Great, thanks!

Hi 3xodus, thanks for your updates... if possible, please try in the future to keep your changesets in a smaller geographic area. Within a single city is best. Thanks, jmapb.

Hi RT24, welcome to NYC and thanks for your contributions!

Just so you know, there's no need to add state info to addresses in Manhattan -- or really almost anywhere in the USA. Obviously if it's correct information it doesn't hurt anything, but state (also city and, obviously, country) will be deduced from the node's location. Just an FYI to save you time.

(Personally I make an exception for places that are near state lines and potentially ambiguous.)

Happy mapping, jmapb

Howdy TheBestIdea, just wondering what the meaning of width=0 is on the Manhattan Bridge cycleway:
osm.org/way/46179218
Thanks, jmapb

Hi Jessak71 -- What's up with these overlapping buildings?
osm.org/way/641104355
osm.org/way/641104358

Thanks, jmapb

Hi EmmaHawk, welcome to OpenStreetMap and thanks for your contributions! I'm a mapper active in the NYC area and have a few notes about this addition.

The purpose of the "website" key is to add official contact information published online by the feature in question. If this gallery itself has a website, its url should go under the website key. But a Timeout article discussing an exhibit at the gallery should not be considered the gallery's official website.

If the TImeout article is the source of your information, it would be good to include the link in your changeset comments. (Some mappers may disagree with the practice of using magazines as a source for map objects, but that's a different discussion -- the important thing is to be clear about where the information is coming from.)

Also, it seems that Rorschach is not the name of this gallery, but rather the name of a temporary exhibition there that will be closing this weekend. If the gallery itself will last longer, try to find a permanent name for it. If it's just a popup location for this temporary exhibit, it probably shouldn't be added to OpenStreetMap -- best practices are not to map temporary features, and an exhibit that lasts only 12 days would definitely fall into that category.

Thanks and let me know if you have any questions -- I'm happy to assist with this or anything else on the map.

happy mapping, jmapb

Hi lawofficesofbrucedkatz, Manhattan is a borough name but not a valid city name for the address field. Setting the city to Manhattan will interfere with geocoding this business. Thanks, jmapb

Partially reverted in changeset 69288832. Airy14, please let me know if you'd like to discuss. J

Hi Yifei Li, and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

I removed the address tags from this building way because it has several entrances with different addresses. That's the standard that's been adopted in NYC since the building footprint import in 2013 -- buildings with only one address are get address tags on the building, and those with multiple addresses have individual address nodes inside the building footprint, or entrance nodes on the perimeter.

160 East 32nd is used for most of the medical facilities on the north side of the building, but there are also some at 150 East 32nd, plus the residential entrance on East 31st and the business addresses on the avenues.

Let me know if I've misunderstood the situation, but otherwise I believe the address tags should be removed from the building itself. The address 160 East 32nd will still be in the database as it's encoded as an entrance node [ osm.org/node/4703727084 ] and is also on all of the appropriate medical POI nodes.

Let me know if you have any questions -- I'm happy to assist any way I can.

Thanks, jmapb

I've uploaded changeset 69181797 which does a partial revert of this changeset, restoring the closure.

promiseofbirth: Please communicate with your fellow mappers! You're not in this alone! When you see something like this closure, check for notes, fixmes, history and comments. Check the date of the previous changesets and the date of any imagery you're using. And ask questions! Not everything can be accurately mapped from remote. If you can't survey in person, PLEASE ask for clarification or leave a note on the map.

Thanks, jmapb

Hi Low Level M, thanks for fixing this business name. Please note, though, that's it's not necessary correct to remove the shop=chemist tag from a pharmacy. It's very possible for a place to be both, and in fact, in the USA I'd say this is more often true than not.

thanks, jmapb

Reverted in changeset 69133652

Reverted with changeset 69132555. See also changesets 69008313 and 69075100.

Reverted with changeset 69132499, see discussion in changesets 68986296 and 69075100

Hi Gorbs -- I was still watching changeset 68986296 and did not realize that you were continuing to make new changes.

Please stop making changes to the subways for now. When you make additional changes to the same objects, it's much harder to cleanly revert previous changesets.

I have reverted this changeset (69075100) with changeset 69132368. I'll now go back and attempt to revert the previous ones.

I look forward to joining the larger discussion of this topic whenever it occurs. In the mean time, please don't use the NYC subway system for your tests.

Thanks, jmapb

Hi promiseofbirth, the Bobby Wager Walk still has a closed section awaiting repairs. I tagged the closed section with access=no and clearly indicated this in my description and fixme:

osm.org/way/654051378/history

Why did you remove this closure?

Yes thanks mdejean for making that distinction clear. The routes that subway stations serve are not part of the station names -- at least not in NYC. It's a tagging-for-the-renderer hack to pretend that they are. That aside from the questions of unicode support and repurposing a textual name field for a visual logo.

I've held off on reverting this so Gorbs can discuss it on the tagging mailing list, but I will revert don't see something soon.

Hi Elizabeth -- Just to let you know, it's against the prevailing ethics of OSM to use the description tag to add advertising-like messages to businesses. Phases like "highly specialized", "top rated" and "best in class" are not appropriate here and will likely result in those descriptions being deleted.

Thanks, jmapb

Firefox 60.6.1esr, Chrome 73.0.3683.103. Both current versions. (IE, whatever, who cares.)

But honestly, the real problem here is not browser support, it's that you're conflating the route's nomenclature with its logo design. It's not the "❶ Train" -- it's the "1 Train", and its logo is similar to a red ❶. It's understandable to want a map that displays the route logos next to the subway stops -- I'd love that -- but it should happen at the map rendering level, not by renaming the route to an inaccurate name that looks kinda like its logo.

Mapnik seems to support these circled unicode chars pretty well --though the labels at zoom 14 do take up a lot of space at complex stops.

Browser support is lacking for the circled letters though: https://imgur.com/a/WU3WtaV (these are current Windows versions of Firefox, Chrome, and IE -- I know nobody uses IE anymore, but whatever.)

Personally I'd love to see the line numbers/letters circled and in the official MTA colors, maybe starting at zoom 15 -- obviously that's a much more complex project and might be more appropriate for the Transport Layer than the default map. But this unicode renaming seems like a hacky half-measure.

What NYC page are you using for discussion?