Their degree-level courses are provided through UEA. So students may be studying at the college while undertaking a FE qualification.

The argument for St being an accepted alias of Saint is flawed in my view, from historical origins where brevity was valued in written materials, and in cartography from limited space. In a modern day database there's no reason to not store the full information property (i.e. a road named after a saint) then capture specific shortened form for similar render issues. Search works best on full forms, not making guesswork decisions from contractions/abbreviations.

Well, best you go and edit the name to that then, not "St. Leonards Road" like you did earlier.

You are clearly both in the other camp than those who adhere to osm.wiki/Naming_conventions

At least your council has an up-to-date list of roads. I’ve watched my own change the official prefixes of roads over time, progressively towards “Saint” then back towards “St”. It’s all a nonsense to change these back and forth so much. Computational just stick to the full expansion form and use short_name if you must capture the signage form.

Please do not abbreviate road names that mismatch the council official list of streets naming pattern either. The "St." contraction is clearly short form for "Saint" in any case. Perhaps you are one of those who map 'Example Rd.' or 'Mistake Ave.'

In normal language, perhaps. In computational tagging with defined values, change like this adds no value.

I meant ‘aren’t‘

Sigh, your logic grip is poor. There's nothing there that says singular units are for use with singular coefficients.

"Valid units include: …, hour" - you aren't reading the same as me. You are interpreting the allowance of plural units as de facto. This is all fairly pointless when user agents have to support both forms.

Maxstay wiki is written such that plurals are accepted for plural coefficients, not that plural is the only accepted form.

Hm, was that really worth doing? It’s not like "8 kms" is supported (osm.wiki/Map_features/Units), even if the wiki is permitting of plural time units. Wasn’t a typo of mine.

I disagree with your view based on the single comment within the Talk page of highway=proposed. Per your own note, this idea has everything but the funded, and funded isn't happening soon, so to me it is a proposed route and should stay so.

Just because funding is not yet secured does not rule out the road won't happen. The whole point of highway=proposed is for roads with potential to exist in the future. If that potential has gone, then it can be deleted. Otherwise you should have left as is, with note.

Confirmed the change, deleted the excess node on the area below to neaten. Realised that that steps are actually still there, just hidden behind the front wood boarding and earth fill above. Raising the question of should unseen things be mapped? Probably not, hard to verify without digging :)

I usually add source=local_knowledge when using someone else’s note. Will verify also next time I pass by there.

How was it tagged incorrectly?

Seems a bit unreliable to use imagery alone to know they've gone.

It’s a disused former road route to the dam, primarily for foot traffic given the often locked gate. A style and rough surface follows further south. What was out of date was the presence of designation=public_footpath.

@DaveF: Yes, I’m serious. I’ve personally walked that route several times over the years with GPS trace as it’s marked on the ground. The council GIS is actually worse, right through the slipway and parked cars. The definitive statement is pretty useless. The definitive map roughly shows the route following the bank of the river.

This like others is problematic in future when a PRoW route changes, such that the underlying route accessibility would have been lost through this changeset (until someone surveyed again).

Either tagging form permits foot, since highway=footway has implicit foot=designated. However, the access=private was of use in understanding that a change was afoot, and a situation worth following up.