Hello,

There is an elegant solution to this situation, i.e. joining the two parts within a type=building relation. This will also improve rendering for 3D modelling, I know some people care about that too.

Normally, you should see the building rendered as much larger now, while we keep the basic shape on the ground.

Hello,

I don’t know if we should warn the user but in every edit so far they wrote "Nederlands" as name:en. They probably mistake the box to add a translation… with the name of the language they want to add. This triggers funny results in Nominatim.

node/9862206617/history

Hello,

After your two edits here, some tracks have a gauge of 184.15 mm and some are unchanged at 184.

I guess it should be the same value everywhere. Can I suggest you edit it again and put the correct value on all the different parts.

Thanks for replying.

In a nutshell, most problems were caused by the change of highway type.

In OSM, every road or path is called a "highway" and belongs to one main type: trunk, primary, residential, footway, cycleway, path, service, and much more.

The highway type will be used to show them in a different colour and width on the map. But it is also used for routing (navigation).

Each type has its own access tags, for instance a motorway is exclusively for cars and motorcycles, a footway is exclusively for pedestrians, and more. But in addition to that, we add the so-called "access tags" to allow or disallow other modes of transport, based on the local situation. For instance, if a footway is shared with cyclists, we add "bicycle=yes" so that navigation engines will know they can use it. If a residential road does not allow motor vehicles, we can restrict them, e.g. motor_vehicle=no.
In some situations, people start with a generic type, such as highway=service, then start from "access=no" (this will set all access permissions to zero) and add "foot=yes, bicycle=yes" and more.

The problem caused here is that you changed the highway type on a few paths and didn’t see there were several access tags already set on them. Mixing the new highway type and the old access tags caused the issue, and we got complaints from people about strange results with OSM navigation through that park. Don’t worry, we fixed the issue.

Happy mapping.

Hello,

This looks like armchair mapping, i.e. you mapped without local knowledge of the places you changed.

If you want to do that, please do it right: you changed several paths in my city into highway=footway—which is okay—but failed to change other tags on those ways, resulting in a lot of garbage with permissions and more.

Can I please suggest you start with smaller edits, on areas you know well, before massively changing objects carelessly in multiple countries at once.

Happy mapping.

Beste,
Geen uitzondering voor fietsers hier?
Normaal gezien zijn er M2/M4 bordjes in deze straat.

Delhaize Anspach has been on the map since 2013, no need to create a duplicate.

Your change has been reverted.

Hello,

Technically you are right, because as long ar routing is concerned, "oneway=yes" applies to all modes of transport at once.

But there is a reason why we set in on some streets:

(1) We regularly query the database to extract all streets having "oneway=yes" and no additional tag for cyclists. This will typically give all roads where the oneway tag was added by a user who just forgot to think about cyclists, and who unnecessarily broke cycle routing. So we can inspect and fix appropriately. When we have "oneway:bicycle=yes" we can see that the situation was already reviewed by a human and we don’t need to review the same street over and over. That saves a lot of time.

(2) There are some mobile apps such as StreetComplete that people can use when on the field: the app will look for incomplete data around the user and will ask to review about this missing tag. Same problem as (1): if the asks the same question to dozens of people, chances are high that at least one person will incorrectly answer it and put incorrect information into the database.

(3) We normally do this only for roads where there is a reasonable suspicion that it might qualify for a SUL/BEV, i.e. residential roads. Of course, not for motorways, roundabout, boulevards as two parallel ways or other obvious cases. But those roads here are perfect candidates. That’s why we prefer to be on the safe side.

This is a residential suburb.
There is no hospital here.
This looks like a fake edit, please remove this immediately!

Hello,

foot=yes on this one, really?
way/40146518

Hello,

You erased the whole house from the map. Has it been demolished?

way/378284185/history

I think the note (note/3255575) was especially about this road being _private_.

You can do it if you want: open the editor, click on the road and look for the option that says "Allowed access", then you can set it as private. With that, navigation apps will no longer route tourists through it.

Hello,

Thanks for this.

Just one thing: So far, you have created 82 changesets with the same title: "updated information". It makes it particularly hard to review because updating information is what we are all doing on the map all the time.

Do I understand you are importing all the pharmacies, clinics and doctor’s offices in Oostende?

It is a good idea.
As long as you can make sure the data source is reliable (there are just too many lists or professional directories around with lots of outdated data).
And as long as this data is available under licencing terms that allow to be imported here. That is, they do not write anything like "all rights reserved" along with their data.

Where does the data come from?

Have a nice day.

Hello,

I thought you might want to get some feedback on your first edit.

It looks like you have been tracing buildings on aerial imagery. You should use "SPW(allonie) PICC numerical imagery" to draw buildings, otherwise you will corrupt the map by giving them strange shapes. When you are editing the map, you can change the background map (one of the buttons on the right).

For instance, this building (way/1076585334) is probably not one single building. PICC imagery shows it differently.

The building here (way/1076585333) has its official address as "1 Rue du Puits", and you gave it "41 Allée du Bois de Bercuit, unit 3".

There are 3 houses with exactly the same address next to each other, I think this is a mistake: three houses have "41 Allée du Bois de Bercuit", and you filled the "unit" box with 1, 2, 3 for them. Normally, this box is reserved for apartments numbers within a building, it is very strange to have this on separate houses. If that’s really how the municipality numbered them, you might want to use 41-1, 41-2 and 41-3 as the number, instead of that.

There might be some other issues but I don’t want to discourage you with too much information. Hope this might help a little.

Hello,

On the openstreetmap.org website, you can hit the Edit button and select "Edit with iD (in-browser editor)".

For small tasks such as relocating benches or waste baskets, this will be fine.

(The editor selects AIV Flanders by default once it is loaded; you can change the background imagery and select "CIRB/CIBG most recent aerial imagery" instead, to get perfectly calibrated high-res pictures in the whole Brussels Region.)

Hi,

I asked fellow mappers about this. It looks like other people reported the same problem (https://github.com/bryceco/GoMap/issues/32). Sadly, there is very little hope to have it fixed in the short term.

A—possibly cumbersome—option would be to keep uploading objects through the app and later in the day review your work in the online editor, where you can use "CIRB/CIBG most recent aerial imagery".

I am not very knowledgeable about iOS apps. The wiki has a few pages about apps:
osm.wiki/Category:IOS_software
osm.wiki/Comparison_of_iOS_applications

OsmAnd is considered to be very powerful (but is not easy to learn). MAPS.me is considered awful. No idea about other apps.

Hello,

If a shop closes, just remove information about that shop and tag it as vacant.

Erasing the whole area, including all its UrbIS references or the house number is considered vandalism. I restored it.

osm.wiki/Keep_the_history

Thanks.

Closed for (about) how much time?

Hello,

I advice you to undo your latest changes about the geometry of houses.
You seem to be redrawing houses and giving them weird shapes. It looks like you are drawing straight from aerial imagery, which is a very bad idea.

If you want to draw buildings in the online editor, please use the Background Settings button on the right and scroll down to AIV Flanders GRB to see the real outline of buildings.

Hope this helps.

Hello,

Thanks for adding such data, and the pictures are nice and useful.

I changed the tags here; you might be interested to know there is a tag to link to Wikimedia Commons directly.

Hope this helps.

Happy mapping!