Hello there, please do not do wholesale imports of MS building footprints through the RapID editor. You must check the data for correctness before you upload. In this changeset, at least the buildings way/1237882803 and way/1237882828 are definitely incorrect and should not have been added like that.

Dear Muhammad Zeeshan Khan,

hello and welcome to OSM!

In OSM, we use small letters and capital letters - not capital letters only. A house would be "House" but not "HOUSE". But moreover, we only use the name field for actual names like "Sunshine House" or "Mermaid Hotel", not for numbering like "HOUSE60". House numbers belong on the addr:housenumber field or alternatively some "ref" tag but not in the name.

The same is true for grassland areas; they would not normally be called "PLOTxx". Use the grassland tag only for actual grassland, not for building plots. Building plots are not generally recorded in OSM at all.

Hello there Dunkaist, our "on the ground" policy means that in order to carry a name:be tag, something must actually carry a sign or advertise itself using that name, or at least be widely known under that name. "Language classes at school and existing OSM data" are not generally a sufficient reason to add or modify a "name:be" tag for a pub in the middle of Ukraine...

Regarding the question of where to direct legal correspondence to: all the details are at https://blog.openstreetmap.org/about/, but I would not advise that course of action before other less confrontational avenues have been exhausted since it is unlikely to yield results in any meaningful timeframe and would unnecessarily stir up tensions between the map making community and the CdA Tribe.

Hello, Frederik Ramm from OSMF's Data Working Group here. I have reverted the deletions that were mentioned here because there appears to be a consensus among OSM community members that the deletions do not have merit.

Jason Brown, thank you for being honest with us and straightforward about whose interests you represent; others in the same situation as you sometimes try to edit OSM in "stealth mode" which is not conductive to trust.

My revert does not mean that the abandoned railway lines are here to stay; I would invite everyone to take the discussion to the public forum at community.openstreetmap.org and find an amicable solution there. (In fact, I have frequently removed abandoned railway lines from OSM where they were added by railway fans but in practice they had long been built over - things that only exist in memory do not belong in OSM.)

My revert does, however, mean that it is not a property owner's right to decide what does and does not get recorded about their property in OSM - no matter if the property owner is a smallholder, a nation state, or an Indian Reservation. The land owner owns the land but we own the map, and what happens in OSM is decided by the OSM community.

OSM wants to be a good map - and a good map should never mislead its users into believing they could do something which in reality they can't. So the CdA tribe and OSM have the a shared interest here and I am sure a solution can be found.

Hallo mxkllnr, in diesem Changeset hast Du eine von Komoot gesetzte Zugangsbeschränkung entfernt und "in Prüfung durch Gemeinde" kommentiert. Nach Aussage des Grundstückseigentümers, der sich jetzt an die DWG gewendet hat, befindet sich hier überhaupt kein Weg. Auf dem Luftbild kann ich (wegen Wald) auch nichts erkennen. Kannst Du mehr zu dieser "Prüfung" sagen, von der Du im Changeset-Kommentar sprichst?

Reverted & block issued in osm.org/user_blocks/15523

Reverted & user blocked in osm.org/user_blocks/15522

Dear TawhidAhmad, in this changeset you have deleted the sidewalk north of Sugarloaf Parkway along the YMCA facility (way/1227227158 et al.). Why? The sidewalk is still visible on aerial imagery. Your changeset comments are not helpful; everyone who edits OSM wants to enhance the data quality! What we're looking for in a changeset comment is "deleted sidewalk because it has been demolished" or something like that, so people like me don't have to ask questions like this!

Dear Zorina Pachuau, in this edit you have re-drawn a number of boundaries in a detailed way; what is the source for this information? Surely these boundaries are not visible on aerial imagery?

Hallo, die Badestelle, die Du hier hinzugefügt hast, liegt lt. einer Zuschrift an die DWG in einem Schutzgebiet und das Baden ist hier nicht erlaubt. Kannst Du dazu etwas sagen?

Please specify the correct source of this edit. "survey" is not a plausible source for such a national park boundary - or did you walk along a fence with your GPS?

Hi there OrisiV, don't use the "name" tag for house numbers - that's what addr:housenumber is for!

Hallo willisturm, bei diesem Edit handelt es sich ganz offensichtlich um einen "mechanischen Edit", wie man an diesem Way hier auf Saint Martin sieht (der ist nämlich kein "scrub", und wenn Du auf das Luftbild geschaut hättest statt blind zu ersetzen, dann hättest Du das gemerkt). Solche Edits müssen vorher mit der Community diskutiert werden. Bitte verlinke bei künftigen mechanischen Edits auf die entsprechende öffentliche Diskussion. Bitte verwende ausserdem einen korrekten "source"-Tag, ich vermute, dass du weder auf Saint Martin warst ("survey"), noch dass Du hier Ortskenntnis hast ("knowledge"), noch dass diese Gegend von basemap.at abgedeckt wird.

Hallo LanciaDelta, bitte versuche doch, für Deine Changesets eine halbwegs brauchbare Beschreibung zu finden, anstatt jedes einzelne Changeset mit einer Beschreibung zu versehen, die auf 99% aller Bearbeitungen passt ;)

Hi there, you deleted a lot of wooded areas in this changeset. On aerial imagery it seems like the trees are still there. Your deletions rang an alarm bell & got your account blocked, I have now lifted that block but please double-check if the deletions were warranted!

You deleted many things in this changeset, among them this kindergarten node/368886505 and this gas station node/368909345 - was that intentional? Have these buildings been destroyed?

Dear osmantarkut, in this (your first) changeset you have deleted a lot of data from OSM and you have not given a good reason, only: "not". This makes your edit suspicious and I have reverted it. If you want to delete something from OSM, provide a clear reason in the upload comment - why/when has the thing ceased to exist?

@Der Wilderer, ich verstehe ja Deine Frustration, wenn Leute Dich in einer Dir nicht verständlichen Sprache anquatschen. Trotzdem ist "??? Reden Sie DEUTSCH mit mir!!!" nur minimal freundlicher als der Ton, für den ich Dir in changeset/87862728 eine Sperre angedroht habe. Vorschlag: Verwende künftig den Textbaustein "Dear <BENUTZERNAME>, unfortunately I do not understand your comment. Would it be possible to translate it to German for me?" - das ist zwar immer noch ein bisschen bockig (Du könntest ja auch selber einen Onine-Übersetzer nutzen, sagst damit aber, dass Du dazu nicht bereit bist), aber noch im tolerierbaren Bereich der Bockigkeit ;)

Das Problem war, dass Du das deutschsprachige Tag "höhenbegrenzung" benutzt hast, wenn dafür eigentlich "maxheight" projektweit der Standard ist. Inzwischen hat das jemand anders für Dich korrigiert.