Hello (again),

I had a quick review of this changeset.

You seem to use the access tags correctly but here is something that can save you time and effort.

highway=path is a generic category for any path with non-motorized vehicles.
Of course, you can add a bunch of yes/no tags to allow/disallow users. That will work for navigation but it’s not elegant and querying the database is more complicated.

If there are only pedestrians, you can use highway=footway and access permissions are immediately correct. (I think the iD web editor calls it "Foot path".)

If there are only cyclists, use highway=cycleway. Horses: highway=bridleway.

Hope this helps.

Hello,
You created a building inside a building here. This is incorrect tagging and it is raising a validation warning.
You can just draw an area and tag it with amenity=cafe and that’s enough. You should remove the building tag on the cafe.

Hello,
The changeset title is "both do not exists".
Both what? You changed 35 objects at once here.
Always remember to write good titles for your changesets, it will make life easier for other mappers who are reviewing what is going on on the map.
Thanks.

:-)

Hello,
Thanks for this. It is always useful to add one more tag here, it could be a description or the inscription on this plaque, or the name of someone remembered here. Otherwise, it feels a bit empty. ;-)

Je hebt gelijk, ik heb het nu opgelost.

Hello,

Thanks for having surveyed this area. Indeed, I heard Anderlecht municipality closed the street last summer and was about to change the situation because some residents protested against it.

Cycle routing is broken here. I suppose cycling is still allowed on the southbound road which is now a footway (here: node/9560427501).

My question is: do you know what street signs they used here? Or maybe there is no roadsign but the street is barred with concrete blocks.

Thanks in advance.

I fixed all the mistakes here. There were about 20 badly-connected polygons. Almost every garden was slightly overlapping its neighbour at some point.

I think the problem is that you forgot to connect _all_ the corners of the gardens you are creating. Please do that, that will save a lot of time for everyone.

Hello,

If you only add a name to a building, it will be almost useless to the map.

OpenStreetMap uses a structured data model.

At the very least, you should add office=estate_agent in the list of tags for this building. (office=estate_agent)

I believe your customers would be grateful to you if you added useful information to the map, such as their phone numbers, website, opening hours and more. You can easily add this from the edit box by looking for the appropriate fields.

Also, please write names in normal case, not ALL UPPERCASE. Nobody likes a screaming map.

Please review other changesets you made from this account, those mistakes are there in most, if not all, your edits.

There were serious issues with this changeset:

1) Most tags are wrong or misguided.
2) Basic information about the business is missing (type of business, contact details, opening hours).
3) Even the name of the business does not match how the company spells it on its website.
4) addr:street in Brussels should be written in both languages, not just French.
5) The basic function of a map is to locate addresses properly; housenumber 151 is not in this building, and adding a fake housenumber here is misleading to everyone. The real 151 is located several meters south.
6) User ignored changeset comments and emails.

We reverted your changeset.
Out of courtesy to your customers, we created a proper POI on the correct location. (node/9552084479)

Hello,

Some time ago, the Brussels Region released a map where this street had maxspeed=50. Upon surveying a few month ago, we found out their map was wrong, as there were still 70-kph road signs on this tunnel.

If they finally changed the road signs, that is good news. I suppose your change was based on a survey, right?

Hello again,

One more thing: you added barrier=hedge to the full outline of a garden. way/1035043187
It will look like the hedge is also separating the house and the garden.
I presume you’d rather draw the hedge along 3 borders of the gardens, not 4.

Unless of course there really is a hedge all around it.

Hello,
When you give this kind of name: "JES - De Distillerie" validators will mistake it for a multilingual name, and expect to find name:fr="JES" and name:nl="De Distillerie".
Probably not what you wanted, right?
I suggest using ndashes to deal with this sort of names. I remember you did it correctly for some campuses.

Good, thanks.

If you want to create a fully-detailed mapping, you have several choices. The main factors will be whether you can have accurate imagery—in Flanders there is high-res 2013–15 imagery—and of course the amount of time you want to spend doing this.

In Brussels we do this sometimes, like here, i.e. draw cycle and pedestrian networks side by side. I like it because it’s very accurate, especially at intersections.
osm.org/?mlat=50.84505&mlon=4.37111#map=19/50.84505/4.37111
It’s the most complicated approach and if we fail to create enough connectors we might get weird results in searches once we forbid to use the main road.

An easier approach is to draw just one line, and share it between cyclists and pedestrians.

Depending on the way you see it: some people say it’s a sidewalk where cyclists are guests (highway=footway + bicycle=yes), others see everything as being primarily cycle tracks where pedestrians are guest (highway=cycleway + foot=yes). Navigation works the same in both cases.
On top of that, segregated=yes if there is a separator between them (D9 road sign), or segregated=no when everyone share the same space (D10 road sign).

Hello,

Pedestrian routing is now completely broken in this area.

For instance, adding foot=no here will exclude this road from navigation.
way/8131717

Adding data to help cyclists is a good thing, but OSM should not discriminate against some type of users. I advise you to add sidewalks (or alternatively use proper tags on the cycle track if pedestrians and cyclist share the same space or go side by side), and only then you can have foot=no on the main road.

Thanks.

Good point. Let’s discuss that with other mappers in the OpenStreetMap Belgium Matrix group.

Hello,
How is "capacity:cargo_bike=1" calculated? It’s not immediately apparent when looking at the pictures.

Hello,
Does this place really qualify as a full-scale hospital?

Thanks for this.
I fixed the opening hours because you wrote "Tue-Sat" (the correct syntax uses only two letters, hence "Tu-Sa").

Hello,

There are many problems with those paths. Perhaps a problem caused by the mapper who edited the map earlier.

highway=track makes it a track
disused:highway=track is what we use for a former track
It makes no sense having both tags at the same time

I suggest you only use disused:highway=track. That will be easier than this huge pile of nested access tags (access=*, bicycle=*, motor_vehicle=* and more), which you can remove, then.