Hi Yifei Li, and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

I removed the address tags from this building way because it has several entrances with different addresses. That's the standard that's been adopted in NYC since the building footprint import in 2013 -- buildings with only one address are get address tags on the building, and those with multiple addresses have individual address nodes inside the building footprint, or entrance nodes on the perimeter.

160 East 32nd is used for most of the medical facilities on the north side of the building, but there are also some at 150 East 32nd, plus the residential entrance on East 31st and the business addresses on the avenues.

Let me know if I've misunderstood the situation, but otherwise I believe the address tags should be removed from the building itself. The address 160 East 32nd will still be in the database as it's encoded as an entrance node [ node/4703727084 ] and is also on all of the appropriate medical POI nodes.

Let me know if you have any questions -- I'm happy to assist any way I can.

Thanks, jmapb

I've uploaded changeset/69181797 which does a partial revert of this changeset, restoring the closure.

promiseofbirth: Please communicate with your fellow mappers! You're not in this alone! When you see something like this closure, check for notes, fixmes, history and comments. Check the date of the previous changesets and the date of any imagery you're using. And ask questions! Not everything can be accurately mapped from remote. If you can't survey in person, PLEASE ask for clarification or leave a note on the map.

Thanks, jmapb

Hi Low Level M, thanks for fixing this business name. Please note, though, that's it's not necessary correct to remove the shop=chemist tag from a pharmacy. It's very possible for a place to be both, and in fact, in the USA I'd say this is more often true than not.

thanks, jmapb

Reverted in changeset/69133652

Reverted with changeset/69132555. See also changesets 69008313 and 69075100.

Reverted with changeset/69132499, see discussion in changesets 68986296 and 69075100

Hi Gorbs -- I was still watching changeset/68986296 and did not realize that you were continuing to make new changes.

Please stop making changes to the subways for now. When you make additional changes to the same objects, it's much harder to cleanly revert previous changesets.

I have reverted this changeset (69075100) with changeset/69132368. I'll now go back and attempt to revert the previous ones.

I look forward to joining the larger discussion of this topic whenever it occurs. In the mean time, please don't use the NYC subway system for your tests.

Thanks, jmapb

Hi promiseofbirth, the Bobby Wager Walk still has a closed section awaiting repairs. I tagged the closed section with access=no and clearly indicated this in my description and fixme:

way/654051378/history

Why did you remove this closure?

Yes thanks mdejean for making that distinction clear. The routes that subway stations serve are not part of the station names -- at least not in NYC. It's a tagging-for-the-renderer hack to pretend that they are. That aside from the questions of unicode support and repurposing a textual name field for a visual logo.

I've held off on reverting this so Gorbs can discuss it on the tagging mailing list, but I will revert don't see something soon.

Hi Elizabeth -- Just to let you know, it's against the prevailing ethics of OSM to use the description tag to add advertising-like messages to businesses. Phases like "highly specialized", "top rated" and "best in class" are not appropriate here and will likely result in those descriptions being deleted.

Thanks, jmapb

Firefox 60.6.1esr, Chrome 73.0.3683.103. Both current versions. (IE, whatever, who cares.)

But honestly, the real problem here is not browser support, it's that you're conflating the route's nomenclature with its logo design. It's not the "❶ Train" -- it's the "1 Train", and its logo is similar to a red ❶. It's understandable to want a map that displays the route logos next to the subway stops -- I'd love that -- but it should happen at the map rendering level, not by renaming the route to an inaccurate name that looks kinda like its logo.

Mapnik seems to support these circled unicode chars pretty well --though the labels at zoom 14 do take up a lot of space at complex stops.

Browser support is lacking for the circled letters though: https://imgur.com/a/WU3WtaV (these are current Windows versions of Firefox, Chrome, and IE -- I know nobody uses IE anymore, but whatever.)

Personally I'd love to see the line numbers/letters circled and in the official MTA colors, maybe starting at zoom 15 -- obviously that's a much more complex project and might be more appropriate for the Transport Layer than the default map. But this unicode renaming seems like a hacky half-measure.

What NYC page are you using for discussion?

Hello Gorbs. Please don't rename our subway lines without discussing the change with local osm mappers FIRST. Probably the best place to discuss this sort of thing would be the Talk-us mailing list.

I'm inclined to revert this changeset.

Thanks, jmapb

Hi dapanda2 -- Are you sure about including the football field along McDonald (Sid Luckman Field) as part of this park? The NYC Parks Dept website does not include it in the park's footprint ( https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/friends-field/map -- it shows a smaller football field that overlaps the baseball diamonds) and the fact that it says "ERASMUS" makes me think it's owned by Erasmus Hall.

Hello Ragnix280 -- unfortunately this changeset has many errors and I had to revert it with changeset/68956252 . Thanks, jmapb.

I have surveyed and can't find any justifcation for these 50 mph speed limits. In fact, I found some 30 mph speed limit signs. Please reply indicating your sources for this data or I will revert this changeset.

Reverted in changeset/68848857

Hi Tomer, what's the source of the name "Empire State Complex - 1"? Thanks. Jmapb

March has come and gone, and there's still no bar here: https://imgur.com/a/VOMRaQ5

I've changed this node from amenity=bar to construction:amenity=bar, because it appears that something *is* under construction in there.

Check out the wiki page on "lifecycle prefix": osm.wiki/Lifecycle_prefix
That's the recommended way to map features that are not currently available to map users but nonetheless of interest.

Cheers, J

Hi apnaqua, I've reverted this changeset with changeset/68727452. Reasons:
- The bike lane on Plaza Street is definitely two-way, not one-way, so removing the "oneway:bicycle=no" tags is incorrect. See pics taken today at https://imgur.com/a/KYa3dZ2
- Adding "oneway=no" to the cycleways south of Union Street is not necessary. If a routing engine is treating these as one-way, that's a problem with the routing engine, not with the tagging.
- node/5837304274 (Wellington's kitchen studio) was relocated from Atlantic Avenue to Vanderbilt Avenue. I'm guessing this was just an accidental drag, but if this shop really has moved, please locate it inside the appropriate building footprint and adjust the address tagging as appropriate.

If you can describe what sort of routing problems you were trying to address with this changeset, I might be able to help.

Thanks, J