How do you decide between an alt_name and an honourary_name, and what's the difference if any? The other end of this block has signage saying Norman Rockwell Place and nothing saying Odessa Stewart Street, but OSM lists both names there.

I'm wondering because there's a spot down in the 60s where the alternative signage needs to be fixed but I can't figure out the best choice for doing so.

Ira, I think very few getir stores were marked on OSM. MxxCon and I had a discussion some months ago when I added this one and the Gopuff across the street to the map because it was (still is?) somewhat unsettled how to handle dark_stores on OSM.

Dark and locked up this afternoon. Still some stuff in there if you need some wire shelving or a palette of toilet paper. Well, let's hope the storefront doesn't stay empty 6.5 years like the last time it was vacant.

Dunno about the sprinkler system, but they got dinged late last year due to something related to e-bike batteries.

Surprising. I thought I saw the place open as usual a couple days ago. Very strange that my neighbors have been quiet about it closing down.

Any particular reason you deleted the getir business name from the corner at 2681 B'way?
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Thanks for noting this. I have just tried to fix it for the second time, but still I'm not sure if it's entirely correct. It's a building and it is not an industrial space. But now I have to wait for a few hours or more to see if OSM renders it as a building to be halfway sure?

It was a screw-up. I selected depot in the OSM web interface and didn't pay enough attention to see that it would change the area from building to something else

You might want to take a look at the edits I just made at this spot. I don't understand how to "layer" OSM areas, if it's even possible. So when I view the Peace Fountain on the OSM website now, I just see a statue in the middle of a pedestrian area. What I want/expect to see is a statue in the middle of a small garden in the middle of a pedestrian area. So somehow the garden just isn't rendered? Or maybe other OSM apps/tools show the garden above the bed area? <shrug />

I've gone back and forth as to whether to modify this POI to do exactly that.

The entire area around the statue could use some work, which may be why I've been so slow to do more than append a note.

This very much seems like, Why does OSM have two separate tags for this?

Cannabis is probably the correct tag for it, but I expect that like 90+% of the weed shops in the city it is operating without a license. I laugh whenever I walk by here at night and there is a police car parked outside.

Oy. I cannot keep track of all the OSM attribute tags and their permutations.

The name is the Clebourne, with an O. But for some reason there is a fair amount of published material naming it without an O, including Wikipedia. I was getting paranoid about it until a couple days ago when I ran across about an actual blog post discussing the matter, along with listing some famous or semi-famous people who liver here. I added the note to the entry for the next person who comes along confused as I was. Conceivably I could have skipped adding the alt_name tag.

I'm debating whether I should also go fix the Wikipedia entry.

This might actually make sense. Stand Up NY is moving or has moved out of that address. They are supposedly opening two other locations, one of which is in the Times Square area and is another POI that that person was editing. However, he did not change the name on the TS POI so I don't know what's up with that.

They have not yet updated their website with the new address(es) info, etc., but that's no surprise at all.

Another comedy club is supposed to move into the 78th St location, but I haven't found further details on whether that deal has closed and when they might move in.

Changesets 149353815 and 149353771 were filed one minute apart yesterday morning by someone apparently in Seattle.

I'm the person who first added the POI to OSM back at the start of February after I was passing by one night and noticed it was there and open.

But I haven't been down that direction in a couple weeks. Will try to pay attention next time I am.

I'm confused. Someone deletes this location? AFAIK, it is still in business and their website is advertising shows next weekend.
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Sorry, I meant that some neighborhood community gardens are called gardens in their signage, but are marked on OSM as parks.

I've been trying to get OSM to mark this as a green rectangle, which it apparently won't do if you mark something as a garden. But it still doesn't do so after I changed it to a "park" as I have seen done elsewhere for some rooftop gardens. And certainly I see some ground-level lot-size community gardens in the neighborhood are marked on OSM as "parks" and have signage saying that.

So, IDK. I give up. Do whatever you think best.

I think there's a URL in the POI if you want more info. If not, see https://thelotusgarden.org

Seeing the three names lined up kept eating at me, so I finally decided to draw an encompassing apt complex and put the common name on that.