I think you've misunderstood the point of OpenStreetMap. Edits to the map are globally visible, much like edits to wikipedia - it's not intended for personal geographical notes.

Did you mean to remove the name=Windmill Close from way/1908257 in this edit?

Great stuff - welcome to OSM.

If you click on one of the corner "points" along the footway (these are called "nodes") it should open up a circular menu, one option of which should be a pair of scissors. This will split the way. If you don't have a node at exactly the place you want to do the split, double clicking anywhere on the line should create a new one at that point.

Hi, welcome to OSM. A good addition for your first edit - only one minor thing went a little wrong: the northernmost endpoint of the footway didn't get properly connected to the road, instead being connected to the edge of the landuse=meadow. This can cause a few problems, e.g. routing software that uses OSM won't know it's possible to traverse from one to the other (so wouldn't be able to recommend using this useful shortcut!). I've fixed this for you in my edit changeset/45841099 - just a thing to keep an eye on in future (in the web editor the object you're about to "join to" with the next click should glow with a red outline, which should help you get your clicks right...). Otherwise keep up the good work!

Hi, there's a special tag for adding "formerly World of Mowers" type information, the old_name= tag. I've fixed this for you in my edit changeset/45818366

(We generally try to limit the contents of objects' name= fields to just the name - extra annotations tend to get messy & weird...)

Also, this edit didn't add any paths that weren't already there so I've reverted it in my edit changeset/45805822

In the web editor you can double click to finish drawing a way.

Excellent first edits - cut-throughs are extremely useful things to add (especially in MK!)

Good first edit - careful though, the "sidewalk" footway added alongside Shaftesbury Avenue crossed the middle north-south footway (coming from the lake), but wasn't actually *connected* to it. This would have stopped routing working across that intersection. I fixed it in my changeset changeset/45633668 so no worries.

Happy mapping!

Excellent first edit - cut-throughs are extremely useful things to add to the map (and somewhere we beat the pants off Google).

Something that might speed you up: you don't *have* to add all the attributes to all paths. They're all optional and missing values imply sane defaults, e.g. 0 incline.

Spoken like a true OSM addict in the making.

Good first edit - do you know the *name* of this road (if it has one)? It would be really helpful.

Hmm but you've added it "op top of" the existing chemistry department building.

If this is your home, I think you've misunderstood the purpose of OpenStreetMap. It's a globally editable, shared map. In the same way Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited encyclopedia. Not a place for personal waypoints.

Damn, wrong changeset comment on this one.

Good first edit - welcome to OSM.

Good first edit - welcome to OSM.

Guest house in the middle of a car park?

If you're sure this is the name, I'll add a not:name tag to stop someone changing it back to what the OS database says (http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map?osl_id=663069). Are you sure?