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162990157 3 months ago

This was already mapped [here](osm.org/node/12512826096) in the correct location. I'll move the non-duplicated tags over and delete this node.

156068007 10 months ago

You beat me to it! I just discovered these bike lanes on my own. They're nice!

146229659 10 months ago

Why the reversion? At least one of these edits (the one I'm looking at at the moment) was valid and helpful.

155761011 about 1 year ago

Yeah, sorry about that! I did realize a couple days after that it hadn't actually been completed yet, but I thought I saw them blocking things off for painting at that point so I just left it. Maybe that was just preparatory for the resurfacing though.

128015193 almost 2 years ago

Well I'll be! I hadn't seen any indication of this plan on the site, but it does look like that could be a new stop location
https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-programs/kitchener-line-go-expansion

137770585 about 2 years ago

Source? I've never heard it called this.

137428736 about 2 years ago

Hi Matt,
Apologies for the brevity of my earlier message. I saw your edits coming in but didn't have time just then for more constructive criticism. Thanks Jarek for jumping in to fill that gap!

One way I'd suggest thinking about the namelessness here is that these are service roads, and most service roads actually don't have names. Private or semi-private driveways for example very rarely would be named. I wouldn't want to see osm.org/way/232723249 for example called "No Frills Driveway" or something like that. Where would it stop? Would the parking aisles have names too? "Easternmost North-South No Frills Parking Aisle" etc

Also, from the perspective of someone potentially using these names/descriptions to help navigate, I would think these would create confusion if anything. There's no indication of these names in physical reality, so if you were expecting that you might think you were in the wrong place. Better to have a direction like "turn left onto the unnamed alley" as an unnamed alley is what you would actually see.

Definitely not writing on behalf of the City by the way; the City has no say over what's right for OSM. Nor does Google Maps or any else for that matter.

Here's a good rundown of how to use the "name" tag: osm.wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only
It appears there's actually a tag to indicate namelessness too osm.wiki/Tag:noname%3Dyes which should probably be added to most of the city's alleys and might help to prevent some confusion in the future.

Best,
Nate

137428736 about 2 years ago

Please stop adding these names to alleys. These alleys do not have names. There are no signs and no one calls them by these names.

135856515 over 2 years ago

Just confirming; it looks like the conditional was from before the King Corridor rules, so would have been replaced by those.

135596405 over 2 years ago

I agree; I probably shouldn't have deleted that node, and I'm pretty sure I ended up keeping most other stops / platform areas (contra public_transport=stop_position's which I did consistently remove) in later edits.

They'll mostly be served by the bus replacements, so can be converted into bus stops while maintaining the history. In other cases, they'll probably still be marked by shelters or other infrastructure, even if unused and can use your proposed tagging.

I'll have a try at resurrecting that later this evening, if you don't beat me to it.

132901700 over 2 years ago

I say go for it! Especially if you have some actual familiarity with the street / area.

Most parts of Toronto could really use a lot more local attention. I know a ton of data was brought in by andrewpmk and others ages ago and much of it hasn't received too much tending since then. Lots of stuff is outdated or was imported and never fully verified against local knowledge.

132901700 over 2 years ago

Hmmm. I just took a look at the change history, and I don't think I was the one that added that tag. It looks like it was added ~8 years ago by andrewpmk.

osm.org/way/4663240/history

You may well be right; while not a decent place to ride a bike, you could presumably enter/exit at Transit Road before it becomes an expressway.

118785834 over 2 years ago

I've reverted this in changeset #129942938, restoring the mall's mostly demolished state. I think you may have traced it back in from outdated imagery. It's well on its way to being condos now.

128206179 almost 3 years ago

Thanks for fixing this!

122598321 about 3 years ago

Do you have a source for the name "Anita's Field? I live right next to this and have never heard this name.

115988697 over 3 years ago

Apologies for stepping on any toes. My impression was that the regional municipality was going as "Halifax" and that the previous city boundary was now defunct as an administrative boundary, but kept around perhaps as a statistical unit, similar to Old Toronto: osm.org/relation/2989349

Halifax.ca seems to indicate that this is the case, as does the English Wikipedia page for "Halifax, Nova Scotia": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia

A search for "Halifax" in Nominatim currently returns the historical city boundary, not the current amalgamated boundary. Is that the desired outcome?

115988697 over 3 years ago

There's no place called "Halifax"?
Wikipedia and Wikidata disagree. I'm sure it has a longer official name, but do people actually not just call it "Halifax"?

114532481 over 3 years ago

I've reverted this changeset in changeset 114540378. I'm not sure what all changes were attempted here, but it left both India and Pakistan border relations in an invalid state. There was an open gap in their shared border. I'm not familiar enough with the region to assess the the quality of other edits so I thought it was safest to revert rather than manually bridging the gap myself.

109751313 about 4 years ago

See also note: osm.org/note/2805986

108434147 about 4 years ago

I reverted this changeset because it broke the city's boundary relation.