Hello ine63,

These changesets are being discussed on the Community Forum due to questions about the tags used (meaning of "retail shops") and potential license issues. Can you contribute, in English or in Korean? https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/recent-import-introduced-new-tag-amenity-retail-shops-in-seoul/131657

Thank you!

Hi, this changeset deleted a parking node tagged access=private and surface=unpaved and didn't add these tags to the parking way (which is still access=yes), is this an error?

Hey, nice job mapping up in Richmond Hill! Just wanted to mention that postal codes of buildings and other points are more commonly tagged as addr:postcode=*.

postal_code=* is more commonly used for tagging streets or towns in cases where a whole street or town is in the same postal code (less common in Canada due to A1A 1A1-format postal codes being much more granular)

Hello, can you comment why you upgraded this section of road?

also the primary source was actually survey! But aerial imagery confirms it

Oops pressed Enter and uploaded too soon. Changeset message continued: "I'm not sure if the sidewalk mapped on west side of Garrison Road is still there, it's not visible in aerial imagery, I'll have to resurvey"

Per the above, I have now removed the tactile_paving=yes tags added by you in this area in changeset/167374082

I marked the sidewalk and cycleway as disused:highway=* here since they might be physically removed or pretty beat up and thus arguably aren't a sidewalk right now. I kept the roadway as highway=residential because it is still a street, just closed to general traffic - trucks use it for construction

Undeleting the ways allows keeping history, see osm.wiki/Keep_the_history

Hello,

Thank you for your OSM contributions in Toronto!

When editing in an area you are not familiar with, I would encourage you to check OSM history before deleting features. In this changeset, you have deleted a crossing which was built in 2024 and which I added following survey (with a changeset comment specifying that it's per survey). I had to manually re-add it in changeset/167227001

Thanks!

The key `tc` has now been documented: tc=*

Tagging `aeroway=aerodrome` + `abandoned=yes` seems problematic to me, probably it should be something like `abandoned:aeroway=aerodrome`? See osm.wiki/Lifecycle_prefix

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in bike infrastructure in OpenStreetMap!

Just wanted to confirm - are you aware of the CyclOSM and Cycle Map views on osm.org? You can see them through the Layers switcher on the right, or here are direct URLs to see this area:
- osm.org/#map=17/43.664484/-79.425262&layers=Y
- osm.org/#map=17/43.664484/-79.425262&layers=C

In particular, the counterflow bike lanes (and the fact that the streets are two-way for bikes) are displayed on those maps, as are other features like bike tracks.

The way to mark up counterflow lanes in OSM is detailed here: cycleway=*#Bicycle_infrastructure_in_one-way_roads . Shaw Street is already marked up such and can be seen on the bike map layers. If you use bicycle directions on osm.org the routers should also know about the counterflow lanes and be able to use them.

We cannot have the bike lane which is separated only by paint as a separate way, because in OSM separate ways are only used when there is physical separation like curbs or traffic islands (and for some of those, like bike tracks like on Bloor, separate ways are not required and it's often easier not to have them).

Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks,
--Jarek

Hi hhcfw,

I noticed you have edited in Charlotte County and elsewhere in New Brunswick, including this edit in St. Stephen back in 2019.

I'm hoping you can provide input as a local New Brunswick mapper:

The city has been renamed to "Saint Stephen" in OSM a couple of years ago. As far as I can tell, this was not done by a New Brunswick mapper. Is the local usage "Saint Stephen", "St. Stephen", or mixed?

I noticed that your change left the name spelled St. Stephen while you also edited Saint Andrews nearby - is this indicative of the local usage, or more of an accident?

If you wish you may also comment on the OSM forum where I asked about this: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/st-stephen-new-brunswick-or-saint-stephen/130485

Thanks!
Jarek

This was done earlier today (before noon EDT) but didn't upload - reuploaded now

correction: this was actually using Esri imagery, so alignments would be to Esri

Hi skfd,

You added some foot=use_sidepath tags on roadways in Toronto. This tag refers to a _legal_ requirement for pedestrians to use a sidewalk if there is one present. I was unable to find such a law in Ontario, or a bylaw in Toronto specifically. Could you comment on https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/foot-use-sidepath-in-ontario/129980 if you know such a law?

Thanks,
--Jarek

Hello,

When you draw sidewalks as separate ways, please also update the road way (like way/178826208) to have sidewalk=separate

(The current sidewalk=both tag means that the road has sidewalks on both sides but not drawn as separate ways)

Hello,

I saw that you have used the tag channelised=yes, for example on way/1161788455

I recently created a wiki page for this tag: channelised=yes basing it on my understanding as well as a forum thread https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/is-a-channelized-river-still-a-river/127905

Since your usage of the channelised=yes tag predates the wiki page, I wanted to ask if what I wrote in the wiki matches your use and understanding of the tag (to avoid a situation where the wiki would retroactively redefine your tag). Does it? Please let me know if you'd make any changes to the wiki page.

Thanks!

Hi -- thanks all the detailed surveying you're doing in the GTA!

Quick note about the change to surfaces here. You've added surface=concrete:plates to the sidewalk. This value actually refers to prefabricated concrete plates that are made offsite and then trucked to where they are needed and placed with a crane.

The vast majority of concrete sidewalks and paths in Ontario are instead poured in place: liquid concrete is poured onto the ground in between formwork, then once it hardens, control joints (for stress relief) are cut into it. This gives the appearance of separate "plates", but the plates might be different lengths and they don't have eyelets they would have been lifted with. So I think surface=concrete is the better tag?

See surface=concrete for details and photos. Let me know if this makes sense or if I have something terribly wrong!

Well, low-rise except for the tower on College, that is...

Hello! In this changeset you created a relation for the branch of Sixteen Mile Creek that flows through the centre of Milton (relation/13103547) with the note "not the main 16 Mile Creek". I wanted to ask about this - is this local knowledge of understanding?

According to Geographical Names Database https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=FCOTA , the branch through Milton is the main Sixteen Mile Creek, while the branch that flows southwest along the 407 is the East Sixteen Mile Creek https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=FEHOQ . Conversely, the 1996 watershed study https://www.conservationhalton.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/16MileCreekWatershed_HaltonUrbanStructurePlan-compressed.pdf linked on https://www.conservationhalton.ca/watersheds/ seems to refer to the Milton branch as West Branch, but to me it's not clear on where the "main" trunk with no branch subname begins.

Do you know the local understanding and/or usage in Milton or Halton Region?