Ahh sure, makes sense - it's just the first time I see it on OSM. If it had said "distrito sa Houaphan" I'd probably have recognized it; I lived basically next door (Bacolod) for a few years ;)

Yeah, the names are fine, I was just wondering about the tag. "name:en" for English, "name:lo" for Lao, and "name:ceb" for what?

Good catch! Just wondering: what's "name:ceb"? I do most of my mapping in Laos and often face this dilemma of how to tag romanized Lao.

Hi, thanks for your additions! Please remember though to name things only with their *name*. "Delicious, cheap sandwiches! Burgers, pancakes and fruit shakes" is a description, not a name. If you don't know the name or can't spell the Lao, it's fine to leave it blank, too.
cheers,
Matthias

Hi Brendan,
that makes sense! Some searching on the forums produced this:
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/5352/should-the-edges-of-landuse-or-boundary-areas-share-points-with-streets-that-form-their-borders?

So yeah, both methods seem to be fine depending on what makes your work easier, but if anything, yours is better. I'll try that multipolygon method as I haven't found an easy way to make parallel lines in JOSM.
Anyway, that's for taking care of VTE landuse areas, they do need some love ;)

cheers,
Matthias

Hi, thanks for your addition! Plase make sure though to only name things with their name. "Small hut with shade" is not a name, that's the description, there's an extra tag for that.

Hi,
was there anything wrong with how it was? I found it quite practical to have shared nodes so if you adjusted some roads ike or new imagery you'd automatically adjust the areas they separate, but I don't know if there's some standard on how that's supposed to be done.

cheers,
Matthias

Hi Sara,
gotta get back to that and apologize, please do continue the way you did when there's a crossing way. Some digging in the Wiki revealed I've been doing it wrong for quite a while. Sorry about that!

cheers,
Matthias

Hi,
that bridge fee is tagged on the toll booth already -- I guess it's not in maps.me's latest update yet so you couldn't see it. But "10'000 kip entance fee" is misspelled English, not an Italian name, and "(take your garbage back with you)" sure is well-meaning and probably necessary but aso not part of the place's name. You can ut that in a description if you like.

cheers,
Matthias

Oi, obrigado pela informação! Eu o tenho integrada na barreira do posto como "bicyle=no" e "motorcycle=no". Obs: "tourism=information" não significa "isso é uma informação útil para turistas aquí" mas "nesse lugar se encontra um a placa de informaçao, uma tela, um escritorio de informação turística o algo assim (pode especificar com information=office etc.)"

Hi,
there is "alt_name" for "AKA" names -- to need to mix those scripts. Also, there is no "status=inactive", you're probably looking or the "abandoned:" or "disused:" prefix (abandoned=*:). There's an abandoned school mapped already where you put the new node.

cheers,
Matthias

I only just got back to this after editing about in the North for a while -- it does look much better now, thanks! :)
For now I've just asked DigitalGlobe for an update of the aerial imagery; some of it dates to 2010 and at the development pace in this region there's not much use tracing more from it.

cheers,
Matthias

Hi,
you mapped the Department of Wildlife Conservation here on what seems to be an almost empty lot in Temple Rd on aerial imagery from 2017. http://www.dwc.gov.lk and Google Maps place it in Battaramulla. Is this perhaps an area that belong to DWC but isn't their office?

cheers,
Matthias

fixed :)

Hi,
please use the "species" tag for trees, otherwise the map will be cluttered with a bunch of irrelevant tree names.

Hi,
thanks for your additions! However, please note it's customary in Laos not to mix scripts in name tags -- the "name" tag gets the Lao version, the name:en tag gets the English one (actually it should be "name:lo_rm" for romanized Lao but that's got very little support so name:en is good enough). Most of these places you changed had name:en set already, and in the case of ທ່າຫີນກາງ it was even correctly called "Thahin Kang".
Of course that makes it more difficult to use the standard Mapnik layer if you can't read Lao but that's a problem for the renderer to solve; e.g. German OSM always renders both local and roman script: https://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html?zoom=16&lat=15.11939&lon=105.79153&layers=B000TT
cheers,
Matthias

It just helps people to understand what you did :) Now your changes are quite simple but sometimes there are hundreds of different changes in one changeset.

Hi,
your hostel is mapped already, it will just take a while to turn up in Maps.ME (when they update their offline maps). On the web you can see it already: changeset/65855067

Hi Jacques,
you have to add highway=* tags to all your ways (highway=track, highway=path or something), otherwise they will not appear on the map at all. I have fixed that for this changeset now.

cheers,
Matthias

If you remove the POI type (amenity=restaurant), this won't appear on the map at all. I re-added "hostel" now...