The Esri imagery currently shows construction ongoing, but construction is basically complete. Despite that, it's still useful for locating features. The rest has been drawn by eye from roads and paths. More needs doing, especially when the basins are full (it'll only be possible to see what is where once they are - everything is just "undulating farmland").

Indeed - part of that discussion is happening at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/is-this-mapping-historic-features/122139/7

Hello,
"bicycle=yes" is the default on highway=trunk roads in the UK (and most worldwide; it's only a few countries that have decided to use an odd definition for trunk).
I'm guessing you're working around a limitation of a router not designed to work in the UK?
Best Regards,
Andy

@GBAB - I suspect your changes to the Irish ones here was an accident! You might want to either change it back or liaise with the people who added that data to make sure that they are OK with the new tags.

OK - now done - see relation/192467#map=14/51.23258/-2.33116 and relation/9242266#map=15/51.23172/-2.32174 . Does that look OK now?

Hello,
I wonder if you can help. The relations relation/9242266#map=16/51.23216/-2.32587 and relation/192467#map=15/51.22876/-2.32977 seem to be used for different parts of the same cycleway link in Frome - I'm guessing that it's not supposed to be link that?
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
We don't generally add the name of relations that something is part of to the something itself, so for example here way/1315609958/history would only be called that if that was the name of this stretch of path on the ground.
Different maps show different things, and if one wants to show running route relations it can.
There are quite a few of these - see https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1UCF - maybe have a look at some of those have been mapped?
Best Regards,
Andy

relation/18046447

Hello again RedSkies,
Why did you delete way/1328973938/history here?
Best Regards,
Andy

s/is evidence/is why evidence/

If you have more up-to-date pictures please discuss on the forum. Something at https://community.openstreetmap.org/tags/c/help-and-support/7/all/iraq would be a good place to start.

You have consistently shown bias towards your preferred language and political affiliation in Iraq. Other contributors have shown bias towards their preferred languages too. This is evidence is needed for these changes and why we've suggested a discussion in the public forum.

If you have more up-to-date pictures please discuss on the forum. Something at https://community.openstreetmap.org/tags/c/help-and-support/7/all/iraq would be a good place to start.

I have to say, node/29027798/history does look like a mini-roundabout rather than an actual roundabout on the imagery (unless that's out of date, of course).
Perhaps this would have been a good candidate for asking about at the forum https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/uk/86 first? Sometimes what's mapped does need changing (the bus gate mapped by another mapper as a police checkpoint in the other changeset might be an example of that) and sometimes it might not (here, unless the road's changed).
"how to map things" in OSM can be tricky, and we all make mistakes at first (well I certainly did), so sometimes it helps to ask.

Ah yes - it was added 11 months ago by "Smudge the Cat". It'd be interesting to know what the current situation is.
Bus gates tend to get handled by conditional restrictions on the road itself - see osm.wiki/Conditional_restrictions for that. In this case way/552174846 already has "motor_vehicle=no; psv=yes".

Hello demisee,
way/1238686932 has been mapped as a "police=checkpoint" with a name of "Bus Gate" and a long description.
Are you sure that's correct?
What I'd suggest that you do is to post a photo of it to the forum https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/uk/86 and ask people there what the best way to tag it is.
Best Regards,
Andy

Please do not try and communicate with the DWG via private messages to individual members. If you want to reply to a ticket, reply to an email or message associated with that ticket.
If you want to comment publicly on a changeset, do that.
If you want to comment somewhere that everyone in the community can see, please use the forum, perhaps https://community.openstreetmap.org/tag/iraq .

Source was the picture I linked in the first comment above. You were asked to comment on it but instead talked about the current mayor's desk.

I've reverted it in way/332658571 . If you can find evidence of actual signage being change, please provide it. Until then, please do not waste the DWG's time.

@LockOnGuy Can you provide evidence of current external mainly-Arab signage? It is you who is "wasting the DWG's time" with "a nameplate on [the current mayor's] desk written exclusively in Arabic".

Hello again LockOnGuy,
You've used "updated name " as a changeset comment here. This isn't good enough - you should explain what source you used and what changes were actually made to names.
In addition, someone has provided the DWG with https://ibb.co/kydcgQH , which claims to show the Kurdish name used as the main / only name here. Do you have any comment on that?
Best Regards,
Andy, from OSM's Data Working Group

@desertivy - I am trying to help you here. You can ignore my suggestions and carry on as before, but as you've seen that isn't working out so well.

The top-down model that you are suggesting simply won't work for OSM. I agree that right now there is no functioning OSM community in Iraq (there are only people representing their own narrow interests). I am suggesting that you try and get the community beyond Iraq's borders involved to work around that.

You and LockOnGuy are both part of the problem, and you both try and pretend that you are right and the "other side" is wrong.