Hi, are you sure about the edits to the RNLI museum and shop? The tagging of the area and the node now looks confusing: both are tagged as museums; and while the node is also tagged as a shop, it has alt_name= and designation= which imply it’s a museum.

Thanks for clarifying!

I’ve re-added the node and its address data in changeset/131846447, but left it tagged as closed for now. It’ll be fairly easy to mark it as open again when it does reopen.

Thanks!

Hi, the website for the Flying Fleece says they’re temporarily closed until 3rd February (https://www.theflyingfleece.co.uk/). Are they actually going to be closed for longer.

Not sure a temporary closure of the pub warrants completely deleting it from the map!

Hiya, what was your rationale for making this change?

It looks like building= and building:use= were being used correctly on all these buildings, and this changeset makes them incorrect.

I know Arnside station well, and it was correctly tagged as a station building which is now in use as an office, as per building:use=*.

The other two buildings look similar, but I do not know them myself.

Was there something wrong with that tagging that I’ve missed? Thanks

It’s building=station because it was built as a station (and is still recognisable as that style/layout of building), building:use=office because that’s how it’s now used, and disused:railway=station is inappropriate because the station as a whole is still in use

Nice work!

I re-added the sac_scale= and surface= tagging in changeset/131803007, because I suspect it was dropped accidentally.

If I’m wrong, please let me know and we can edit the paths again. Ta!

I’m another member of this collaboratively edited community project that you’re editing. I am trying to make sure the map is accurate.

I’m very happy to discuss things if you think there’s a problem with what I’ve raised.

Sorry to bang on about this, but how are you measuring ‘correct’? Aerial imagery has offset errors which means that you can’t use it as a source of ground truth for alignment of things. See osm.wiki/Good_practice#Align_aerial_imagery_before_tracing

The only way to actually align a trig point accurately is to take a settled GPS reading off the top of it. Have you done that, or are you repeatedly aligning to newer aerial imagery (which has different, but non-zero offset errors)?

I keep bringing this up partially because you have not yet answered questions about the correctness of your data, but also because the Skiddaw trigpoint was specifically noted as having been aligned to known truthful data before you started editing it.

From the point of view of an outsider, since you haven’t explained your sources or editing process, you have broken that alignment.

Please can you explain the process you’re going through to make these edits, and demonstrate why the Skiddaw trig point is now more accurately aligned, compared to ground truth, than it was before.

Thanks :)

No reply, so I’ve deleted it in changeset/131769652, since it doesn’t match anything on aerial imagery and doesn’t go anywhere.

I’ve just fixed this one as changeset/131736754

Hiya, when you’re adding wikidata links to bridges, could you please add them to the bridge area and not the road going over the bridge? The wikidata links you’ve added recently in the north west have all been describing the bridges, not the roads. So they should be on the bridge area, and not the roads (or railways). Thanks!

Hiya, what’s the highway=unknown feature (way/1135240378) meant to be?

Hi, could you please add useful changeset descriptions to your changes? “.” is not a useful changeset description.

Doing so makes it easier for others to check edits in their area, and to understand your reasoning for making changes and the source of your data.

See osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments

Thanks

Hi, if you’re going to change landuse=farmland to landuse=meadow in the north-west of England, can you please also add meadow=pasture in combination.

‘Meadow’ as a term implies hay meadows, of which there are vanishingly few. Almost all of the meadow land in the north-west is grazing pasture, and should be tagged as such.

Historically landuse=farmland (or, better, landuse=farmland farmland=pasture) has been used to indicate this in the north-west. aiui, recently, the tagging guidelines have been tightened up to discourage this. So transitioning existing tagging to landuse=meadow seems inevitable, but while doing it the tagging can definitely be improved to be unambiguous.

See landuse=meadow#Tags_in_combination

Thanks

Heya, thanks so much for your contribution to OpenStreetMap. I’ve tweaked a few of the changes you made, and added a bit more detail in changeset/131656948.

Please say if I’ve got anything wrong! I’ve been past the campsite a few times but have never actually stayed there, so most of my changes are from memory and aerial imagery.

In particular, I tweaked a few things to remove descriptive names (osm.wiki/Names#Names_are_not_for_descriptions), and have used description= instead. I hope that makes sense.

Have a good day :)

Hi, just spot-checking a few things, I noticed this changeset drops the surface= and sac_scale= tags from (at least):
- way/161487460
- way/85670296

Was that intentional? Both are important tags for guiding route planning decisions, and I just wanted to check they weren’t being accidentally dropped. Thanks!

Hiya, did you know you can press ‘Q’ when a building is selected to automatically square its corners? It’s quite useful for easily drawing regular buildings :)

Thanks for updating it. That’ll be useful for a lot of people.

(For anyone else following along, the rest of the loop was added in changeset/131607138)

I’ve reverted this (and changeset/131493992) as changeset/131606169 because I don’t think there are cycle paths on most of these roads.

If you think I’ve made a mistake, please comment here; I’m happy to discuss! Thanks.