I had previously complained about cemetary streets suddenly being added. But I accepted that they were added to Open Streets so…
But yesterday I noticed that all of a sudden I no longer was 100% for Haverford. There was a new node - Mark’s Barber Shop. I ran there today. It’s not a street but a small driveway back to small parking lot. I am guessing that Mark’s shop is there somewhere but I didn’t see it. How does this happen? Does Mark go in and put his own node in. This is very annoying.
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So, basically, someone (potentially local, but not necessarily) noticed that some driveway/parking lot wasn’t mapped in OSM & added it. It sounds like the data they added to OSM was tagged in a way that makes it seem like a street.
If you provide links (either to CityStrides or OpenStreetMap), it’s possible that some members of this community can help you get things corrected.