Thanks Gpserror for the detailed explanation. The parking of vehicles has nothing to do with the map data. It is a decision made by the delivery partners based on what they see on ground. Anyways I will escalate to the concerned team not repeat it again.

Coming to the customers feedback, we were informed he is getting threatened for making changes in his property so I took a stab at making the changes. If its a pure one of case I am okay with converting the road access to no. But if the customer is deleting all other roads in the vicinity as well, I believe it is against the OSM norms and should be pushed back.

I don't mean to enter or start an edit war. Please do understand, at Amazon we believe we are working along with the community to build a better map and not influence anything for our personal data usage. If anything of such you are noticing from our edits, please do inform us and we will take the complete responsibility to course correct ourself.

Since I understand the situation now clearly, I and my team will stay out from making any further changes in this location.

Regards,
Jothirnadh

Hi Gpserror,
Thanks for providing your inputs. I am totally inlined with your inputs and agreed to having "private" access in general case scenario. Also please do understand as a part of Amazon edit we never end up adding access as per business case. In this particular case the local resident of this house clearly mentioned that this road should not be used for trespassing or delivery. To avoid this he added access information on his own going through the wiki information but the access is getting changed by other community members it-seems. He particularly requested for it and considering him requesting edits to his own property, I took a call to make the changes. Do let me know your thoughts, happy to have appropriate discussion and take right call.

Regards,
Jothirnadh

Hi Pj_33,

Welcome to OSM. I don't think the modifications you are making to the map are accurate. The roads you modified in this changesets were either service or residential roads. More information on road classification can be found in highway=* . Please do let me know if I can help in any possible way of understanding how to map in OSM.

Happy mapping!
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Hi mtg813,

Welcome to OpenStreetMap and thanks for contributing valuable missing information to the database. I work for Amazon and we use OSM data for our delivery purposes. Recently we got a driver feedback stating the road name is incorrectly added and while going through edit it was identified that the road name was changed by you in this changeset. The road previously named “Glen Ave” being renamed in OSM to “Black People Place”. Considering our drivers feedback we have changed the road name back to Glen Ave, can you confirm on what source you made this edit? If the edit is made by mistake please leave the change as it is.

Regards,
Jothirnadh

Thanks for your quick response and fixing the error Jerry. I thought the same, but considering your local knowledge, was doubtful to make the changes before contacting you. Happy that error got resolved.

Happy mapping!
Jothirnadh

Hi SK53,
Our team recently came across the edit way/881203327/history while going through this changeset. This particular way created by you was not matching with any of the satellite imageries available. Also since this road is not connected to any parent road segment, it was creating road connectivity issues. so we created a road connecting to parent road (way/881876901/history). Please do let us know if this edit is made using local knowledge and our addition is accurate or not. Will make sure to revert our edit based on your inputs.

Regards,
Jothirnadh

Hi Nakaner,

Thanks for the response. Since the editor is in leave today and the changeset has not been responded for 5 days I am stepping in to respond. After reviewing this edit, I consider the edit was wrongly made. I believe these highway=service roads should be converted to highway=footpaths as these bridges will be used to cross waterway ditches. Do let me know if my interpretation is accurate. I will inform the editor and make the necessary changes.

Regards,
Jothirnadh

Hi Andy,
Is it possible to revert the changes for the time being? There seems to be a lot of wrong edits in this changesets like: way/829263012/history

I have identified 23 similar errors already. Have not corrected it so far because a revert seems to be a better option over here.

Regards,
Jothirnadh

Sure Andy, thanks for your suggestion. I will pass on this information to our editing team and get this sorted.

Regards,
Jothirnadh
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Hi Andy,

I have a small query. While we are trying to make sure all our editors add appropriate changeset notes, in case if they miss appropriate note like this case, can we ask them to add a comment or is it not required?

Regards,
Jothirnadh

Hi Andy,

Thanks for looking into this edit. Looks like the editor is blocked from responding, so I am posting on her behalf. She was supposed to add commented information as a part of changeset notes, but missed it from her end by mistake in 94 changesets, so added it as a comment to give a better clarity to OSM community. I have communicated her mistake and she agreed to not repeat this mistake in future. Also, do let me know if there is a better way to edit changeset notes once added to OSM. We downloaded the FB detections from the link mentioned in FB wiki and just used it as a source to manually draw the road. So the road classification given to these roads are as per her understanding on OSM highway classification wiki. Do let me know if she interpreted the road classification wrongly, happy to get it corrected immediately.

Regards,
Jothirnadh

Hi,

Few roads added in this changeset has wrong road classification like example: osm.org/edit?editor=id&way=747184985#map=2/0.0/0.0
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Hi INVT_AMZL DSP,

This is wrong road classification. As per the surrounding areas it looks like a residential road. Can you explain me why this road is changed to tertiary road?

Regards,
Jothirnadh
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Hi Vtmikevt, welcome to OpenSrtreetMap. This changes seem to be a bit off and going against OSM way of editing. Please go through OSM wiki before contributing any further data.

Regards,
Jothirnadh
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Sure user_5359, I will keep a note of that going forward.

I didn't know my emails are getting refused. Thanks for bringing this to my notice, will work on getting that fixed.

Regards,
Jothirnadh

Hi user_5359,

Thanks for your inputs. I didn't add the maxspeed tag to this road. Before my edit, there was a overlapping road on top of this road with multiple turn restrictions added to it. I removed that road and just corrected the turn restrictions. As a part of correcting the turn restrictions the road got split and is created a version1 which you mentioned above. I identified multiple speedlimit values for this road which are inappropriately added, but didn's correct them as I am lacking a proper source to correct it. Since there were multiple relations I edited this using JOSM.

Do let me know if any further information is required.

Regrds,
Jothrinadh

Hi tux67,

Sorry for the delayed response. The auditor was on leave for last three days so I am responding on his behalf. The bad data mentioned in the comment is intended to represent the bad GPS detections in this location. The auditor being new to OSM mistakenly used wrong terminology. Will give him a feedback of not repeating this further. Let us know if there are any concerns with the quality of his edits.

Regards,
Jothirnadh

Thanks for your inputs user_5359. I totally missed the node connectivity part to the entry and exit of the building. I changed the "tunnel" to "covered" tag. I will pass this information to the rest of my editing team as well.

Regards,
Jothirnadh

Hi user_5359,

Thanks for your inputs. I have corrected the error and communicated the same to the editor as well. Will make sure to add this point to our SOP so other editors doesn't make the same mistake.

Regards,
Jothirnadh
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Hi messpert,

Thanks for looking into this edit. The editor who made this edit is on long leave, so commenting on behalf of her. Without complete source the edit has been made, so converted the road classification in to construction. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Regards,
Jothirnadh