It's a developing situation. Here's an overview of the current discussion: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/multiple-delimited-names-in-the-name-tag/6803/225

No accusations of vandalism have been made.

In the US we've been using semicolons to delimit multiple names of equal importance. For the predominantly Hasidic Jewish municipalities in NY, where Yiddish is prevalent in day-to-day communication, the Yiddish name should be present in name=*.

See discussion on reverted changeset osm.org/changeset/130999959

Hi Adam and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

While Orting may be considered a city by the state of Washington, it is not a city for OSM purposes. On OSM, we classify places as cities, towns, villages or hamlets based on their population and regional prominence. With a population of less than 10,000, Orting is properly classified as a village according to US tagging guidelines: osm.wiki/United_States/Tags#Places

Your other edits look great! Let me know if you have any questions.

Reverted here: osm.org/changeset/132021072

Hi mblumber and thank you for your contributions! I appreciate your attention to detail.

I noticed you had merged the train station node for Basking Ridge with the building outline. Station buildings are just one part of stations—when stations are mapped as areas, they should encompass the whole station grounds, not just the building. railway=station on building=* is usually a tagging error.

Would you mind re-separating the station and building according to tagging guidelines?

-Clay

I think that's meant to be from the AirTrain walkway to platform level. I'm not local to NYC and I haven't been to Jamaica station in years, so if you have more context on the stairs and escalators, feel free to fix them.

Hi jmarchon,

It looks like you merged the train station node with the building outline here. railway=station with building=* is usually a tagging error. Station buildings are just one part of train stations—if a station is mapped as an area, it should cover the whole station grounds, not just the building.

Was this intentional? Could you please re-separate the station and the building?

-Clay

Reverted here: osm.org/changeset/131859931

Reverted here: osm.org/changeset/131859931

Discussion here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/mapping-small-special-exclaves-of-symbolic-but-legal-foreign-ownership/7771/5

Reverted here: osm.org/changeset/131698124

Discussion here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/mapping-small-special-exclaves-of-symbolic-but-legal-foreign-ownership/7771/5

Reverted here: osm.org/changeset/131698124

Discussion here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/mapping-small-special-exclaves-of-symbolic-but-legal-foreign-ownership/7771/5

Hi Wes0,

In this changeset and this other one osm.org/changeset/129967189 I noticed that the station nodes for Lyndhurst and Kingsland were deleted, and railway=station was added to the corresponding station buildings. According to OSM guidelines, railway=station as an area must represent the station grounds, not the station building: osm.wiki/Tag:railway%3Dstation

Were these changes intentional? Could you please undo them?

-Clay

No response; reverted here: osm.org/changeset/130394324

Hi ppjj. The Yiddish names of these villages is already in name:yi, as you mention here, but the English name was already in name:en as well. Why did you remove the Yiddish part from the name tag?

Hi Naren_PR and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

The E-470 Toll Road is not a state highway of Colorado. The previous tagging was correct, according to the state tagging guidelines: osm.wiki/Colorado/State_Highway_Relations

Unfortunately, I've had to revert your change here: osm.org/changeset/129497696

Let me know if you have any questions.

-Clay

Looks fantastic! Thanks for making these updates.

> According to source source 1: "It is also perfectly fine and normal to be motivated that something is displayed and rendered."

We all want our edits to show up on the map. That's all that's saying. What's important is that we don't input incorrect data to make things show up a certain way on a particular renderer.

> In the long term, this minuscule differentiation makes no meaningful difference for users and map interpreters if they ever seem to fix it eventually anyway.

You'd be surprised about how much these details matter. Wheelchair users must pass through a curb cut to go from the street to the pedestrian area, but as this plaza is currently mapped, it appears as if there is no curb and a wheelchair user can seamlessly pass from the street to the plaza. Public transit stations are a high-priority area for pedestrian and wheelchair mapping, so the more accurate the better.

Thanks for changing the station name back to Rahway. Generally, we do not change the names of things just because something else has the same name nearby—a good OSM renderer, like the standard one you see on this website, will apply different styles to different things, so it should be unambiguous which Rahway is a municipality or a train station.

As for the pedestrian area, the "space unaccounted for" is still part of the roadway and not the pedestrian area. Consider using the area:highway tag [1] to map areas of roadway instead. Note that support for this tag is experimental, and it doesn't show up on the standard renderer. But OSM is a database, and we don't map things for one specific renderer [2]. I would also suggest adding the crosswalks leading into this area, to keep pedestrian routing connected.

If you're not already on the OSM-US Slack [3], I'd like to extend you an invite. This is where a lot of the US mapping community discusses and comes to a consensus on mapping practices. Join us!

[1] osm.wiki/Key:area:highway

[2] osm.wiki/Lying_to_the_renderer

[3] https://slack.openstreetmap.us/

Hi there. It's been a few days, so I'm just sending a reminder in case you forgot about this. I'd appreciate hearing from you about your mapping work.