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@infeeeee

IMHO PTv1 is much more practical. If you see a bus or a bus stop on a road then you know you can add it to the relation and the whole route will gradually get completed over time.

With 'v2 you have to guess which of the (at least) two different relations you need to add it to unless you can get close enough to the stop to read the tiny text on the timetable (if it even has one), so you can't even do both sides of the road at once.

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@thomas
You can create a dummy route in iD with just the start and endpoints and a single bit of way and then improve it from there with Relatify.

I do find Relatify frustrating though. It only lets you save things that are perfect and unless you're copying from an official source you're unlikely to have every last detail at your fingertips.

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@grue There is a US category on the community forums: https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/us/78
(uses OSM login).

The requirements for doing an import are here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines

And there's nothing wrong with doing a bit of piecewise improvement with @streetcomplete in the meantime.
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@pootriarch
I generally consider it poor form to remove good data even if it isn't strictly necessary.

The necessity of the addr:city tag depends on the area. In some places it's strictly according to a boundary that exists in OSM. In others the boundary data is either missing or doesn't always align with the "postal town" according to the mail carrier so it's good to include it.

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on squares and cars · c/openstreetmap · 1 pts · 348d

@merde
The highway=road tag is for a road of unknown type.

The square should be tagged with an actual classification and have area=yes on it to indicate that it is meant to be treated as an area.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway

If the acceptable vehicles aren't what you'd expect for that type of road you can override with the relevant access tag:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access

Routing support is poor, so most with show a route around the perimeter.

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@artyom
Raster tiles: A map image is 'cut up' into little squares: one set of image tiles per combination of style, language etc. This is replicated at all the required scales.

Vector tiles: The map data that would be required to display all the styles for that square is extracted from the database, simplified and stuck in an intermediate format. One set of tiles can support multiple styles, languages and angles that would be impractical with rasters.

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