? If so this was an error. The direction of the road was reversed in November 2016 (as the previous changeset said).

Hi & Welcome,

Just wondered if this is "Wyes Waters" or "Wye Waters"? The Food Hygiene list gives the latter name http://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/en-GB/258330/Wye-Waters-Tea-Room-Granby-Road. I will add address info from the this source anyway.

Regards,
Jerry (aka SK53)

In this change you made the roads which are part of the A614/A638 junction S of Bawtry all 70 mph. They dont look like dual carriageways to me, and I would certainly never drive at those speeds on it. Furthermore having higher speeds on a junction seems dangerous. Do you have any rationale for the higher speeds?

Hi,

Welcome to OpenStreetMap, and thanks for updating this data.

I think you inadvertently moved the location to behind Experian on the other side of Clarendon Street.

I'll put it back for you.

Cheers,

Jerry

Hi,

Welcome to OpenStreetMap.

I'm a bit at a loss as to what you intended with these edits. As far as I can see each new feature duplicated something which was already present on OSM (e.g., Lace Market Car Park, Broadmarsh, Coco Tang, Caffe Nero etc.) However, your addition on the former American Apparel shop with "SUBJECT PROPERTY" suggests that you may be wishing to annotate the map for a specific purpose.

If this is the case, the main OSM database is not the place to do it. All the data you added are now live and will show up in searches of the area (so 2 new cafes, a new car, a additional tapas bar etc). They probably will not show up on the main map because the upper case labels will clash with other labels & be removed. (Side note upper case labels are rarely used in OSM)

As I will now remove this data because it duplicates existing information, I have extracted your data and added it as an overlay on umap: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/martife_254379#17/52.95160/-1.14307. I think this is probably close to what you wanted to achieve.

It's a shame your edits were duplicates because you obviously managed to make use of the shapes of buildings etc in a way that shows you understood how the editing worked.

If you have further questions we can continue the conversation here, but it is in public, or you can send me a message via the OSM messaging system.

Yours,

Jerry
SK53

The whole point is that these are mapped as points because there is no clear consensus about their boundaries. Any area will be approximate and not guaranteed to be one that others will arrive at. Such subjective information just doesn't belong in OSM. Just because it is possible to add information to OSM does not imply that it *should* be added.

As I said in my original post, wikipedia or wikidata are potential places to store such values (where they will usually be backed by some reference source).

I know it's quite some time ago, but I wondered if the footway (way/29261170#map=18/53.24775/-4.15419) which you mapped in this changeset is actually a public right of way (public footpath or similar) as indicated by the description? I think since that time we have started using designation=public_footpath to show these, It would be nice to update them if possible.

Please dont do this it is completely unnecessary. OSM stores geographical information: it is trivially easy to calculate the area. Furthermore as OSM gets improved incrementally areas may change, so if you used OSM to calculate the area the value you added might be wrong in the future. If you used some other source such as Wikipedia then you may also be wrong (what is the area of the Aral Sea), but in that case you may be violating the Ts&Cs which you agreed to when signing up.

Lastly fixed sizes for large sea areas are not useful because there will be multiple likely definitions (this is one reason why many of these are mapped as nodes not areas).

Areas should be avaialble on Wikidata. That is a suitable platform for this type of information.

Good spot. No looking at the aerial imagery it probably is not (also comparing with GSGS 4136). I suspect I added the stream tag before I cut the way into pieces. It is certainly a stream where it goes under the R241 and the upper road, as I ground surveyed those locations). I've removed the stream tag.