Hello,

It would be appreciated if you could write meaningful comments when uploading data into OSM.

In this changeset, you renamed a restaurant and changed the type of cuisine served there. This is a perfectly legitimate change. Next time you do this, please write something like "Restaurant XXX has been taken over by YYY", just anything that describes your edit in a few words and make it easier for other users who are reviewing changes in an area.

This page might be a good start.
osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments

Have a nice day.

Thanks, I updated the tags.

Thanks for this.

In OSM we do not map only for car traffic but for all vehicles, this is important for routing.

So, this is a one-way street but are there additional signs to dispense cyclists from the restriction? And is it only cyclists (M2) or cyclists+classA mopeds (M3)?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for adding a shop, but in the future, please do not add addresses to shops. (Ignore the text boxes in the iD online editor, this is a simple editor and this software does not know about the rules used in every country.)

All addresses in Brussels are already on the map; if you add an address to a point, it does not help us; on the contrary, many systems will fail because of duplicate values… in particular here where you set the address of the wrong building.

Don’t worry, I’ll clean this up.

Have a nice day.

Cool!

Just one tip here: do not link OSM objects to images stored on westnordost.de: this is the server run by StreetComplete devs for pictures taken through their app (which I did), because pictures are automatically deleted 7 days after a note is closed.

I copied the pictures to imgur.com and updated the links. Problem solved.

Thanks but please make sure to write phone numbers in the correct format (+32 2…) instead of 02… Even if the number printed on the show window uses the local format, we strive to make numbers in OSM directly usable.
Happy mapping.

Hello,

I came across your change while reviewing today’s changesets.

It’s not obvious why the access restriction should apply solely to cyclists here (you added cyclists=private), and why only on this way and not the one after the gate too (way/239064123). I would suggest to use access=private on both ways instead of that.

FYI, since this small group of ways is only connected on one side, any restriction here will not affect routing, so we are just discussing minor details for the sake of correctness.

It looks like another maps.me edit containing useless or duplicate POI.

Restaurant Luciano (11414342369, v1) is a duplicate of node/11367975172

Wood house (11414342969, v1) does not seem like a real name, and the user only set name:en and no name

Sway (11414342769, v1) is a duplicate of node/11010605573

Amnia (11414342770, v1) is a duplicate of node/11014712790

…and probably more.

This changeset aims at fixing an old mistake by someone who wrote the name with a hyphen.

The authoritative source for street names in the Brussels Region is and has always been UrbIS. We provide a link to UrbisAdm (it works out of the box in JOSM and iD) or the map can be viewed here: https://datastore.brussels/web/map

The official name for this long road has *no* hyphen.

The official source can only be invalidated if ground truth says otherwise. As you can see here (https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=360650995505294) the street signs indicate no hyphen in the name. So, the official data and street signs say the same thing, and that is why we use this spelling in OSM.

Wikidata is *not* an authoritative source, it is primarily a secondary source… and there are at least two users who are actively copying OSM data to create Wikidata entry. Had you inspected the history of the wikidata article, you would have easily found out it was much older, before this fix.

Rejected.

Duplicate of way/226398632

Plesae do not add shops that are already on the map. Make sure your local copy of Organic Maps uses current data before submitting changes.

OK, thanks. Here is another false positive I’ll try to report to Osmose devs.

Hello,

Thanks for undoing my change and going back to version #1 which I created some time ago… but Osmose keeps flagging this as incorrect, if the relation has only one member. Should we care?

Hello,

Please read the documentation of tags you are adding.
"denomination" takes a limited range of values, the database does not understand ordinary French words; perhaps you meant to add this text as "description".
denomination=*

## invalid tag
denomination=église_désacralisée

What is your question exactly?

The changeset title correctly explains that we refer to the *official* name, and the changeset source links to UrbisAdm, which is the official reference in the Brussels-Capital Region.

Again, the official name does not include the -laan prefix. This is confirmed by multiple sources and we explicitely write this the changeset description, because we want to prevent careless mappers to "fix-the-mistake-and-add-the-missing-word". We have seen this mistake too often.

The wikidata entry is much older than this changeset, it comes from a mapper who copied from the outdated and incorrect former version of OSM data.

Hello,

The OSM database does not understand French, so please no "colour=vert" on objects. We changed it into "colour=green".

Bonjour et bienvenue sur OSM.

Nous avons vérifié la modification, les changements ici sont corrects.

Mais attention : important d’écrire des titres utiles pour les changesets, donc pas écrire « diverses modifications » car ça n’apporte aucune info utile.
osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments

Hello,

We fixed the tags for the Polish shop in Brussels.

The "beach" POI has been removed.

Lidl was already on the map.
node/10968991406

Next time, please update changes separately instead of one bulk upload spanning over different countries.
osm.wiki/Changeset#Geographical_size_of_changesets

Hello,

Why did you apply the population of the Brussels Region to this node, which is only for the city? The city’s population is only 188,737.
(The Wikipedia article named "Brussels" is for the Region, not the city.)

We stopped using the "population" key several years ago because of this error that non-local mappers are doing repeatedly. You might have heard that most OSM objects are linked to a corresponding Wikidata entry, which contains useful metadata which people can re-use. This avoids duplicating that info in OSM.

Hello,

Thanks for raising the point. I’ve just found out that a beginner incorrectly changed the wikidata entry for this node and linked it to a larger urban area, which is incorrect.

There is a frequent confusion here for people who are not familiar with Belgium: one of the regions is named "Brussels-Capital Region" (pop. 1,2M) but despite what the name might suggest, that Region is *not* the capital of the country. Only the city of Brussels (pop. 188,000) is the legal capital of the country. (I know it is strange to have a small entity named Brussels inside of a larger one named Brussels but our country is full of surprises like this.)

Wikipedia says it correctly: "Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium."

I restored the wikidata tag, which will now correctly point to the correct entry.

Okay, this is a good point, thanks.

Yet, there is a technical problem we still have to solve here: the node has amenity=*, leisure=* and natural=* all together whereas only one is permitted at a time. If the element can be considered a picnic table, I suggest we remove amenity=bench and draw the tree separately.