Pennywell Road didn't have the split flare at the end, just joined Lawfords Gate at an angle. So I haven't deleted an island, just didn't add one.

I'm usually hesitant to add islands, as I don't really feel highway=pedestrian is right for a traffic island. landuse=traffic_island was better, but seems not to have found a footing (wiki lists as abandoned).

Hi, and a slightly belated welcome to OpenStreetMap!

Thanks for the additions you're making; all appreciated. Just a couple of pointers, if I may?

Firstly, the 'Q' button in the editor is a useful thing when you've rectangular buildings - it squares all the angles for you.

Secondly, beware of the offset of the imagery. A trick I use is to start with the clearest imagery (Bing at the moment), trace half-a-dozen buildings, then switch to the OS StreetView imagery. It's useless for tracing from (too generalised), but it should be more accurately aligned. So I then move the new buildings to line up with OS StreetView, switch back to Bing, and use the imagery offset panel in the editor to move the Bing imagery to line up with where the buildings are now.

Hope that's useful.

Keep up the good work & happy mapping!

Cheers,

Paul ("southglos")

To be fair, it was tagged as 'proposed', which seems reasonable?

Deleting individual trees and replacing with tree_rows seems backwards? It loses detail. We'd normally go from a generic tree_row to individual trees, to individual trees with species and other details.

Ha! Me too. I always have to refer back to designation=*

Perhaps designation=restricted_byway?

Hi

Not knowledgeable about railway matters, so sorry if this is a silly question, but is that source out of copyright, or something we have explicit permission to copy from?

Cheers

Hi. Thanks for adding this. Just a quick comment if I may: heights should use a period as the decimal separator, so 4.6 not 4,6

But the bridge is signed in feet and inches, so it should probably be 15'0" anyway.

Also appears that Bowstreet Lane/Farm Lane/Berwick Lane/Vimpennys Lane may have been 30mphed now - I've seen the new signs at the Easter Compton end and have tagged a section there, but haven't confirmed how far it extends (all the way to Hallen, I suspect)

https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=51.5349544538665&lng=-2.610987396913218&z=17&pKey=0Aoo6ptjsxdWfHjRWU8chw&focus=photo&x=0.49052370469215684&y=0.4933401464845683&zoom=0

Hi

The houses on the east side of Goldfinch Way (44 to 54) look like they're numbered as part of Eagle Crescent (and CodePoint Open suggests the same); are they tagged with the wrong street?

There's some really weird numbering going on with Eagle Crescent (I mean, who puts number 1 half-way round the crescent!?), so I hesitate to make corrections based on assumptions here!

Cheers!

Hi, and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

If I may offer some pointers:

shop=doors means it's a shop selling doors. You might want the entrance tag instead: entrance=*

If it's an entrance you're marking, it ought to be a node joined to the edge of the building, not floating around near the building.

You've a typo in the name - "Enterance". But if this is the entrance for Painswick Inn Housing, and Painswick Inn Housing isn't named anywhere else, I'd be inclined to drop the "entrance" from the name anyway.

If you need help fixing any of this, let me know and I'll be happy to assist.

Happy mapping!

Paul.

...and the clubhouse has lost its restaurant, which still appears to be there according to their website.

Hi

I'm trying to work out what's been changed and why in this changeset - seem to be a load of bunkers deleted that another, local user added not four weeks ago, then a load of additions including bunkers. May I suggest making your changeset comments a little more descriptive than just 'edit' - we know it's an edit; it's more useful to know what you've edited and why.

Cheers

Hiya - quick question. Should "Maze Close" be "Maize Close"? Would fit in with the whole arable farming theme?

Thanks for these updates - I occasionally drive down as far as I can with the cameras running to add to Mapillary, but you get a lot further in - on foot, I'm guessing.

Ok, that's an interesting changeset comment. I'm curious - is there a backstory here?

Each attribute of an object on the map usually has its own tag, so the fact that it's physically a footpath is recorded as highway=footway, legally it's a public footpath, so that's designation=public_footpath, it has a footpath reference of NORT5, so that's prow_ref=NORT5. If it had a name (e.g. Green Way), that would be name=Green Way. If it doesn't have a name, no name tag. If it were part of a longer path (e.g. Monarch's Way), it would be added to that relation and inherit the route name from that.

Probably don't need the "North Wilts" bit, as that can be deduced from looking at council boundaries, but if you really wanted to, you could add an 'operator' tag to name who's responsible for it. Then there are the 'width', 'surface' and 'incline' tags for adding even more detail. And if that's still not enough, there's the 'description' tag for extra detail, and the 'note' tag for extra information for other mappers.

Gojng back to the name vs. ref thing, it's the same as how we'd label roads. For example, we don't have name="B4040 High Street (secondary road)", we have highway=secondary, ref=B4040, name=High Street. And similarly, for something with no name, it's not name="M4 motorway", it's highway=motorway, ref=M4, and no name tag.

So, for clarity, something like:
highway=footway
designation=public_footpath
prow_ref=NORT5
no name tag, and possibly some extras like:
width=2
surface=grass
operator=North Wiltshire Council

It's also good practice to document where the information came from, either as a 'source' tag on the changeset, or on 'source' tags of individual objects if they differ. e.g.: source=survey if you've verified things on the ground.

Don't worry that not everything is shown on the map; more specialist stuff such as footpath references can be revealed by using the [↖?] button on the website.

Feel free to shout if there's anything I can help with.

Happy mapping!

Hi! Welcome to OpenStreetMap!

Thanks for your edits - just a couple of quick pointers, if I may? Firstly, the 'name' field should only be used for the actual name of an object, not references or descriptions. Most likely the path doesn't have an actual name, so it shouldn't have a name tag.

There's a tag for footpath references: I'd suggest using prow_ref=NORT5 instead.

Some useful info about tagging of UK rights of way on the wiki: osm.wiki/Access_provisions_in_the_United_Kingdom#Public_footpaths

Happy mapping!

Paul.

Thanks for these updates. Minor suggestion - for buildings that have all 90° corners, press [Q] and the editor will square them up for you. Cheers!

I love changeset comments like this. The image of a band of merry mappers, valiantly mapping the world one pint at a time :-)