I just changed a few names, just because the city name was misspelled.
The area in which you have changed the names is far too large. Upload each change individually when you change the location of your edit.
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Yes, you are only changing the name of a relation that covers almost 2000 km. That is an enormous distance and is deliberately blocked for new users.
See also: Changeset - OpenStreetMap Wiki
The name of the relation is identical to the Wikipedia page. Why is a name change necessary here?
@Supaplex You have already worked extensively with the relation in question, could you jump in and support here? Thank you!
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Can you explain what you want to do first
Community consensus is important; let the local Taiwan mapper know what is going on:
Not only the big relation, but also locked due to its already added a Wikidata link
You can use the customized field to add or change tags manually, or temporal remove the wikidata link to use the iD default edit UI
Supaplex
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Because it is actually divided into Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, not Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Province.
I couldn’t understand this instruction document, so I gave up correcting it.
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Are you sure?
Taiwan controls Dongsha Island, claimed by China but no control at all
You can’t change the stuff just by de jure.
FYI: Disputed territories - OpenStreetMap Wiki
Supaplex
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Mate, it’s truly admirable how committed you are to the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of your country. Having that being said, OpenStreetMap doesn’t really operate on unilateral declarations.
Edits in disputed areas are based on discussion and consensus, although in this particular case, I suspect you may find community agreement might be… elusive.
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In addition, since the map is to be drawn by “actual control area”, it is obvious that Myanmar, Yemen and Somalia should mark their internal “provinces” in bold font as “countries”. They have more governments at home and their borders have long been stable.
Instead of staring at the China area every day, even the two normal regions, Macau and Hong Kong, are bold into countries.
Hello. Help and Support moderator here. Firstly, thanks for trying to contribute to OpenStreetMap!
There are a number of things going on here, Firstly, as @mcliquid said above, the size of changesets (and also how many changes they make in a short time) is restricted to new users. Please try making more changes locally first. What is your street or town like in OSM? Are any shops, parks, benches or trees missing? I’d suggest contributing locally first rather than at the level of a country province.
Secondly, part of what you’re trying to edit includes part of the Spratly Islands. Who claims what there is extremely complicated, and people on this forum have found it difficult to discuss it in a way that isn’t affected by their own political views. My reply to a previous discussion still mostly applies here, too.
Thirdly, please don’t judge the OpenStreetMap project by one poorly-maintained map. See a previous question about Somalia here, and my reply here - that map uses external non-OSM data at some zoom levels, which causes this issue, the root cause of which is this (logged in 2016 and ignored since then, hence my earlier “poorly maintained” comment).
I’ve hidden one of your posts where you were trying to say something about “who governs what” or “who should govern what” in the area. There’s absolutely a place for discussing that on this site, but a help-and-support thread about “as a new user I can’t submit a large change in iD” isn’t that place. Please do have a read through what has been said before (searching for e.g. “Somaliland” will get previous discussions of that, for example), and please do read the OSMF policy https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf.
If your goal is “I want to create a map that shows my view of the world” then we absolutely can help with that - please create another topic explainly what you’d like to do. If it is instead “I want everyone to agree with my political view of X”, then I’m afraid that that just isn’t going to happen.
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