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83829448 2 months ago

The English wikipedia is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauenkirche,_Dresden and actually matches my recollection of English name usage. "Church of Our Lady" is in brackets on the first line as a translation, but the name Frauenkirche is used as the name subsequently.
That approach is similar to other things that aren't translated into English, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_Neuf .

174436886 2 months ago

Also Leeman Road in York.

172763857 2 months ago

Hello,
I think you accidentally added tracking information to the website - utm_source=local&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=oldbury .

155146231 2 months ago

Oops - the "website" added here seems to have tracking information in it "sc_cmp=ref*yg*stc*2428&utm_source=yext_google&utm_campaign=local_Express_&utm_medium=organic". Maybe just a cut and paste thing?

174321119 2 months ago

Hello,
Andy from OSM's Data Working Group here. Please don't add tracking links to OSM. As you will have noticed they get removed pretty quickly.
Untruths in changeset comments ("Added more information abou the store ") is also not appreciated.

174264851 2 months ago

... and Eurovelo 2 as well: relation/5479822#map=17/51.543533/-2.639439 .

174264851 2 months ago

Thanks for tidying this up.
You wouldn't happen to know if the NCN4 still routes through here? relation/1318928#map=17/51.544100/-2.640554 shows a gap, but it might just be all a building site...
Best Regards,
Andy

173444988 2 months ago

Hello "ThePigeonCompany15",
Can you explain what "England Update 1.4.3 (Do Not Change! penalty charge: £150,000)" means?
Best Regards,
Andy

83829448 2 months ago

Hello,
You've added a name:en here of "Church of Our Lady" (which is a translation of the words in the German name), but in English I've always known it in English as the "Frauenkirche".
Best Regards,
Andy

174352107 2 months ago

Thanks!

174352262 2 months ago

Also 05/11, Huntington, ts2365b

173284201 3 months ago

What source did you use? It surely wasn't Bing Maps Aerial...

174240333 3 months ago

Thanks!

174120016 3 months ago

Hello,
Do you fancy having a go at adding the roads to the west to the NCN so that it is continuous again? Currently there is a gap: relation/167055#map=17/50.317603/-5.082389
Best Regards,
Andy

174206438 3 months ago

Thanks!

174037981 3 months ago

osmuser63783 is correct - this is not about crossings (continuous or otherwise). There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding by Facebook of how roads work in the UK.

174037767 3 months ago

@VLD319 when I was last in this bit of Manchester I crossed the M60 not at this interchange but at the one to the east. I can assure you that there the cycleways are all multi-use.
"foot" access in OSM should reflect legal access, and what Pete Owens says above is correct. If there is on-the-ground signage that says that a cycleway is cycle only then foot=no is correct, but if there isn't, it isn't.

174136618 3 months ago

Thanks!

174037981 3 months ago

Finally, the most important part. The thing that persuaded me to wake up the DWG ticket for all this yesterday was the comment on the forum here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/separate-sidewalks-or-not-near-ealing/132613/239 that says "so I’ve gone back to Google Maps".

Just so that it is absolutely clear, the suggestion is that Facebook's mapping is so bad that it makes urban pedestrian routing impossible.

Facebook as an organisation needs to engage with that point of view, understand why people are saying it, and change what they do so that people no longer make that complaint.

The first part of "engaging" involves actually talking to other OSMers and understanding why they're saying what they're saying. To do this you need to actually need to talk and listen to the communities that you are performing your mapping upon.

In your case I first suggested it about a month ago on changeset/173023412 - you have been ignoring this request every since.

Please post to the UK area of the forum saying what you're doing, who you're doing it for and how you're doing it (either in one of the existing threads or a new one), and then listen to suggestions about how you can map things better. If you are unable to do this and continuing contributing in a way that forces people to say "so I’ve gone back to Google Maps" then we'll have to stop you contributing to OSM at all.
Best Regards,
Andy (from OSM's Data Working Group)

174037981 3 months ago

> For your reference, here are links to relevant information from the OSM wiki:
> crossing:continuous=*#:~:text=When%20the%20road%20that%20crosses%20a%20continuous%20sidewalk%20is%20a%20minor%20service%20road%2C%20such%20as%20a%20driveway%20or%20a%20car%20park%20entrance%2C%20there%20is%20community%20consensus%20that%20this%20is%20not%20worth%20tagging%20explicitly%3B%20instead%20the%20node%20should%20simply%20be%20left%20without%20any%20tags
> osm.wiki/Talk:Key:crossing:continuous
> I hope this clarifies why I chose not to include these.

No? Those are pages referring to continuous crossings, which these aren't.

Imagine I was walking from one of the houses on the east side of the street here to the tram stop. Would I follow this route: osm.org/directions?engine=fossgis_valhalla_foot&route=53.386936%2C-2.256103%3B53.386806%2C-2.255834 ? I'm not familiar with Wythenshawe, but almost certainly not - I'd just cross the road.
What if I was pushing a wheelchair (something I spent about 5 years doing, so do have experience of)? Again, almost certainly not. If there's a high kerb on way/746745866/history I'd have to use the "official" crossing at way/746745864/history , if there isn't I would again "just cross the road", using the lowered kerb in front of way/726134898/history .

I don't believe that I can effectively map the sidewalks here as separate sidewalks _without actually going there_, and I don't believe that you can, either. If the imagery was clearer and everything was more perpendicular and just _larger_, then maybe it might be possible. I've previously suggested osm.org/#map=19/37.382552/-121.925734 on the forum as the sort of place where you absolutely could have a go at mapping things remotely, but I don't think this bit of Wythenshawe is.