OK - thanks.

Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

You may have noticed that "Tenbury High School" that you added the other day doesn't appear on any of the maps on the OpenStreetMap.org site. The reason for this is that although it has a name, it doesn't have anything saying what sort of thing it is. Normally for a school you'd add an area around the outside (including all the school grounds) and say that it's a school. In the editor, if you click on where it says "area" at the top left and search for "school" you can select either "school grounds" or "school building". You can add "school grounds" all the way around the outside, and then add "school buildings" inside (currently your newly added area seems to include the buildings, but also bits of road and car park).
Anyway, hope you don't mind me mentioning this - just trying to help. Any questions please do get in touch.

I'm guessing that the name of the road junction at node/3345845102 isn't really "Please give feedback about Road Conditions to roadconditions.bw@gmail.com" ?

Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

I noticed that you added a couple of "footpaths" to the middle of Thirsk race course "Вулиця 1" and "Вулиця 2".

There were a couple of problems - one was that "Вулиця 1" doubled back on itself and the other was that the names seem extremely unlikely in the middle of Thirsk, I'm from just down the road and I think that it's fair to say that a wide grasp of eastern european languages isn't very common there.

If you want to experiment with OpenStreetMap you may find http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/ (the test database) useful - or maybe even http://opengeofiction.net/ .

You've removed a tag from node/2612820325/history . Was it discussed with e.g. the person who added it in the first place, and anyone who might actually be using it?

Achavi http://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=28828300 doesn't seem to load large changesets very often for me. An alternative, osmhv, http://osmhv.openstreetmap.de/changeset.jsp?id=28828300 usually works better but can fail if it gets an intermittent 500 from the API.

Just wondered - is there perhaps a typo here at node/3354591529 ("Buckminser shop" without a T in "Buckminster" with one)?

Like the source :)

Is it perhaps worth linking from here to http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=29724 to give people a bit of context about the ongoing fixes?

Hi - not sure how it happened, but in this edit way/264242508 and way/264242512 seem to be duplicates of each other. Mind if I delete one of them?

This changeset has a huge bounding box and a not especially helpful changeset comment ("unconnected major roads (Geofabrik)"). If this comes up in the changeset history for someone, how will they know what has been changed locally to them and why? Would it be possible to use smaller bounding boxes explaining what wasn't joined to what and what changes were made?

The changeset comment doesn't say anything about religious, only residential.

If someone's surveyed a place and thinks that it is best tagged as landuse=churchyard then it is NOT an "accepted style of mapping" for someone to change that based on aerial imagery, simply based on discussions on the tagging list. We map what we see and what we know; the strength of Openstreetmap is its local mappers.

Thanks - did anyone hear anything back? Maybe it might be worth trying to contact someone in the Slovakian community? (I'm afraid that I don't know their regular contact mechanism - list, forum or whatever).

Hi - perhaps something that might help here is to contact the person who changed this back from a highway=proposed to a highway=tertiary? They're a new OSM mapper and so it might not be an "edit war" at all - it might just be that they didn't understand "why the roundabout that they tried to add didn't appear as they expected".

There's probably a whole conversation to be had about why mapping something as "highway=tertiary" with a name of "Planned Roundabout" is a bad idea. Much of OpenStreetMap isn't obvious - and sometimes we forget that we were all new mappers ones.

Yes - that's fixed it - thanks!

So you didn't actually survey any of these?

OpenStreetMap is a community - together we benefit from all the work that all other mappers have done. If a new mapper doesn't know that they're "doing it wrong" simply because no-one has been bothered to tell them, then they'll continue to do so, because they don't know any better, and there'll be more things that need correcting in the future. If people do take the small amount of time needed to communicate effectively (by e.g. writing meaningful changeset comments) then they'll get things right next time. There's a saying "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime".

What was the source of the change of (for example) "landuse=churchyard" to "landuse=religious" in way/242868714/history ? Did you survey it and find that it was _not_ a churchyard?

Aha - thanks - I hadn't spotted the tracks=2 change.

Actually, it would be better if each small change didn't "all contain the same comment". For example, rather than simply "osmi routing view fixes" the one that replaced way/304192905/history with node/2971905214 could say something like "Kastellbell: replaced pedestrian crossing drawn across the road but not joining it with crossing node on the road itself". That way it's easy for local mappers to see exactly what has changed and why (and it also helps in cases such as this for experienced mappers to contact the previous mapper and explain politely why "a footway crossing a road but not joining it" is not a good representation of a pedestrian crossing - that way they'd know for the next time they needed to map one.

Er - nearly - it joins the other steps going down but not quite yet the road. Sometimes you have to zoom in quite a lot to see what you need to do. In Potlatch2, that strange red "pustule" shows that there are two nodes almost exactly on the same spot. If you grab hold of it and move it you'll see more clearly what's happened.