ftcat (2023-05-20 07:02:42+00:00): Hi Charles,

I think there are some tags you are using that you  possibly don't fully understand the meaning of.

1. A building tagged with wheelchair access should be one where a wheelchair user can access the building easily by ramp or other means and access the upper floors easily via an elevator etc . It is important to get this tag correct for users of OSM data, don't guess it if you do not know. I would not consider fuel stations in Zambia to be wheel chair accessible.

2. The internet availability tag is useful for hotels and similar tourist amenities. It is handy for users of OSM data as the decision to book with a certain amenity may depend on the availability of internet and whether there is a fee for the usage of the internet, in this case internet_access=no is handy, it is not handy when tagging small retail outlets and shops as it is meaningless. You would not expect to find internet access at a fuel station in Zambia so tagging it internet=no is pointless,

3. Accepted payment options is handy for retail outlets and shops but not for churches and police stations, in fact police stations and other government institutions in Zambia do not accept payment in the form of cash or cards, this is to stop corruption. It is better to use payment:debit_card= yes or no and payment:credit_card= yes or no rather than specific brands of card and it is not helpful to guess. Nearly every retail outlet in Zambia will accept cash. I see you have tagged some restaurants as not accepting cards, I know for a fact that these restaurants do accept cards, if you do not know don't add the tag.

4. You are tagging government schools as religion=multifaith, while this is technically correct the tag is more for specifically religious places, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:religion=multifaith?uselang=en-GB, the religion tag could be used for a school catering for a specific religion such as for people of the Muslim faith, in which case you would use the tag religion=muslim. Again it is not helpful to guess.

5. Many restaurants in Zambia would be considered to have an international cuisine menu, very few only offer only one type of cuisine apart from maybe KFC, John Dorry, Hungry Lion and a few others that offer chicken or fish.

While I have not used the Everydoor app I think it is really aimed at the user who can confirm the existence of pois and add missing details and corrections as they move around their locality and physically check the amenities etc. It is not intended as a mass editor for large diverse areas of a city, armchair mapping.

Providing accurate information will improve the map greatly, adding irrelevant or incorrect information does not help. The detailed mapping of building features such as roof types etc is best left to users who know architecture etc, ie fully know the difference between a skillion roof and a gabled roof. I have seen roofs tagged as flat that I personally know are not similarly with a skillion tag.

Please keep mapping but I would suggest that you stick to what you are familiar with and stay away from unnecessary tagging and guess work. If you visit a restaurant and you note features that are missing by all means update the map but whole scale incorrect updates don't add to the data.

There are not many active passionate mappers in Zambia, lets work together at making the map as accurate as we can.

Thanks