Hi Kandice, is the name of this area actually signed or officially recognized as "Sandy Marsh"?

Additionally, the name of "marsh" does not seem to line up with it being tagged as a beach. Nor does it appear to be a beach from (admittedly poor) aerial imagery.

Looks like these should be reverted. Would you like to, or shall I? Also appears to maybe be a sockpuppet so likely that the DWG should get involved.

Hello, I have reverted this changeset as "alt_name" is not to be used in this case, as per the discussion on the forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lake-ontario-lake-america/146975

As it is only the United States that recognises this name, the tag "official_name:en-US" is being used. "name=", "alt_name=", and any translated versions of the name will remain Lake Ontario, the internationally recognised name.

changeset/188393148

In that case it may be better to keep the camera mapped but remove the manufacturer, wikidata, and wikipedia tags to avoid misleading that this is a Flock-branded camera. Are you comfortable making that edit, or should I?

Hi Goldstandard64, it looks like you've mapped this ALPR as a Flock camera, but to my knowledge we do not have Flock cameras in Canada.

Can you confirm what type of camera this is, and what company manufactures it? Do you have a photo of the camera?

Hey CAM-Gerlach, thanks for sharing. If that is how the Gulf of Mexico was handled, then I'd agree on pausing this change until (if?) the GNIS updates it.

It does mean we'd have to watch out for people re-adding it, potentially even incorrectly under the name=* tag.

Hi Justin, looks like you tagged way/1552754474 as a bridge. Based on what I can recall from this area, plus aerial and street imagery, this is not a bridge.

Was this a misclick or is there some sort of bridge here now?

Thanks!
Max

Looks like they didn't, it appears this was signed in as an executive order today: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/honoring-the-american-history-of-the-great-lakes-and-renaming-lake-ontario-as-lake-america/

I think this will follow a similar path as the Gulf of Mexico fiasco where the USA gets it's own tag for their "official name", but everyone else still uses the actual internationally recognised name.

Hey DENelson, thanks for adding the detailed address data here!

Regarding the individual plot landuse, there's quite wide consensus on OSM not to tag parcel data due to verifiability and data protection concerns: place=plot

Rather than building on existing (though incorrect) somewhat local conventions, it wouldn't be too hard to merge these landuses in JOSM to better reflect the block-by-block landuse that the landuse=residential tag is most used for.

I'm happy to do that on my end, but wanted to bring it up with you first to avoid stepping on your toes here and ensure you were in the loop about it. What do you think?

Max

Hi CBradioCZ, it looks like you've done an large-scale import of these parcel lockers, but have not provided a source nor a link to the wiki page or discussion about this import.

Can you please provide these details?

Thanks,
Max

Reverted in changeset/187253510

Thanks for the quick response!

Hello, it looks like you've added oneway=no;yes to way/7739372, which is an invalid tag. Was this a typo? I can't confirm exactly which direction this road is from streetside imagery, so if you could confirm that would be great, thanks!

Hello, you tagged Thanon Sri Takuapa as oneway=no;yes, was this a typo? This isn't a valid tag, and it should either be no or yes. Can you clarify if this is a oneway road or not, and in which direction?

Hello, can you please explain how the one way system works here? oneway=yes;no isn't a valid tag. It may be better to split the way into multiple ways and tag them individually depending on their oneway status.

Hi! Thanks for your message. I wasn't too sure the best way to tag these either, and I had a bit of a discussion with some other mappers about it. The main challenge being that the blinker lights are sometimes only for 2 directions, but the light is physically in the centre of the intersection (making it tough to know how to tag direction).

The Tag:traffic_signals=blinker page does not include the stop=* tag, and my take on it is that since stop signs are still present, we can map the stop signs at their actual location (the stop line), then not include stop=* on the blinker since the blinker isn't what requires cars to stop, it's the stop sign (I think, I don't know NY law very well).

I hope this makes sense, I'm just kind of throwing ideas out there and in no way am making a final rule of law on how to tag these! Please let me know what you think, new ideas are always welcome!

Hi Sieva, thanks for your quick response!

I missed that import page, sorry! If this was an older import that was discussed and then got revived then it's probably fine to skip the buy in period.

The guidelines can be a bit confusing, so no worries, the import itself is totally fine and it's great to have this information in the OSM database now.

As for the fixme tag, I think the source:addr tag that was added as well is enough to determine this was from an import.

Would you like me to make the edit to remove the fixme, or would you like to?

Hi Sieva, thanks for working on this.

I can't seem to find a wiki page for this import, and it doesn't look like you made a forum post for community buy-in.

Per osm.wiki/Import/Guidelines , both of these should be created and linked in the changeset tags.

I also noticed that every imported node has a fixme=* tag attached to it, which makes working with the validator in Vancouver quite difficult. I would be partial to bulk-removing the fixme tag. Additionally, if it's true and the addresses may be inaccurate, they may not have been a good candidate for importing in the first place.

I look forward to hearing from you and discussing this import.

Best regards,
Max

Hi Portal Master,

It looks like you've added a lot of amenity=shelter nodes on top of the buildings that are here. Why is this?

amenity=shelter is usually for freestanding shelters in public or private areas designed to protect for weather and sun, like a bus stop shelter or picnic table cover.

Thanks,
Max

No worries! Was there over Canada Day and figured I’d get it updated :) I think the bridge is slightly offset to the north of where it should be but I didn’t have means to verify