Hi. The quad is on a rooftop. I'm not sure what the best way to tag that is, but I think it should still be mapped as a building first.

Hi. This changeset seems to have deleted the buildings you had added. Just as a heads up, assuming it wasn't intentional.

Hi! I have a question about the mapping of the Oxford LTNs.
I was wondering whether introducing a fictional cycle path segment is the appropriate way. Wouldn't having bollards mapped on the road path -- with appropriate access tags -- be more accurate and usable?
Thanks.

Sure. I reverted the changeset (osm.org/changeset/120013272), which should be cleaner that a manual correction (there was also a minor error in a footpath).
Enjoy mapping. All the best.

No worries. Thanks for asking clarification. Let me know if you need help with reverting the changeset.

Hi! The note is saying: this road is officially designated as primary, but it is de facto a tertiary road; therefore, we decided to map the reality on the ground (tertiary), and not that on paper (primary), consistently with OSM principles.
I personally agree with the note – mapping St Aldate's and the High Street as a primary road is misleading. From the note, it sounds like there was some deliberation on that, so I think it is best to revert your change, and you can re-open a discussion if you feel strongly about it.

Grazie per la risposta. Ero curioso di sapere se vi fosse stata una discussione più approfondita sul caso (purtroppo non seguo i luoghi di discussione italiani). Un criterio così meccanico, senza relazione al luogo, può essere in contrasto con altri principi della mappa.

Dalla più generica wiki internazionale (osm.wiki/Tag%3Aplace%3Dcity#place.3Dcity_vs_place.3Dtown):

> In some regions, the population of settlements is used to differentiate place=town and place=city, but this practice varies between countries. In sparsely populated regions, many settlements tagged place=city are less populous than in regions with high population density.

Questo si potrebbe applicare alle province italiane di montagna, dove questi centri abitati (chiamati localmente città, per distinguerli dai paesi) hanno una rilevanza ben maggiore rispetto a ben più popolose "town" della periferia di Milano, per fare un esempio.

> As of mid 2019, 63% of place=city have a population=* tag, of which the median value is 130,000, and 95% of place=city have a population=* value over 20,000. However, 13% have a population=* value between 20,000 and 50,000.

I confronti internazionali possono essere difficili, perché i calcoli di popolazione variano con diverse dimensioni dei comuni di riferimento, ma secondo le statische sopra, l'uso per centri più piccoli non è poi così raro.

(Bisogna poi vedere se i valori di popolazione sono corretti o aggiornati).

Ciao.

Ciao. Potresti fornire una fonte su dove è stato raggiunto consenso su questo criterio?
Grazie.

Hi. Thanks for your fixes to swimming pool tags. However, if possible, I would like to encourage some more care in checking the local cases.

In this example, the building exists but is disused, so the amenity does not. In a nearby case in Swinford, it was a swimming pool maintenance company in a commercial area (it also moved to a new location), not a swimming pool. I corrected both.

Best wishes.

"Oxford City Centre" is an 'alt_name' in this relation osm.org/relation/13028443 so I thought it would appear in a search. Perhaps the same could be done with the node? I think "City Centre" is the best name for the suburb object (not all cities have mapped their centre suburb, but if they do it's without repetition of the city name, e.g. Bristol osm.org/node/6126689739 ; the same is true for cities in other countries). But an 'alt_name' which includes the city name can help with searches.

This is to refer to the whole part of the city, including most of the central colleges and some residential areas, not just the retail area.
If you want to refer to the retail area only, like in the Reading example, then the name tag would go on the retail area object which covers Cornmarket, etc., not on the suburb.
I guess it is possible, but I am not sure that it would be totally appropriate in this case, since the overall retail area is more specifically divided already in Covered Market, Clarendon Centre, Westgate, Castle quarter.

So, if you agree I would leave "City Centre" as primary name and include "Oxford City Centre" as alt_name for the suburb.

Thanks for your contribution to the map. Have fun. All the best.

Hi. I personally think this is superfluous, given its location. Also it doesn't seem consistent with the local use, nor with how the node is named in most other cities I have seen.

Hi. Would the 'informal' tag work here? osm.wiki/Key:informal
Having this kind of footpaths mapped could be useful for routing purposes.

Hi. Welcome and thank you for your mapping contributions.
Some of the names tagged here for sport pitches, etc., seem too generic. Unless those are the actual proper names used locally in Wolfson, they are best avoided since the information is already contained in their identifying tags.
See: osm.wiki/Good_practice#Don.27t_use_name_tag_to_describe_things

Hi – 'farmland' is normally used for arable fields with crops; 'meadow' for hay meadows and pasture, which seems more appropriate here.

As far as I know, the name has been historically used for this location, for the fields and the associated part of the river -- the etymology should be that of a "middle island" (with an ending common to Binsey, Osney, Hinksey, -- or perhaps alternatively of a clearing/pasture, like in Iffley, Cowley, etc.?). Compared to those other toponyms, Medley is less commonly known or used today, because it lacks a proper settlement beyond what was its manor and is now the farm.
It might be considered slightly historical or obsolete, but today you can still see it used to name other local features like the footbridge, the sailing club, even chosen for the new beer-garden, and it is still commonly used by (at least some) people. (Maybe a few more others will from now on?).

I don't have a proper reference at the moment, but this is one indicative example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medley_Footbridge. An internet search will show others.

I will edit it back, thanks!

All the best.

Hello. I think it is worth keeping 'Medley' as the toponym. It is the proper name of this place. The name of the manor farm, which derives from it, is already applied to the farmyard area object instead.

Changeset reverted: osm.org/changeset/104123346

Great, I wasn't actually sure. Thanks for double checking!

Hi. Just to double check: do you know this based on local knowledge or a survey in the college? The aerial photos are out of date. I thought the car park was turned into a tennis court and not vice versa (unless it's been changed again in the last few months).

Hi. Is this accurate? I believe you have restored the old status of the area: that building has been demolished and the shops closed. The construction area you updated is what is on the ground, still not finished as far as I know, and part of Jesus College. Please give more information or the changeset needs to be reverted I think.