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163050105 5 months ago

Dear jenie ann, thank you for your contriubtions to OpenStreetMap. The "Changeset comment" field is an important field that you can use to tell the rest of the OSM community what you did in that change. It can sometimes feel a bit onerous but it is very useful for quality assurance purposes.

Many of your changesets contain a lot of "hashtags" in the comment field but hardly any human readable information. It would be great it you could make it so that actual human beings can understand what the message is.

In this particular changeset, which adds buildings in Colombia, you have used a couple of hashtags that seem to point to projects in the Philippines which is probably a mistake?

162057281 5 months ago

Hello WWMapper101, DWG here. Thank you for involving us (Ticket#2025022110000507). Archie is right, the validator might hint at potential issues but its suggestions should never be followed blindly. Always cross-check with aerial imagery - else you risk adding "crossing:markings=no" to a crossing that is wrongly tagged as "unmarked"!

(Also, adding "crossing:markings=no" to a "crossing=unmarked" adds zero information, it unnecessarily adds a new version and increases our history database. It's ok to choose the "new" tagging when you add a new crossing, but going over all existing crossings and "fixing" them is of little use.)

162709058 5 months ago

Dear qaewsrdtfcvgbhqsdesqw, while you are free to choose from a wide range of user names, please consider that OpenStreetMap is a community project, and other mappers will from time to time want to discuss your edits with you. Think about whether your user name "qaewsrdtfcvgbhqsdesqw" is conductive to such discussions!

In the future when you upload data to OSM, please fill the "comment" field with a human-readable description of your edit (e.g. mapped buildings in XY city, corrected geometries, whatever). Hashtags belong in the "hashtags" field; a changeset comment like " #hotosm-project-16505;#OSM-TW;#OMGuru" doesn't make sense to 99% of OSMers and may even be considered disrespectful.

162582082 5 months ago

See also osm.org/changeset/162585182

162585182 5 months ago

Dear Mimansa Gulati, please pause your edits and explain. You have deleted existing buildings in the area without any explanation, and relpaced them with odd shapes that do not match aerial imagery. "#IITBHU" is not a good enough explanation for this. Why have you deleted the existing buildings from OSM - have these been demolished? What is the data source for your additions?

162577446 5 months ago

Dear Harsh_IITBHU, please add proper changeset comments to your uploads. "hhhh" or "mm,mmm," are not sufficient. You can group many trees in one upload and then you can write "added trees" or something.

162311923 5 months ago

Dear TheManinHighCastle, please do not add Chinese names to name tags outside of China. There are "name:zh" and other tags to record the Chinese name. If you want a map that displays Chinese names outside China, set up your own tile server. DWG Ticket#2025021510000251

147330027 5 months ago

Hallo trailschneck, ManuelB701 hat recht, bitte erfasse keine überbauten Bahnen. Ich habe die jetzt wieder gelöscht. Grundsätzlich möchte ich Dich auch um einen respektvolleren Umgangston bitten; Du kommst hier ziemlich patzig rüber. (DWG Ticket#2025021510000233)

158694186 5 months ago

If you could email to data@osmfoundation.org with [Ticket#2025021410000315] in the subject - then this would get inserted into the correct DWG ticket automatically. Thank you!

158694186 5 months ago

Can you send me a photo of one of those paper maps of the area that also feature this path? I could then send that to the complainant.

158694186 5 months ago

Ok, thank you. So you have recorded the track with GPS, is that correct? Because one thing that the land owner complains about is that it goes straight through a building (see overlay on http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/1330381380.jpg) - maybe the lack of GPS accuracy could explain that problem?

158694186 5 months ago

Dear DanieleOSM, the OSMF data working group has received a complaint about osm.org/way/1330381380 which a land owner says does not exist. I looked at the aerial imagery and I must say it doesn't look like there is a path. You added it claiming source=survey - are you sure?

162490475 6 months ago

Da haben wir uns überschnitten - s. osm.org/user_blocks/17233

162448028 6 months ago

In the future when you make any contributions to OSM, please use a better description than "Updating and resolving issues" so that others may see what you are up to. See osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments

162448028 6 months ago

Please do not make changes to the names of the Persian Gulf. Under the harmless guise of "Updating and resolving issues" you have removed many names that in some way referred to "Arabic" even though they were only recorded as alternative names. I have reverted your edit.

162441097 6 months ago

Dear YaaRamis, "sadgasagdasdag" is not a sufficient explanation for the deleting of large swaths of farmland. Please explain your intentions.

In all your future changesets, please fill the changeset comment field with a human-readable explanation of what you did - see osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments for background. (Of course a comment in Turkish is perfectly fine. But neither "sadgasagdasdag" nor "asdga" or "sdfkgsfdg" are.)

162274847 6 months ago

Community-Diskussion angestoßen: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/mit-id-hinzugefugte-wikidata-tags-in-hamburg/125506

162057791 6 months ago

Hallo Wolfgang Holtz, bitte vertraue nicht blind dem, was der ID-Editor Dir als angebliche "Datenprobleme" oder "veraltete Tags" auflistet. Ändere diese Dinge nur dann, wenn Du selbst der Ansicht bist, dass die Änderung sinnvoll ist. Das gilt insbesondere auch für das Hinzufügen von Wikipedia/Wikidata-Tags.

162274847 6 months ago

Mir ist das auch aufgefallen, und ich habe in osm.org/changeset/162273867 darum gebeten, das künftig zu unterlassen. Ich werde auch mit einem Skript alle von sundew entfernten Wikidata-Tags ermitteln und ggf. automatisch wiederherstellen (je nachdem, wie viele zusammenkommen).

162273867 6 months ago

Hallo sundew, bitte unterlasse unbedingt in Zukunft die Löschung von "operator:wikidata" und ähnlichen Wiki-Tags, ausser dann, wenn sie nachweislich falsch sind. Ich weiss, dass du sie unnötig findest, und Du darfst auch gern darauf verzichten, sie zu erfassen, wenn Du einen neuen Briefkasten o.ä. einträgst, aber wenn Du diese Tags löschst, die jemand anders eingetragen hat, dann übersteigst Du damit Deine Kompetenzen als (wohlgeschätzter) "Lokaler Experte" und wirst zum (unerwünschten) "Lokalfürsten". Ich schreibe Dir diese Nachricht in meiner Rolle als Mitglied der Data Working Group und weise vorsichtshalber darauf hin, dass ein Ignorieren dieser Bitte zum Revertieren von ganzen Changesets führen kann, auch wenn diese anderswo postive Beiträge enthalten.