Did you survey this? Ibis budget was tagged as a motel before, which you changed to a hotel, when I drove past this before it did seem more like a motel, I think it should only be changed if you've surveyed and are sure.

When adding brand tags, it's still a good idea to leave the branch in place as part of the name, or at the very least include it in branch=*.

this was still closed a few days after the light rail opened, so agreed we should check via survey before opening.

I see you added the fee value here, per fee=* I'd recommend using fee=yes (to say that a fee usually applies; the default) combined with fee:conditional=no @ (Tu-Fr 11:00-20:00; Sa-Su 10:00-20:00) to say that during these hours a fee doesn't apply. This is more in line with how conditional restrictions generally work osm.wiki/Conditional_restrictions

hi a tip for way/771066862/history name should only be a proper name see osm.wiki/Good_practice#Don.27t_use_name_tag_to_describe_things

Hi there, just a tip about
way/771086617/history
waterway=canal is for man made features per waterway=canal for natural water courses see waterway=river or waterway=stream waterway=stream

Hi welcome to OSM. Just a tip, this kind of forest track is usually tagged as highway=track highway=track

It looks like this road no longer exists on the ground per changeset/80342272 where it was removed.

it's still fine to delete it completely if you prefer.

To try and prevent it being re-added you could leave the way in place but delete all the tags and leave a note explaining that it's not there anymore, despite being visible on imagery.

Of course it'

> The copyright of this FB video restricts the redistribution of the video itself. It does NOT prohibit the use of information from within the video. The gathered information, here coordinates, can freely used by anyone.

This is no different that if someone publishes a list of coordinates as data. OpenStreetMap takes a clear cut view and assumes if someone creates that and it's copyrighted then we should respect that and not test the limits of copyright law.

This is also backed up where the OpenStreetMap Licensing Working Group has indicated you need a compatible license or imagery tracing waiver to trace aerial imagery.

It does look like a formed track as far as I can tell from the video, maybe not maintained well, but still good enough for the truck to use so I wouldn't say abandoned. I still think it should be mapped, just not copied from a copyrighted source where we don't have permission.

I would use highway=track as you say it's wide enough for a vehicle so not a path.

Okay I couldn't see how you would know this, but I can see that now. I've reinstated the canoe and added sailing tag.

Per approach 1 which seems to be the widespread usage in Australia says landuse=forest only for land managed for forestry ie. where trees are grown, then cut down for wood, then grown, etc.

We should reserve it for use where we know it's for forestry.

What I'd suggest is come post on the talk-au mailing list so we can discuss the best approach to map and tag things first.

That helps prevent you getting frustrated with us that we're reverting your hard work, and prevents us getting frustrated with you for mapping things we're not sure about your source of information, what you're exactly trying to map and the exact tags to use.

I think brownfield can make sense if the land has been cleared and will soon be developed on, but only in cases where we know it's scheduled for development and not an arbitrary christian cross drawn on the map.

Thanks for helping map out razed etc buildings affected by the recent bushfires

way/764280866#map=18/-36.37302/149.95925 we typically in Australia use Approach 1
osm.wiki/Forest#Approach_1 ie. landuse=forest is for forestry for timber production, natural=wood is for areas covered by trees (bushland).

way/762643766 how do you know it's used for canoe sports?

Looking at the video it does look like a fire trail since there are no trees growing where it's driving. But regardless I would still have deleted this since it's from a copyrighted source.

Where you changed the fire station from an area to a point, I'll revert that too. Where we have enough information to indicate the extent of the fire station it is mapped as an area. Mapping as a point is only used where we don't yet know or too lazy to map out the area.

Without my DWG hat on, I took another look and have deleted (again) the landuse=brownfield ways since, this is not the correct tag (that for an area cleared which will be developed, which is not the case here), and mapping burt areas is discouraged at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2020-January/013527.html.

Mapping raised buildings is good, as it can be clearly surveyed and mapped.