Hi,

I agree that the source should go on the changeset and not the object. Every time someone edits something the source potentially changes/expands. 99.99% of the time I don't add a source tag to objects I edit.

In this case, I didn't change the name at all, just added a source for a specific value of a specific tag that already existed.

I've seen too many times where someone verified a name and added a source tag or similar ( verified:name=yes has been used occasionally around here as well) and later someone else changed the name to something else while leaving the old tagging, making it difficult or impossible to tell what the actual name should be. Sometimes there are conflicting sources. There should be a stable way to tag the source of a specific name. If you know of a better way to do it please let me know.

There's been a pattern in the past of people adding made-up names to paths/roads on the UC campus (probably copied from google maps, which is used as the background for the default map on the university's website). It's useful to know which names have actually been verified and exist in the real world.

Hi, welcome to OSM. I'm the person who originally mapped the sidewalks on Shattuck and Adeline.

Please don't do this.

The access tags generally apply to the entire street, not just the vehicle lanes in the roadway. The vast majority of sidewalks in Berkeley have been mapped as an attribute of the way (using the sidewalk=both/left/right/no tag). When you tag a street with foot=no it means that pedestrians are completely banned from the street, including walking down the sidewalk, or along the edge of the road, or to a parked car. I don't think that's what you meant to do here.

The access tags are mainly about the legal access more so than whether it's a good idea or comfortable. I looked it up and the actual legal situation is...complicated, but it's not actually illegal to walk along the roadway on most ordinary city streets in Berkeley (including north and south Shattuck).

The foot=yes tags along the portions of Shattuck and Adeline where the sidewalks are mapped as separate ways were left over from before the sidewalks were mapped separately, and should probably be removed (but not necessarily changed foot=no). Those ways are tagged with sidewalk=separate which should tell routing software not to use them for pedestrian routing.

Hi, I don't believe these are accessible to the public; according to the bside article linked this is inside a private home. Nothing is visible from the street.

Pauline Kael obviously doesn't live here anymore; do you know if there's anything outside identifying this house as the "Pauline Kael Residence"? (a sign or a plaque for example?) Also, the start_date tag on the house is obviously wrong - nobody was building houses like this in the 1950s.

Hi,

Please don't add nonsense to OSM. This is a map of the real world used by tons of people. I have reverted your changeset.

Thank you.

Are you sure about this? The city website ( https://www.cityofsanmateo.org/3334/Bay-Meadows-Community-Park ) specifically describes this park as having a "walking path" and mentions nothing about bikes, and these don't really look like bike paths at all.

This edit doesn't make much sense to me. Even if there are no explicit signs, anyone wanting to turn left from Oberlin would have to drive the wrong way down the northbound lane of Arlington then make a sharp s-turn in the crosswalk to cut over to the southbound lane where the median disappears.

Hi, welcome to OSM. I'm not sure what you were trying to do here, but the boundaries of San Francisco have already been mapped and are very close to being accurate.

Hi jmilot,

This was discussed briefly here: osm.wiki/Talk:Key:access#Access_only_for_ticketed_passengers.3F and here: https://old.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/pg4mxq/need_help_fixing_san_francisco_map/

access=customers has all of the same problems as access=permit in this situation. Any software that respects the access=customers tag will have issues routing across areas tagged with access=customers if the origin or destination is not nearby or linked in some way. This edit was not specifically for OpenTripPlanner - the access tagging was causing problems in every router I tried.

I personally don't feel like either customers or permit accurately reflects the real-world situation here and would rather just remove them (leaving bicycle=dismount) but didn't want to step on any toes.

In reality the access depends a lot on the day-to-day operations of the individual ferry operators; usually the gates are unlocked, sometimes they're only opened close to boarding; sometimes there are people checking tickets/clipper cards at the entrance, or only when passengers off-board, or not at all. Sometimes people line up on the dock itself long before boarding.

Is Michelin rating small bends in rural road now? Roadkill? Something went wrong here.

It looks like a cricket pitch.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_pitch

Are you sure about all of these changes? node/1755584570/history for example doesn't appear to have anything to do with the brand you added.

Hi, instead of deleting places outright can you leave the address information and just remove the tags relevant to the restaurant? That way we don't lose the address info, which doesn't usually change when a business closes. Thanks.

There is no castle here.

Duck1e, please don't add fictional objects to OSM; this is a map of the real world that people actually use. I have reverted your changes and removed all of Hailey's many imaginary castles.

You sure about this name change? It looks odd.

Looks good. I re-tagged it as a footway since it's so narrow and added the gate.

Do you know anything more about this? I can't find any evidence that the alley has actually been abandoned by the city. There's nothing in the permit/planning/parcel history for the adjacent properties about adding a gate or closing the alley - the gate just appeared a year or two ago. As far as I can tell there is still a public right of way here named "Cooper Alley" and the gate is probably illegal. There are a couple of properties that can only be accessed from the alley and have "Cooper Alley" addresses.

Are you sure about these buffer stops? It's not uncommon for tracks to just end without any buffer, and I don't see any here on bing streetside.

This is not accurate. Hilgard Avenue doesn't bend 90 degrees to the south like this; that's just some random private residential driveway serving the last two houses at the end of the street.

Hi. The bay is not named "Frisco Bay". The airfield at the Alameda NAS has been closed for a while now - those runways are not active runways and have been abandoned for years. Saildrone's website is still showing them in the same location. I have reverted this changeset. Please keep in mind that this is a map of the real world that people actually use, and shouldn't be used for testing.

Hi, why did you delete node/2371176901/history ?

Did it get damaged? Usually that's not the kind of thing that would go away.