Any thoughts on this - are you in a position to survey, or not?

Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/world) says that there are > 7000 languages in the world. Taginfo (http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=name) says that there are 44,000,000 names in OSM. Clearly it makes no sense to have every name translated or "soundalike transliterated" into 7,000 other languages - OSM would soon become nothing more than a list of translations. Some places (e.g. relation/50046) really do have names that are different languages; some do not. If you've just converted the "sound" of a word in one language to the same sound in another language, it's not worth storing it in OSM - do the translation externally and store it in your rendering (or whatever) database downstream from OSM.

HolgerJeromin - never mind what the wiki says - have you ever actually seen one of these places? I can assure you that if node/745023154/history looked anything like the photograph on the wiki page all the waste would flow out of the bottom of the bin and back into the canal. If you don't understand what something is and have never actually seen one, you probably shouldn't be changing the tagging for it.

Hi - would it be possible for the changeset comment to be a little more descriptive about what areas this covers? It's a huge changeset, but presumably it's just "a bit here, a bit there...". OSMHV normally works for this but in this case http://osmhv.openstreetmap.de/changeset.jsp?id=28564163 gives eu.cdauth.osm.lib.APIError: ResponseCode is 500 for URL http://api.openstreetmap.org:80/api/0.6/node/1523969540/ways. How do I know, for example, which bits overlap with me in England?

way/240541124 also seems to take an unusual dogleg south. I'm guessing that perhaps it doesn't really do this?

Oops - I think that something's gone a bit wrong here. way/326052226 is unjoined at one end (you can see that node/3326697554 is part of one way, not the expected 2). It looks like bus route relation/2669410#map=19/52.06490/-0.63397&layers=N needs revisiting too - if it goes "there and back" into the technology park then the "other sides" of the roundabout flares need adding to the bus route too.

Anyway - hope you don't mind me mentioing this - just trying to help. Any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

The towpath's open along the full length of canal (that bits that are open and aren't tunnel or former tunnel of course!). Quite a lot of the towpath and almost all of the connecting footpaths, canal water supply and drainage etc. remain to be mapped. It's a while since I was there, but the White Hart at the east end (home of the Idle Brewery) was well worth a visit. I walked along a bit of the towpath near here about a month ago and should get a chance to edit the towpath in on this bit in a week or so.

The landuse tracing of way/324478329 at osm.org/#map=17/53.43130/-0.86754 could benefit from a bit of tidying up, I think - I suspect that you might not have been zoomed in enough when editing. From looking at the map, you'd think that the field boundary is straight and gets closer to the canal and then further away again as you go north from the bridge. In reality this isn't the case. There are a couple of GPS traces on the side of the canal that can be used for aligning imagery here. It's not offset by much, but the tall hedge (which hasn't been mapped yet) does tend to mask the width of the towpath, which is much wider than it appears on the Bing imagery. As is often the case, I suspect that large-area landuse mapping would benefit from an on-the-ground survey first, partly so that you can see the imagery offset but mainly so you can see what sort of things to look out for (e.g. tall hedges in this case).

Hi,
There seem to be two "Searle's" hifi shops here - way/324013561 and node/3230195614 - I'm guessing that perhaps you forgot to delete the node when you added the way?

Hope you don't mind me mentioning this by the way - just trying to help. Any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

Cheers,
Andy

Hi, changeset/28561040 covers a very large area. How do I know (as someone in England) which parts of it affect me? It'd be a lot easier to understand if edits in Argentina and edits in Norway weren't combined in one large changeset.

No, the wiki page does not currently contain that (not that it is any way related to my question).

Re "What do you think should happen next?" I'd revert the import and "start at the top" again. I'll assume that you've done "Step 1" of osm.wiki/Import/Guidelines. Step 2 includes "Discuss your plan" - so I'd do that, in a more general forum other that one associated with a particular rendering such as OpenSeaMap. I'd expect that people will ask about the licence (for example, you've got the data from NOAA, but was any of the data obtained by them from third parties?). Among other things I'd also expect that you'd be asked how you know this data is accurate, how you'll update OSM when the NOAA source changes, and how you'll avoid duplication of data already in OSM.

This looks very much like a mechanical import. Was it discussed anywhere beforehand (see osm.wiki/Import/Guidelines for what's supposed to happen before an import). Were any other parts of that procedure followed?

Best Regards,
Andy Townsend, on behalf of the OpenStreetMap data working group.

You seem to have added a name, so did the issue which we can't read say "the name of this cafe is ..." or similar?

> Contacting each contributor when I see a mistake seems a tedious task

It is, but given that most people don't read the wiki or follow the tagging list, it's the only way people will find out.

iD has logic in it to map shop names to tags - I'm not sure if you could do anything with wildcards (such as "*vape*") or indeed how many false positives that would hit.

CC-BY-SA is not compatible with ODBL.

Are you sure that way/222966407 is really an amenity=doctors? From the name, it sounds more like a chiropodist to me. Perhaps it would have been better to try and contact the original mapper, or add a note so that someone could check?

A web translation of http://grupenciclopedia.cat/avis-legal/ would suggest that that that is expressly prohibited as a source by their Ts and Cs "Queda prohibit l’accés a aquest web i el seu ús, incloent-hi mirar, descarregar, duplicar...."

Whilst shop=e-cigarette is gaining some traction (largely due to previous mechanical edits) did you discuss these changes anywhere, particularly with the mappers who originally mapped these objects? If you didn't, how will they know that they should be using shop=e-cigarette in the future?

Is layer=1 still not appropriate for way/257538068/history ? It looks like it goes over the things below it.