Hi quentinwj,

I'm just wondering where you are getting the imagery offset from? It appears you are not using either the default bing or esri world imagery offset and are moving existing mapped things (which mostly follow the default bing offset) to this new one. By all means do this if it's more accurate, just checking to make sure it isn't arbitrary!

Also esri world imagery tends to be taken at a slight angle (bing is more head on), it's most noticeable with tall buildings (check the cbd), which means you should draw the buildings as seen at the top and drag it to the base of the building if using it. Zooming out also gives you a newer imagery that has a different offset and is at a different angle. I figured I'd impart this knowledge to you considering you are a new mapper using esri here :)

Thanks for your contributions.

Hi, thanks for your contributions to OpenStreetMap.

Please keep in mind that the order of the platforms matters in ptv2 route relations. The platform nodes should be in order at the top of the route relation (i.e. ordered as the first members).

osm.wiki/Buses#Adding_bus_stops_to_the_relation

I've fixed the order of the platforms in changeset/184771359

Happy mapping!

Hi,

In this changeset you've created two overlapping ways:
way/1530495023
way/1530495022

both have conflicting values (name and maxspeed)

one of the ways should be deleted

Hi, thanks for your contributions here :)

regarding way/1151077588 please check esri, it is a paved footpath now as surveyed by a streetcomplete user recently (way/1151077588/history/3). The old alignment for it was correct, I've restored it and the surface value in changeset/184245716

please conflate newer imagery while mapping to ensure you don't remove features not present on bing

While the crossings should be mapped as footway=crossing, footway=sidewalk is "osm-speak" for footpath

Per the wiki:

> Use footway=sidewalk along with highway=footway to tag sidewalks (also known as pavement/footway in the UK or a footpath in Australia) as distinct ways from the carriageway.

I believe those were there for routing. Currently there is no way onto the platform from the footpath

Hi,

In this changeset you turned the railway=platform into railway=station and also added some broken relations. I've fixed the platforms and turned the relations into ways here: changeset/182406617

Technically everything we map is *temporary*. I think 5 months is fine to map generally, especially in the case of roadworks and such; although, in this case, I think it's dubious to map railways as disused for such a short time span. Anyone who can travel over that railway probably knows it's disused without needing to check OSM, but marking it as disused will cause errors to flag in OSMI as the route relations are going over railways not in use.

From what I can tell, routers tend to update monthly at the longest, so that's the time period I would map lifecycle prefixes (only if I know I will update it when it changes again). Adding something that'll be there for a day or two -- which I've seen Lachlan do -- is not good for routing as it may be cached for upwards of a month or so. That should be avoided, ideally.

Please ensure that the ways in the route are in order (osm.wiki/Relation:route#Order_matters) and don't include ways on the wrong direction of travel.

I've fixed this route in changeset/181790595

Hi,

Thanks for contributing to OpenStreetMap.

When adding buildings and roads take care to check other (more up to date) aerial imagery sources to see if they still exist. Currently Esri World Imagery is the latest and shows that there are no buildings here:

way/1502723163/history#map=19/-37.880220/145.161261

I partially reverted those changes from your changeset:

changeset/181705547
changeset/181705578

Happy mapping!

Hi,

Again, it is preferable to use https over http for websites, especially when http autoredirects to https anyways. You should be copying the tags from the node to the building rather than doing it what appears to be manually. According to the wiki you can press "C" to merge nodes (what you are calling 'points') into ways (what you are calling 'areas')

way/1013602262/history/2 (incorrect website)
node/5374509961/history/3 (correct website)

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Hi, thanks for contributting to OpenStreetMap.

If the website redirects to https from http it's preferable to add that.

Also please see osm.wiki/Keep_the_history . You are deleting the nodes with history while also not copying the tags properly (you appear to be doing it manually based on some of the website and phone tags I've seen). I'm pretty sure iD editor has some kind of merge functionality you could use.

Your check_date is in the future. Is this meant to be the opening_date?

Hi,

Thanks for contributing to OpenStreetMap.

Just letting you know in the case that this is accidental -- you've dragged a few address nodes away from their original locations. E.g:

node/12419417772/history
node/12412241208/history

Were those intentional?

You also seem to have connected a path and a power line together (node/13717800209). Nodes on power lines are generally meant to be poles.

Hi,

Thanks for contributing to OpenStreetMap.

Just letting you know that the name=* key should be used for the actual name of a thing and not be used in a descriptive manner.

Please see here for more information:

osm.wiki/Names#Names_are_not_for_descriptions
name=*

And here for how to address buildings addr:=**

proposed:building=yes is probably what you're looking for (proposed:=**)

Adding razed railway (especially nearly 30 years ago razed) is dubious and generally out of scope of OSM. We tend to map things that exist and are verifiable, but I understand that nonexistent railways are sometimes excepted from this rule.

While I'm not too familiar with this, I implore you to check out OpenHistoricalMap https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/about osm.wiki/OpenHistoricalMap, its for mapping things that have existed at any point within the world, even if they are long gone. I'm sure they'd love these kinds of contributions!

junction=roundabout
is an appropriate tag for roundabouts, you don't need to tag oneway=yes with that as well

Hi,

Please do not attach serviceway nodes to the Suburban Rail Loop ways

Hi Gpapaniko,
Thanks for contributing to OpenStreetMap.

You may want to check the name=* wiki for guidance. The name key should not be used to describe things (osm.wiki/Good_practice#Don't_use_name_tag_to_describe_things) and should be the actual name of a given feature.

building=house is an appropriate tag to use for a house.

Happy mapping!