Is this section of cycleway under the Tobu Nikko line open again? It was fenced off and blocked several years ago.

I see you have mapped over my abandoned:cycleway route, and over the fence - is the fence gone now? if you map over an abandoned way, please edit or remove the duplicate way , please don't double-map a single feature.

I have not cycled through there for about a year or so - is it really open now? I am interested to see all the changes they have done after the levee expansion.

Sidewalks are disconnected. needs crossings.
crossing=unmarked
crossing:markings=no
footway=crossing
highway=footway

Please do not draw pieces of disconnected sidewalks on the map to mimic Japanese printed maps, as the sidewalks need to be connected together and to other roads for proper pedestrian routing, unlike printed maps.

osm.org/way/1353756196#map=19/36.422161/139.134264&layers=N

Residential driveways should be
highway=service
service=driveway

use highway=tracks for farming roads and such - not for residential (house & apartment) driveways.

osm.org/node/11716281277

Make sure not to connect road ways to power line ways when mapping.

badly mapped "pond" - which is actually a concrete driveway around a marina. osm.org/way/1206166845#map=19/36.07409/140.21776

Please be more careful when mapping what you don't know.

please STOP adding areas to drains, ditches, and other tiny waterways - especially when you draw them over tunnels and roads, such as osm.org/way/1209219231

This is not necessary, and it bad mapping as well.

If mapping large waterways, adding "tunnel areas" is often not necessary.

osm.org/way/1262299537

Please do not map drains as tracks.

Rice fields have irregulaur tracks and drains, so please be careful to properly map the tracks, and not the drains between the fields.

This track is not contiguous.

Model_areodromes are not airports.

All sidewalks are badly mapped.
they need to be connected to the roads, or they are useless ways.

Sidewalks are not art to add to the map, they need to connect to the roads to show pedestrian connections, or they are useless and someone else has to fix them.

please be careful not to add ford=yes to waterways when they are tunnel=yes or the way is bridge=yes.

many small ways have been changed to highway=track for no reason in this area.

I mapped these a few years ago after personally surveying the area by bicycle. I am re-surveying the area now, and am disappointed to find the ways badly edited by this changeset.

Changing all ways to tracks is bad mapping, hiding residential and useful paved access roads in with farming tracks.

They have not been properly tagged with surface=* after the change, which I also neglected to do in the past.

Is user UltimaSnorlax back?

Please do not edit what you have not surveyed. Please be more careful in your edits.

all of these building are sloppy and should all be deleted.

sorry for the error. I was mistaken !

=)

osm.org/way/583622305
sidewalk is badly mapped. It seems very little care was put into mapping it properly

The sidewalk *must* share nodes with all ways it crosses. this way shares ~50%, meaning it is useless for routing data. mapping this way.

Please do not map sidewalks until:

- the adjacent way is cleaned up, matching local imagery with (much) better alignment currently available than bing or maxar (GSI Japan is an old but very clear and spatially accurate imagery layer available to Japanese mappers)

- the bridges are fixed and an area is made to accept the sidewalk ways.

- all crossing ways are cleaned up so intersections are properly mapped.

Please be more careful in the future.

javbw

Local mapper.

利根川橋 is badly mapped.

Do not map bridges like this.

- bridge area is one polygon for two bridges.
- bridge area doesn't cover the whole bridge areas
- bridge has no bridge=yes tag
-bridge doesn't share nodes with the roads over it.

I will repair the bridge area. do not map bridges like this in the future, and refer to the wiki for how to map them.

The drawn sidewalks are not good.
The sidewalks are disconnected.
bridges are not added to the ways.

osm.org/way/1148429941#map=17/35.63367/139.43940

The ways are disconnected at the ends, so no one can use the sidewalks.

The bridge is not added either.

The sidewalks need to be connected to the roads, or the routing programs cannot connect to them, so the sidewalks are useless.

I mentioned this to you years ago, but you have not fixed your mapping, so I assume many of the sidewalks in your 4000 edits will have to be repaired by other people.

OSM is not a painting program.

*** Please read the wiki on how to map sidewalks! ***

This was a validation cleanup changeset. I repaired serious mapping errors and cleaned up existing mapping during the validation step, which is my normal practice of cleaning up sloppy & incomplete mapping. This is how I help HOT.

Do not leave comments here about "slowing down validation" or "you don't need to map that" other myopic things I don't need to hear about.

some buildings are pasted copies that are very large and don't seem to accurately reflect the building footprints.

I don’t think you should have started it at all.

- I didn’t slow down your validation - I was the one validating.
- I was mapping as I normally do, which was not unusual.
- I was mapping as I thought was helpful to the HOT task - not the bare minimum required. Apparently this is absolutely forbidden.

- I was validating large sections and cleaning up other mapper’s errors as well. I thought this was helpful.

But drawing some waterways is a big deal and somehow worthy of your time to comment.

I don’t want to be around such micro-managers.

When you type “regards,” I don’t think you have considered that the *only* actual communication from a project lead I have ever received HOT mapping has been a complaint - about mapping too many useful things.

*sigh*

- the barriers are walls around grouped structures. This makes them easier to identify when these HOT maps are printed out (which seems to be a common way I see them used)
- waterways are barriers to access. I know with floods there is water everywhere, but canals and water features are even more of a barrier to any effort to reach the structure. These present barriers to rural access - so many roads stop and do not connect across them.

- waterways help others map bridges accurately accurate bridges are absolutely necessary. So many bridges are missing.

- I map tracks where I see the ways as tracks. These tracks are often the “driveways” for these remote structures. Mapping everything as a minor road causes clutter and confusion.

I map in rural Japan, and access to remote farming structures in the middle of a wide irrigation system is confusing and difficult if mapped badly.

I am the one validating. As of 6 hrs ago I am the #1 validator on the project. I clean up and add these additional features to ensure that it is mapped to the minimal standard to my tastes *usually* during my validation.

***this is the way that I feel I am helping these people***

- I am aware that I don’t always follow the letter of the rules for HOT mapping, but I am following the spirit of HOT mapping in general. I am helping in the way I feel is useful, and that help is not slowing your validation or other mapping efforts.

Please stop and consider your words and statements more carefully in the future. I think your positions are unreasonable or untrue.

-Javbw