And https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/4198859 is just a pointless spam. Please stop.

A random sample in my neighbourhood showed an error rate of 8.4% (N=1092).

Do you have somewhere list of them? Or able at least to share general location where you checked?

(I am pretty sure that in my area situation is much better)

Great!

Glad that you had fun! I wish you more mappy successes

Please, read https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct

@slice0 - if you care about some special aspect of road such as its official classification or quality class that does not match its importance/role in highway=* - then dedicated tag for that value is an option

See for example https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway:class:pl

But that would require discussing it with others and ceasing insults and attempts to redefine tags.

(example above is from Poland - but I expect that Australia also has cases where official road classification is not matching osm tags 1:1)

what if a government somewhere comes along and says “heres what our roads are feel free to use this”

This does not mean we are obligated to follow official classification.

Especially where official classification is clearly not matching current road importance or its role.

And for your information: Google does the same.

See say https://www.google.pl/maps/place/Droga+wojew%C3%B3dzka+nr+219/@53.8396301,18.788883,20z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x4702a349a195d2af:0x8ffd8c570ebf5f14!8m2!3d53.8396253!4d18.7893886!16s%2Fg%2F11vc8k5xk4?hl=en&entry=ttu case.

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droga_wojew%C3%B3dzka_nr_219

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/264203873 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1199402239#map=17/53.83911/18.79006 have the same official classification (Droga Wojewódzka).

And to get client_id and client_secret - visit https://www.openstreetmap.org/oauth2/applications

Or https://master.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/oauth2/applications - I guess, for test server

If you have an official map, maybe the official centerline is the best.

no, we are mapping reality

if reality and official map diverges, then we should ignore official map

if they match then we can just follow reality

1) “Am I helping or hurting by uploading GPS traces with poor accuracy?”

if it is sort-of-matching-reality I think it is still helpful. It may in general full in bucket of “people not caring at all do low-quality stuff, people caring more refuse to do medium-quality stuff”.

And in this case having more traces is better I think, unless they are terribly bad or from travelling not on paths/roads.

2) AFAIK old data is stuck.

3) “My 100th daily walk along the same route as always?”

fine to upload, but with very diminished usability

“Off-trail wilderness exploration? Airplane flight path?”

actively harmful

I quite like it, especially two lowest levels :)

https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/867#issuecomment-1889898618 mentions that it will stop various places to ask directly to passwords

I must say that looking at https://github.com/metaodi/osmapi/issues/144 and https://github.com/metaodi/osmapi/blob/develop/examples/oauth2.py this looks really annoying and laborious in practice for someone using scripts :(

Thanks to all people who contributed!

Note that problem is not specifically about abandoned=yes (which is fine in some cases, like quarries)

It is also about say proposed=yes ( https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/proposed=yes#overview ) and many other similar tags

Oh, and it is also danger of being to edit happy and then damaging data more than improving it (or ending with case where others think it happened due to lacking or missing communication). This also happened recently to me and I am still fixing it.

See also https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct

for first link target was supposed to be https://codeberg.org/matkoniecz/OpenStreetMap_cleanup_scripts/src/branch/master/script_assisted_cleanup/obviously_mistagged_tags_using_trivial_tag_fixes.py

Note that (based on my own experience) it is easy to fall into trap of finding a lot of things to fix then not managing to fix even small part of that.

So I would encourage to balance fixing/finding things to fix.

(BTW, I have obviously_mistagged_tags_using_trivial_tag_fixes.py and obviously_mistagged_tags_using_wrong_keys.py )

SCEE is also from F-droid, maybe only from F-droid