(example above is from Poland - but I expect that Australia also has cases where official road classification is not matching osm tags 1:1)

what if a government somewhere comes along and says “heres what our roads are feel free to use this”

This does not mean we are obligated to follow official classification.

Especially where official classification is clearly not matching current road importance or its role.

And for your information: Google does the same.

See say https://www.google.pl/maps/place/Droga+wojew%C3%B3dzka+nr+219/@53.8396301,18.788883,20z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x4702a349a195d2af:0x8ffd8c570ebf5f14!8m2!3d53.8396253!4d18.7893886!16s%2Fg%2F11vc8k5xk4?hl=en&entry=ttu case.

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droga_wojew%C3%B3dzka_nr_219

osm.org/way/264203873 and osm.org/way/1199402239#map=17/53.83911/18.79006 have the same official classification (Droga Wojewódzka).

And to get client_id and client_secret - visit osm.org/oauth2/applications

Or https://master.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/oauth2/applications - I guess, for test server

If you have an official map, maybe the official centerline is the best.

no, we are mapping reality

if reality and official map diverges, then we should ignore official map

if they match then we can just follow reality

1) “Am I helping or hurting by uploading GPS traces with poor accuracy?”

if it is sort-of-matching-reality I think it is still helpful. It may in general full in bucket of “people not caring at all do low-quality stuff, people caring more refuse to do medium-quality stuff”.

And in this case having more traces is better I think, unless they are terribly bad or from travelling not on paths/roads.

2) AFAIK old data is stuck.

3) “My 100th daily walk along the same route as always?”

fine to upload, but with very diminished usability

“Off-trail wilderness exploration? Airplane flight path?”

actively harmful

I quite like it, especially two lowest levels :)

https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/867#issuecomment-1889898618 mentions that it will stop various places to ask directly to passwords

I must say that looking at https://github.com/metaodi/osmapi/issues/144 and https://github.com/metaodi/osmapi/blob/develop/examples/oauth2.py this looks really annoying and laborious in practice for someone using scripts :(

Thanks to all people who contributed!

Note that problem is not specifically about abandoned=yes (which is fine in some cases, like quarries)

It is also about say proposed=yes ( https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/proposed=yes#overview ) and many other similar tags

Oh, and it is also danger of being to edit happy and then damaging data more than improving it (or ending with case where others think it happened due to lacking or missing communication). This also happened recently to me and I am still fixing it.

See also osm.wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct

for first link target was supposed to be https://codeberg.org/matkoniecz/OpenStreetMap_cleanup_scripts/src/branch/master/script_assisted_cleanup/obviously_mistagged_tags_using_trivial_tag_fixes.py

Note that (based on my own experience) it is easy to fall into trap of finding a lot of things to fix then not managing to fix even small part of that.

So I would encourage to balance fixing/finding things to fix.

(BTW, I have obviously_mistagged_tags_using_trivial_tag_fixes.py and obviously_mistagged_tags_using_wrong_keys.py )

SCEE is also from F-droid, maybe only from F-droid

Sometimes it takes multiple seconds to load page of text on modern laptop with 16GB RAM.

Discourse is simply incredibly slow, bloated and poorly optimized like large part of software nowadays.

I am confused by

it would introduce the concession (and all the more so if it is accompanied by a local chapter status) of a monopoly of the use of the OSM trademark on a territory to an economic structure

Why you consider it as giving monopoly on the use of the OSM trademark on any territory? There are no plans at all to revoke other OpenStreetMap trademark agreements in France.

I suspect that automatic translation failed here, but sadly I do not speak French.

maybe something indicating that you map some specific topic?

MapEverything? DeepMap? MapLens? MapTelescope?

It may be a good idea to post about it on https://community.openstreetmap.org/ and/or submit it to Weekly OSM and/or post on dev mailing list.

related:wikipedia - maybe a better name can be invented? I am pretty sure that with such name sooner or later someone will add related:wikipedia=en:Building to every single building or something similar.

Maybe just link wikidata where there is no Wikipedia article?

Propozycja: listuj te OK w osobnej liści na końcu by nie mieć ekranów “1 jest OK” itd.

W https://matkoniecz.github.io/OSM-wikipedia-tag-validator-reports/ to fajnie działa.

Może https://starsep.com/osm-wtp/ by mogło stronę na githubie linkować?