Hello Gerd,

Difficult one to call - if it's still a consecrated chapel/church then I certainly wouldn't call it "disused". But regular services may not be currently taking place. It needs an up-to-date local survey really.

Richard

TIGER review from aerial imagery. Essentially reviewing tagging on good-quality paved roads which go somewhere (i.e. through routes rather than just residential access), generally by bringing them into the standard highway=tertiary tag; plus occasional fixup of smaller roads that deserve to be residential or unclassified, but with tagging to indicate that the road has been reviewed (using tiger:reviewed itself for residential roads, or highway=unclassified which wasn't used in the original import and so implies a review).

way/14955798/history is pretty typical - a good-quality paved road which connects to tertiaries at either end and forms a through route. Although looking at it now I see the highway=tertiary tagging peters out at the southern end... must fix that. :)

I've changed the Milford Haven-Herbrandston-Marloes road back from secondary to tertiary, as in the UK we reserve highway=secondary for B roads (ref=B*).

That's great - thank you!

Hi,

Great to see the mapping of the Norwich cycle network.

"Orange Pedalway" etc. aren't really refs. Refs are short numeric/alphabetic references used on signs. "Orange Pedalway" is a name.

Many routers/renderers use 'shields' to show refs, and a ref with 15 characters is too big for any known shield - so the effect is probably that it'll not show up on most maps. (OpenCycleMap is a rare exception!)

As far as I can tell, the signage actually just shows the colours - e.g. http://www.norwich.gov.uk/TransportAndStreets/Transport/Cycling/PublishingImages/WayfinderSticker.png .

I'd suggest that it therefore would be better to revert to the simple "ref=Orange" which is a more accurate reflection of what's on the sign, and won't break so many clients.

cheers
Richard

Or if you do want to continue armchair mapping, may I gently suggest the rural US - where there's hordes of bad imported TIGER data that needs clearing up.

If you had tagged it highway=footway, even without the bicycle=yes tag, then routers and renderers would be able to parse it. Bike routers would say (for example) "On foot".

Tagging highway=something_you_just_made_up breaks connectivity for everyone - for pedestrians, for cyclists equally. Don't do that.

"Rubble and large broken slabs of reinforced concreate" is not a osm.wiki/Tag:name=, it's at best a description= tag. But even that's pretty pointless and you'd be better off using a surface tag.

You have completely broken routing for CycleStreets, cycle.travel, and other routers by inventing this bogus tag with no consultation: way/354359964

There is already a perfectly good way of tagging this - highway=footway, bicycle=yes.

what is this I don't even

Seriously, what does "made a Cycleway_guide highway type for a suspended stretch of footway prioity" even mean, and is there any likelihood that (whatever it is) any consumer of OSM data will ever, ever, ever use it?

It's very difficult to draw such long lines in P2 without crashing the browser. Looks more like a mistaken import from an external file to me.

Yes, I don't use version numbers on P2 because I can never remember how all that git tagging stuff works. :)

@Jojo4u: Potlatch 2 was most recently updated in 2014, not 2011.

Welcome to OSM! What were you trying to do with this edit? way/345001740 doesn't look like a new feature or anything else that's on the ground.

Good spot! Fixed.

Has this been discussed on the mailing lists, and documented on a 'Mechanical Edits' wiki page, as per osm.wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct ?

A lot of the Montgomery towpath has been upgraded to shared-use cycleway standard recently. Off the top of my head I can't recall whether this bit has been done yet, but if it has then highway=cycleway is entirely appropriate and is the way that similar upgraded towpaths are tagged across the network.

Personally I'd love Sustrans to reroute NCN 81 onto the towpath south of Pool Quay and then across Maginnis Bridge, which would cut out the climb of the Long Mountain. :)

Please don't remove them! OSM takes rights of way very seriously, more than any other mapping organisation other than the Ordnance Survey.

At the same time we're a global project, so we can't show every single peculiarity of every single country in this map view. The main view on openstreetmap.org itself has to be a global "lowest common denominator". But that's why OSM encourages others to take our data and make their own specialised maps from it - for walking, cycling and a thousand other uses.

robert was being a grump about the manner in which you added the tracks. But that's the fault of the site making the "ideal way" non-obvious to a beginner, not any fault of yours, and he was out of order in not recognising that.

Despite the old grump above (we love him really), great to have you on board. :)

In general if you're changing long-standing data in matters of interpretation, rather than unarguable fact, you should think about consulting others first. Peckham has been tagged for over five years as a town in OSM. It's unlikely that you have noticed something so significant that London OSMers (the most active OSM community in the UK) have missed for all this time.

FWIW, Tom's mailing list posting wasn't referring to you as a "self-appointed wiki editor" - I think you've misread it.