Is the name perhaps a problem? We already have https://openstreetmap.community/ (“OSM Communities”) and https://community.openstreetmap.org/ (“OpenStreetMap Community Forum”).

pedestrian <> footway ?

I’m not entirely sure what the question is there if it is “is a highway=pedestrian the same as highway=footway” the answer is “no it isn’t”, even though the default access rights I’m suggesting (in the absence of other tags) are the same.

the vexed issues of highway=track and highway=service

I was planning to do that in a follow-up diary to avoid confusing the message in this one with different designations and ORPAs etc…

Please don’t get too creative. To take a recent example, I can’t see anything underneath osm.org/way/1300140005 at all.

Perhaps other people should try going to https://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=id#map=19/-14.74891/-75.07396 (after creating an account on the api06 dev server) and seeing if they can see anything in the underlying imagery there?

You need to go to https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments.php?uid=10216874

Click on a changeset there, such as osm.org/changeset/151640770

For each changeset, read the comments.

Type your reply on the box.

Click “comment”.

You have just emailed me saying “I was adding new roads and other features to the map based on new imagery”.

However, let me repeat:

Lots of people have commented on your changesets. These will have been emailed to you and you can also see them at https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments.php?uid=10216874 . When osm.org/user_blocks/16396 expires, please do comment on these changesets in reply.

You have just emailed me saying “I was connecting the powerlines to substations and adding detail”. However, let me repeat:

Lots of people have commented on your changesets. These will have been emailed to you and you can also see them at https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments.php?uid=10216874 . When osm.org/user_blocks/16396 expires, please do comment on these changesets in reply.

Best Regards,

Andy Townsend, on behalf of OSM’s Data Working Group.

Hello Maps Man,

Lots of people have commented on your changesets. These will have been emailed to you and you can also see them at https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments.php?uid=10216874 . When osm.org/user_blocks/16396 expires, please do comment on these changesets in reply.

Best Regards,

Andy Townsend, on behalf of OSM’s Data Working Group.

As I write this comment, what this diary entry currently says is a gross distortion of what actually happened.

Do you have anything positive to offer this community or merely just more trolling and untruths?

Before thinking about making any further changes, please discuss your existing ones with the people that have commented on them. These will have been emailed to you and you can also see them at https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments.php?uid=10216874 . Please do comment on these changesets in reply.

In addition, please use good changeset comments, not just things like “Updates to the map”. See osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments .

OpenStreetMap is a shared map, and we need to work together to update it. You are ignoring everyone else - that is not OK.

You’ve ignored that, so I’ve sent osm.org/user_blocks/16311 .

Lots of people have commented on your changesets. These will have been emailed to you and you can also see them at https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments.php?uid=10216874 . Please do comment on these changesets in reply.

@gileri - If you’d like to have a wider discussion about the moderation of diary entries, or believe specific punishments should be “hard-coded” into OSMF rules I’d suggest that the forum (perhaps at https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/osmf/41 ) would make much more sense than here.

I’ve hidden four comments above that didn’t actually add any value to the discussion (or replied to those comments and wouldn’t make sense without them).

One of those comments did ask “Now let’s see where the mods stand on the issue”. For completeness we didn’t actually get a report about this (at least not yet) - I just happened to notice that this diary entry had comments and expected problems.

You’re supposed to read the messages on your screen!

I sent osm.org/user_blocks/16298 as a message that you had to read before continuing to edit. Please read it now…

Please see https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/have-you-spotted-vandalism-on-openstreetmap-org/114684 at the top of the Help and support area of the forum.

Please see https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/have-you-spotted-vandalism-on-openstreetmap-org/114684 at the top of the Help and support area of the forum.

For the recent “straight line” vandalism, see https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/the-osm-standard-tile-layer-looks-wrong-white-lines-abusive-comments-etc/111583/305 . If you are aware of other problems (deleting data etc.) please email data@openstreetmap.org .

Actually the osm-carto style is one of most sophisticated map styles out there.

Indeed - it’s designed at least partly as a mapper feedback layer. That’s one reason why it’s a particularly poor choice for our imaginary pizza delivery company - they just want something that shows roads, conurbations and maybe a few other bits and pieces. It doesn’t need to show shops of offices, or the type of farmland, or museums, or…

See here.

For some context about this user’s current status, which may have led to this diary entry, see osm.org/user/Barroszt/blocks .

To summarise, they changed their username to something deemed offensive and started make name changes in Ukraine to old Russian-derived values - see https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-about-limit-new-accounts/101656/233 .

Their block was revoked after they promised not to do this again.

They did it again (invalid name changes), and were blocked again, this time for a week.

They did it again (invalid name changes), and were blocked again, and this block is currently in effect with 13 days still to run.

The user has been pestering me and the DWG ticket Ticket#2023102010000113 with requests to be unblocked, but that’s not going to happen until the current block expires.

– Andy from the Data Working Group