FYI the "official name" tag is used where a more common name is the one is typically used. It's not actually very common to need to tag something with "official_name=*".

Road names in Calgary should be "<Name> <Road type> <QD>", where 'QD' is the quadrant abbreviated to two letters. E.g. this road actually is named Edworthy Street, not Patrick Avenue (no idea where that came from), so the name as it should appear in the tag is "Edworthy Street SW". (I've already made this change.)

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FYI I have removed the "old name" tag from Battalion Park. I think you may have misinterpreted the wikipedia article about this park. The soldiers who hauled the rocks and deposited them on the hillside here trained at Camp Sarcee, but Camp Sarcee (or "Sarcee Camp") was not here: it was located southeast, roughly where the Grey Eagle Casino is now. The camp eventually became Sarcee Barracks, later Harvey Barracks (part of CFB Calgary), before being returned to the Tsuut'ina in 1998.

I have deleted the "building" and restored the parking aisles myself.

Please be more careful in future about simply tracing from satellite imagery.

Hi Ido Marom. With this changeset you have deleted several parking aisles and replaced them with a new "building" (osm.org/way/826183208) at 12th Ave & Macleod Tr SE. This "building" was merely a temporary tent that was set up on the site for about four weeks last summer. The tent no longer exists; the parking lot is still extant. Can you please revert these changes and put it back to the way you found it? Thanks in advance

Don't be shy, Frederik. After all you weren't helpful a year ago, so I see no reason why you should begin self-censoring your useless comments now. Quoted for posterity:

"If telling an experienced mapper not to call other projectmembers "useless gits" in public amounts to "alienating (that experienced mapper) with patronizing arrogance" then I think there is a perception problem.

Just because you're an experienced mapper doesn't mean you can't make mistakes, and if you make mistakes, it is normal for other - even less experienced! - people to make you aware of them. Trying to invoke seniority in such situations is a sign of weakness."

That you dredged this up and swiftly deleted it goes to show that you're completely oblivious. It was never about someone trying to "make me aware of my mistakes", it was about Rodrigo Hausen being a petty jerk because I dared to question his destructive changes elsewhere in the first place. He wasn't trying to be helpful, he was trying to find any perceived mistake he could and add fixme tags (see osm.org/changeset/68003404) in order to exact some sort of retribution for deigning to question him. You were oblivious to this then, and are still oblivious now.

More than that I think what bothers me most is your closing line, "... reviving it now doesn't help anyone. Sorry." Save your insincere "sorry" for some so who'll believe it. You're not sorry for what you said—you're not apologetic for being a massive hypocrite and calling me "weak"—you're only sorry that you didn't notice how old the comment string was. You're only sorry you made yourself look like a fool.

I stand by what I said before: you are pompous and arrogant. I just hope you'll learn to correct this mistake in the way you interact with people. It is normal for other people such as myself to make you aware of your mistakes.

Hi there, N_A_P. In order to tag road segments as bus-only you can add a bus=designated tag to it. Land use tags should only be used on areas, not ways, which is why your changeset has a "mismatched geometry: area as line" warning. Otherwise your tagging looks good!

I did however delete the maxspeed=20 tag though; are you sure this actually has a posted 20 km/h speed limit? I don't recall it having any posted speed limit.

Your changesets 808850608 and 85845160 have also screwed things up. the bike path had been realigned in 2018. *sigh*

Can you please revert your changes?

Pedro, you were working off of Bing satellite imagery that is over two years old. You didn't fix anything here, you just screwed it up...

Hi there, just a heads up: the address of this building was already correct, so I've reverted your change. 1910 7th Street is the neighbouring property's address.

Hi there, just a heads up that you inadvertently pulled a node connected a couple parking aisles across the map (I've fixed it). Friendly reminder to be mindful of not doing that; I'm sure we all have at one point or another.

This "was not on the map" because it does not exist.

Hello again. I noticed you added the outline of the former quarry that was on Nose Hill. It's true that there once was a quarry there, but OSM is for mapping things that are "both real and current" (see osm.org/welcome). The quarry was closed decades ago; it's all now parkland, covered with aspen trees and scrub. I've therefore removed it.

FYI there is a similar project to OSM called "Open Historical Map" where mapping historical uses is the whole purpose of the project. I've added a few things from the Calgary area to it; they're currently migrating servers. See https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/

Hi there, FYI I changed this from a "minor/unclassified road" to a "path", as there is no vehicle access here anymore. You can still tag paths with info such as you did here, with a paved surface and a description that it was once a service road.

Cheers!

There are a few small buildings already on the map; you've added a warehouse building on top of them, that covers the entirety of the property. What I'm really getting at is: is there really a warehouse BUILDING—storage garage, whatever you want to call it—that covers the ***entirety of the parcel***?

The Bing Maps satellite photo doesn't show this. Esri satellite photo doesn't show this. Google Maps satellite photo doesn't show this. City of Calgary aerial photos don't show this. City of Chestermere photos at https://app.munisight.com/CityofChestermere/Content/Site/MainPage.aspx?siteId=1 don't show this.

I don't frequent Chestermere very often but I have friends who live there, and I take a right from eastbound Chestermere Blvd to southbound Rainbow Rd to get to their house, and I personally don't recall there being a giant warehouse building at that intersection.

I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I'm wondering if you really meant to tag this with a landuse; as a storage YARD, not a storage BUILDING.

Is there really a warehouse building here?

Since when has this alley not existed? It was still there when I drove past two days ago...

Note that I have also added temporary road segments which are to be demolished as the construction progresses, and tagged them with fixme notes stating so. Some segments will be permanent, but are temporarily allowing two-way traffic where they will eventually be one-way, or the traffic flow is currently reversed from what the final design will look like.

Hello ksali,

You've deleted the access tunnels that I added about two years, which I'm personally not all that torn up about and don't really care if they're put back or not, but I want to caution you to be careful about deleting things off the map simply because "they should not be used for wayfinding" by virtue of being "inaccessible".

In this case the UofC campus service tunnels are perfectly accessible, just not to *you* or anyone else in the general public. But they do exist, and service personnel can and do use them. They were appropriately tagged with "access=private". If you were using some other piece of wayfinding software—using OSM data—was incorrectly suggesting the service tunnels that's on the developer of the software to fix, not to manipulate the OSM data to suit.

A longstanding policy of OSM is "don't tag for the renderer" (see osm.wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer), meaning in other words "don't manipulate OSM data to make it 'prettier' for someone or something else to use". The article at the OSMwiki gives a similar example to the UofC service tunnels: the tunnels at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. They're certainly not publicly accessible but they do exist and therefore are on the map (tagged as "access=private").

Again, I don't mean to be confrontational, but please don't just delete stuff off the map because it's not publicly accessible.

Cheers

FYI several of the buildings you added in this changeset were previously removed because the buildings no longer exist. E.g. you deleted a brownfield site at the corner of 18th Avenue and Macleod Trail and replaced it with the buildings shown on the Bing satellite imagery, but these buildings were in fact demolished (and previously removed from the map) a couple years ago.

I have since deleted the buildings in question and replaced them with construction zones (or in the case of the old Underwood Block on 1st Street, the new "The Underwood" apartment building).

Please be careful about simply following background satellite imagery; it's not as current as you might think or hope

Hi there Sam,

You appear to have changed the postal code of this restaurant from T2L 1K8 to T2L 1L1. Both are valid postal codes for addresses on Brentwood Road NW, but according to the restaurant's website (https://www.brentwood.jamesonspubs.com/) their postal code is T2L 1K8. Double-checking with Canada Post's online postal code lookup tool (https://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/postalcode/fpc.jsf) also substantiates that the postal code for 3790 Brentwood Rd NW is T2L 1K8.

Can you provide a source for the T2L 1L1 postal code?