Why were these paths deleted?

They're actually named "abandon building", "my house", and "bahamas national trust/restaurant"? Those all seem like highly suspect names for buildings.

In 5 years when you rediscover this site as a more mature person, I hope you still find this funny.

This changeset has been reverted because it has deleted valid data.

This changeset has been reverted because it has deleted valid data.

This changeset has been reverted because it has deleted valid data.

OSM is used for many things, not just one navigation app. The app overloading is the app's problem, not my problem or the site's problem. Those are valid track roads and their usage is consistent with what track roads are supposed to be used for.

Why did you delete these track roads?

Thanks for telling me!

Hi! Try squaring buildings with the "q" key. They look a lot nicer. I've done the example here for you.

Please use more descriptive changeset comments.

Ве молиме користете повеќе описни коментари за промените.

~snoozingnewt

Another tip - it's common practice to square buildings you make using the "Q" key, and to not glue (connect) buildings with each other, so keep an eye out for that! I edited the buildings you added in this changeset as an example.

This is... not a good way to inform the russian people that their leader is like Hitler. It is the opposite of a good way. The good way is to start mapping in countries nearby Poland to help refugees.

Nice to meet you! Saw your work in Centralia - three questions.

1. Why are you making the trees overlap the buildings? OSM is a map of what's on the ground, not what you can see from satellite imagery. I doubt the building suddenly disappears under the cover of a tree.

2. Why are individual trees mapped as areas? They should be mapped as nodes. natural=wood is used for entire forests.

3. Specifically for the washington lawn cemetery, what's up with that? Does the cemetery not exist when there's tree cover? That does not look like the on-the-ground shape.

Thanks,
snoozingnewt

You’re missing something glaring

We understand you need to make money, but there are also rules… we’re judging you for not taking the time to look at them even after several people complained. You aren’t entitled to break them.

First of all-

It’s not just you! We have quite a few experiences with people from the metaverse vandalizing the map, so the general sentiment is against the metaverse. OSM is primarily used as a map of the real world and had existed for decades, and it is not in existence primarily to add gaming data. You can still add it, but it needs to follow the rules the rest of the world does.

Adding many nodes doesn’t increase quality significantly. However, it adds a lot of data to the map. The servers can handle it, but there are several reasons why it is still bad-

1. If you shape of the lake is updated in the future, it would be a huge pain to change it.

2. There’s no real-world reason to do so, at least until now. Maybe the game likes the level of detail, but the community doesn’t, and OSM is almost entirely built off of community consensus.

3. Some people use an editor (like iD) to edit the map, and they download an area to edit. Places with a ton of detail make it harder for those people to edit, because they have to load ridiculously small areas near complicated places, like this golf course.

OSM has a wiki with general community preferences, and you've violated several of them. When you join a community, do you not read the rules and jump right in - especially in a site that has real-world consequences. The resolution on the bodies of water and other objects is considered unacceptable for OSM for several reasons - the iD editor should give warnings when you break them.

Oops - I also added another forest near Webster Springs too

These buildings are not accurate shapes - can you please try to make them more accurate and fix these ones? Thanks!