Hey Scotty :)

I've just updated the walkways at Greensborough Plaza from a Footway+Tunnel to a Corridor for more accuracy. The rest of your edit looks really good! :)

Dian

Thanks for the reply.

The data you have received is incorrect, unfortunately.

Hello,

This restaurant does not accept bitcoin.

Could you please confirm the reputed source for your change?

Hello,

This organisation does not accept bitcoin.

You've indicated that this data was obtained by survey, however this looks like data taken from Google. I have reverted this edit.

this edit has made the lane tagging on way/725213920 incorrect. It was already correctly tagged, but you have introduced a right turn lane next to a two lane carriageway.
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This edit has moved the traffic light position for 112597323 well before the point where vehicles stop.

Don't introduce errors just to have a "neat" straight line.
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Hi Hither and Tither.

The boxy intersection that you've adjusted at that location is actually best ptractice. We use the ways as an abstraction of the actual travel paths of the vehicles in the intersection. osm.wiki/Dual_carriageway osm.wiki/Junctions

It looks a little weird at first, but it makes the map more usuable for routing services. :)

Dian
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Hi.

In this edit you've again introduced names that aren't consistent with official sources, and altered some official names incorrectly.

Could you please advise where you are sourcing these names from, as these edits are public.
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Hi Boulton_Zak.

Welcome to OpenStreetMap, and thank you for your contributions around Frankston. :)

I noticed in your changes that you've changed the "flares" at roundabouts (the streets leading to the roundabouts), into link roads. Unfortunately, this doesn't match best practice for tagging roads. Link roads should be reserved for slip roads, and ramps; not points where a carriageway splits into two. osm.wiki/Link_(highway)

Also, I noticed you've added names to some footpaths. We don't use the name field to describe an element, (osm.wiki/Names#Names_are_not_for_descriptions) and in these cases, it's best to leave the name field empty.

There are loads of mappers in Australia, and we are a friendly bunch. I'd encourage you to join us on one of our social channels if you are interested. osm.wiki/Australian_Mapping_Community#Social_Channels

Dian.

Hello,

Please do not adjust u-turn and other turning lanes to have severe, smoothed angles.

Doing so goes against the principle of keeping ways separate only when there is physical separation. Your edits cause issues for routing algorithms and other spatial analysis.

As discussed previously, intersections in OSM are abstract representations of the road surface. If you are interested in meticulously drawing the area of the road, you should look into area:highway=*.
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Hi Luc,

You seem to have readded some unofficial or incorrect names that don't match official sources.

Would you be able to confirm the source of these changes?

Dian

Hey Michael :)

You've left an untagged line here: way/1024370761/history.

Do you happen to remember what that facility was?

I'm using the recurse up and down features to take the nodes associated with schools, get the ways associated with them and then download all nodes in the way again.

I'm sure there is a more efficient query, but it doesn't run too badly for my purposes. https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1nyW

Thanks Warin.

To minimise the changes of making this error again I've adjusted the query I'm using to download schools so that it will also download ways attached to the school nodes.

Dian

Hey Volga.

I see you're adding "Service Road" to the names of service roads off Plenty Road, and adding names for drive throughts.

The name field should not be used as a description field (osm.wiki/Names#Names_are_not_for_descriptions). In these cases, the name of the service road is the same as the main road, and drive throughs generally do not have an official name.

Keep up the good work with your edits otherwise. :)
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Hey Volga, sorry, I didn't explain myself well.

Each suburb is mapped using a relation which defines the administrative boundary. For Thomastown, for example, the details of the suburb are stored against the relation: relation/2386862.

You can see the relation already has information about the population, wikipedia article, etc.

You've added population to nodes that are currently listed as "labels" for these administrative relations. This means that the information is kept in two different places. The data doesn't need to be on the node if it is already connected to the relation. :)

Hi Volga,

In this edit you've added population data to label nodes for administrative boundaries, where the relation already had a population listed.

Do you mind reviewing your change to try and clear up this duplication?

Thanks Velloydy for getting back to me.

I'm going to remove the name as it doesn't appear to be correct, and is from Google Maps.

Unfortunately, due to license restrictions we cannot use Google Maps as a source of information for contributing to OSM. osm.wiki/Google

If there are any compatible sources that use this name, or a survey shows signage using this name, then we can add it.

Hi Lucx,

What is the source for some of these names that you have introduced?

They don't appear to exist on official sources.

Dian
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Hi Velloydy!

I can't find the name "Fraser Street" in any official sources. Where did you get the name from?

Dian
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