I might have missed out on the airport edge being in contact with the island perimeter which i have rectified but I don't think what I'd mapped was nonsense. I was simply improving on what's mapped before me.

I was on a personal effort to try to mapped the Bahamas which most are still without names and even proper outlines. You can have your personal opinion that it was nonsense or tagging style accepted by 90+% of the community as nonsense. You can choose to rectified it and give a proper comment. But to accuse my mapping is nonsense is simply not acceptable.

This would be my final reply and I shall reply no more.

Not sure if you are aware that the new style of tagging has been to put tags into relation and leave coastline alone as a way so as to have a clear separation of coastline from other tags.

In this case Norman's Cay is the name of island as the tag place=island is there to show this is an island, and the natural landscape of this island is scrub as in natural=scrub. (scrub and coastline cannot be tagged together as both are categorized as natural)

A good place to read about this new tagging method which has been practiced for the past 2 years or so is at https://github.com/osmlab/fixing-polygons-in-osm/blob/master/doc/background.md under the title "Interpreting tags on the relation and members".

I have been using OSM Inspector to correct coastlines mistakes (by others) worldwide and this tagging method has not caused any problems and have been practiced by others as well.

If it's not set as inner, the scrub rendering would encroach into the airport area which in this case it's not (unlike some other islet airstrips where both sides of runway are scrubs.) This is to show the runway having a more proper paved area than other airstrips.

Hi,

Thank you for highlighting the local conditions for the mapping. Was drive-by editing and didn't realize this condition. Perhaps a note of sort could be added if it's a special requirement as iD would continue to highlight these as old/incomplete tags.

Cheers,
RunRunShow

Hi angys,

There's an empty way/644695904 highlighted by Osmoscope. Perhaps you had forgotten to tag it, kindly update the way if it's of use. TQ.

Hi JaLooNz,

There's an empty way/713010468 that you had perhaps forgotten to tag. Appreciate if you can update the said way. TQ.

Hi manog_nya,

The road in question is a public road shared currently by 2 industrial properties. There is a likely hood that this road would be further extended to the right when more industrial properties are built later on.

For simplification, imagine the properties as a row of shop lots with road access from main road, you wouldn't labelled the road fronting these shop lots as a service road. Visually in the map it would be too small and unfit to indicate its purpose.

If the road is within the properties, than it can be labelled as service road as it is used privately by the properties only and not the public.

Read the link for unclassified that you have cited above under "Examples of determining applicability" where it is mentioned:-
"They are commonly found in industrial, retail, or commercial areas, or linking to residential neighbourhoods."

As for the other link on service, I am afraid that's referring to car service shops and train service track. You have to refer to the wiki on highway=service.

Hi snigdhap,

699449794 is likely a dirt road leading to a farming plot with residential building. Look at node/6568162887 you should be able to see that it's not paved. Therefore the residential road ends at node/3966988671 where there's a small scale residential development.

699369667 is a road leading to indigenous people settlement from the residential development further out. This type of road is usually 1 lane, narrow with no centre line. Therefore service road is applicable.

Hi manog_nya,

704535066 likely road fronting dual frontage shoplot as evidenced by the parking lots so service road would be too small to be appropriate for this road.

704511618 is an industrial area road providing access to 2 different industrial properties and hence should be minor/unclassified and not service road.

704513186 is a shop fronting road hence the use of minor/unclassified road. Likewise 704529800.

704533992 looked like part of a distorted roundabout but I am not sure unless others can provide on site validation. But I am removing the one way so that it would be "assumed to be no".

Hi bhav_ana,

These are driveways into different properties in rural area. When they were plotted, the best imagery at the time was ESRI. The conditions of these roads weren't exactly clear from imagery, but in rural Sarawak most of them are likely not paved or with just gravel surface hence the used of track road.

Hi WinnieTang,

I noticed that you have "continued" 3 sections of this road 689195553 (including a bridge section crossing a river) into one resulting in the whole road being shown as a long bridge.

Hope you would update it to reflect the actual road conditions. TQ.

Hi win_03,

I don't think all those ways were edited by me. Probably a road or node that I'd edited was connected to those roads that OSM logs showed as by me.

However, as a general rule of thumb, short connecting roads in urban residential area are not usually classified as tertiary in this country unless it is a major artillery (commuted heavily by locals before the area is develped etc) or dual carriageway.

Hi kaje001,

When I plotted 689315445, it was based on DigitalGlobe imagery and it wasn't clear on the imagery the conditions of the road. That's why I had tagged it as unknown pending site verification by others, since i can only do armchair plotting from where i am.

From the latest Maxar imagery, it can be seen as partially paved and part dirt road. I will update it shortly after this.

Hi ravalim,

689303334 is the main access road leading to the park from a residential area. Since it is not for residential use, it was tagged as minor/unclassified. 689303336 is the "link" connecting the service roads in the park. Per OSM conventions, link classification should follow the main connecting road therefore it was tagged the same as 689303334.

Further to my comment above, please note that mappers are not supposed to incorporate any copy righted data in OSM. So google streetview data is not allowed to be used here. What i meant in the comment before this is you should have a feel of what a Malaysian rural village road looks liked in satellite imagery versus proper structured housing development roads.

Hi dee_ksha,

Please see link highway=unclassified?uselang=tr

Some points in the link above:
...Unclassified roads have lower importance in the road network than tertiary roads, and are not residential streets or agricultural tracks.
...They are commonly found in industrial, retail, or commercial areas, or linking to residential neighbourhoods.

Hi bha_rath,

I see that you have confused minor/unclassified road as being lower ranked than residential road when in fact it is one rank higher than residential in the osm highway hierarchy. The label "unclassifed" is simply an artifact/legacy from UK road classification (which OSM movement originated). It simply means neither of the top five classification from motorway to tertiary. See OSM wiki for explanation.

I used minor/unclassified roadway for shop fronting roads to differentiate from house fronting residential roads.

Please pass this info to your other Grab friends as well as I cannot reply each and everyone of similar comments sent to me.

Hi dee_ksha,

I see that you have confused minor/unclassified road as being lower ranked than residential road when in fact it is one rank higher than residential in the osm highway hierarchy. The label "unclassifed" is simply an artifact/legacy from UK road classification (which OSM movement originated). It simply means neither of the top five classification from motorway to tertiary. See OSM wiki for explanation.

I used minor/unclassified roadway for shop fronting roads to differentiate from house fronting residential roads.

Please pass this info to your other Grab friends as well as I cannot reply each and everyone of similar comments sent to me.

Hi bhavyakota,

I notice you have changed this road to trunk type. As trunk road is only secondary to motorway, for this road it's best to just tag it as residential. Trunk roads are usually reserved for federal route connecting major towns in Malaysia.

These are rural village roads that often times are just a single lane road without median lines and thus not suitable to tag as residential road. It is visible from sat photo that its narrower than usual or you can have a check with google streetview.

These edits were done 2 years ago. Nowadays I prefer to tag them as unknown roads so that user's GPS routing algo would avoid such roads for transit if unnecessary.