Hi Matt, I would also be interested in name of this lane. Is "Jesus St" an official name or reference used by the City?

Hi Matt, for this lane specifically, what is the source of this lane being named "Orthodox St"? I have only seen this "name" in Google, but not in any official City document. As you may know, we are not allowed to copy Google's data due to Google's licensing.

Hi Matt,

Welcome to OpenStreetMap.

Yes these are public roadways maintained by the City.

These lanes don't have names. What you are adding are descriptions. "Milky Way" and "St. Francis Lane" are names of some of Toronto's named lanes. "Lane E Sorauren N Fern" is a description that locates a lane.

Similarly, "Jarek Piórkowski" is my name. "Male Child of [my parent's name] Piórkowski" is a description.

OpenStreetMap is a geographic database, so the position of a lane is always known and doesn't need to be described in a name tag.

You will also notice that names like "Milky Way" or "Skey Lane" are posted on official City name signs as you're running past them, unlike the descriptions.

End users have managed these laneways without "names" for decades and I think they will be fine. If identification is needed, City does have a process for naming a laneway.

Your use case of running every single lane in the city is interesting, good luck! It is, however, no reason to introduce incorrect data into a database. In this case, it is also illustrative: you named two different lanes "Lane N Queen W Lansdowne" (the east-west way/23225609 and the north-south way/23225611) - does running east-west also as running the north-south lane?

At the very least, if you believe the lane's name to be "Lane East Sorauren North Fern" as you wrote above, please use that rather than the abbreviated form "Lane E Sorauren N Fern". And be more careful - you named way/462296067 "Lane W Sorauren N Grenadier" even though it extends south of Grenadier Road.

Cheers,
Jarek

Hm, how about keeping the nodes and setting them to disused:railway=tram_stop or whatever instead? Presumably the streetcar will return someday, and it would be nice to have the OSM history kept. Particularly for objects with a long history like node/384965394/history

Hi,

A note has been made about this name note/3616172, can you follow-up there?

User was previously blocked by DWG and deleted their previous account: osm.org/user_blocks/5327

I have re-reported to DWG, hopefully this can be reverted wholesale.

This railway station is not yet built. User was previously blocked by DWG and deleted their previous account: osm.org/user_blocks/5327

I have re-reported to DWG, hopefully this can be reverted wholesale.

Bradford Bypass is not under active construction. User was previously blocked by DWG and deleted their previous account: osm.org/user_blocks/5327

I have re-reported to DWG.

Hi, thank you for your contributions to bike infrastructure in Toronto. Solid dedication to precision!

I noticed one thing. You mapped plain painted bike lanes as separate ways, for example on Sherbourne north of Bloor, and in an earlier change on Dundas east of Broadview. Paint-only bike lanes, where there isn't a physical separation from the car lanes, should not be mapped as separate ways in OSM. The bike lane information is mapped on the street way itself. This is similar to how car lanes are mapped. Could you change this, please?

Can you also confirm if you have seen my earlier comments on your note near Bloor and Yonge? note/3498476

Thanks,
Jarek

Note that OSM meaning of expressway=yes differs from the Ontario English meaning. See expressway=*

Hi there! I saw that you used max_age:advisory tag on a playground and I'm just curious how you decided on this tag. Did you find it via Taginfo? Or just going by logic, since max_age tag is documented but playgrounds have "designed for" ages?

I ask because I haven't seen anyone else use max_age:advisory tags so far, so I'm really curious and interested to see someone else use it!

Changeset message continued: It appears there is currently only one bridge in place. But having 2 bridges mapped (which is the before-construction configuration and apparently also the target post-construction configuration) is substantially less wrong than having no bridges mapped. A Cambridge editor with knowledge of how this is laid out right now could add the current layout, but do so with commitment that they will update it again once construction finishes.

See also note/3173524

ah if you're a local we should hang out sometime!

Hello,

Please do not add points without local knowledge and/or in-person survey. You added Bobacha in wrong location, at a time when it was not yet open. It soft-opened yesterday at 1660 Queen W. I fixed it in changeset/120432576

This is an imaginary development. It does not exist in real life and there is no plan to build it. Please do not add suggested future developments to OpenStreetMap. I have reverted this change in changesets changeset/116846559 and changeset/116846585

Oh sorry my bad! That must have been a work-in-progress note to myself to route it via the slow tracks through Toronto since it makes all stops and gets overtaken - I must have missed removing it when uploading.

I can remove the fixme tag, or if you're working on it now, feel free to remove it along with your changes.

No problem! ... but this was 5 months ago so I don't remember adding a fixme. I went through all the ways and relations touched by this changeset and I don't see a fixme on any of them - I might have missed it. Which way or relation were you asking about?

Hello,

Thank you for your edits in this area, they are appreciated!

We noticed that this change made Hanlon Expressway a "motorway" in OSM. In Ontario, this tag is used for freeways, with no at-grade intersections. Roads with at-grade intersections, including upgraded ones like the Hanlon here or the Veterans Memorial in London, are normally highway=trunk. Are you opposed to having Hanlon changed back to highway=trunk?

Thanks,
Jarek

Hello, thank you for the updates on the construction here, they are very appreciated.

For your request for review, I would have a few suggestions in general:

- ramps that are temporary during the construction phase should be highway=motorway_link, rather than highway=construction. This is because routers won't map a route via highway=construction.

- ramps that are closed more or less temporarily might be better off set as highway=construction plus construction=motorway_link, rather than with motor_vehicle=no. I find that way it's easier to see what's currently closed. However, there isn't a good way of doing this with a schedule like "will close on December 2nd" - for adding a future closure, your tag "motor_vehicle=conditional=no @ (2021 December 2-2023 December 1)" looked good

- ramps that are closed permanently can be deleted as you did, or can be changed from highway=motorway_link to demolished:highway=motorway_link. The second option keeps the old ramp history for benefit of anyone who might be unfamiliar with the ongoing construction and sees the now-removed ramps on aerial/satellite imagery, but won't be used for routing

- you can also use "note" tags to put in a note to let other editors that this ramp or this routing is temporary during interchange reconstruction.

I made some updates in changeset/115010990 but overall this was great.

Feel free to ask me if you have any other questions at any point of the reconstruction here or elsewhere.

Cheers,
Jarek

Hello, thank you for your edits in this area, the alignment improvements are much appreciated!

I noticed in https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=112564262 you moved the Dundas West subway platforms to be roughly centered under the namesake street. That's not actually accurate, they are mostly east of the street. See changeset/109959238 for explanations. I moved them into a slightly more proper position in changeset/114383828 .