In this changeset you appear to have deleted a footway that has been contributed by manual survey by another editor: osm.org/way/222299583

Can you explain a bit about what motivated this change? The comment on the changeset briefly mentions routing; what kind of routing application are you working on that involves deletion of footpaths which are present in the world according to other OSMers?

Thank you for your edits to OpenStreetmap.
Did you know that in the iD editor, you can leave a comment with each change? This helps other editors to see more easily what you are adding and changing on the map; clear comments are helpful and recommended!

You're contributing some changesets with a lot of deletions to tagged ways, and they stretch right across Europe. There's too much going on in each changeset to easily explore the consequences, so it would be good to have a clear description of what you are changing and why, rather than the repeated "osmi routing view fixes".

I take it that osmi refers to osm.wiki/OSM_Inspector/Views/Routing but is deletion of data necessary in these cases? It would be good to hear more in the comments or discussions about what motivates these changes.

excellent, high quality work

hello zuppet

Some of these edits appear to be in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.

I would check the accuracy of your work in progress. It's a good idea to include fewer edits in each set of changes uploaded to OpenStreetmap, so that others can more easily tell what has changed.

if you've been re-aligning streets to bing imagery, it is likely that the bing imagery was not correctly georeferenced in the first place, as some street networks now overlap buildings :(

please check with other sources and/or a manual GPS re-survey before re-aligning road networks to aerial imagery.

I plan to go ahead and revert the alignment-fixing edits on behalf of the Data Working Group.

OpenStreetMap is an attempt to make an accurate map of the observable world.

I chatted with Karine and got her business card recently, didn't know the shop was so new. Cheers for the edit

I vouch for this statement

Yes, it would be good to hear more.

Where is this island?

What was the matter with the shape of Bulgaria, out of curiosity?

reverted.

http://opengeofiction.net/ may be an appropriate place to map things from novels

OpenStreetmap is an attempt to make an accurate map of the world. It is not intended to directly support mapping of fictional adventures. Hogwarts does not belong in OSM.

In this changeset, you appear to have deleted a short section of the A92 trunk road. Was this an accident, or have you verified that the road has really disappeared with a physical survey? If so, then how are the cars still able to get on and off the B912?

In the likely event that this edit to OSM was an accident, I plan to go ahead and revert this change and some related ones on behalf of the project's Data Working Group, the data dispute resolution service for mappers.

I see these changes were made with the web client, iD. If you are getting more seriously into OSM you will probably want to try out the JOSM client, which is aimed more at the "power user": http://josm.openstreetmap.de/

On behalf of the DWG; we have been asking for comments on this and a some related changesets where mappers have raised concern about mechanical edits. As it stands we plan to go ahead and revert these changes.

i'm not sure this changeset is an improvement, zuppet. would you care to explain it?

This set of changes has by now been submitted to the Data Working Group for examination.

This seems to be a set of "mechanical edits" changing one set of tags highway=noexit to noexit=yes on a programmatic basis.

However, we're not aware of any public discussion of these sweeping changes with potentially affected mappers or data re-users in the OSM community. Have these changes been discussed and if so can you provide a link?

If you look at the history of one of the nodes included in this changeset, you'll see the same sweeping change was made by another mapper about 9 months ago, and reverted on the ground that it hadn't been subjected to a public discussion.

osm.org/node/589526422/history

On behalf of the DWG, I look forward to hearing more about this changeset.