Ah, thought as much.

I'll have a closer look so I understand the actual arrangement on the ground: as an addicted mapper there are always other things to add. Once I've done that I'll probably make some further suggestions.

Hi & welcome to OSM.

I imagine this change has been made because you've experienced people thinking they can use your driveway to cross between the two minor roads. It is unfortunate that some apps which consume data from OSM treat service roads as routable for ordinary cars.

However, these change may have an unanctipated effect. The driveway was added by an employee of Amazon Logistics. They add data to OSM to improve efficiency of delivery drivers, particularly in rural areas where post codes are less useful. Changing access to no may impact delivery services from Amazon. An alternative access type which ought to both keep rat-runners away & allow delivery driver routing would be access=destination.

Also in principle just a short section of access=no should have the same effect as marking the whole driveway.

If the reasons for the change are other than my speculation, you can of course ignore this message.

One last thing, these discussions are public so if you want something more private OSM has a messaging system built in, or I have a gmail account SK53 dot osm.

Best wishes,

Jerry (aka SK53)
volunteer/hobbyist OSM contributor.

I wonder why you changed the Waterguard to real_ale yes. It was all keg when I visited, and many Sam Smith's pubs don't sell real ale.

As @goedegazelle points out license plate is American English & in OSM we use British English, which is licence. There are different words which the Americans choose to spell in the same way. I suspect these may be better mapped as plain car_parts with an appropriate subtag (product perhaps), unless they are really common (100s of examples in DE for instance).

Hmm, by changing Slab Square from highway=pedestrian to place=square you made it non-routable & changed the way it rendered. These are not synonyms of each other. I'm also not convinced that internet=wlan is a better tag than wifi=yes (not everything iD recommends is right).

Pretty sure the Domingo Pub is at #4 not #1. Checked as I passed because Maps.Me still had the Pizza place. Will double check in morning

HI Alison,

Ah that's why you're doing buildings.

Addresses are just generally useful for all consumers of OSM data (especially SatNavs & other routing apps), but can be hard work to collect for bigger places (I think we're about half way there in Nottingham, but 100% in Beeston, Stapleford area). I wouldn't want to distract you too much, but any which can be added easily (e.g. along a main road or first houses on streets off) often allow others to be deduced. However, Jacksdale looks like a reasonable sized area to cover quite quickly.

I added a very small number on Portland Road in Selston a couple of years back.

If you ever want to know more do have a regular meeting once a month on a Tuesday evening either in Nottingham or Derby (venue this month is notionally Nottingham, but may change to Sheffield).

Been meaning to thank you for tidying up my solar power mapping. I'm using multiple imagery layers & it's often too time-consuming to work out which layer is best aligned if the houses haven't already been mapped.

I don't know if you are in a position to add any addresses, but these would be very useful.

Regards,

Jerry (aka SK53)

Thanks

Fishmore is certainly not a town in this area. At a pinch it might be a neighbourhood. As I understand it there used to be a Fishmore Farm https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/932956. As it causes issues for people living in the area (https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues/1486) I will remove the node pending clarification of a) its existence and b) its status.

Just what it says, a more general tag than churchyard (works for monasteries, non-Christian religions etc). Tthe widely used tag, particularly in Poland I believe, is just landuse=religious, but I think that misses a bit of context, e.g., when it's a monastery which is also a school. The tag was experimental & landuse=religious is established & rendered, so you can lose it at the same time as deleting park which is wrong. This is just lawns around a slightly odd modern church.

I'd say Campbeltown Loch is not part of the firth, as per the larger sea lochs (Loch Long, Gare Loch etc). It's pretty well defined as from the light on Island Davaar to the point opposite. The actual bounds of the Firth seem reasonable (I'd always include Ailsa Craig), although Sanda may be a bit far out. Also the seas to N & W of Arran may not be properly part of the Firth of Clyde (see https://maps.nls.uk/view/142841715): Kilbrennan Sound is certainly a distinct named seaway.

It's usually a good idea to leave the outline of demolished things (change key to demolished:building, for instance). It helps avoid people putting them back from old imagery :-)

Should be Carn Mill, St Helens

Amazingly I visited Newhouse Farm (& NNR)last Wednesday. I think only the fields in the NNR can be truly classified as meadows, most of the rest are rough pasture (e.g., Cow Gill Field. The NT ecologist referred to one field as Big Field, so not quite sure how well traditional names have stayed in use: might be useful to talk to them directly.

Jerry

Please don't do this sort of thing. OSM is actually used by real people to do real things. It may look cute to add things like these, but it may affect people using the data & wastes the time of people like me.

Fixed changeset/71811740

Thanks, was hoping by now iD would autocomplete this one, but have to type the whole damn thing

It may be worth finding a way to add a note on the actual way about the closure too. I know when Jesus Lock Bridge was closed there was some discussion about whether conditional tagging might work for closures, but I suspect things haven't moved on since.

No problems: in the dim & distant past the editor did upload the changes, but if one made a mistake it could be awkward: especially as the maps only updated once a week. So we don't do that now!

You might want to change the road from construction to residential or service too!