Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

Can you please explain what your source for your additions is? I'm sure that the names that you have added are not visible on Bing aerial imagery.

Best Regards,
Andy

Привет и добро пожаловать в OpenStreetMap!

Не могли бы вы объяснить, какой у вас источник для ваших дополнений? Я уверен, что добавленные вами имена не видны на аэрофотоснимках Bing.

С уважением,
Энди

Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

Can you please explain what your source for your additions is? I'm sure that the names that you have added are not visible on Bing aerial imagery.

Best Regards,
Andy

Hello SofiiaS and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

Can you please explain what your source for your additions is? I'm sure that the names that you have added are not visible on Bing aerial imagery.

Best Regards,
Andy

Hello s_koltsov and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

Can you please explain what your source for your additions is? I'm sure that the names that you have added are not visible on Bing aerial imagery.

Best Regards,
Andy

A bit of looking around suggests that this was actually a bit of a comedy tourist attraction somewhat like https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g190804-d12865329-Reviews-Bude_Tunnel-Bude_Bude_Stratton_Cornwall_England.html , but as the pipe is visible on Bing imagery, I've added it as way/998609057 . The only benefit of looking at Google for this is the reviews. :)

> We are aware that there are country-specific tagging differences and have also read through the TALK GB Forum. From what we’ve seen so far, it seems to be unclear how highway=paths are treated in regards to cycling

I've just read through https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2021-September/thread.html#27807 and don't see particularly unclear there (although to be fair the questions that you want answers to weren't directly asked).

Rather than us guessing your questions, perhaps it's better if you ask them directly on talk-gb?

Default access rules in Scotland are different to those in England and Wales; for Ireland (both the North and the Republic) talk-ie is the place to ask.
Best Regards,
(path user in England, Wales, and occasionally Scotland and Ireland, and also DWG member)

Also filled in gap in Staunton Way (1165357) and Monarch's Way (20611), the latter on the basis that Charles was in a bit of a hurry at the time and wouldn't take the scenic route around town that the other LDPs take here. Local signage in Rowlands Castle would help clarify this.

Hello - I've nudged way/737501129/history north here, as it was previously offset.
Best Regards,
Andy

> No, this is not a canal. This is a route of a river.

Like many other things in OSM the answer is "it depends". I'm not familiar with this area, but can think of plenty of examples closer to home where a river and a canal share the same waterway - in some cases it's best described as a river, in some cases as a canal - it depends completely on the local situation.

Hello Eng Lyrad,

You've again added a number of "viewpoints" to OSM, but node/9150397017 here looks very much like a personal bookmark.

When you edit OpenStreetMap you're editing a map that everyone can see, not just your personal copy. Please do continue editing, but please do only add things that are verifiable on the ground. If you want to add a personal bookmark to MAPS.ME you can - just select the thing that you want to bookmark and select "menu" and then "bookmark".

Best Regards,
Andy

OK, done that. One more question -
relation/3179175#map=16/54.5755/-1.2015 is part of "European walking route E2" - do you know how people get across, over or under the A66 between the two bits of that relation?
Best Regards,
Andy

Hi John,
I'll update the route accordingly.
We can''t use Google Street View as a source for OSM, but your local knowledge is fine.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
As can be seen from http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=248436981 this city has had the name tag changed several times in the last few months. It'd be really helpful to understand the reasons behind this change.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
As can be seen from http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=248436981 this city has had the name tag changed several times in the last few months. It'd be really helpful to understand the reasons behind this change.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
As can be seen from http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=248436981 this city has had the name tag changed several times in the last few months. It'd be really helpful to understand the reasons behind this change.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
As can be seen from http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=248436981 this city has had the name tag changed several times in the last few months. It'd be really helpful to understand the reasons behind this change.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello - a quick question about the Teesdale Way, one part of which is in relation/957011#map=16/54.5765/-1.2040 and another part of which is in relation/4097745#map=16/54.5764/-1.2099 .
You've extended the footpath further to the west towards the Riverside - do you know if the Teesdale Way now gos along here too, or does it still go north of the railway past the stadium?
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello DaveF,
You've changed natural=sand to surface=sand on way/996018658/history here. In leisure=golf_course it actually says "Recommended to also tag with surface=sand or natural=sand", so I don't understand on what basis you are making the "sand" changes here?
As you've suggested at changeset/112997540 a more general discussion of this tagging makes sense; perhaps talk-gb would be a good place to start since these changes of yours have been restricted to GB.
Best Regards,
Andy

(in addition)

> Why did you not read that?

For the avoidance of doubt, I have read that - in fact I remember the tagging and rendering discussions prior to the "surface=sand" change, numerous other "should the wiki lead tagging or merely reflect it" discussions, and the discussions about how editors such as iD show what tags are in use, and the specific iD issue that you opened https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/8748 , with all the comments there, (and numerous other similar ones around "should iD lead tagging common practice or follow it"). To summarise, I have read it.

More generally, making comments like this (and numerous others visible at http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=115894 and elsewhere) is completely out of order.

Please read https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Etiquette (and osm.wiki/Talk:Etiquette#History_of_the_Etiquette_Page ). It's been OSMF policy since 2011.

Your comments here and elsewhere fall quite a way short of what is expected of all of us in things like "Assume good faith". This has a couple of effects - one is that people won't want to ask your opinion or advice, or discuss things with you, because (to quote one person) any discussion was "probably going to be a waste of my time" because you are (to quote another) "gratuitously rude". The other effect is that people will be reluctant to support you even when you're correct in your analysis of how things are normally done in OSM.

Please do try and remember that the people that you're discussing things with are actually people, and that their goal (improving OSM) is the same as yours. It's in everyone's interest, including yours, to discuss things calmly and to listen to other people's point of view especially when, as here, both views have some validity.

Best Regards,
Andy Townsend, from OSM's Data Working Group.