Hi Cat. Please don’t add free camping sites to OSM unless they are clearly marked as campsites. (I just cycled past a completely unmarked site in Ukraine that you added.) These kind of details can go on e.g. the iOverlander app to help others, but OSM isn’t really a suitable place for them.

OK, this is exactly why I asked: OSM cannot copy from other maps like that unless the copyright situation is 100% clear. Unless you can provide more bibliographic data and argue that the material is truly public domain, these additions will have to be reverted.

So you copied this from a paper map? Can you please give me the bibliographic data for the paper map?

Also, please do not add generic names like "Magazin mixt"/"Vegyesbolt". That information is already communicated by shop=convenience. If you do not know the exact name of the shop, then leave the name= tag blank. Tools like Streetcomplete, which prompt mappers to determine the exact names of POIs, rely on the name= tag being blank.

Please do not use building=commercial for these kinds of buildings. The correct tagging is building=retail. ("Commercial" in English does not mean the same thing as comercială in Romanian and other European languges).

What is the source for the name "Paunescu" for this farmland (and the names for the other landuse=farmland nearby)?

Hello fellow cyclist. Please do not tag village food shops as supermarkets (even if, as often in Chile, they call themselves supermarkets). Instead, the tag shop=convenience should be used.

Please do not create nodes with shop=mobile_phone to tell people where they can get mobile phone signals. That is not what this tag is for.

I don’t think it is a good idea to add covered=yes tags for the service roads going under petrol station roofs. The tags building=roof and layer=1 on the petrol station already avoids any highway–building collisions.

It is not just my opinion, it is the recommended OSM practice. So, please do not put generic names into the name= field in future. Otherwise I will have to bring your edits to the attention of the Data Working Group.

"Exchange" is likely not the name of the shop (I will check this next time I walk in this area) but simply the words shown to denote what type of shop it is it. Its legally registered name is probably there on the sign (or on a paper over the door) in smaller text.

The problem is that tools like StreetComplete, which prompt mappers to fill in the exact name of shops, rely on the name= tag being empty. If you put a generic name like "Minimarket" or "Exchange", you end up hiding that POI from mappers using StreetComplete, and therefore the shop’s real name may never be filled in.

> Also there are different tag for different languages.

Yes, there are. But writing e.g. name:en=Exchange or name:en=Minimarket would have been just as inappropriate here.

The same is true of "Exchange" for a money-exchange place. Just leave the name blank unless you know the exact name.

Please do not add generic names like "Minimarket" to convenience stores. This information is already communicated by the shop=convenience tag. Only add a name if it is the exact name of that one shop.

This edit added denomination=orthodox to a large number of churches that are not Orthodox, e.g. they are Greek Catholic, or Reformed, or Lutheran, or Unitarian. Orthodoxy is not the only religion in Romania!

Could you please go back and fix your mistakes? If you generate a list of churches involved in this edit, then you can easily detect some of the churches where your edit is wrong, because they are now tagged with names like "Biserica reformată", "Biserica greco-catolică", etc.

Could you please give a source for the names of the streets that you are adding? The only source you provide is Bing/Digital Globe/Mapbox, but those sources do not have street names that OSM can use.

Please do note write the words "under construction" in a name tag when you add a construction site. The tag landuse=construction already specifies that it is an area under construction and there is no need for additional text (unless it is the exact name of the real-estate development being construction). Also, OSM tags are generally supposed to be in the local language, and so it does not look appropriate for the map of Albania’s capital city to have this English text "under construction" everywhere.

What is the source of the name "Strada Cotită" for this street? When I walked around Mihai Viteazu, I was unable to find any street sign for this street.

Can you please specify the source of the name "Strada Paltinis" for this street in Mihai Viteazu? When I walked around Mihai Viteazu and added street names, I was unable to find any street sign for this street. Naturally, we cannot copy the names for streets from Google Maps.

I noticed that this change involves a mistake: the street here is not Rruga Thanas Mertiri but a continuation of Rruga Viktor Eftimiu. Furthermore, that exact same mistake is found in Google Maps. This seems an unlikely coincidence. Are you copying from Google Maps? That is strictly forbidden in OpenStreetMap. This is a serious matter, so please respond to this changeset comment. Otherwise, I will have to bring this up with the Data Working Group and discuss rolling back many (if not most) of your OSM edits.

What is the source of these telecommunication offices you have added to Korça? 1) If you copied them from some kind of list, that list may be under copyright, and 2) OSM name= tags should not contain details like "POS [number]".