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115263724 over 3 years ago

According to the OSM Wiki, junction=roundabout is only for ways without right-of-way. This rondo contains traffic signals at various points along it and is therefore a junction=circular.

115176257 over 3 years ago

My apologies. With regard to islands, it looks like we are both wrong. According to the OSM Wiki (footway=crossing), the island portion of crossings should have no footway= tag at all. That is, it should be neither footway=crossing nor footway=sidewalk.

With regard to the two ends of the crossing, however, I still maintain that these should be footway=crossing, not footway=sidewalk. This is how it is normally mapped around the world, including in Poland. Not only are ways typically traced from their centre, but the way these have been mapped in Warsaw does not accurately describe the ways for the sake of routing engines (the major consumer of these tags).

115176257 over 3 years ago

A Warsaw mapper has mapped the island portion of crossings as crossing=sidewalk, but this is widely believed to be incorrect (as was recently discussed on Weekly OSM). footway=sidewalk is for ways that run parallel to associated streets. For crossings, both the zebra paint, and the islands, and the portion of the sidewalk that splits off from the footway=sidewalk (since ways are typically traced from the center), the usual tagging is footway=crossing.

108547536 over 3 years ago

You added tags relating to Dečani Monastery to the way representing the main church within the monastery. These should go on the monastery way which is traced around the entire complex.

114459930 over 3 years ago

Of course, you can add English names under the name:en tag, but there they should reflect standard English capitalization, so name:en=Old Town.

114459930 over 3 years ago

Please do not add English names in Albania. In Gjirokastra you added a place with name=Old town. Name tags should be in the local language.

93014574 almost 4 years ago

Sorry, "ways used by driveways to go" should have been "ways used by drivers to go"

93014574 almost 4 years ago

You added service=parking_aisle to a large number of service ways in Radom. This is not the correct tag for many of these ways. For example, the service way going through a petrol station is generally not given a service= tag. Also, ways used by driveways to go from the road to their home should be tagged service=driveway instead.

113198642 almost 4 years ago

Also, sidewalk-related tags do indeed have to be added everywhere. Not just because editors like Vespucci ask mappers to fill in these details for the sake of data completeness, but also because of real-world usefulness. For roads, it is so that routers will avoid sending pedestrians along the road itself. For sidewalks, it is so that the router can helpfully tell the user clearly "Walk along the sidewalk" instead of merely "Walk along the [unidentified] footway."

113198642 almost 4 years ago

My goal in all of this recent tagging of sidewalks (and associated roads) in PL is to improve routing. Developers of routing engines generally go by what is documented on the wiki. In the present case, footway=sidewalk is called the appropriate tagging, while path=sidewalk is referred to as an error. Even if you wanted Polish roads to be tagged a certain way, routing engines are international and their developers cannot be expected to know peculiarities insisted on by a few Polish mappers.

I understand your view that a footway= tag looks incongruous on a highway= that is not a footway. However, you cannot expect OSM tags to be 100% logical. There are all kinds of small inconsistencies in OSM tags.

113198642 almost 4 years ago

As you can see on that page, the link to path=crossing is broken (it just redirects back to footway=crossing). If you really want this tag to be used by other editors, then I suggest documenting it.

Another issue is that there is no sidewalk counterpart to path=crossing. That is, path=sidewalk is considered a tagging mistake on the OSM wiki.

So as long as this is the case, I will assume that international data consumers are expecting footway=sidewalk or footway=crossing tags even on highway=path, and I will tag accordingly.

113198642 almost 4 years ago

The tag path=crossing does not appear to be documented at the OSM wiki. However, footway=crossing is a long-established tag and is what data consumers use.

111400513 almost 4 years ago

What is the source for the POIs and their names that you have been adding in Turda recently?

107818761 almost 4 years ago

What is the source for this large number of churches you have been adding?

Also, please do not add the word "Restaurant" to the name= tag. It is not necessary. Instead of "Restaurant Casa Domnești", write just "Casa Domnești"

79819945 almost 4 years ago

What is the source for these amenity=grit_bin nodes on Ostrobramska? I can’t see anything on the ground. Are the bins only brought there in the winter months?

111100629 almost 4 years ago

I entered a mistaken value for this changeset. Instead of “Personal survey”, it should have been “Mapillary”. Sorry.

89052650 almost 4 years ago

Please do not add camp sites to the map unless they are official camp sites. Places that are merely "nice place for camp" do not belong on OpenStreetMap. (You can add them on other maps, like iOverlander.)

107278174 almost 4 years ago

No, even if the generic is written on the front of the store, it is rarely the name. You have to look more closely or ask the proprietor for the actual name.

107278174 almost 4 years ago

When you add, for example, a shop=convenience, please do not add a generic name= tag like "Mini market". If you do not know the real name of the shop, then leave the name= tag blank.

104858177 almost 4 years ago

You have added hundreds of POIs in Shkodër, which is great. Things are very well-mapped in this city. However, there is a problem with the name= tags: you did not add the actual name of the POI but the generic description. For example, "Fruta Perime" is not the official name of any of these greengrocers in Shkodër, it is simply the generic for that shop that is already expressed by shop=greengrocer. Similarly, today I found that a shop=butcher you added as "Produkte mishi" should have really been tagged with name=Gëzimi.

If you don't know the actual name of a POI, it is important to leave the name= tag blank. Then, tools like StreetComplete can prompt mappers to determine the real name and add it.

Over the days and weeks I will be removing the generic name= tags from POIs in Shkodër. In other cases, I will be shortening them – for example name=Mini Market "Kristi" should be simply name=Kristi. Since there are many hundreds of nodes to deal with, your help in this would be very appreciated.