Thank you Joseph. But it is no longer an inhabited village, therefore it should not be tagged as a village, but instead as locality. Please do no longer change it back to village, as this would be incorrect.

Hi there Joseph,
It's great that you are mapping in this often neglected corner of Papua New Guinea. For sites, that were former villages and are no longer inhabited, you should use place=locality, not place=village.
Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Could very well be that it is Laterite, as it does exist in some parts of Papua New Guinea. Haven’t been in this area. Feel free to update it.

Yes, feel free to reach out to me.
Best,
topius

Hi Patrik_B,
It seems logical to unhook the admin boundary when the river changes, but according to the organic law on provincial boundaries, the river is the boundary. If the river changes, so does the admin boundary. I will hook the admin boundary back onto the newly drawn river sections.
Thanks,
topius

Hi Marcool04,
Islands are notoriously at the wrong place all over PNG. Someone once imported all island names from a GNS database once with the Note "please check my location". The location was often very imprecise. And sometimes spelling is different. My guess is that Sontamatia Island is a colonial spelling for Nusantaumatai Island, and so I combined the two, with Sontamatia als alternate name. Nelia Island might have disappeared in the meantime.
Cheers,
topius

Hi Ethan,

Great that you are mapping buildings in Papua New Guinea. IF you want to make these fully rectangular, you can just press the character "q" after you have drawn the outline and selected the building tag.

Happy mapping,

topius

Service roads are access roads that are not usually part of the regular road network (see highway=service) The road to Wom is certainly a regular road. I corrected it again.

Nice that you are adding items from local knowledge. For hamlets, there is a correct tag: place=hamlet. I have added it.

These are not quarries, but wellsites for gas extraction. I have changed them accordingly.

Thank you @nevw. I fixed it as you suggested.

Apologies. I was mapping on a mobile mapping app for the first time and did not realize that the separate, torn-down building I wanted to delete was in fact wrongly mapped and stretched around the whole block.

Great that you are starting to contribute to OpenStreetMap. A few pointers: Addresses should not be used for the name of the house, but have their own tag: osm.wiki/Addresses

And if you draw rectangular houses, you can make all corners exactly rectangular by pressing the letter q after drawing the shape.

Road was not deleted, only three sections with the same tags joined together and realigned.

I know that one user uses layer to micro-map building parts (if a roof has a different shape than the rest of the building). But I guess most of it is happening in ID editor, when two buildings overlap, it gives you the option to tag one as higher than the other, and creates a layer tag.

Hi. I saw you corrected this name. According to the PNG Census Register, this village is written as Asinave. I added your suggestion Asinuwa as an alternate name.

Hi Kolewis,

Excellent work adding buildings. Just a slight request: could you make sure they are rectangular? Just press the button q after you draw the building shape. I already fixed this set.

Hi Aleksandar,
Is this a question or a comment? I prefer to map places with nodes and not polygons, as polygons imply a certain boundedness. With villages, the boundaries of the village are not self-evident, so I just tag a place with a node. With schools on the other hand, you can clearly see the boundary, so I tag the polygon with the name of the school.

Please refer to East Africa Tagging Guidelines when classifying roads in Papua New Guinea: osm.wiki/East_Africa_Tagging_Guidelines

Why did you change these villages to town? The tag town within Papua New Guinea should be reserved for settlements with major infrastructure, for example high schools, police stations, hospitals, mission stations and/or bigger stores. None of these villages qualify.