Hello,

You are probably unaware of existing mapping practices, so I will try to inform you here.

Buildings all over in Belgium are traced from official government data, one should not trace them from _aerial imagery_. Those images are nice but they are distorted and the distorsion changes every year, contrary to cadastral data, which gives the exact position. Please be kind and do not "correct" the shapes of buildings, because by doing so you are just applying an unwanted distorsion.
osm.wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Buildings

I see you are using the simple online editor from the osm.org website; it is possible to see the building outlines through the Background button → UrbAdm is the one within the Brussels Region.

I restored the correct shapes of the modified buildings along Lannoy.

The real changeset title should have been this: Fixed mistakes by changesets 179662050 179662005 179661977 179661917 (new user messed with building geometries, addresses and relations + user also broke a school polygon).

(The title from a previous changeset had been used by mistake, after inadvertently using UP and DOWN arrow keys in JOSM.)

Bedankt… mar "Hoogblokweg - Voetweg 50 (huidige naam Kerkstraat)" is geen geldige naam voor een weg.

Het is het een of het ander, maar men kan ze niet combineren.

Hello,

Please do NOT modify buildings.
If you want to add shops, cafés, etc. please create floating nodes inside the building.

I will revert your edit.

SVP ne pas toucher aux points d'adresses.

Pour ajouter des commerces : créez un point séparé à l’intérieur du bâtiment.

Je vais corriger vos éditions.

Hello, DavidXander,

This is another friendly attempt to reach you and try to get your attention.

In the past weeks some of us had to spend a lot of time repairing errors on the map after your edits. Can you please observe the following points.

On OSM, all "highway=pedestrian" structures must have a name. This tag is usually used for car-free streets. Some people use it for plazas near parks although it is a borderline case. You can (and should) use "noname=yes" for all those pedestrians areas you create when they have no name.

Also, please do not glue routable and non-routable objects together, e.g. this point intersects both areas: node/13633404181

I don’t want to discourage you, so I won’t give more examples.

Hope this helps.
Thanks in advance.

Next time, please do not destroy objects, retag them instead.
osm.wiki/Keep_the_history

We restored the former node for DK to preserve its history and make it possible to reuse it once a new activity opens here.
node/6789715631/history

Thanks.

Hello.

Here is a suggestion. If you write in the changeset description that you are adding GTFS stop_id tags, please only do that in the changeset.

In particular, do not click on the suggestions from the name-suggestion-index when it comes to public transport. Being an experienced user, you are probably aware that many of those "tag upgrade" suggestions are bogus. If I remember correctly what was discussed on the Belgian forum, there is a pending pull request or issue to update the NSI and stop it from uselessly adding "network=NMBS/SNCB" to route relations.

Thanks.

Hello,

Thanks for noticing that railway tracks have changed in this area. But I regret to inform you that this is a damaging edit. While changing the layout of the railway tracks you broke the continuity of railway relations.

I imagine you just just wanted to help. The simple online editor is unfortunately not a suitable tool to edit complicated structures, like route relations. I will try to repair this now.

Hello,

Can you please take some time to read the OpenStreetMap wiki, in particular this page.
osm.wiki/Simple_3D_Buildings

In this edit, you created several invalid structures because you are piling up building parts without using building:min_level=*.

You might want to clean this up.

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

Thanks for your mapping efforts but I need to warn you because there is a problem here.

All the buildings in Belgium are traced on the official footprints provided by the regional governments. There is no such thing as "correcting the geometry" of a building from aerial imagery. If you do that, what you are actually doing is that you move good buildings away from their real location. Despite we have high-quality aerial imagery in Brussels, it is not a suitable source to trace buildings.

I will undo your latest changes in Brussels, when it comes to building geometries.

Thanks in advance and have a nice day.

Hello,

Thanks for your contribution. However, it raises a few questions. You named those two points as "meeting points"… but at the same time you tagged them as offices. Therefore, they will be presented to map users as offices; people will expect to be able to purchase tickets there.

What are those two places, exactly?

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

As far as I can see, Брюссель is the Ukrainian name for Brussels. But the object you edited here is not the city of Brussels but the "Brussels-Capital Region". This is the name of an administrative part of our country, and the name is longer. All the translations for this OSM object use the full name. Can you please review your edit and provide a translation that says "Brussels-Capital Region" instead of just "Brussels".
Thanks.

Hello,

This is a large bounding box because in this edit you merely clicked on automatic "suggestions" in iD (fed by the name-suggestion-index) on various places, and also on long-distance railway relations.

Since you are an experienced user, I guess that you are already aware that the NSI contains a lot of controversial suggestions. In particular for railway relations. The history of most of those TGV relations contains back-and-forth edits where the operator gets changed into "SNCF", then reverted to "SNCF Voyageurs"… until the next iD user starts the edit cycle again. I hope the French mapping community will soon settle how the operator of those relations should be tagged, to put an end to those endless edit wars.

Pourquoi ne pas travailler avec landuse=construction ou des access:conditional ? Ceci est mieux que de changer le type primaire des rues ou les sens de circulation.
OSM ≠ Waze, le but n'est pas de faire une carte day-to-day mais une carte globale du territoire. Il est mieux de rajouter les infos sur les modifications provisoires séparément, plutôt que de tout mélanger.

way/27260357 contient encore des lignes de bus. Pas correct. Ceci est une raison pour utiliser highway=construction exclusivement sur des futures routes et pas pendant des travaux de rénovation d'une route qui existait déjà avant.

Comme ceci : node/12150472279

Hello, and welcome to OSM.

The helipad is still visible on latest aerial imagery. We were aware that it is not in use anymore. This is why we had *explicitely* used a "lifecycle prefix", to tag it as a disused helipad. That way, it won’t be rendered on any map, but will serve as a warning in case someone else opens the imagery and says: "Oh, there is a missing helipad here, I’ll add it."

This changeset has been reverted.

Hello, DavidXander.

Despite the innocent-sounding title of "Added a few Things to a Park", you moved buildings again.

I would like to raise your attention again against redrawing buildings. Please stop doing that! We have already spent too much time trying to repair every edit you made over the past days. In this edit, you moved edges of a buildings which I had just repaired a few hours earlier.

Aerial imagery is not a suitable source to trace buildings in Belgium. In this country, we use the detailed footprints provided by governments, which show the exact position of buildings. It is very disappointing that you keep moving good building outlines to follow the distorted imagery. You may be interested to know that aerial imagery is updated about once a year and that every building seems to "move" with each new set of photos, which obviously is not what they do in reality. That is why we have consistently been drawing buildings according to the exact footprint over the past decades. Please do not reintroduce incorrect data.

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

Is the name on this sign only in French? It looks like an official sign, we expect to see the text in the two official languages. In case you took a picture of it, please have a look and tell us. Thanks.

Hello, DavidXander,

Again, please do not trace buildings from aerial imagery. Those images are distorted and are unsuitable for buildings. In all of Belgium, we use numerical imagery provided by the governments to trace buildings.

I had to fix the outline of this building + many others that you moved, it’s a lot of work to have to redo everything after you. Perhaps you might want to use correct imagery (for Brussels, this is URBIS numerical imagery), though I fear it is hard to map correctly in the simple online editor.

Have a nice day.