Dear TL5100,

You have only made a small number of edits but a surprising large proportion have been seriously problematic.

This is one step beyond: deleting a prominent London building from a database used by millions of people is vandalistic behaviour.

Please desist from this type of edit in the future. The data when changed is immediately available to everyone: you are not manipulating a private copy.

Yours,

SK53

The area was clearly farmland back in October 2018 when I was there (and made a few edits). It's a fairly popular tourist site, but much of the tourism is promoted by Battlefield Farm (which AFAIK farms all the land). There's more tourist infrastructure at the farm site (cafe, shops). The paths largely follow field edges so they have relatively low impact on farming activity.

I think the cut-off was around 1 MW. There are quite a lot of other installations in repd but Jez wasnt interested in them initially. At some stage we'll probably start going through them. As a consequence this cut-off is also pretty much the effective limit for power=plant. Also not every one appears in the REPD database: there are quite a few on United Utilities land (& water) which apparently dont appear in the database.

Details are at osm.wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_United_Kingdom#List_of_just_constructed_and_operational_UK_Ground_Mounted_Solar_Farms (which suggests there may be some ones which were under construction which are now completed.

Hi,

There was an error in my mapping, but your edits compounded it. In fact the highway=residential should have been landuse=residential. A good clue was that as a road it did not correspond to any aerial imagery. I've now corrected it & removed the road added to fix the non-existent island.

Jerry

Josm doesnt have great support for full range of solar tags, but there are plenty of examples about to copy from. I've added the typical tags. In general we use generator as you have in this case for these smaller solar farms, although there is an increasing tendency to map the inividual arrays of panels (extrude makes this very easy) and rely on geographical proximity for clustering. Usually they are fenced so its useful to add if there is one. Larger solar farms are all now mapped as power=plant which allows groups of panels to be mapped as generators as well.

Hi,

Did you parse the inscription on the plaque? Road distances in Britain are not measured in kilometres (other than safety markers on motorways), and the plaque is unnamed. In practice the site of the final Eleanor's Cross is more significant (as it was this which formed the basis for milestones).

Not Brockenhurst, but New Milton

See how these happened, for some reason the key field got focus not the tag field when overwriting in advanced editor. The numbers should have replaced the number in the tag field. Now fixed.

Responding here, rather than your note.

Wow, these are ancient designations for cycle lanes. I think the current standard is left and right based on the direction of the way (which is why they dont show up on OpenCycleMap). A quick check on Mapillary (https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/VwKbr0t80PYrHY05pYgTMA) suggests that cycle lanes only exist on part of Aspley Lane (e.g, on N side from the Beacon towards Broxtowe Lane junction all in parked car door zone). Of course there could be recent active travel developments, but ones round me (near QMC) are still rudimentary.

Hi Humez,

I think when I started mapping them I was doing this, but after a while we decided it was useful information so created a specific tag., and this is tracked on Gregory Williams site (see column "has module count" http://osm.gregorywilliams.me.uk/solar/northampton.html). The good thing is that the information is at least collected.

Before the imagery wasnt often good enough, but now most panels can be counted.

Jerry

Hi Humez,

Did you know that there is a tag generator:solar:modules which is used to store a count of the number of solar modules making up a panel? If you scroll down to the advanced tag editor in iD it will autocomplete the value if you type "gener" but watch for "generator:place" too.

Regards,

Jerry aka SK53

Hi Guy,

I've added module count to the 2 solar panels and tweaked the direction a bit. I dont know if you are aware but we now favour the tag "direction" rather than "generator:orientation": one obvious benefit is that iD will show it directly. I've therefore added the direction tag with the same info.

HTH,

Jerry aka SK53

Not really enough local knowledge (I did wander down past the school/leisure centre complex back in Jan to Machins Lane. Kevjs1982 is more likely to be aware of current status.

Hi & Welcome to OpenStreetMap,

I've taken the liberty of changing the path/trail you;ve added from "shortcut trail" to "footway". This will make sure it shows up on the map on the website and is used by other applications (particularly ones for pedestrian routing)

I've also connected this through to Abington Avenue with a separate way along the twitchell (snickett/ginne : not sure which holds sway in Sutton).

If you see any other missing shortcut footpaths in the area do please add them. There are a fair few already there, but I suspect there are still ones missing.

I hope this helps.

Jerry aka SK53

Might be worth retaining the old name as alt_name or old_name too.

Hi Becca7,

Thanks for your first edit, particularly as this is the sort of detail which helps everyone.

You may wish to consider changing access=private to access=destination as this allows routing to the location by delivery drivers. In particular, Amazon Logistics make extensive use of OpenStreetMap for detailed routing on the last mile of delivery runs. I suspect getting to a gate with an entryphone may be adequate for their purposes.

Regards,

Jerry aka SK53

Hi Richard,

You're not the only one. I had a go at documenting this a while back on the wiki amenity=social_club.

Often mapped as pubs & bars, but given these are members' clubs it's worth having the distinction, but they definitely belong in the same category as other pubs & bars. It often requires real local knowledge as to whether anyone can wander in & get a drink. Also significant in their own right as, declining, cultural institutions. (Alternative such as leisure=club, club=social don't separate them from things like WIs, which I think is important).

Regards,

Jerry aka SK53

Hi,

We're just having a discussion on talk-gb about no U-turns on roundabout flares. I notice you added quite a few on roundabouts along the dualled section of the A453. I have no recollection of seeing any signage forbidding such turns, which AFAIK are not forbidden in the Highway Code, and no signage is visible on Mapillary (https://www.mapillary.com/app/?focus=photo&lat=52.89820065391223&lng=-1.1983677208015706&z=17&pKey=yO3BF2Hj89inaFfzY8hkrg). There is a double white line which probably does make such a manoeuvre illegal, but for a different reason.

I'd be interested to know the reason for adding these because quite a few contributors have done similar things. (I know at one stage Mapbox were adding them, but most I've looked at seem to be added by volunteer contributors).

Regards,

Jerry aka SK53

Hi & Welcome to OSM,

I'm not sure if you intended to delete the path rather than change it to a footpath. It looks very clear on aerial imagery, and your comment implies that it still exists.

Let me know if you need any assistance.

Jerry aka SK53

For some reason this appears as a preset in Vespucci and can therefore be accidentally set. Fixed