I'm not sure this is a particularly good idea. This was done in the Highlands and it turned out that many of the local highway classifications were based on physical properties rather than the functional view which is used on OSM. The highway authority might be useful to highlight potential discrepancies, but its best to crosscheck against other points to cross-check are OOC OS maps where the classification is usually similar to that typically used by OSM.

Also highway authority maps/data may not be a truly usable source. I think some have given explicit permission for use of lists of streets by OSM. The maps will always have some issues with OSGB copyright.

Looks like Shopping City (aka The Mall) could do with adding too. You can do the same thing; cut up the retail area and have a specific bit of retail area for the shopping centre. For some odd reason the tag for shopping centres is shop=mall.

Local knowledge is what OSM is built on and both makes OSM different & more useful.

Congratulations! Not many folk get to add a significant place in London on OSM these days. Fancy Wood Green having been missing for all this time (at least since 2012). I meant to add it, having checked earlier, but you beat me too it.

It's a judgement call, but some of the place=suburb nodes around here may be more suitable as place=neighbourhood (e.g., Noel Park which I'd say was IN Wood Green (but my local knowledge is somewhat outdated, I moved from Palmers Green in 1982 :-)).

Also Noel Park had precisely defined boundaries so could be mapped as landuse=residential with name & one of place=suburb or place=neighbourhood.

Best wishes,

SK53

Yes, of course name & location are most important. Glad OSM is of use in this case.

Most of us are townies, and not much given to wielding chainsaws either, so we are aware that, in general, we could do with better guidance for businesses oriented to rural areas. Not particularly a huge deal in UK, but massive in a lot of the US, & of course Russia.

Many thanks for adding your business to OpenStreetMap. Pleased to say everything looks hunky dory. The one thing which could do with being added is a shop tag: I'm just asking around if people have mapped similar businesses to see if we already have something suitable in use. Given your website description perhaps shop=power_tools (unfortunately the description is only in russian osm.wiki/RU%3ATag%3Ashop%3Dpower_tools and might not truly reflect chain saws etc).

I'm not sure if you meant to add a path tag to the coastline section passing through East Pier etc. This doesnt look quite right to me.

Can I ask participants in ICT4Society to please add meaningful changeset descirptions? By all means add the hashtag, but this on its own is no earthly use for other contributors. A short description such as "adding details of wheelchair accessibility" (which is what I think you are doing) is much more generally useful.

You can make sure things are properly tagged to make them easy to find en masse. For instance cycle_network=National Cycle Network, network=ncn and operator=Sustrans might be appropriate for NCN routes, but do check current usage. Normally I would use overpass-turbo to find the set.

The relation of NCN Cycleways has every appearance of a category. Not only is this unnecessary (Sustrans routes can readily be retrieved by other means), but generally they are heavily frowned on in OSM, see osm.wiki/Relations/Relations_are_not_Categories. I wonder why you think this one is necesary?

I'm reverting this edit because it is clearly based on erroneous premises. Spar is a brand of convenience store.

We don't generally give motorways names: these are usually terms which were used to describe the motorway when it was built. These names are not signed, nor in widespread use. Adding such names can interfere with routing applications which use such information for spoken directions. Changing motorway_link to motorway can also have unwanted effects on routing information (for instance routers can no longer identify that the road is a slip road). There is a substantial backlog of discussions about these issues going back over 9 years. The names on the motorways were not lacking we (that is the GB mapping community on the talk-gb list) have at various times discussed this and decided that the name tag is not the appropriate place for such information on OSM. Furthermore if there are no signs showing the highway code then in general we dont show it. You can use admin_ref or official_ref for such things. The reason is that we follow an 'on-the-ground rule : another mapper should be able to go to the location and say "Oh, yes this is the A1058(M) because that's what the signs say".

Oh dear, JOSM overwrote my carefully crated changeset comment.

This changeset actually removed "name=Fermanagh / Tyrone" from individual boundary ways. The use of the name tag was erroneous, and the information is anyway contained in the relations. For safeties sake the information has been moved to a note tag.

The data occurred through a series of missteps prior to complete townland mapping which is why it involves such a large number of ways. Edited via my bulk account because this is a semi-automated edit: i.e., I have not reviewed every way. The only tag which is affected in name, and as name was already occupied there can be no damage done to things like names of roads, rivers and streams.

You seemed to have missed tourism=museum off the Griot

I dont thnk this is technically correct. Local Nature Reserves are an official designation by the local authority. The site is not administered by SWT so they cannot designate it a nature reserve. It obviously has conservation value, and appears to be managed as such by the council & the EA (see http://www.haverhill-uk.com/directory/pages/2029_West_Town_Park.htm). However, that site clearly says it is known locally as either a park or a 'res': I would suggest that park is probably more accurate as I see no evidence of it having specific protections as a nature reserve: clearly stated on the SWT website. It also appears to have a primary function as a flood mitigation area which probably ought to be reflected in the tagging.

Hi & welcome to OSM,

Something has gone a little wrong with your first edit: the information about the memorial garden is on a point rather than the area you have drawn. I imagine you accidentally selected the point (node in OSM speak) before you had finished adding the details of the garden.

BTW you can also add historic=memorial, either to the garden, or if there is a memorial directly as a separate object. Also if it is a war memorial memorial=war_memorial.

HTH,

SK53

Yes, rather obviously!

Two things: UK postal addresses do not contain county names anymore, they are entirely based on postal town & post code. So Hayes, Middlesex and Hayes, Kent are no longer used to disambiguate places in postal addresses as defined by Royal Mail. Second, this is adding abbreviations which is not the normal OSM convention (as pointed out above). Most of these entitites will have an appropriate code (such as those of ONS, ISO & the NUTS codes of the EU) which can be used as a look-up external to OSM

Hi, Welcome to OSM.

I noticed that you added Vegan_options to the cuisine tag for a restaurant in this edit. As the diet:vegan=yes tag was already present this added no new information, but now many people will no longer be able to find this place as a vegan mexican restaurant. I dont think that is your objective.

Yours,

SK53

Many thanks for that.

The post-processing step is what all road routing engines do. See the recent email from Frederik Ramm on talk-gb.

It's also unlikely that you can guarantee that any additional data added will be in a topologically convenient form, or that editors will leave your split streams as is. In other words it's always best to plan for data which is not always in the most convenient format when consuming OSM data. Do drop me an email I'm interested in exploring the options.

We probably ought to find a way to continue discussion elsewhere as this could be long-winded, I've long had trying OSM for hydrography models on my todo list (see http://sk53-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/floods-of-transient-data.html). The best way is to publish post-processing tools/code as open source so that anyone can do it. It's also possible to create a versioned curated extract; something I do for a couple of data sets on github (e.g., https://github.com/SK53/ua2 which is relatively complex post-processing & https://github.com/SK53/Irish-Vice-Counties which isn't at all, but versioning and consistency are needed). You can contact me by email on SK53 dot osm at gmail dot com.