FYI the changes you had made here to the lanes were inaccurate, and I have since corrected it (see changeset/129005921). I'm curious where you even got data or info that said this road segment had three lanes; it has been four lanes since the bridge to the west was constructed 40 years ago.

Whoops, my bad. Thanks for fixing this.

Hi Binzy_Boi,

As an aside from the comment thread on my earlier changeset that affected the Superstore, you don't need to tag addresses with addr:city=Calgary and addr:prov=AB. It's superfluous because there's an encompassing administrative boundary around the City of Calgary, so anything and everything inside that boundary automatically has a "Calgary, Alberta, Canada" address. There was a project by other mappers in Canada to go through and delete addr:city and addr:province tags where they're not necessary, so please don't waste your time putting them back. ;)

Cheers!

A good example of this confusion is at "The Core" shopping centre. If you go to the shopping centre's website it gives an address of 324 - 8th Ave SW. In reality this is several legally distinct properties that all happen to interconnect to form one shopping mall. "The Core" is just a branding exercise: the mall itself is still separately and distinctively composed of spaces in TD Square (317- 7th Ave), the old Eaton Centre (751 - 3rd St) and the old Eaton's department store space that became a Sears and is now Holt Renfrew (510 - 8th Ave).

Hi Binzy_Boi,

To be perfectly honest in this changeset I just fixed the tagging of the address; another contributor had put addr:housenumber=240, 540, but I recognized that they meant "Unit 240, 540 - 3rd St SE". (It's a pretty common error that inexperience contributors make.) I presumed it was correct because it jived with some of the other businesses like the TD bank branch on the first floor (Unit 110, 540 - 3rd) and it makes sense that it would have a unit number in the 200s because the store itself is on the second floor.

I think the confusion arises because there are multiple municipal addresses for commercial retail units in the same building. As far as I can tell the Winners on the south side is "428 - 6th Ave SE"; the vacant CRU to the east of the Winners (maybe it's not vacant anymore, haven't been by there in a while) had an address of 436 - 6th in plain white lettering above the door. The Scotiabank and Freshslice Pizza around the corner on the 4th Street side have 4th St addresses.

In my experience sometimes retailers are a little lazy about having their "correct" address posted to their website when it's a unit in a building with multiple municipal addresses. They themselves probably don't know any better or care, as long as they still get deliveries of product for sale and garbage pickup. :)

As a sanity check I often use https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/info/mc/personal/postalcode/fpc.jsf to double-check if an address "exists" in the Canada Post postal code system. According to Canada Post there is a Unit 240, 540 - 3rd St SE, postal code T2G 1T4.

Oh don't bother, I don't need photographic proof. To be perfectly honest I haven't walked past the old CBE building in a while so I don't recall a plaque, but I believe you when you say it's there. I just wanted to know if there was such a plaque, or something like that.

To be perfectly honest I had added the statues to the map and I remember at the time I wasn't sure which name to give it, because both names were somewhat common, so I went with the one that the artist uses. That was really the only rationale behind it me tagging as "Brotherhood of Mankind" in the first place.

Like I said I don't favour one name over the other, it doesn't really matter to me as long as no information is lost (i.e. as long as someone doesn't waltz in and delete one of the names) and people don't get into spats about which one is "more correct". Just having this conversation in changeset comments can be evidence enough to show someone in future "Oh, this is why this was named this, these two people had a conversation about it and it turns out there's a plaque on site that calls it "Family of Man."

Thanks again!

Hi Binzy_Boi, out of curiosity do you have a source for the "official" name of the "Family of Man"/"Brotherhood of Mankind"? You've changed it to "Family of Man", but the artist Armengol referred to it as "Brotherhood of Mankind".

I'm not really in favour of one or the other being the name used on the map, but I'm just curious if you have a source that definitively points to "Family of Man".

Thanks :)

... and deleted an overlapping sidewalk added in changeset/118377318.

Accidentally requested a review w/ an errant click, honestly don't think it needs it...

Sorry, that's changeset/118457979, not 118477957

Just wanted to add, 16th Ave @ 8th St SW is actually a really good example of where unmarked crossings across 8th Street do NOT exist, because there is signage specifically disallowing pedestrians to cross there.

Hello again Binzy_Boi,

Thanks again for your contributions. Please note that tagging these roads with "sidewalk=both" is unnecessary, as the sidewalks are already modelled as separate ways. The tagging should be "sidewalk=separate", or no "sidewalk=*" tag at all. See sidewalk=* for more info.

Thanks again!

Hi Binzy_Boi,

Unmarked crosswalks exist at the corners of every intersection in the province of Alberta, unless noted otherwise by signage or other markings. The Use of Highway and Rules of the Road Regulation (AB Reg 304/2002) defines a crosswalk as "that part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connection of the lateral line of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the roadway". As such, even at tee intersections like 7th St & 16th Ave SW, there are unmarked crossings.

I have re-added the crossings you deleted (see changeset/118480493). Please be careful about deleting unmarked crossings.

Thanks

Hello LaiSzeCheung,

I'm guessing from your changeset comment "GEOG588" that you're a UofC student, working on OSM for course work.

FYI, heads up: the ways that you added in this change and tagged as "highway=pedestrian" should be "highway=footway" and "footway=sidewalk" instead. "highway=pedestrian" is for roads that are predominantly used by pedestrians, e.g. Stephen Avenue downtown. See osm.wiki/Sidewalks#Sidewalk_as_separate_way for reference. Please revise your changes to suit.

Have fun and good luck with your class. :)

I've changed the tags to "disused:aeroway=taxiway" instead. Thanks

Oops, accidentally copied a previous changeset comment. I corrected "service roads" at the CFB Edmonton airfield to taxiways

No worries, I can see that these are your first few changes. You'll learn as you go. I just didn't want you to waste your time doing something you don't need(/want) to do, and I didn't want you to feel like I was biting your head off for it either. :)

Hello Mosswa,

Thanks for your contributions to the map. Please note that you don't need to—and really shouldn't—use the "name" field to describe things that don't actually have a name. For example, you don't need to tag the putting green on the second hole of the golf course as "Hole 2". We can understand that it's on the second hole because there's a way (way/1029491215) that shows the (rough) path of the second hole. The green itself has no name. The hole itself doesn't need to be tagged as "Hole 2"; it's already noted as such using the "ref" (as in reference) tag. Again, the hole itself has no name. Very few golf holes in the world do!

For reference please read name=* and osm.wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only.

Thanks again for your contributions! :)

Note that I have reverted some of your changes in changeset/116683570 (changeset/116683570#map=19/51.04763/-114.05410).

Hi Eric,

You've changed the apartment entrance on the east side of the building to a parking garage and added a driveway, but this is completely non-existent. This entrance is a hinged man-door to the apartment building, up a few steps; there is no driveway here, there is no overhead garage door here.

Please review the actual site conditions more carefully.

Thanks