Bro, chill.
The whole point of assigning place tags relative to population centers is to help software decide how big to make the labels on the map.

Nobody here is trying to oppress the cultures of Colonie, Ballston Spa, or Latham.

@emersonveenstra That section of the wiki was just added 2 months ago by a single user who didn't discuss it with anyone. Please check the history of the page before considering anything on the wiki as "valid" or not.

Hello popball - I added the `crossing=marked` preset to iD, and I can tell you that it is intended to be used in any situation where there is paint or marking on the ground. The `crossing=traffic_signals` tag is disregarded by data consumers because had been used inconsistently in the past, this is why iD did not encourage its use. The wiki is not correct.

From 2015-2019 the wiki literally said "Please use leisure=dance + dance:teaching=yes instead."

Maybe the wiki is the thing that needs more "careful curation".

@jmapb - the "multiple ways to tag a dance school" thing has been a long standing issue with the wiki.

You can read more about the deprecation here:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/6251

iD is an open source project and anybody can drop by and suggest changes and make pull requests. In this situation the pull request came from @westnordost, not us.

Accusing the iD dev team of having "peculiar preferences" or "pressuring well-meaning mappers" is not nice and not true.

You can always look at the iD or id-tagging-schema projects on GitHub to find out why tag were marked as deprecated. It's almost always because the wiki at the time said to do it, then someone external to the project requested it and we said "sure".

Good catch @jleedev - in the NSI project we should scope these to PA only, now that we have the ability to do so.

pkoby, can you provide some more info about how "Long & Foster" is "locally" named "Long & Foster Realtors". I couldn't find any information about it. Name Suggestion Index does allow communities to use locally unique names, but it's mostly used for things like making a brand French in Quebec. I am doubtful that Baltimore uses a special naming convention for this real estate brand, and it really sounds more like you are nitpicking over a small name detail that doesn't matter much. Calling my project "faulty" is a bit of a stretch - but if it really is wrong, please open an issue and we will fix it post-haste:
https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/issues

May I ask what you're up to? The hashtags on your changeset don't match HOT task 3319, which is about mapping buildings in Tanzania. Did something weird happened when you saved your work? Thanks!

I think reverting the changeset because you found some operator tags on the power poles is a pretty uncool thing to do.

This change was discussed in the Slack #utilities channel here: https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C010V5C214H/p1631048663004200

I perfromed the change by using JOSM and an overpass query to search for the misspelled operator, then adding the correct tags to all the objects. It's a one-off edit, not a bot that runs continuously.

In fact, tagging operator information on all the power poles and supports is encouraged by the wiki, and there is an initiative in the OSM community to do more of this. You can read about those here:
https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/issues/5317
@InfosReseaux/diary/396044

I did not reply previously because when you include words in your changeset discussions like "useless", "garbage", and "bullshit", it really doesn't sound like a serious discussion worth replying to. Anyway, try to be kinder when you talk to people online about their work, thanks.

@jmapb, we have Edible Arrangements marked as a gift shop in the name-suggestion-index here: https://nsi.guide/index.html?t=brands&k=shop&v=gift#ediblearrangements-26efb0

The NSI project collects commonly tagged things from the OSM planet, and Edible Arrangements has been tagged as a gift shop over 200 times, that's NSI has it tagged that way.

I think gift shop is a good-enough tag for it, but it is an unusual brand.

@atomwaffen, if you have an actual issue with the iD validator please say what it is, so that we can correct it.

Thanks @interestingaftermath - your changes look excellent! Welcome! 👋

Agree with MikeN that either way of doing parking lots is acceptable, however consider that each polygon will probably be rendered with a "P" in the center, so I try to just join them together and not make too many of them.

Re: Harris Teeter, I personally prefer mapping all businesses as points and all building footprints as areas. I know a lot of people would say to merge the point with the building, but I prefer leaving them as separate features, in case the business closes down or moves, and it also gives you more control of where the point appears on the map. Like MikeN said if there are multiple businesses sharing a building, you need to map them as points anyway, so that may as well be the way to do it always.

Hey MikeN and mechrock - thanks for adding all these parking details to the map.

As a rule of thumb, we often recommend using the `highway=service` roads to create a "skeleton" throughout the parking lot - the roads entering/exiting and main roads (e.g. where a truck may go), and using `highway=service+service=parking` roads for the aisles which really are just for parking (e.g. where a truck should not go).

I'm going to make a few edits to this lot to demonstrate what I mean.. Sorry for the nitpicking - I really do appreciate your work.. Keep it up! ✌️

Thanks for this edit, and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

Picking "destination" in the access dropdown should do what you want. It means that people may use that road for local traffic or if they have a good reason (e.g. to deliver something)..

For more info see the descriptions of the access values here: access=*

skquinn, please be nice. It was one of the user's first edits, and they even added a `fixme` tag because they didn't know what tag to use.

Also - it was 2 years ago. Just fix it if it bothers you. If it hasn't been fixed by now, maybe nobody cares.

Hi Richard Pates, welcome to OSM and thanks for your contribution!

We aren't allowed to use Google Streetview as a reference for editing OpenStreetMap.. However this area does have a Bing Streetview image that shows the stop sign, and we *are* allowed to use that. In the editor, you can press "F" to open the data panel which shows different map data that you are allowed to use, including Bing and a few others.

Thanks!

freebeer, the issue about the duplicate nodes is https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6327

freebeer - they are using an internal fork of the iD editor. The publicly available iD editor does flag overlapping and disconnected ways, and will add changeset tags to say whether the user has ignored the warnings. Please keep your thoughts about what editors people should use to yourself.