@Frans
You shouldn't rely on the alignment of Bing imagery. JOSM even gives a warning by default that Bing imagery may be misaligned. The error can become more extreme the more uneven the terrain is. There are public GPS traces in this area which suggest this road should moved by a few meters east and suggest the original mapping of these buildings was correct.

the documented China specific naming rules state that `name` should contain only the Chinese name and the tibetan name should only be in the `name:bo` tag

osm.wiki/Multilingual_names#China

Hello Andrew,

Thank you for contributing to OSM.
Just a small tip, in the online editor you can square up ways by right clicking on them and pressing the square button or by using the shortcut "Q".
Hope this is of some use.

Kind regards,
Kits

Hello Brian,
In relation to this note note/5095889
is there a reason for the `so=residential` tag added to some of the houses in this changeset or is it simply a mistake?

Kind regards,
Kits

I would like to second Mr LordGarySugar. These useless changeset comments must stop. Its gone on for far too long. You have made 4,364 changesets, 2922 of them have had either "edit" or "edits" as a changeset comment. Please start adding descriptive commends to make it clear what edits you are making.

The "substation", "pole transformer", "primary","grid" and "supergrid" postfixs are added intentionally and is a UK wide standard the uk osm power community knows about it and its contradiction to norms but at the moment nothing has be decided so I am simply maintaining the status que.

You're misunderstanding what the wiki is saying, its saying if a feature is truly unnamed, that is not known by any name to any person. this is true for many roads, some only have refs others are too minor and don't have any known name or ref at all. in these situations don't use the name=* tag and use the noname=yes tag instead.

These transformers have been named, they have one and only one name as such using any name variant other than name=* doesn't make sense.

The fact that the name is not printed on the feature is not a issue. As the same wiki page states the source of a name can be "Common or official usage". this is the same for many features like for example a forest. it may not have a sign on the ground stating the name of the forest but that doesn't make the forest unnamed since a name is simply a identifier used by a group of people to identify a particular object.

To clarify when i say out of date i mean that whatever the substation was named after is long gone. the substations names never seem to get updated once assigned.

National Grid Distributions formerly Wester Power Distributions have been very reliable in adding a name and ref plaque to every ground substation. pole transformers can be hit and miss.

Admittingly the names can be very out of date since some of these substations could be closing on 100 years old now.

My view is that official_name only makes sense if there is a more common alternative name to take its place in the "name" tag. here there is none and there is no standard convention of using official_name instead of name with transformers and substations.
basically all substations and a lot of pole transformers have a plaque that lists its name and ref.

Hello,
Could you please refrain from changing name to official_name on transformers and substations. thank you.

Hello oglord, thank you for contributing to Open Street Map. Unfortunately License of Royal Mail's postcode finder tool is incompatible with Open Street Map and as such cannot be used as a source. As such i'm reverting this change.

changeset/175688965

Hi Jazz, The cycle lane on Van Road is not mapped correctly. cycle lanes should be mapped with a `cycleway:left=lane` tag on the road way and should not be mapped as a separate way just as separate car lanes are not mapped with separate ways. "left" can also be replaced with "right" or "both" if required. you can read more here on the wiki: cycleway=*

Adding "substation" in the name is a UK-wide standard.

Morning,
Unfortunately this is the first I've heard of the changes to power=circuit or the July proposal. I'll look into making the changes however the next grid is almost finished so i may commit that how it is. I'll also look into changing all previous grids.

Hello Jazz,
Following on from yesterday's comment. Could you please take greater care when adding crossings. many of the crossings you've added a number of "Marked Crossings" that should be "Unmarked Crossings". marked crossing as used for zebra crossings where the road itself is marked.

Please also take care not to add functional crossing like you've done in this changeset. a link footway described the situation accurately as it was.

good afternoon Jazz,
Just a small comment about some of the crossings you've been adding like this one way/1454697829. this should be a unmarked crossing with the tags `highway=crossing crossing=unmarked`. a marked crossing is used for zebra crossings.

Reverted

changeset/175258121

Hi, I've changed it to shop to shoe_repair as you suggested. shoe_repair is not a perfect description for a cobbler but it does describe their primary business so i'm happy enough with it.

Hi jazz,
I removed the highway=path tag from this way as I was unable to find it during my survey a few days ago, as i stated in the note tag on the way. I've reverted this changeset.