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3519884 over 8 years ago

Your tagging of Neal's Yard as a mall is being discussed in osm.org/note/890406

It is definitely not a mall, as the walkways are open and the shops are separate buildings.

46994297 over 8 years ago

This changeset is being discussed on https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=58269

29878690 over 8 years ago

These may be good questions for the forum, but, from your description, I think I would look into natural=cliff for the sheer drop but only for that part of the boundary where it applies, and some variation on wetland= for the area.

I'm a little surprised that a sheer drop of 2m would be allowed in a municipal park without fencing.

Ditch doesn't work, because it would mean that the cross-section, dropped for about a metre, or less, returned to the original level, and dropped again, for about a metre, on the other side.

48334140 over 8 years ago

Oops. Re-issued against the correct changeset.

25785748 over 8 years ago

Littleover School Sixth Form looks like a description of the building, not its name. In that case, please see osm.wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only

48334140 over 8 years ago

This looks like a description of the building, not its name. In that case, please see osm.wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only

47950158 over 8 years ago

Please be more careful to look what is already mapped before you make changes. Someone has already had to reverse your change of some woodland in a park to being just a park, and I'm about to remove three unnamed nodes that correspond to parks that are already mapped as areas.

Some of your other changesets look wrong, e.g. marking what could, at best, be graffiti, as tourist attractions. Normal criminal damage should not be mapped at all.

You also seem to have moved a footpath so that it crossed roads, when it was already accurately mapped, according to Bing. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I would have to assume that you believed a GPS receiver at time of poor coverage, over what was already mapped.

Some people are treating these as malicious, although I'm hoping it is just a case of inexperience. See https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=644517#p644517

If you can explain what you intended to do(probably best done on the forum), someone can help guide you in how to do it properly. Also, as noted in that thread, there is a large OSM community in Derby that you can meet in person, as long as you are allowed in a pub.

29878690 over 8 years ago

Ditches are linear features that are impassible on foot. Looking at the Bing imagery, it looks like what has been mapped here are area features, representing a depression. ditch cannot be used on an area.

It's difficult to be sure, but it also looks like these are not impassable,

48337508 over 8 years ago

This changeset is being discussed on https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=644335

25379694 over 8 years ago

Not sure if anyone reads feedback on this account, but it looks to me as though someone confused the Federation Square bicycle rental station, in Melbourne, with the square itself.

Bicycle rental stations are not particularly useful for wheelchair users!

The error seems to have been compounded in later edits.

47004633 over 8 years ago

As a general rule one should not abbreviate names. If they need rendering, that should be done by the map renderer. 52nd Ave Bike Blvd should be 52nd Avenue Bike Boulevard.

osm.wiki/Names#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29

If a shorter, but ambiguous name is used locally, you can provide a short_name, but even then abbreviating words is probably not a good idea.

47365222 over 8 years ago

The changeset comment does not match the full scope of this change. It also includes changes in Greece.

41594786 over 8 years ago

"Photography" sounds more like the name of a department than a building. In which case, it is probably better to leave the building unnamed and map the department as a POI or as an area of interest. Finance & Registry is probably hte same.

41594786 over 8 years ago

There is no building visible on Bing at the position of the building with the name "Courtyard". Also, courtyard sounds like a description of what is actually there, rather than its name. It might just be possible for me to veriify the absence of a building there, from a public right of way, but I'm not going to be able to get close enough to see what is actually there.

41594786 over 8 years ago

Canteen sounds more like a description than a name, in which case it should be un-named.

41594786 over 8 years ago

Nice to see that someone in the local Uni is taking an interest in the map, however:

Block J seems to have another building on top of it, at the same layer. When you mapped it, you should have corrected the existing Graphics Art building, which was probably never a building in the first place.

Also, is this building really named Block J, or is J simply a ref= or addr:unit?:

Also, please indicate the source of your naming in either the changeset comment or a source tag, as Bing does not provide this. "Local knowledge" is OK, if you are a student or administrator.

47315956 over 8 years ago

addr:housename is not appropriate for a trading estate; addr:place may be right. Also the web site gives the information needed for addr:unit.

In addition, if it is possible to deduce the boundary, with reasonable accuracy , it would be useful to map the name and extent of the trading estate (as an appropriate landuse). I would also think it would be possible to provide an address for the building.

Trading estates tend to be be private land and road on them not public highways, so it might also be worth looking into the access status of the roads.

47180847 over 8 years ago

You are still creating changesets with only "Bing" in the comment. Please outline what you are doing, why you are doing it, and either in the comment, or source tags, from where you got the information.

46617683 over 8 years ago

1) Please see https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=638440#p638440 as something suspicious has happened to the buildings mapped in this changeset.

2) Are you sure that b2 is the name of the building, rather than part of its address, or a reference. House names are normally real words.

3) building2, as a changeset comment, doesn't really make sense at the sort of scale where changeset comments are useful.

4) Bing, as a source, would not be able to tell you it was b2, so you should have included a source for the name, as well as the geometry.

As a new mapper, in an country with very few mappers, I hope you are not put off by the questionable deletion of your mapping. Such problems are usually fixed by the community within a few days, once discovered.

Also please take the rest of comments as advice on how you can make an even more useful contribution.

29266147 over 8 years ago

Is the masjid really called just Masjid and only named in English? If you don't know the correct name, you should not supply a name.

Also, please include changeset outlining the details of the changeset. Use whatever language is most comfortable for you.