I found this plugin quite handy for adding opening_hours for some of the local fast food places. It was so easy I even added delivery_hours for them as well.

OsmAnd uses the destination tag. I don’t know about exit_to.

I could never work out how putting information on a node could easily be calculated about which way(s) the information applied to, so haven’t used it. Perhaps OK on say motorways and interstates (if you haven’t had to split the interstate at that node for a change in the number of lanes, or similar) where you only have one way actually starting at that node, but not for general use.

Not related to the translation (my French isn’t good enough, sorry), but it only seems to show pubs that are nodes (and not pubs that are areas, or probably multipolygons - though I can’t think of any to check), and in the area I checked it is showing cafés as having beer which in England at least is rare. Another UK oddity might be real_ale=yes/no/* which if you’re going global would be of some interest to that particular target audience.

Ah, I see the change from “should” to “must” was recent.

I suspect if they are mapped according to the instructions in the wiki they still show. Around here all boundaries are also relation based, but the key point in the wiki is you also need the highest level admin_level (so lowest value) on the boundary ways.

You still have z19 which is pretty good (and the best I have here after I also lost the higher res zooms). Hopefully you’ll check at intervals to see if an updated higher res layer becomes available (my theory is that Bing is expiring imagery over a certain age, as it seems to be missing from their site too, at least in the two or three cases I’ve checked previously - the highest resolution here was older than the z19 stuff).

In case you aren’t aware of it, one of the many ITO Maps available shows sidewalk/footway coverage. Click the “key” top left to see what the different colours mean.

Locally, I (now try and only) add buildings as I add the surveyed addresses (there are a few buildings mapped from before I did this though). It helps keep track of where still needs surveying.

I agree with you about shops. I was in Pier Avenue, Clacton the other day which is somewhere where I had mapped the shops previously, and updated them once in mid-summer this year. I noticed an empty one which I didn’t remember so took a panoramic shot of one side of the road with my phone. I think there were 3 or 4 shops that needed updating. But again, it is much easier to update the tags on an already mapped shop than mapping it from scratch, so having them mapped hopefully makes it easier for new people to start contributing to OSM.

When I first started mapping addresses there was no aerial imagery so I did each address as a separate node (in the UK this is). Once OS OpenData StreetView and later Bing imagery was available I gradually replaced these by buildings with addresses on the way, based mainly on One feature, one OSM element as having the building and the address of the building separate just felt wrong.

I occasionally use addresses on nodes still. One example being where there are two or more shops in a building with a shared entrance.

I also tend to generally map what is at ground level, so haven’t yet worried too much about where there are shops on the ground level and residences above them. There is one particular row of shops where I know this to be the case and for now I’ve only mapped the shops. To survey the properties above I’d have to go through a private gate, up a flight of stairs, then along an alley on the top of the flat shop roofs. Just a bit too private for me.

The example on the amenity=school page mentioned above is pretty good, but it isn’t clear where to put the address tags. I suspect the area that is tagged amenity=school is the most logical, especially where a single school has multiple buildings.

Coastlines have updated and Skye is back (some tiles might still show as blue if they haven’t been rerendered since the update).

I suspect this fix was too late to make the latest set of coastlines and it will get fixed at the next update.

Perhaps it is a copyright message ;)

If you’re happy it has been mapped properly, I noticed someone added this note earlier so you could close it.

It seems I can’t edit previous comments. It sets the start date/time to 01/01/1900 00:00:00Z and counts up in seconds.

In case it is of interest, GPX_Editor has a menu option to anonymise the times (I’ve not tried the option so don’t know exactly what it does).

Ed

Their main menu is labelled “Harvester Salad and Grill” in the logo, as are the logos on their website, so if I were to use the cuisine tag I’d use cuisine=salad_and_grill (in the style of fish_and_chips). This would fall under the “user defined” category on the wiki page you link to.

Hey, Harry, why aren’t your photos horizontal rather than vertical. My scroll finger is getting RSI…

If it is the Somerset Levels National Nature Reserve boundary you wanted, then the boundary will be available in their data downloads section which are licensed as OGL and so compatible with Openstreetmap’s ODbL licence. I’ve probably got a copy here somewhere (as at May 2012 when I downloaded loads of zips).

You’ll probably carry on getting similar messages while you are tagging things wrongly. Read some of the other links made in other comments. What you are doing is fine, but it is the way you are tagging things that is causing the problems, so just find a way of tagging things which works for everyone.