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Hi Steve, thanks for the quick reply. Relation 18132478 is an appropriate treatment. You'll want to add the ponds and any other no-tree areas as "inner" elements to the natural=wood multipolygon, but you are on the right track. :-)

`natural=wood` isn't an appropriate tag for the boundary=protected_area object itself as the entire area is not woods. There are also marshes and ponds enclosed. Additionally, the area of trees extends beyond the boundary and this larger area is what could have natural=wood applied rather than the boundary line itself.

`natural=wood` isn't an appropriate tag for the boundary=protected_area object itself as the entire area is not woods. There are also marshes and ponds enclosed. Additionally, the area of trees extends beyond the boundary and this larger area is what could have natural=wood applied rather than the boundary line itself.

Hi Osaka. `natural=wood` is not an appropriate tag for protected areas as they are not exclusively covered in trees. They contain may lakes, meadows, open rock areas, marshes, and other forms of land-cover.

Messed up the description on this change set. This is Elmore addresses, not Waterbury.

Reverted accidental import of reference data

osm.org/changeset/163503570

Realized that I had building conflation done incorrectly. Will re-do

osm.org/changeset/163259826

I realized that some buildings weren't properly conflated with the address points. Will try again.

osm.org/changeset/163257631

Hello, what is the reason that you changed Bennington from place=town to place=city?

The place=* tag is to indicate the regional importance of a place rather than denoting its incorporation status. The entire Town of Bennington has a population of only ~15,000 people, putting it firmly in the place=town category, even if it is the largest town in this region of southern Vermont.

See the following for more background:
* https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/toward-a-national-system-for-functionally-classifying-populated-places/113674
* osm.wiki/Key:place
* https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/broad-undiscussed-new-england-place-name-reclassification/111201

See https://www.vtcng.com/news_and_citizen/news/local_news/lake-eligo-zoning-changes-churn-the-waters/article_e8fadb80-f5f5-11eb-ba15-cfa6116c8a9b.html for a description of the dual outlets.

Hello, I was alerted by the land manager that a number of these trails are posted as private and not open to public use.

I've changed the one trail they specifically mentioned to access=private, but I am not familiar with this area and others may need access=private added as well.