Hi, welcome to OSM. Thank you for your edit however the footpath does need to connect to Vineyard Road in order for routers to be able to use it. Please could you connect it?

Cheers Phil

Hi, thank you for your edit. Just a couple of issues, in OSM the name tag is used for an actual name. We use the prow_ref tag for rights of way references, hence this should be prow_ref=Eccleshall 6. More specialist renderers do show this tag, for example http://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=17&lat=52.868644&lon=-2.72152

When mapping rights of way we also add a designation tag, hence this should have designation=public_footpath.

There is also a small issue with the connection to the stile, the stile has 3 ways leading from it so I cannot tell which route involves crossing the stile.

Many of the community are walkers and very much into mapping rights of way, if you have any questions please ask.

Cheers Phil

Hi
This edit looks a bit strange. Many of these areas that you have changed to wetland are in fact beaches. They certainly do not fit the wiki description of a tidalflat, which are places to be avoided, not to walk/sunbath/paddle or swim. The clue is often in the name, for example Traeth Melynog which I visited yesterday where I saw a lovely expanse of sandy beach.

On what did you base your decision to retag these beaches.

Cheers Phil

Please update your sources and imagery used to reflect what you have used on each changeset, listing everything you may use is unhelpful. You have certainly not used any of Bing Streetside;Mapillary Images;Mapillary Signs;OpenStreetCam Images on this changeset.

Cheers Phil

Hi, are these restaurants publicly accessible?

We do not map staff canteens as they are not accessible to the public. As a minimum they should be tagged as access=private.

Cheers Phil

Hi, welcome to OSM.

Please could you explain what you mean by WCBC Original Map. do you have permission to copy from it?

Also the tags you have used are rather confusing, is it access=permissive or foot=yes. Assuming that this is a PROW then access=permissive would be very wrong.

Cheers Phil

Hi, rather than using the description tag for welsh and inscription for English, it would be better to use inscription:en and inscription:cy.

For an example node/6501076666

Cheers Phil

Hi Paarvan
Welcome to OSM, thank you for your edit however the way you have mapped this is incorrect. We only add a separate way if there is a physical separation. Mapping lanes in this way is confusing to map users and in this case for example somebody joining from way/31834029 cannot enter the turn lane, which obviously they can. The correct way to map situations such as this is to use turn:lanes.

If you need any help fixing this please ask.

Cheers Phil

Thank you

Firstly by adding access=private you are making all map users go around the long way, this includes most importantly pedestrians. Remember to consider other uses as OSM is not just a map for motor vehicles, it was founded by walkers and cyclists.
The most likely access tag here is simply motor_vehicle=destination, other users should not be restricted.
Cheers Phil

Hi
Why would you consider paths with in cemetery to be private? Kind of defeats the object.

Cheers Phil

Most houses don't have names, but if they do it will be on a sign. Otherwise the name/housename field should be left unpopularited.
Normally just the addr:housenumber field is populated with just the number.

Cheers Phil

The names you are adding appear very odd, what sources are you using?

Cheers Phil

Hi Josh
The area looks residential and the building you have drawn matches none of the actual buildings.
Some of your tags appear odd, such as minage=2 and closing at 3am.
Do you have any actual evidence that there really is a bar here?

> How does OSM map adult shops? They
> are often banned from having any window
> decoration/don't have any fascia.
> Are they excluded from OSM?
They are not excluded from OSM because they are easily verifiable. They have signs with a name and the words 'Licensed Adult Shop' displayed on them.
For example https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/dwGq1QN-x5dnx88BA_yCog

Most big towns have one.

> I think it's a beauty shop, by appointment
> only. It probably doesn't have any fascia,
> and I don't think that should exclude it
> from OSM.
My experience of checking such things tells me that it will be just a house that looks like any other house in that street. Other residents would be very cross if it wasn't.

The cornerstone of OSM is objects are verifiable, the gold standard is I went out and saw it with my own eyes. A passing mapper should not need an app/internet/phone to verify an object is what it is mapped as.

Mappers going out exploring is what sets us apart from other maps.

Cheers Phil

It has been suggested that it would be better tagged as craft=beautician.

> This doesn't seem to be domestic,
> everything points to it being commercial.
Aerial imagery and local knowledge indicate it is a residential area. Planning practice does not include business premises in such places, we don't build 'Corner Shops' anymore. People who buy houses in cul-de-sacs do so because they want somewhere quiet, callers to business premises will break that idea and will not be popular.

> We have no information it say it isn't
> signed, and there is a fix me for mappers.
Fix me are not helpful unless the mapper opens the object they never see them, Notes are far more obvious.

We have no information to say that it is anything other than where the business owner lives. The website list the places she travels to.

The note includes "This note includes comments from anonymous users which should be independently verified."

It was only added 5 days ago and you did not give local mappers a chance, especially in the current lockdown.

> I disagree, that not only extend the divide
> in map quality between areas that a few
> heavily active mappers live, and the rest
> of the world.
Leicester has a number of active mappers, myself included.

This is on my list to check at some point in the future, I will buy you a beer at an event if there is a verifiable business there.

> It also create an incredibly poor
> experience for people who think they
> should be listed on osm, so they go to
> onosm.org (an incredibly official looking
> website). Fill out there details, get a
> "Thank you" message, then are never
> added to the map. These note are often in
> OSM for years, often multiple notes in the
> same area as the business owner has
> tried multiple times. That is a bad
> experience, and it is embarrassing.
Onosm.org should point out that OSM is a volunteer led organisation and actioning of notes takes time and effort to go and survey them. Cul-de-sacs doubly so as they are not places one casually drives through.

Cheers Phil

Then they should navigate to the address as they would for any other domestic dwelling.

We should in these cases map what is verifiable and that is likely to be only the housenumbers.

If I am a map user who is looking for the footpath at the end of the road and they expect to pass Cosmetology Hub then they will be disappointed.

Notes like this should not be acted upon until they have been verified.

Cheers Phil

The key to adding things to OSM is that they are verifiable. I seriously doubt that there is a sign that someone passing would see.

Also the area covered indicates that this is a visiting service, if it was a shop why would they care? What have people from Mountsorrel, Groby or Glenfield done not to be welcome.

I see this as a work from home business, which we have never mapped in OSM. Google maps is full of such unverifiable POIs, we should not be copying that, OSM is a map not a business directory.

Cheers Phil

We are aware of the rules followed by highway engineers however OSM is an international project and in the UK we map roads according to osm.wiki/Roads_in_the_United_Kingdom

Hence all A roads with green signs are trunk, other A roads primary and (most) B roads are secondary.

This scheme has worked very well for the 13 or so year OSM has been going.

Please review your changes as they have broken OSM data.

Cheers Phil

Hi, this is a residential area. It seems unlikely that there is a verifiable business here.
If I was a neighbour I would be very cross indeed if my quiet close was full of customers cars.
These businesses tend to be phone/internet and do not belong in OSM.

Cheers Phil