If I have read this correctly vote 8 members are associate members and still have to become normal members in advance under vote 3.

Keep up the good work. Keeping existing mapping up to date and in good shape is a valuable part of OSM.

Every so often a community takes massive exception to what an online service does, in the last few months this has happened at Wikipedia (English), Stack Exchange, Blizzard and Gitlab. Often there has been a history of complants that wells up until the community hits breaking point.

You missed this one.

What time of day do they contribute? We may be able to guess their timezone that way.

The Slack page linked from the wiki isn’t publicly readable. Do you distinguish between permanent and temporary moves or whether HSTS is set?

Why collective narcissists are so politically volatile

One way we can crosscheck who is doing this would be to compare the days of edits with local holidays.

You need to think very long and very carefully whether undiscussed mass edits help your cause. Perhaps you need to think whether you really want to be editing OSM at all right now.

@Rovastar I have very occasionally heard of that happening but even then the best that can be expected of the G-word apart from Haiti is that the contributor is confused about recording provenance and has to be asked to confirm that the mapping comes from a clean source, possibly using a changdset comment.

Of course it is often a good idea to contact the mapper anyway to set them on the right route.

Kivu is an ongoing project with Missing Maps. The disappearance of castles in London is a followup to https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15845.html

Is the Q&A an example of the sort of event we could organise round the OSM UK meeting in Manchester this May?

Could you explain the reasons for using Wikidata and not a solution inside OSM?

To delete a street from the map that doesn’t exist you can log in to OSM on a desktop and select the Edit tab on the top. If there is nothing at all there you can select the wrong road, right-click and and choose delete (bin). If there’s a road or path you can’t use you can select the road and change the mapping or the access. If you select too much you can divide the road with the split way (scissors) command.

My local area is several months out of date even if I download manually. What should I be doing?

Would you go as far as creating a separate landuse polygon for each block?

There is a mailing list discussion about using the name tag for descritions of route relations.

Is there ever a good reason to have multiple spaces, or is that something we should disallow?

There are all sorts of weirdness in road numbering. Just today I encountered a road where the odd numbers go from south to north but the even numbers on the other side go from north to south.

The high number of node modifications in 2009 would have been the script to remove tags from imported nodes, osm.wiki/TIGER_fixup/node_tags