Hi Rafael and welcome to OSM!

I notice you have added an area of farmland to the Banks Delhi Surface Mine:
way/812843989/

Unfortunately, Bing imagery is out of date in this area, and the current mapping is based on more recent Maxar Premium imagery and local survey (I live nearby). This area is an active mine, and not farmland.

Would you mind removing the new fields as currently they don't exist please?
way/812843989/
way/812843990/

You also added a several areas of tree_row to an area of heath in Northumberland - tree_row describes a row of trees, and this area is heathland without any trees visible in several imagery sources.
If you were practising, please don't save changes as you are editing a worldwide map.

Would you mind removing these objects, as I don't think they reflect the 'ground truth' of bare heath without trees:
way/812843991
way/812843992

Around Longbenton, you added a service parking_aisle to Aydon Gardens:
way/442098945

The tagging you chose is perfect, however the west-east section duplicates the existing highway=residential - would you mind reviewing this edit, and perhaps removing the West-East section, leaving the North-South part connecting to Aydon Gardens please?

The area of grass you added nearby could also use a little tweak, as it overlaps the road:
way/442098959

If you need help, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Everyone learns and adds detail to one map - the key is we work together! :)

Also, you have uploaded a large edit covering more than one continent with a very short comment - "a".

Comments are designed to help other mappers understand your contribution, so are very important. Please break down your edits into individual areas as this makes understanding your work much easier for others in the community.

Thanks for your understanding, and Happy Mapping!,

James

Hi Gregory,

After seeing your footpath map notes, I had a look at your nearby changesets to understand if you'd started adding detail.

Unfortunately, your changeset description confused me - data shows only solar PV, and no new roads.

Would you mind using more descriptive changeset comments please?

Thanks, and happy mapping!

James

Hi jmeikle,

I notice you have extended Magdalene Place to the West.

Can you confirm that this area been completed and opened as a driveway please?

When I surveyed on 2019-03-22, this was the Bellway showhouse office, with a private footway area surrounded by low 3-bar metal fencing.

My survey photos also show the spelling as 'Magdalene Place', and not 'Magdelene Place' as you have have added.
Many OSM editing tools include useful validation checks to spot such 'similar name' errors.

Thanks,

James

Hi jmeikle,

Welcome to the OSM community, and thanks for taking the time and effort to contribute to the map!

Can I check the status of this phase of St. Nicholas Manor please?

When I last surveyed in June (GPS trace uploaded to OSM), the area around Normanby Gardens was an active building site, with harris fencing preventing any access, homes without roofs, footways without tarmac, and no units occupied.
On this basis I tagged the closed roads as highway=construction; construction=residential, and moved the edge of the landuse=construction to match the fencing boundary.

I notice in Changeset #72068030 you have changed several roads to highway=residential, but left construction=residential.

Can I ask you to review your edits and the OSM Wiki for the definition of these tags please?
highway=construction
highway=residential

My understanding of tagging best practice is only completed and open roads should be set as residential, with those barred off and incomplete set as construction. This prevents map users being routed through closed roads or footways (such as the W-E closed Public Footpath and N-S new footways).

When highways and footways are complete and open to the public, the construction=* tags should also be removed.

I'd also suggest if it is finished, Saxilby Close is unlikely to be a living_street (Home Zone in the UK), and more like Oasby Close which is usually mapped as residential with private service driveway areas at the end:
way/686494290
highway=living_street

You have also added a new area way covering part of the estate, which is a duplicate of two already on the map, so I'd suggest deleting it:
Your new area...
way/687762552/
...duplicates existing area ways for the 'occupied' and 'building site' parts of the estate:
way/659064528
way/26535547

Also, you seem to have copied the node place=town tag for Cramlington for name='Bellway Homes - St Nicholas Manor'.
Can you again review the OSM Wiki for guidance please?:
place=town
node/6600892571

Cramlington is a town, but I'd say St Nicholas Manor is a neighbourhood, or suburb (albeit a nice shiny new one). :-)

The estate name is also already tagged on the overall area ways, which are better than a node tag as it allows systems using our data to work out that other features are within the area (e.g. no need to add extra tags to say Manby Court is_in St. Nicholas Manor - software can work that out itself).

I well understand that some editing tools can cause confusion as they suggest common tag combinations, which are easy to say Yes to, especially when you're finding your way around for the first time.

Thanks again for taking the time to improve the map - and please message me back with your thoughts. I'll try hard to answer your questions.

BTW - did you know that Amazon Logistics also edit and use OSM, so getting new streets right can help deliveries!

Happy Mapping,

James

Hi Gregory,

It is possible that a green field is farmland, or livestock seasonal, but is this at heart a difference in interpretation of tag definitions?

These are areas I cycle and drive through so I feel I do know what the areas are constituted of.

Following the wiki definition, I've been using evidence such as grazing animals in a field or the absence of tractor compaction to set landuse=meadow, rather than ploughed areas set landuse=farmland. My intention is to differentiate between patterns of arable and livestock cultivation.

I accept that not all individual fields have been created as individual fields, however the boundaries are in my mapping in the case where blocks of visually similar cultivation are a single polygon.

I feel my contribution speaks for itself as an improvement to the map, and as comment text is cold and rather prone to mis-interpretation, can I suggest moving a discussion on the best tagging strategy to talk-gb or tagging before making wholesale changes please?

Thanks,

James

Hi Mike,

This footpath has apparently been closed due to building works adjacent, with a diversionary path created nearby (note included on Way: 659069221). I couldn't see NCC PROW notices here (unlike the W-E section) so have not added lawfully diverted.
My thought was access=no would over-ride bicycle=yes, but as you point out this could be unclear.
Changed to bicycle=no; access=no as the footpath still exists on the ground and the NCC PROW map is as unmaintained as it ever is with no closure recorded.

TTFN,

James

Hi DanSink,

Communicating and collaborating with other OSM mappers is a big part of our community, so it's a shame not to have heard back from you.

Hi Dan Sink,

There's lots of help out there to explain how you can contribute to OSM - mistakes are part of learning, so here's a few links that might help:
osm.wiki/Good_practice

And just in case your interest in parks is linked to Pokémon GO...
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2018/04/01/tips-pokemon-go-2/

Hi DanSink and welcome to OSM.

Can I ask if you meant to move a service road in a car park across two blocks of houses and into the middle of Lidl please?
node/4325392181

Can you fix this edit please?
If you need help, just ask.

James

Hi Nixon22,

As it was a nice day, I popped over with my GPSr and surveyed the new cycleway behind Lidl. The Council seems to be investing in this area with a new large playground - which is now mapped.
I've removed the duplicate area with a clashing name.
Hope this helps,

James

Hi Nixon22,

As it was a nice day, I popped over with my GPSr and surveyed the new cycleway behind Lidl. The Council seems to be investing in this area with a new large playground - which is now mapped.
I've removed the duplicate area with a clashing name.
Hope this helps,

James

Hi Nixon22,

As it was a nice day, I popped over with my GPSr and surveyed the footpaths and added the detail of the 'The Crofton Mill Pit' tub at the NE entrance as:
historic=memorial
I've removed a few of the other tags as ele=3m and wheelchair=yes definitely don't apply here.
Hope this helps,

James

Hi AdamTaiit and welcome to OSM!

Thanks for adding new buildings and local detail the map - they make the area look a lot more friendly.

Can I offer a tip when using the iD editor?

After drawing a building you can use the 'S' key to square it up, which makes right-angles look even better:
S – straighten the selected line (possibly removing unaligned intermediate nodes), or square the corners of the selected area or closed line.

If you want to learn more, here is a tutorial:
http://learnosm.org/en/hot-tips/tracing-rectangular-buildings/

Happy Mapping!

James

Hi Samuel D Sanchez and welcome to OSM!

Thanks for adding a new street and houses to the map. Did you know you can also make it even easier to search in OSM for a specific address by adding extra tags to buildings, like 'addr:housenumber=69'

addr=*

Can I offer a tip when using the iD editor?

After drawing a building you can use the 'S' key to square it up, which makes right-angles look even better:
S – straighten the selected line (possibly removing unaligned intermediate nodes), or square the corners of the selected area or closed line.

If you want to learn more, here is a tutorial:
http://learnosm.org/en/hot-tips/tracing-rectangular-buildings/

Happy Mapping!

James

Hi Drategoni Zero,

Welcome to OpenStreetMap!

Can you review your tag updates against the helpful information in the Wiki please?
osm.wiki/wiki/

Is this area of grass really a park?
Do you have any references to 'Cowpen Park' to support the change of tagging?

Your edit has clashed with another new contributor who has added a duplicate landuse=park calling this area 'South quay park' - which is it please?
changeset/59294159

Hi Nixon22,

Is this just an area of grass, or do you have any references to support changing this grassed area to another park?

Your edit has clashed with another new contributor who has added a duplicate landuse=park calling this area 'Cowpen Park' - which is it please?
changeset/59285169

Who mentioned a common?

Unless you are using several 'sock puppet' accounts and are confused with:
changeset/59179560
@Nixon22

Hi Nixon22,

Welcome to OpenStreetMap!

Can you review your tag updates against the helpful information in the Wiki please?
osm.wiki/wiki/

Is this area of disused land, and adjoining landscaped pit heap really a park?
Do you have any references to 'Crofton Park' to support the change of tagging from leisure=common please?

What artwork do you believe is here please?
The tag needs to be more specific, and not applied to a whole area:
artwork_type=*

Why have you added an elevation tag to a large area, which has a large pit heap hill in the SW side? This is certainly higher than 3m:
ele=*

OSM data is used my thousands of users world-wide so it is important that updates reflect what is really on the ground, and not just for Pokemon GO:
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2018/04/01/tips-pokemon-go-2/

Hi Stephen,

As you have not responded and a large area is impacted by this changeset, I have reverted this change.
Keeping in contact with other mappers to collaboratively improve the map is a key part of OSM - please read the following guide:
osm.wiki/Good_practice

Ah - looks like you got there first!
way/47290239/history#map=19/55.05333/-1.67476&layers=N

I can confirm this section is definitely NOT oneway=yes based on my own recent ground surveys.
changeset/59263878