Hi Aidan, nice to meet you here and while I do not live in Tanzania I like to map it on OSM, to provide coverage for places with less of it and more of a need for it.

but its not big problem u can always hide notes it usally np

yeah this makes sense. a lot of people probably think the notes feature is just for themselves and don’t realize it’s public it seems more like confusion from how third party apps design it than actual spam. if the button just says notes with no explanation, people will use it like a personal reminder the old synced stuff is wierd tho it shows this has been happening for a long time the developpers of this should fix

oh lol on top sm1 else answered i wasnt even oaying attention

yeah this is a pretty common issu especially on like highways

you don’t want to edit the whole stretch as one object — the correct approach is to work in segments.

first, open the area in the editor (iD or JOSM) and check how the road is split. it’s usually already divided into multiple ways, and each segment can have different tags like sidewalk=* or foot=*. a lot of the time these get incorrectly set to things like sidewalk=both or foot=yes.

only change what you can actually verify. if there are no sidewalks, use sidewalk=none. if pedestrians are legally prohibited, then use foot=no. if it’s just unsafe but still technically allowed, don’t set foot=no — just fix the sidewalk tagging. thank u for asking a question i live answering