Thanks, I'll bear that in mind in future.

Hi Andy,

Yeah, taken from OS data. With hind-sight I think that I might have been a little too eager to tag the locality, given that the area is covered by an airfield of a different name.

Given it's position and that of the name Elvington Common (at the entrance to the airfield, which is probably where its name comes from) I suspect that it may have been a local name prior to the building of the airfield (during the second world war, I think)

Given the over-lapping & now little used locality name, I'll delete it for now.

Kind regards, Dave

Hi Andy,
Apologies for the delay in replying, work commitments.

I'm not as familiar with the local area as you are, so I'll have to defer to your opinion regarding the status of the road/lane/track/path.

I was updating based on Bing images and OS OpenData. OS data in particular showed a named road (ie. a council maintained/owned thoroughfare), rather than an unnamed farm track, servicing Kirby Cliff Farm.

So given its status as a public highway, I used the unclassified road tag. Perhaps this might have been better tagged as "unclassified, surface: gravel"

I hope this adequately explains my logic at the time, but as I said before, I'll defer to your local opinion on this.

Kind regards, Dave

Hi,

Thanks for the comments. So I made a couple of mistakes, for what ever reason.

Your comment regarding adding names from OS data I think is only partially incorrect, as the names do not always refer directly to the house name. I did try to see what the general consensus on this was but it wasn't clear to me what the proper tag was, so I tried to use a tag which was applicable but not too specific (as in a house name is just a more specific locality).

I think your comment regarding adding names as not being making a better map isn't entirely correct. Maps are fundamentally about how people relate and refer to places, without names maps are as useless as maps without roads or other features. Personally I find the poor relation between where roads are and where they have been mapped also degrades the quality and the confidence in the map.

In the end I am still learning how to do this stuff and while the edits I do make aren't particularly insignificant (both in number of edits and type - added farms and tracks doesn't really alter the overall map), but I do try to do them to make things better.

Regards, Dave

Thanks, & thanks for letting me know. Can't workout where I screwed up. Did I duplicate existing nodes, or add additional labels to existing features?