I don't think you quite understand. It isn't the "locals passing off their village". Truro officially has city status according to the British government. So does Bangor.

But your suggestion of looking at a rendered map of z7 is a good one. If you take cycle.travel's rendering at z7 (disclaimer - my site), which shows place=city, then Britain, Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, the east coast of the USA... all have a broadly similar density of nodes. It's France that is the outlier. The French community should think again, seriously this time.

In what way are the big "city centre" road signs in Truro (which I'm guessing you've never visited) not "on the ground"?

This is a violation of "maybe don't wait nine years before commenting on something" ;)

Also - you originally cited "town (<20000)" which is lovely but isn't a guideline used by the UK community. If you want a tag to record the population of a settlement, the population= tag is really useful for that!

As for "What's on the ground", last time I was in Bangor, I walked out of the railway station and there was a big road sign saying "City centre". But maybe you've visited more recently than me.

Oh yikes :(

I cycled this road a few years back - I don't recall any signs forbidding motor vehicles or horses, and as Phil says it's part of NCN 82 (Lon Las Cymru alternate braid) so bikes certainly aren't forbidden.

If there's signage such as "Unsuitable for motor vehicles" you could tag it as motor_vehicle=discouraged (though again I don't recall any such signage).

Just for reference - public footpath status doesn't necessarily mean that bikes can't use it, it just means that there's no automatic public right for bikes to use it. The landowner can still permit bikes to use it if they so desire (and in many cases this does happen).

Please don't use bridge=yes when there actually is no bridge any more. bridge=yes means "yes there's a bridge". Thank you. :)

Hi! I'm a bit confused by the change to way/696098690 - there isn't any form of road here, let alone anything with an expectation of a paved surface and public access (which is what you'd typically see for highway=service). Am I missing something?

I think you broke routing connectivity to the railway bridge with this one. :( Fixed in changeset/132408812

Yeah, the name's retained and the engineer's line reference. In theory you can namespace any clashing tags (e.g. railway:name) or, of course, create a relation for the old line.

Hi. When an abandoned railway trackbed has been repurposed as a walking/cycling path or similar, it's best to keep it as one element with two tags (e.g. highway=cycleway, railway=abandoned) rather than splitting it into two elements. This allows routers to make more informed decisions about elevation etc.

Hi - you probably didn't want to make the Braunkohlerunde relation a member of itself :)

Happily defer to you on that one! It looked paved to me from imagery and Bing StreetSide but always pleased to be proved wrong.

Hi! It's not really "my tag" - it's been in use since at least 2010, very possibly earlier, and is documented at osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Towpath . It probably needs moving to "de facto" status.

Hi! In this changeset you've added bicycle=no to the Interstate. As best I know, bikes are permitted on Interstates in Texas unless expressly signed otherwise - see https://www.bikelaw.com/2017/05/bike-riding-on-the-highway-in-texas/ . Ok if I fix this?

Hi - what's your source for the Hallaton-Horninghold path allowing bikes? This is a public footpath (or at least it was when I lived nearby!) and so bikes aren't permitted unless by explicit permission of the landowner.

Ok, changing way/23582598 to highway=tertiary is about the most preposterous edit I've ever seen in the history of OSM.

Hello Sam,

You have significantly broken the map and made it worse for routing by your widespread retagging of minor roads as 'tertiary' without any supporting evidence. Could you say how you're planning to fix this damage?

Thanks!
Richard

Hello Sam,

highway=tertiary isn't really appropriate for a single-track winding rural road. I have changed this back to highway=unclassified.

Richard

Wait what how did I make this span an ocean. Sorry.