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: natural=tree.
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: 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.

Hi DelgermaaNamsrai, first of all thanks for mapping in this remote region :). I see that you seem to have created a few nodes in this area, some of them with only a name tag, for example: huhhun am; emch; nogoonii ehen.
Names alone without additional tags don't represent anything in Openstreetmap, they are not displayed and are practically useless for applications etc. Names need to refer to something, a river, a mountain, a locality, a wood... you name it. Would it be possible to add the correct tags? This would enrich our map hugely. Thanks in advance for your collaboration and keep mapping!

Hi mueschel, you are right, this was wrongly pasted. I have corrected it right now. Many thanks for te heads up.

Hi Frans, first of ll thanks for your feedback. I am aware that you don't request landuse features in this task but I chose to do so as it is not wasted time for me. You might not need it for this specific project but I believe it is good to have the data available in OSM anyway. Regarding the track/residential highway I take note and will be more careful in the future, taking into consideration the link you have provided.

Hi archie,
thanks! Nevertheless, if you come up with a better way to tag this don't hesitate changing this again. we're here to make this the best map of the world!

Hi archie,
not that I am an expert, but what was wrong about the highway=service; area=yes? I had doubts as well on how to tag a big asphalted space on a private industral space, kind of a yard. That's why I asked the community (Telegram Group) and I was told this was correct.

Hallo PT-53,
grundsätzlich suche ich mir gerne zufällig ausgewählte Orte auf der ganzen Welt,um entweder Daten zu vervollständigen oder in vielen Regionen die ersten Daten überhaupt zu erstellen (man sehe sich nur meine Heatmap an). In diesem konkreten Fall allerdings kam ich mit meinem Arbeitskollegen, der aus Einhart stammt, ins Gespräch und habe mit seiner Hilfe vor allem POIs und kleinere Details machen können, selbst war ich nie dort.
Bez. der technischen Gesichtspunkte: Ich sehe, dass Maps4BW und Bing mit den GPX Daten genau übereinstimmt. Dies bedeutet, dass meine Modifizierungen der Gebäudelagen und Strassen jetzt sehr korrekt sind. Ich werde jedoch wie von dir angemerkt Maxar als Referenz für das, was sich tatsächlich auf dem Boden befindet, hernehmen oder wenn nötig mit Maxar und Offset arbeiten.

Hallo PT-53,
zuerst einmal danke für dieses extrem schnelle Feedback. Zu allererst: Ich bin kein bezahlter Mapper, sondern ein ganz normaler Openstreetmap contributor und mache das aus Leidenschaft.
In JOSM habe ich in der Tat Maps4BW als Referenz für Gebäude/Adressen benutzt. Ich musste allerdings feststellen, dass sowohl Bing als auch Maxar einen ziemlichen Offset von den existierenden aufweisen und Bing für mich noch am ehesten brauchbar erschien. Sollte Maxar ganz offiziell die Referenz für Strassenverläufe und Gebäudestandorte sein, kann ich das natürlich anpassen. Dann müsste man aber wohl den ganzen Ort neu anpassen :)

First of all apologies if I did anything that disturbed navigation. If I remember well I only changed the tag -> residential inside the town, not the roads that connect large areas. To understand better and avoid this in the future,can you specify (maybe with screenshot and arrows) which streets have been incorrectly modified by me?

Hi meilandharezty,
I see you have just started contributing recently, so first of all a big thank you and a huge welcome!!
You've done a good job adding these roads and especially all the builings, it sure took some time :) Nevertheless, I´d like to make two suggestions (and I am not the biggest expert either, so I'm open to discussion):
1. When creating buildings it is common best practice to make them really square. Even though in real life they generally aren´t 100%, in OSM we tend to make them completely square, unless the form is really strange. In the ID editor this is very easy: Just draw the builings as best as you can, then press the "S" key.
2. Most of the roads you have traced have been classified as "Track". As there are no specific tagging guidelines for Indonesia (there are for other countries) the normal definitions should be applied. In this case we are dealing with lines that connect different communities/villages, sometimes they are the most important connection. For this reason I suggest to use either "tertiary" (the bigger ones), or "unclassified" (lowest level of interconnection). Highway= track is defined as: "roads for mostly agricultural use, forest tracks etc".
I hope this makes sense to you and has helped a little bit. In any case, thanks again for contributing!
Marcos

Hi Harald, this is my mistake. I just inadvertedly did a copy/paste of something that has nothing to do. It's already removed.

Hi mavl. I absolutely see your point. My appraoch was the following: According to the imagery there are "roads" in this town that appear to be VERY basic. Basic up to a point that their characteristics are more like a track (in the sense of OSM). I imagine a driver with a GPS device, thinking he will drive on a residential road, and instead his car gets stuck in the mud. That's why I chose track instead of residential road. But of course I don't know the area personally and if you think it's better to stick to the general tagging rules I will from now on do it.

Hi Andy,
thanks for letting me know, I am not aware of having changed something that affected the whole globe. Checking random ways/nodes it is mainly adding of buildings or minor highways etc., so it's on minor scale.
I am not an expert so far, is there a way to know to which node/way the bounding box refers to exactly? Maybe I have changed something without wanting it.
What I saw is that under this changeset there are loads of little additions distributed over the world, although I don't understand why because I always save in small steps. What I mean is that I never do a lot of changes, especially changing not countries, and then save - but always do a group of smaller changes and then save more often.

Please let me know how I can help avoiding: Thanks and best regards,

Marcos

I agree with SK53, the proof is that I actually didn't see that the George was already there because the icon was so far away from the building, even less visible than the parking lot also named the George. But hey, these are details, just wanted to put this nice pub on the map...