Thanks for explaining your mapping style.

I added 3 items to the map to improve it -- whilst retaining the 1 item that was previously mapped.

There are others that are equally valid.

I map the area that each business occupies (or the best approximation).
This has a number of advantages:
- it's easier to update than POIs
- POIs are just some random location -- not even the centre of the item
- it's more difficult to delete a POI, since you can never really be sure that it's really gone, or did you just miss surveying it.
- There is an intrinsic relationship that can be used to determine the importance (based on area) that can be used by renderers.

In this specific case, I expect the building units to have different numbers (at least). You's issue that changing > 1 item is difficult can be solved -- at least in JOSM, you just hold shift when selecting to have multiple objects.

So, I hope you can see why items have been mapped in this changeset.

If you still consider that there is a problem, then there is a third potential mechanism which is to use "indoor mapping" to map each business as a notional room inside the building. It means that the building can be one area, while business are areas internally. I find rendering isn't so great -- but it does keep the advantages of area mapping, together with the ultra-pure-semantic approach of keeping the building as a single entity.

Reverting this - as it deletes useful housename information.

This should not be marked as private it is a public road.

OpenStreetMap is a volunteer-led project, so mapping is dependent on volunteers.

Thanks for adding your address.

I added the Cavell Road section recently -- walking it with a GPS to get the shape of the roads.

Unfortunately, the satellite maps that we are allowed to use aren't up to date yet -- and they are the easiest ways of tracing buildings.

It's a building passage - coverd isn't a meaningful tag.

The footpath is over the shops on layer 1 -- why is it now marked as layer 0?

I was on foot and not taking notes of cycle infrastructure - be great if you could do a proper survey.

Does cross checking with other maps have any copyright implications?

Ok, reverted.

Have reverted - as it's 5 months old.

Please fix your edit Shaw Road looks like it has had nodes dragged.

Please fix your edit -- Downend Road A432 has been dragged.

See osm.org/node/17566444

I split disparate business units which will have unique addresses into different buildings -- this is akin to splitting terraced houses.

Most of the centre of Bristol is mapped this way. If you want to combine separate businesses together then I think you need some sort of relation / other container.

Mapping businesses as areas is really simple to explain to beginners -- it let's them be updated really easily. It provides a hierarchy based on size, that can be used by renderers. In contrast having several POIs in a building says nothing about their relative importance / area.

It's possible that something like the simple indoor mapping scheme might capture the best of both -- treating business units as "rooms" -- though unfortunately most renderers don't draw the outlines -- so more difficult to visualize and it's more dificult to explain to beginners.

It loses information, not a great approach - without area information renderers can’t determine which items are most important. I don’t think it really needs mapping - except on open historic map - if it’s that important maybe a relation? I was wondering about simple indoor mapping - but probably you’d need to add all entrances to each section. Or just add same wikidata tag to > 1 osm item which seems to be a heretical but practical approach.

Please add former buildings to open historic map -- openstreetmap is for current data.

It's already there as a bakery.

These sections cannot be driven by a normal bus -- it needs to be reverted.

This section cannot be driven by a normal bus -- it needs to be reverted.

I've reverted this change there are no one-way signs and junctions are 2-way at either end of Crokeswood Walk.

Surely, the name should be what's on the signage -- which is HSBC.

You can see it's not HSBC UK on Bing streetside.