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75412694 about 6 years ago

As @goedegazelle points out license plate is American English & in OSM we use British English, which is licence. There are different words which the Americans choose to spell in the same way. I suspect these may be better mapped as plain car_parts with an appropriate subtag (product perhaps), unless they are really common (100s of examples in DE for instance).

73450839 about 6 years ago

Hmm, by changing Slab Square from highway=pedestrian to place=square you made it non-routable & changed the way it rendered. These are not synonyms of each other. I'm also not convinced that internet=wlan is a better tag than wifi=yes (not everything iD recommends is right).

74225298 over 6 years ago

Pretty sure the Domingo Pub is at #4 not #1. Checked as I passed because Maps.Me still had the Pizza place. Will double check in morning

74341178 over 6 years ago

HI Alison,

Ah that's why you're doing buildings.

Addresses are just generally useful for all consumers of OSM data (especially SatNavs & other routing apps), but can be hard work to collect for bigger places (I think we're about half way there in Nottingham, but 100% in Beeston, Stapleford area). I wouldn't want to distract you too much, but any which can be added easily (e.g. along a main road or first houses on streets off) often allow others to be deduced. However, Jacksdale looks like a reasonable sized area to cover quite quickly.

I added a very small number on Portland Road in Selston a couple of years back.

If you ever want to know more do have a regular meeting once a month on a Tuesday evening either in Nottingham or Derby (venue this month is notionally Nottingham, but may change to Sheffield).

74341178 over 6 years ago

Been meaning to thank you for tidying up my solar power mapping. I'm using multiple imagery layers & it's often too time-consuming to work out which layer is best aligned if the houses haven't already been mapped.

I don't know if you are in a position to add any addresses, but these would be very useful.

Regards,

Jerry (aka SK53)

73040631 over 6 years ago

Thanks

72953558 over 6 years ago

Fishmore is certainly not a town in this area. At a pinch it might be a neighbourhood. As I understand it there used to be a Fishmore Farm https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/932956. As it causes issues for people living in the area (https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues/1486) I will remove the node pending clarification of a) its existence and b) its status.

19667570 over 6 years ago

Just what it says, a more general tag than churchyard (works for monasteries, non-Christian religions etc). Tthe widely used tag, particularly in Poland I believe, is just landuse=religious, but I think that misses a bit of context, e.g., when it's a monastery which is also a school. The tag was experimental & landuse=religious is established & rendered, so you can lose it at the same time as deleting park which is wrong. This is just lawns around a slightly odd modern church.

71238687 over 6 years ago

I'd say Campbeltown Loch is not part of the firth, as per the larger sea lochs (Loch Long, Gare Loch etc). It's pretty well defined as from the light on Island Davaar to the point opposite. The actual bounds of the Firth seem reasonable (I'd always include Ailsa Craig), although Sanda may be a bit far out. Also the seas to N & W of Arran may not be properly part of the Firth of Clyde (see https://maps.nls.uk/view/142841715): Kilbrennan Sound is certainly a distinct named seaway.

73457349 over 6 years ago

It's usually a good idea to leave the outline of demolished things (change key to demolished:building, for instance). It helps avoid people putting them back from old imagery :-)

73245047 over 6 years ago

Should be Carn Mill, St Helens

71901106 over 6 years ago

Amazingly I visited Newhouse Farm (& NNR)last Wednesday. I think only the fields in the NNR can be truly classified as meadows, most of the rest are rough pasture (e.g., Cow Gill Field. The NT ecologist referred to one field as Big Field, so not quite sure how well traditional names have stayed in use: might be useful to talk to them directly.

Jerry

64006400 over 6 years ago

Please don't do this sort of thing. OSM is actually used by real people to do real things. It may look cute to add things like these, but it may affect people using the data & wastes the time of people like me.

71776219 over 6 years ago

Fixed changeset/71811740

71776219 over 6 years ago

Thanks, was hoping by now iD would autocomplete this one, but have to type the whole damn thing

71569978 over 6 years ago

It may be worth finding a way to add a note on the actual way about the closure too. I know when Jesus Lock Bridge was closed there was some discussion about whether conditional tagging might work for closures, but I suspect things haven't moved on since.

71574053 over 6 years ago

No problems: in the dim & distant past the editor did upload the changes, but if one made a mistake it could be awkward: especially as the maps only updated once a week. So we don't do that now!

You might want to change the road from construction to residential or service too!

71574053 over 6 years ago

Hi & welcome to OSM,

You deleted an area of construction near Market Harborough as well as adding buildings in Senegal. I just wondered if the former action was inadvertent. If it was I'll put it back.

Yours,

Jerry aka SK53

70812123 over 6 years ago

Probably a sensible thing is to check actual UK usage of a tag (e.g., heathcare: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/healthcare). The basic problem with healthcare is that it never gained traction (similarly with education) and has never really been tested in real-life (e.g., by a ward-by-ward mapping of a large hospital). I see no harm in adding the tags *providing* you are editing it for other reasons (something I'll do with brand:wiki* tags).

The overall problem with doing updates to POIs when mapping remotely is that it can give other mappers a false perspective that an area has recently been checked by someone. This is particularly true if one is in the field with Vespucci as it highlights POIs un-touched for a certain time (typically a year). It's probably not so critical in Nottingham because when re-surveying I usually like to check each POI, but I certainly pay *more* attention to those outline in pink.

It is also true that an obviously out-of-date area conveys information to someone using OSM data (e.g., a Lloyds-TSB is probably a good sign not to trust information on local pubs). This is why the current "Ghosts" listing encourages people to go & visit places because it is likely that far more things need updating.

Jerry

70812123 over 6 years ago

Please try & keep changes made with maproulette to what is in the description, or expand the changeset comment so that it is explanatory (e.g, adding brand tags using iD presets). It's difficult to assess exactly what you've changed with such a sparse and inaccurate comment.

Additionally you have changed leisure=youth_club to club=yes which removes information. Please do not follow iD's preset suggestions without thought, particularly in an area with active mappers who may well disagree with decisions taken by the authors of iD (who have recently removed some of their more controversial validations: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/2267)

Additionally mass updates like this make it rather harder to find real changes when doing ground surveys. I use Vespucci which highlights objects not edited for a while. This type of edit means that it looks as though someone has recently checked things, when in fact it's a someone not in the area. For instance you edited HSBC, but actually the name changed to HSBC UK months ago, and I may have missed this if I had not been explicitly looking for it.

By all means do some other changes, but preferably in separate changesets from the Maproulette challenge. This is particularly useful in cases where local mapping convention might be at odds with what iD sees as the convention. (None particularly in this case, most changes genuinely seem to be from less-well used to more widely used tags: artwork to artwork_type, barrier=entrance to entrance=yes etc, but there are certainly others).

I'd also avoid adding healthcare tags on doctors & dentists etc. These are not widely used by consuming apps & add noise to local changes).

Jerry