Hi ibecze, welcome to Openstreetmap!

Juts FYI, it's not generally not necessary to add city and state fields within NYC, as these can be inferred from the administrative boundaries and zip codes. Adding city and state (and even country) is not wrong per se -- but it saves time and space to leave them out, so that's why you'll see lots of addresses without them.

Let me know if you have any questions -- I'm happy to assist or advise.

Thanks, jmapb

I don't doubt the existence of the Moondog office, but if it isn't verifiable in person I do doubt its relevance to OSM.

The problem with this sort of POI is that there's no way to visually tell if it's real, and still a going concern. Often websites stay up long after a business has closed. Public business records are out of date. When the office closes or moves, there will be no way for a mapper to know. (Having to check a website or call a phone number for updates is not a reasonable burden for a mapper.) Eventually the map gets cluttered with outdated information.

I don't feel any need to address this node myself, but the next mapper who comes along and is unable to see any trace of it might assume it's gone and delete it.

Hi Chavaleiba, welcome to Openstreetmap! I'm a mapper active in NYC and noticed this change.

If this school has moved to a new building, the correct way to show that is to find (or create) the new location on the map, and tag that with the school's info. In this case, you've changed the address of this building to Rutland Road, but the building itself hasn't moved -- it's still on Eastern Parkway, so it still needs to be tagged with the Eastern Parkway address.

Let me know if you need help fixing this -- I'm happy to advise or assist.

Thanks, jmapb

Hi bsmilovitch, and welcome to Openstreetmap!

I'm a mapper active in NYC. You selected "review requested" on this changeset so I'm taking a look.

You added the name "European Wax Center" to the building at 8510 5th Ave Brooklyn. However, I believe this business is likely only on the ground floor of this building, is that true?

If the European Wax Center occupies the entire building, then it's fair to name that whole building European Wax Center. Otherwise it's better to create a node inside the building and tag that with the name European Wax Center.

Regardless, it's also good to add tags with other details about the business. See for example: node/5541293169

Let me know if you have any questions -- I'm happy to assist or advise.

Thanks, jmapb

Hi nameverb, welcome to Openstreetmap!

I'm a mapper active in Brooklyn and noticed this changeset adding the BPL branches. In two of them, you've added a node plus tagged the building itself. Generally it's better to pick one or the other -- if the library takes up the whole building, tag the building. If the library takes up part of the building, add a node inside the building near the library's entrance and tag that.

Let me know if you have any questions -- I'm happy to advice or assist.

Thanks, jmapb

Hi Cristian -- FYI, highway=service does not necessarily mean "service road" in the typical sense. It means something more like "access road" or "private road", ie, not part of the public roadway system. Driveways and parking aisles within parking lots considered service roads.

See highway=service

Thanks, jmapb

Hi Airy14 and welcome to Openstreetmap!

I'm a mapper active in NYC. You've set "review_requested" on this changeset so I'm trying to review it.

I have many comments if you'd like to hear them, but the big one is -- please make smaller changsets! It's very hard to review a changeset that spans from Houston to NYC, even if there are no changes in between. The QA tools available are not capable of processing such a large area.

Even just your changes within NYC are a lot. Especially as a new mapper, it's better to make only one or two changes per changeset. This will allow you to give better changeset descriptions to let others know why you're making the changes you are. And if something is wrong and needs to be addressed, it's much easier to fix.

Thanks, Jmapb

The building in question (Ex-Lax building) is mainly residential with 2 obvious ground-floor businesses: the carpet warehouse and a barber shop that I left off because it looked like it might be out of business. My best guess is that Moondog Industries is someone running a business out of their apartment upstairs, but the neither the name nor the unit number match anything on the building's tenant list.
If a map user can't find any trace of a feature even when standing directly in front of the POI node, I really have to wonder if it belongs on the map at all.
That said, office=company is definitely an improvement over shop.

Hey A.V., question about Moondog Industries (node/5812445812) -- have you been here? I just passed by and there's no sign of this shop. There's not even a unit 1D visbile, not as a storefront or even on the tennant's list for the 423 Atlantic residential entrance.

Hi Timothy -- regarding the Starbucks at node/5542976159, I think it's short-sighted to blindly tag every Starbucks as cuisine=coffee_shop, overriding local survey. The type of foods available at various incarnations of Starbucks are quite variable. In particular: they don't all serve sandwiches, but this one does.

(Though IMO coffee and tea don't belong in the cuisine tag -- we have drink:coffee and drink:tea for those.)

Thanks, J

Dang you're fast!

Hi ethylisocyanat, you tagged this way with "fixme=so wrong" -- it's been modified a lot but since nobody knows exactly what you meant, that fixme hasn't been removed.

So, is it still "so wrong"? If so, can you be more specific?

thanks, jmapb

Hi, what's up with this way:
way/359214394
(Noticed it on keepright)
thanks, jmb

Hi and welcome to OSM! Thanks for your contributions.

I took a look at this changeset since you requested review. I'm not sure about adding the oneway=yes tag to this section of Newark Ave:
way/554370581

I understand that in the normal flow of traffic there would be no reason for cars to be heading west on this section -- since Erie Street is oneway and cars will not normally be heading west from the pedestrian zone. But is it actually *signed* oneway? If not, generally better not to tag it oneway.

I could imagine a taxi dropping someone off at Fabco Shoes, or a food delivery truck leaving the pedestrian zone (if there are hours when it's open to delivery traffic.) Or a bike heading west, if bikes are permitted here. In these cases, would they be legally required to take Erie Street, or could they go west on Newark Ave?

There's not a lot of recent imagery so I can't be sure. But note the pedestrian crossing sign in the picture below -- if there's no possibility of westbound traffic on this segment, it doesn't make any sense to have that sign pointed that direction.

https://imgur.com/a/cGGc6aG

(Circled in red, you can only see the back of the sign.)

Ok yer gone

Reverted in changeset/67977882

Are you sure about this location? Based on the address it seems it should be at the corner of 5th Ave & 47th.

Hi dumisanisny, two questions: 1) Is this a doctor's office? 2) Are you aware that the website you posted doesn't work?

Hello again -- because this seems invalid and you haven't written back I'm inclined to revert this change soon if I don't hear back from you.
Thanks, j

Here's the hours sign of Mile End on Hoyt Street, as surveyed last November and again last night:

https://imgur.com/a/KgjPizK

I've already changed these hours back. Please don't assume that info from amenity websites is more accurate than info gathered from survey -- it usually isn't, unless the survey is years old. (If there's a discrepancy, you could add a fixme to prompt a fresh survey.)

Thanks, Jason