Can you be more specific?

Hi, there are a couple problems with these recent changesets. First off, you're using waterway=riverbank, which is deprecated. The current tagging is natural=water + water=river

Additionally, you put a name tag on the river area. River areas should not get a name tag, only the main waterway=river way.

Is this change consistent with osm.wiki/Proposal:_New_York/Highway_Classification ?

While listed in the proposal namespace, it's been so extensively discussed by NY mappers to the point where it's effectively a consensus position.

Looks like the Mumbai boundary is broken, not sure if this change caused the issue or an earlier change...

This changeset broke the city boundary of Anna, TX, are you able to correct it?

Hi, where is this import documented?

If you are looking to register a complaint, that can be directed to the Data Working Group, who can be reached at data@openstreetmap.org

Gandi is simply a domain name registrar. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_registrar

They have nothing to do with the operation of OSM or OSMF. They provide the service of connecting domain names to IP addresses.

If you are interested in the OpenStreetMap Foundation (which isn't "owned" by anyone), you can read more about it here:

https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/

@Avasquez369, OSM isn't owned by a company, it's owned by a non-profit foundation which leaves the day-to-day operations to volunteers, including the frustrated ones on this thread that have seen an influx of Upland users making unwelcome edits.

OSM is a serious project to create a free map of the world with accurate and real-world information. The fact that games or metaverses or whatever use this data is interesting for sure, but ultimately the goal is creating a map.

To that end, we welcome contributions that make the map better, provided that the contributions are accurate and come from sources compatible with our license. This means that NO copying from Google, Yelp, etc. sources are permitted. This is very important because copyright claims are a significant risk to the project.

OpenStreetMap is a volunteer project, not a company.

Hi - the Boise boundary is coming up broken for me, can you check?

It is necessary when other languages are present. It is unnecessary when no other languages are present.

Normally, ramps both to and from a higher classification road would get the higher classification. The usual convention would be that all of the ramps show in this changeset bounding box ought to be motorway_lenth. At least, that is my recollection of how it works.

Does the wiki say otherwise somewhere?

Hello Olabosa and welcome to OSM!

I've reverted all of your map changes. OSM is a serious project to record geographic data :)

Here is a getting started guide and please feel free to reach out with any questions!

https://learnosm.org/en/beginner/

DWG Ticket#2022052110000141

The reason that people have been upset with your edits to businesses is that your edits from all appearances seem to be copying from Google Maps or Yelp. OSM does not allow copying from other maps for a very important reason - the project could be sued for infringing on the copyrights of the other maps, which could shut down the project or cause us to have to perform rather destructive efforts to remove possibly-copyright data. So if it even looks like you're doing that, people will not only be upset with you, but will take strong steps to remove possibly-copyright data.

A good source for information about a business is that business's web site. In this case, it's: http://orchidpavillioncafe.com/

A business's web site is an acceptable way to gather information about that business. In this case, if you visit that web site, you get the phone number, and the house that the restaurant is open!

I have done this, and added tags for the website, phone number, and opening hours here:
osm.org/changeset/121264342

Because you are editing so many POIs in so many places, it's extremely unlikely that you're getting the information from any source other than online. Thus, it's important for you to declare where you found the information. That should be put in the changeset comment. This lets other mappers know that the information is safe to put in OpenStreetMap and doesn't put our project at risk. Additionally, since you've indicated in other forums that you are providing POI edits in exchange for money, mappers are rightly suspicious of your motives for contributing as well as the sincerity of your comments in which you describe where your information is coming from.

I would also suggest that complaining about how other mappers have reacted to your changes in the changeset comments are unlikely to win you friends here. The purpose of the changeset comments are to tell other mappers about the edit you've made, not as a location to air personal grievances.

As I've noted before, if you feel you've been treated unfairly, the correct course of action is to email data@openstreetmap.org with the details so that they can investigate.

I have received a response from the business owner, who indicated that the studio has no curb (public-facing) presence. In order to protect privacy, I've forwarded the business owner's email to the DWG under ticket #2022051910000101 for reference.

As there is no public-facing art gallery or art shop at this location, I am removing the POI.

If you believe that you're being harassed, please contact the Data Working Group (data@openstreetmap.org) with the details so that they can investigate the situation.

OpenStreetMap is not a business directory, it's a geographic database of the observable world. A business that someone operates out of their home is not a "shop". We do not map businesses without some kind of observable presence. Otherwise, the next mapper walking down the street would observe that there is no business there and remove it. This is a very basic principal of OpenStreetMap.

You can read more about the principle of verifiability here:
osm.wiki/Verifiability

This means that some things will not be mapped, and that's okay. Otherwise we would have people adding all sorts of nonsense "because they say so" and that's not acceptable for a project that aims to collect facts.