Hi PcMouse1,
my bad, I used this as a reference point and did not delete it after editing. If I see correctly it has already been removed, which is the correct thing to do. I apologize for the inconvenience! MarMar

Hi Ale Zena, I didn't want to hide it - I wanted to improve it. The area which you have restored is approx 200 km2 and clearly contains huge amounts of smaller elements: scrub, farmland, water etc. With this size, anybody who intends to provide more detail to landuse/landcover potentially will only increase the mess. Theoretically it can be done of course but real life tells us that people will either just pile up different landcovers on top of each other (which is against best practice) or try to integrate them in the existing multipolygon resulting in incomplete relations that in the end nobody is able nor willing to disentangle. Such big polygons only make sense if they really represent one big landcover, e.g. huge extensions of pure rainforest or sand deserts. In our case, classifying such extensions with one single tag that clearly contains hundreds if not thousand elements that can be differentiated seems as bad practice to me. My impression is that this obeys to the wish to see something painted with some"more or less" accurate tag so it doesn't look empty anymore. But this will only keep others away from making the map much better.

Hola kapazao,
por lo que veo en PNOA en esta zona hay arboles o al menos arbustos altos. Por lo tanto podría ser o wood/forest o scrub, siendo difícil saber dónde empieza una cosa o la otra. Por ello y por densidad de los arboles he decidido poner en estas partes "wood". Cietamente en estas situaciones es muy difuso y casi cualquier opción sería buena. Qué es lo que sugieres usar?

Hi Ionut, I was trying to align with more detail the surrounding landuses and as you might know, CORINE source data is not very precise and in this case it seemed very strange that this area was really orchard. For this reason I removed so somebody with local knowledge could add the correct tags. I see that now there is mainly meadow, which seems far better. Thanks for checking and good mapping!

Hola aTarom,
Cert, ho acabo de canviar. Gràcies per l'avís!
Salutacions

Understood, for the dambos I will use wetland and seasonal then. Regarding wood vs. scrub: I am aware it is a difficult distinction and I basically try to distinguish the darker, more dense areas from others, although I know it is very subjective. As you are local I will gladly apply you guidelines but it seems it is not easy for you either. So, please let me know if you prefer me to change any tag and I will make the corresponding correction.

Hi ftcat, very interesting and helpful details. Regarding those "dambos": I imagined they were some kind of wetland but was hesitant to tag them as such, this area seems to dry as to justify it. Can you confirm it makes sense to map them as wetland? Maybe as wet_meadow with seasonal=yes?

Hi ftcat,
I am impressed with reaction time as I have started editing this area just a few hours ago. You feedback is very valuable, so I will tag all of those similar artificial open areas as farmland, as you suggested. The TEMP REF is just a node I create for myself as reference which will be deleted later. Is it coincidence that you seem to know exactly this is a termite mound or do you interpret it by any hint on the imagery?
Keep up the work and thanks again! Mar Mar

Hi! I am sorry, this was a mistake when copy pasting data. Thanks for the heads up, I have corrected it immediately. Cheers

Hi crsCR, thanks for your feedback. Good to know there are mappers in the area. You are right, I did this based on satellite imagery so I will be more careful next time and I haven't retagged many things. To be honest, I don't remember which is the exact way I have retagged but being on site we better rely on your criteria! Keep mapping and I wish you a nice day! Marcos

Hi trial, thanks for the heads up. Actually I always create address/entrance nodes at the entry of the house whenever I know where it is. Although I usually don't map in France very much I am happy to learn how to create addresses correctly. I have used the BANO layer now and added the nodes of the first 6 numbers of the street , maybe you can check if this is ok as the BANO nodes are not very precise either. Once approved I'll correct the rest as well. Have a nice day and keep mapping!

Oi Tullio, neste momento não vejo nenhum quadrado, provavelmente porque você já o removeu. Às vezes, quando há uma grande extensão de floresta, mato, etc. eu gosto de indicar que há algo e espero animar outra pessoa para completá-lo - mas como não sou da área não ouso desenhar polígonos realmente grandes. Saúde e continue mapeando :)

Hi Mouath Ibrahim,
of course this area should widely be tagged as "sand", not just this square. To my knowledge the tag "desert" is considered controversial as is not synonymous to "sand". Sometimes I create these kind of squares to highlight that an area is lacking "natural=* " because I don't feel confident creating huge polygons and I am not familiar with the area on site either. You are of course welcome to enlarge this area or add more squares. Have a nice day and thanks for checking!

Hi ABDURAHMAN AL FURJANI, as I have mentioned in a previous changeset naming the trees as "palm tree" is against established tagging rules. It is perfectly fine to map each single tree but please don't name them. I need to inform you that the name field will be removed within some time should you consider to ignore this mesage. In case you have doubts about the tagging of trees I recommend reading the wiki: osm.wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree.
In addition I also recommend to join any community channel (tagging list, Telegram etc) and engage with the community if you have questions.

Hi ABDURAHMAN AL FURJANI. I think it is great you are putting all individual trees on the map, this is a lot of work! But I'd like to kindly point out that according to the wiki the "name:" field is not to be used for the description of the species but only in rare cases the tree is very special and has received specific name as "individual". As you can see the wiki leaves no room for interpretations: "This tag must not be used for a description of the species." It is very useful to have the species but this should go in the "species:" tag. For further clarification I recommend reading the wiki: osm.wiki/Tag:natural=tree

In any case: Thanks for your contribution! Kind regards, Marcos (Mar Mar)

Hi there, I see that there are a few buildings on County Road 1208, opposite Grange Hall Cemetery that don't appear on any satellite imagery. There is one that is particularly big and has a very awkward shape. Can you please confirm these buildings should be there and delete them if necessary? Best regards and keep mapping :)

Hola jlcc78, sugiero que bajes el nivel de crispación. El mapa es de todos y por tanto solo funciona si se mantienen criterios lo más consensuados posible. Si hay algo que te parece mejorable o discutible puedes sacar el tema en los canales que están para esto, por ejempo Telegram. Aquí muchas veces hay opinones divergentes así que te recomiendo unirte y exponer lo que quieras. En cambio, si cada uno mapea por su lado y como quiere al final se resiente el valor del mapa. Ya somos pocos para encima pelearnos. En cualquier caso el talante debe cambiar radicalmente...

Hi Sergey, I just stumbled across the locality Тиман and with Maxar imagery it gives the impression it is abandoned. Can you confirm this?
Happy mapping!

Nut sure if there has been a misunderstanding. The links you have provided are related to Tanzania but the changeset we are commenting on is located in Rigo District, Central, Papua Region, Papua New Guinea. Is there any relation? Regarding HOT: I know about it and have already contributed a little in some of the projects. I was also aware about FGM; HOT has related projects going on for quite some time I believe. Best regards and happy mapping! :)

Hi Frans S, nice to meet you. Actually I wasn't aware that there was a program in this area, I've just mapped out of personal interest. Could you please explain which project is being carried out here? If buildings are specifically needed I will pay special attention to this point (compare also a few hundred meters south, were the wood area stands out and I did a few small settlements). Regarding surface: no problem, I will change all surfaces to ground if that's the accepted standard in this area/project.