Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap! Edits that you make update the one shared map that everyone sees. That's why it's important that only valid edits are made to the map. If you want to experiment with the editors, you can do so over at http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org (an exact copy of the main site apart from the map display).
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Andy

Just in case you haven't seen it - note/526461 .

I certainly don't remember the Sandbanks Ferry having to travel through a building!

> Do you need a licence when the
> information is not explicit?

Generally, the OSM answer is "yes". the details are fairly complicated (and have been discussed on the legal-talk mailing list https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk in detail in the past. Be aware that the UK (where OSM is based) doesn't have the same legal structure as the US (where - as a gross simplification - facts can't be copyrighted). Sites such as Facebook are particularly problematic. I've not read their Ts and Cs recently but I believe that they will explicitly prevent your from using information from their site elsewhere. See "facebook is not a legit source for data for OSM" in the comment on https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/48093/how-to-import-facebook-events-on-osm .

You need to add more source info than "found on the Internet" though. Under what licence was the information that you found made available?

This change is clearly wrong - previously this was nondenominational and you've set a denomination now.

Is the best way to deal with this really to replace the denomination? Does "Ahl-e-Sunnat" need moving to some other tag (operator perhaps, or subdenomination)?

Does anyone want any help restoring relation/5489363/history ?

Thanks for that. What about a "name:sq"? Would "Mitrovica e Veriut" (as suggested by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Mitrovica) work? http://kk.rks-gov.net/mnao/default.aspx?lang=sq-AL suggests perhaps Mitrovicë Veriore?

Hi,
This changeset has created a duplicate "Mitrovica" (the main one is the other side of the river at node/1640485042 ). This node was added fairly recently node/4024245637/history , and I believe is supposed to represent the Serbian-majority part across the river, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Mitrovica . You could argue that Косовска Митровица was incorrect as a name (I'd have thought either Ceвepнa Косовска Митровица or Северна Митровица would make more sense, with corresponding name:sq and name:sr names too), and you could argue whether it's a city (though it's a fairly substantial settlement), but I don't think that anyone's disputing that there is a Serbian majority in this neighbourhood.
Ultimately following the on-the-ground rule (see https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf ) is going to mean that places in Albanian-majority areas in Kosovo name Albanian names (in addition to name:sq and name:sr) and places in Serbian-majority areas have Serbian names (again with name:sq and name:sr as well).
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend (SomeoneElse) on behalf of OpenStreetMap's Data Working Group. To contact the DWG please email data@osmfoundation.org .

Hi,
I've added back the name:sr here (it went missing a few changesets back), and I've set the name to the name:sr based on demographic information from https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/sq:Zveçani .
The name:sq already exists. OpenStreetMap follows the "on the ground" rule for names (see https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf). Please don't change the main name tag without presenting evidence that the majority of people in this town do speak that language.
Best Regards.
Andy Townsend (SomeoneElse) on behalf of OpenStreetMap's Data Working Group. To contact the DWG please email data@osmfoundation.org .

As an aside, as well as being useful to humans having places defined as areas makes it much easier for anything else processing the data too. Here's an enhancement request that I logged with Nominatim about the issue there:

https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim/issues/231

Yes - although personally I tend to rely on surveys rather than websites.

It follows bridleways, sure - but the signage is such that you'd never follow it on a horse! In what way did it look like "not a walking route" to you?

I've edited this - see node/3295022898 .

Any reason why you've changed the Sabrina Way from route=foot;horse to route=horse?
All of the bits that I've mapped it's been perfectly possible to follow on foot!

Hi EzekielT,
People have contacted you several times in the past about invalid admin level changes (including me, in changeset/33275714 ).
Whereas most things in OpenStreetMap are simply a matter of going and surveying something and then adding the results to OSM, with admin levels it's all too easy to make countries and parts of countries "disappear" and cause other people lots of work just because you make a silly change. There's a forum at http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=53173 in which admin levels are discussed. Please do not make any changes to admin levels without discussing it in the relevant country forum or mailing list, and in the "Internationale Admingrenzen 2016" forum.
If you continue to make changes like this without discussion first you will be blocked from editing OpenStreetMap in the future.
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend (SomeoneElse) on behalf of OpenStreetMap's Data Working Group.

@wambacher Ich versuche zu verstehen, warum das Problem passiert ist. "Fixieren Sie es einfach" wird es nicht wieder geschieht stoppen.

Hi,
In this changeset you've removed the boundary=administrative and type=boundary tags for Kosovo:
http://osm.mapki.com/history/relation.php?id=2088990
I'm guessing that that might have been accidental?
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
Here you've changed the name of Leposavić / Albanik from Лепосавић to Albaniku:
http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=448739405
Does that actually match the majority language spoken here?
OSCE / UNHCR figures on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leposavi%C4%87
suggest a significant Serb-speaking majority, so in accordance with https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf I'd expect the name within OSM to follow the "on-the-ground" rule.
It makes sense for name:sq and name:sr to also be present as well, of course.
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend (SomeoneElse) on behalf of OpenStreetMap's Data Working Group.

Hi,
Should the name here perhaps by "Enrad" rather than "Fabrika e Radiatorëve" (assuming that the company here is still http://www.enrad-ks.com/Kompania/Kompania.html of course)?
Perhaps a "man_made=works" tag would also be appropriate?
Best Regards,
Andy
(Përkthim automatik)
Hi,
Nëse emri këtu ndoshta nga "Enrad" në vend se "Fabrika e Radiatorëve" (duke supozuar se kompania këtu është ende http://www.enrad-ks.com/Kompania/Kompania.html sigurisht)?
Ndoshta një "man_made=works" tag gjithashtu do të jetë e përshtatshme?
Best Regards,
Andy