Sorry for being dense I was looking for a townland in the wrong parish, should be fixed in way/430750207#map=14/52.5556/-8.5299

Ah failed to spot you'd fixed it. No matter have added a few plantations, ringforts & Cistercian Abbey ruins.

Gosh, this goes back to the dim & distant past when the boundaries of Co. Limerick were lines drawn around GNIS import nodes. Will have a quick look, but may not have any memory of what I did before.

Yes, presumably iD added the source_ref when I tried to add source=survey. Fixed

I havent corrected them all because I was unable to run josm on my old laptop, but have just done so now: changeset/84932590

Great, obviously very iffy Wikipedia links could do with sorting too, but that's out of scope

Yes I know perfectly well & I didn't link to the Cebuano junk. Wikipedia links are vastly more useful to actual OSM editors than wikidata ones (the information is more useful, its one click away not multiple clicks away) and wikidata concepts have a nasty habit of not corresponding to OSM ones and are not necessarily easy to validate.

Actually a more reasonable admin entry on Wikipedia is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Anglesey_County_Council. Far more useful than one in Cebuano. I suspect the wikidata entries may need a check.

Presumably this note refers to this changeset note/2179014#map=17/51.26759/-1.08024

Hi Riseleywalk,

Very good to hear about the usage, and pleased of your initiative. There are lots of keen walkers and hikers in the UK OSM Community, so do feel free to tap into our knowledge if you want any advice.

You may also be interested in a map created by one of us for his own personal use which focuses on things walkers want to see. The same area is here https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=14&lat=52.25079&lon=-0.47637.

One thing I note is that public rights of way are not marked explicitly. You can use the additional designation tag (you probably have to scroll down to the all tags section of the editor and add it there) which allows to mark a section of path, track or road with the appropriate type of PRoW. This allows (say) for a footpath which starts down a driveway, carries on as a farm track and finally turns into a field track to show all these things. Also we find mapping gates, kissing gates, stiles etc greatly enhances the type of info. Here's another section of SomeoneElse's map https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=15&lat=52.9292&lon=-1.61208 which several of us have worked on as described here: https://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2019/12/2019-new-year-footpath-mapping-lees.html.

Best of luck,

Jerry aka SK53

Reference for anyone (like me) wondering what happened to the cable car http://www.seilbahn-nostalgie.ch/cassons.html

I very much like slightly paved, I immediately have a good feel for it. Its then a matter of judgement whether to go for paved or unpaved.

You will have selected footway in the top panel of the editor. It does the rest setting a load of tag values, but not every value makes sense as a default in the UK. The actual tags that make up this meaning appear lower down. The idea is that a lot of detail is hidden, but that it can be refined.

Street furniture (litter bins, post boxes, benches, grit bins etc) always welcome. I've been slightly surprised by how much I've ended up using such ephemera over the years.

Hi,
Welcome to OpenStreetMap.

Many thanks for adding this path. I've lightly tweaked it by removing some of the access tags which aren't needed. I wondered it the surface=unpaved is what you intended. Most of these little cut-throughs I know in Maidenhead are asphalted (e.g., the one from Grenfell Way under the railway), in which case surface=paved or surface=asphalt would be better.

For some reason this does not appear on the definitive map as a right of way, although it is shown as a adopted highway.

On a personal note I discovered quite a few of these getting on for 11 years ago in my early OSM days.

Regards,

Jerry aka SK53

Thanks Dan, have fixed some. Jerry

Even if it's for a discrepancy try & avoid it, or make a point of replacing sneaking a peek at Gmaps with a visit to the area. If you do do it, its best to be discrete :-)

(and yes I know this is a way out of town & unlikely anyone can get there now)

Please don't look at Google Maps/Imagery when doing this sort of thing. It is against the terms & conditions of both Google & OpenStreetMap. I know it's tempting but there's a risk that all the change may need to be deleted.

SK53

Hi Andreas,
If there are 10-11 houses, I'd probably go with hamlet rather than isolated dwelling. The latter is, in practice, a very rarely used tag in the UK. Where it has been used (by one mapper) they nearly all should be addr:housename. There are possibly a few places in Scotland where isolated_dwelling is appropriate, but there is often a better locality usage (e.g., Ballygrogan).

Jerry

Hi Bernard,
Yes Ruislip Woods (as you describe) is a National Nature Reserve, so can be added as a leisure=nature_reserve. See MAGIC (there is an open data set for NNR): https://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?chosenLayers=nnrIndex,backdropDIndex,backdropIndex,europeIndex,vmlBWIndex,25kBWIndex,50kBWIndex,250kBWIndex,miniscaleBWIndex,baseIndex&box=504338:187878:511071:191141&useDefaultbackgroundMapping=false.

My Aunt used to live very close to the woods.

Jerry

This power line seems to have been removed way/166408008, see note/2071675#map=17/50.54706/2.82357

Can you avoid this type of update, the local convention, in use since 2011 is old_. Thanks.