I added a comment to the changeset discussion at changeset/29087502 - see there for further details.

Hello - I think that something went a bit wrong here - lots of ways west of Hailsham and Eastbourne were deleted. I'm guessing that it was accidental since if these roads really had disappeared it'd have made the national news.

I've undone the deletion - see changeset/29174882 - (so no need to worry about that), but I wonder if it would be possible to ask what happened? Were you perhaps trying to create a map only showing some data but not others, or did something go a bit wrong in the editor? If the latter, I'm sure that the people who wrote it would want to know more details.

Anyway, if there's anything that I can help with, please don't hesitate to get in contact.

Cheers,
Andy

A large series of deletions was reported near Beachy Head (see http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=488700#p488700 and https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2015-March/017130.html ).

Hi - could you please explain the source of the name:zh changes in here? What made the previous name:zh for the United Kingdom wrong and the current one correct?

It's not feasible to have all of the languages of all names in OSM, including there were no-one locally refers to a place by that name or it is just a mechanical transliteration to another alphabet. Think about it for a second:

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, and to have those 7,000 tags added to each named object in OpenStreetMap - 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. In this instance you're just copying from wikidata, so you'd want a process that can read names from wikidata and populate your rendering database on the fly. There's a wikidata API - http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php - it's possible that that might help (though I expect you'd want some local caching).

Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

I notice that you've added node/3349808775 , but haven't added a tag to say what sort ot thing it is (shop, office, that sort of thing). I'm guessing from the website some sort of shop, or (if not really a shop) perhaps industrial=warehouse ? If you want to look at the other tags that people have used for shops, you can look at http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/shop#values .

Hi - just spotted way/327473586 ("Road Closed"). I'm guessing that that's not really the name here, more a description of the fact that you can't drive down here?

It's better to use "access" tags for things like this, so if that routers and other things that might be using the map data can know that there is no access. If there's no access at all (not by car, foot, bike, or anything else) you could add "access=no" or "access=private"; if it's private to everyone unless they're walking you could add both "access=private" and "foot-yes".

Hi - just for info - there seems to be a discrepancy between the designation on way/111513802/history ("public_footpath") and the changeset comment ("Public Bridleway")?

... as neither are signed at the way/206564047 end. More survey needed to check things around here.

Hi - was this import discussed anywhere reasonably public (see osm.wiki/Import/Guidelines for details) before it started (and no, a wiki page or something specific to OpenRailwayMap does not count as "reasonably public"). It seems to have come as a surprise to the Dutch OSM community - http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=488405#p488405 .

Thanks - sounds good to me!

I'd definitely add it to the "Bronte Way" relation so it's included in relation/1537369 and also appears as part of the "BW" on the waymarkedtrails.org link.

To add it edit the area around way/259219442 , move the map so that you can see Ponden Reservoir to the southeast (where the other bit of Bronte Way is), then move the map back, click on your bit of Bronte Way, click "advanced" then "add to" (at the bottom left), and then select "Bronte Way" (on the second page) and then select. It should gain a green part around it showing it's part of the long distance footpath.

@lxbarth thanks - that'd be really useful (and also great that you filter out the non-OSM-specific stuff, like people who's GPSs obviously aren't working or are actually just complaining about an app that your maps are embedded in.

I'm not aware of anything that renders "loc_name" but it doesn't mean that something doesn't exist - it might be worth asking. I do know that Andy Allan's maps tend to do "clever things" with names (e.g. where there are multiple languages) - someone may well have created something that renders loc_name (perhaps in brackets after the real name). The wiki's fairly clear though - osm.wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only (and that does make sense - if you're giving someone directions there's no point in telling them to turn left at a street name that no reference material refers to by that name). loc_name is exactly the sort of information that's worth capturing though, and if the data's there, people will use it, even if it doesn't appear on the "standard" map on osm.org. If someone wanted to create a "slippy map" (llike the tiles on osm.org) that included loc_name as part of the name it'd be fairly straightforward to do (simpler than what I did for public footpaths at https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/designation-style for example), but obviously not everyone has the desire to do this.

Well, the bottom of that page says "© All site contents copyright 1999-2015, CeX Ltd. All trademarks acknowledged. E&OE. " so I'd say that's definitely NOT a legal way to name them (or at least - not a way acccepted with OSM). Personally, I prefer just to use the name that's displayed on the shop :)

I've walked under here many times and I'm sure that it's not signed as "(known as) Steeple Arch Road or 6'6" Road".

Presumably "loc_name=Steeple Arch Road" is what's actually meant here?

When I walked past it recently I couldn't see the name "Art Deco/Modernist style house" anywhere. Are you sure that it is really called that?

Hello and Welcome to OpenStreetMap!

way/330054688 looks like a large rectangle. Is it supposed to represent anything?

Depending on what you're trying to do, http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/ might be what you're looking for?

Anyway, hope you don't mind me mentioning this, just trying to help - any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks - do you happen to know about note/322809 (i.e. is the road further down bus and taxi only, or more widely accessible)?

Is way/138264706/history really oneway? There's an access to the roundabout that's no longer accessible if it really is.