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27197471 over 10 years ago

Hi there,

Thanks for contributing to OSM, and to the Croydon area! Hope you don't mind if I give a little constructive feedback? (I assume this account is some sort of collaborative effort coordinated by UCL, and I see it's done via Wheelmap too, so I don't know how directly useful this feedback will be, but anyway...)

Firstly, a lot of the new nodes created in this changeset are in the wrong place, there are multiple nodes put in the same place (e.g. Petit cafe and Dons cafe by the junction of Edridge Road and Mason's Avenue -- where in reality there is no retail offering at all! -- this may be a background imagery problem?), and some nodes recreate an existing way and are therefore redundant.

Secondly, there are a few non-standard tags used (e.g. shop=second_hand instead of shop=charity for the British Heart Foundation shop). Whilst this isn't strictly incorrect, as OSM allows any tag values, in practise it causes problems for data consumers as they won't know what values to search for.

If this is a collaborative work, and especially if some collaborators are unfamiliar with OSM, in future it may be worthwhile allocating some time after the main session to do a bit of tidying up of more obvious errors/inconsistencies.

Thanks, and happy mapping,
David.
(aka user Pgd81)