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175962226 about 9 hours ago

Please stop readding the incorrect value here. Please read your earlier changeset comments.

174847863 1 day ago

Sorry for not replying earlier.

The issue is that you are conflating what OSM records and what is "official". OSM is a global geospatial database and while it generally records what is official locally, that doesn't imply that OSM won't map something if it's not official. OSM maps what is "on the ground".[1] So, as in this example, OSM records names if they are shown to exist even conceptually. It doesn't have to be part of VZD address data, nor any Council documents, nor official square designation, nor UNESCO plans, etc. - it just has to verifiably exist.[2] Similarly, a "square" in OSM is not defined based on local designations, but what is there on the ground - broadly, an urban paved area with various urban features around some buildings. You may be used to maps like LĢIA official data layers and Jāņa sēta renders and even Google/Apple maps that gather their data from primarily official sources. But OSM is not limited to that, which is the whole point of OSM - to be an open map that isn't restricted like that. OSM is often much more detailed and record many more features and data about them. For example, just the name tagging itself has dozens of variants.[3] In general, OSM maps what is correct rather than what may or may not appear when rendered on some map.[4]

Your reply is quite long and you touch upon a lot of different concepts, so I cannot really reply to every point. For example, features that are part of UNESCO would be recorded as heritage tagging scheme[5] as UNESCO sites, VKPAI sites, etc. You wouldn't judge what is or isn't a heritage site or location (or name) based on what some particular map renders, but whether it is tagged as heritage site and associated with a particular heritage-tracking body. The same argument applies to all the other points - having a name is not limited to any particular source or feature.

In any case, this name can be easily verified as used by sources. This isn't even the typical case where we can't find any mentions. This is more than enough to include the name.

[1] osm.wiki/Ground_truth

[2] osm.wiki/Verifiability

[3] osm.wiki/Names

[4] osm.wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer

[5] heritage=*

175885389 2 days ago

You have added incorrect floor count again. Please see and reply to the previous message about this at changeset/175816841 . I have reverted your edit.

175885486 2 days ago

Please do not add tags to existing area elements like this that contain more than just grass within them. Here, it's obviously dozens of buildings, roads, footways and much more.

175888881 2 days ago

Sveiki,

Lūdzu norādi avotu šai izmaiņai priekš autortiesībām un verificēšanas. OSM visiem datiem un importiem ir jābūt ar avotu, ja tie nav pašsaprotami.

175858426 3 days ago

Please don't change landuse=grass into natural=grassland. Grassland is wild grass normally outside urban environments that isn't regularly mowed and maintained. There is almost never grassland like that in places like this. Almost all grassy areas here are maintained and part of urban properties.

175872067 3 days ago

You have again mass-deleted dozens of existing features (ditches, landuse, trees, etc.) mapped by others and replaced with many incorrectly-tagged features instead. I have reverted your edit since you are ignoring requests to stop doing this. You can restore your changes *without* deleting existing elements and tagging everything correctly.