Sorry I accidentally submitted with no comment or source... still getting used to new JOSM interface.

Source is my survey today, as well as Bing and Esri aerial imagery.

Ack, this changeset message should have mentioned Jane Street, not Keele Street - sorry

Hey Andrew, FYI about this change. Thai Home and Amma Roti on Roncesvalles still have their sign up and the sign is lit up at night. But they are closed - the interior is empty and stripped down, including removed flooring. I've marked them as vacant again.

Hello,

I have now restored the crossing you have erroneously deleted with changeset osm.org/changeset/143339479.

Sincerely,
--Jarek

Hello,

You removed the crossing osm.org/way/1202215714/history only a month after I mapped it in osm.org/changeset/140394499 - as that changeset message said, I personally surveyed the intersection as having crossings both sides. Could you please undelete the crossing?

Thanks,
--Jarek

Hi,

Lansdowne Avenue doesn't have a bike lane south of Rideau Avenue - can you re-adjust this please?

Hm, "might be outdated but it's there now" reads confusing. To clarify: the 30 minute loading zone sign is still up here now. It might be unintended by the city, in the sense that it applied earlier but the city doesn't want it to apply anymore; but it hasn't been removed as of yet, so it's there and in practice it's in effect.

Hello,

This edit was incorrect. The Hurontario LRT as it is being built now does not include the downtown detour, only a spur. Please consult at least Wikipedia before making changes in areas you are not familiar with. I made necessary changes in osm.org/changeset/138401399

Cheers,
Jarek

Honestly, this sounds like a feature request for CityStrides: to add support for certain unnamed roads. For example, specifically to add unnamed laneways (in OSM terms: highway=service + service=alley + name is null - see https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1wcL for current map/list of those in Toronto).

As I understand it, CityStrides started as a challenge to run all of a city's streets. Not alleyways. So a decision on whether alleyways should be added should probably be taken by CityStrides.

Until then, you're messing up one website (OSM and its database) to hack a feature onto another website (CityStrides). It appears CityStrides does request you don't do that - see for example https://community.citystrides.com/t/osm-question-streets-with-names-that-arent-really-streets/23023/2 (albeit for the opposite issue to yours) or https://community.citystrides.com/t/changing-duplicate-street-names-in-osm/18952/3 (for whether names in OSM should be modified to fix behaviour in CityStrides).

I'll give an example. A while back, Pokemon GO populated their map of the world from OSM, and set Pokemon spawn points to be in parks. Makes sense because people can go to parks and hang out there. Then people who wanted a spawn point near their house would go on OSM and add a park on their front lawn. Technically a lawn might be greenspace, but on a larger scale, it's pretty obviously misusing the database for your own purposes. Pokemon GO wasn't the only user of the OSM data, and everyone else was getting worse experience.

Hi Matt, I would also be interested in name of this lane. Is "Jesus St" an official name or reference used by the City?

Hi Matt, for this lane specifically, what is the source of this lane being named "Orthodox St"? I have only seen this "name" in Google, but not in any official City document. As you may know, we are not allowed to copy Google's data due to Google's licensing.

Hi Matt,

Welcome to OpenStreetMap.

Yes these are public roadways maintained by the City.

These lanes don't have names. What you are adding are descriptions. "Milky Way" and "St. Francis Lane" are names of some of Toronto's named lanes. "Lane E Sorauren N Fern" is a description that locates a lane.

Similarly, "Jarek Piórkowski" is my name. "Male Child of [my parent's name] Piórkowski" is a description.

OpenStreetMap is a geographic database, so the position of a lane is always known and doesn't need to be described in a name tag.

You will also notice that names like "Milky Way" or "Skey Lane" are posted on official City name signs as you're running past them, unlike the descriptions.

End users have managed these laneways without "names" for decades and I think they will be fine. If identification is needed, City does have a process for naming a laneway.

Your use case of running every single lane in the city is interesting, good luck! It is, however, no reason to introduce incorrect data into a database. In this case, it is also illustrative: you named two different lanes "Lane N Queen W Lansdowne" (the east-west osm.org/way/23225609 and the north-south osm.org/way/23225611) - does running east-west also as running the north-south lane?

At the very least, if you believe the lane's name to be "Lane East Sorauren North Fern" as you wrote above, please use that rather than the abbreviated form "Lane E Sorauren N Fern". And be more careful - you named osm.org/way/462296067 "Lane W Sorauren N Grenadier" even though it extends south of Grenadier Road.

Cheers,
Jarek

Hm, how about keeping the nodes and setting them to disused:railway=tram_stop or whatever instead? Presumably the streetcar will return someday, and it would be nice to have the OSM history kept. Particularly for objects with a long history like osm.org/node/384965394/history

Hi,

A note has been made about this name osm.org/note/3616172, can you follow-up there?

User was previously blocked by DWG and deleted their previous account: osm.org/user_blocks/5327

I have re-reported to DWG, hopefully this can be reverted wholesale.

This railway station is not yet built. User was previously blocked by DWG and deleted their previous account: osm.org/user_blocks/5327

I have re-reported to DWG, hopefully this can be reverted wholesale.

Bradford Bypass is not under active construction. User was previously blocked by DWG and deleted their previous account: osm.org/user_blocks/5327

I have re-reported to DWG.

Hi, thank you for your contributions to bike infrastructure in Toronto. Solid dedication to precision!

I noticed one thing. You mapped plain painted bike lanes as separate ways, for example on Sherbourne north of Bloor, and in an earlier change on Dundas east of Broadview. Paint-only bike lanes, where there isn't a physical separation from the car lanes, should not be mapped as separate ways in OSM. The bike lane information is mapped on the street way itself. This is similar to how car lanes are mapped. Could you change this, please?

Can you also confirm if you have seen my earlier comments on your note near Bloor and Yonge? osm.org/note/3498476

Thanks,
Jarek

Note that OSM meaning of expressway=yes differs from the Ontario English meaning. See osm.wiki/Key:expressway

Hi there! I saw that you used max_age:advisory tag on a playground and I'm just curious how you decided on this tag. Did you find it via Taginfo? Or just going by logic, since max_age tag is documented but playgrounds have "designed for" ages?

I ask because I haven't seen anyone else use max_age:advisory tags so far, so I'm really curious and interested to see someone else use it!