Hi @somebody1358, I'm interested in hearing what your reasoning is for upgrading these roadway to "motorway" classification? I've gone back and forth on this one myself as it is an over-built roadway that doesn't neatly fit into any categories based on its appearance and it is a bit of a roadway island.

While it has grade-separated interchanges, it mostly has one lane of traffic in either direction except for a very sort stretch. As well, it does not connect major population centers. The roadway character is what is referred to as a "Super Two", an expressway that is not fully up to multi-lane interstate standards of number and width of lanes or speeds.

Based on discussions in the Talk-US mailing list
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2019-December/019785.html
this section of roadway may warrant being demoted to primary as that is the connectivity role it provides, while adding additional tags to indicate its construction character.

Hi Brubsby, these solar generators are "Solar tracker" units that pivot to follow the sun. As such they won't stay in the same orientation. More info on this installation is available here: http://www.middlebury.edu/sustainability/operations-and-action/solar-power

I'm assuming that this challenge is the cause for this changeset, correct? https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/4027

Because of the mobile nature of these panels a node may be more appropriate than an area for them. An alternative may be to tag the actual generating capacity and model of these panels rather than tracing the area from satellite.

Ah. Now I see my problem: I had used an overpass query to load the town boundaries, but that query didn't also load the national border relations into JOSM, therefor JOSM didn't see them and account for them when splitting the way. In the future, I'll download the whole area rather than editing from an Overpass result-set.

I reordered the US boundary segments in osm.org/changeset/64167454 , the relation editor now shows closed loops. It seems that splitting a way placed it at the beginning of the sequence when the full relation isn't loaded.

Thanks for the quick fix, Walter! My deep apologies. I've done a lot of multipolygon editing in JOSM, (though not ways on national boundary relations before) and am quite used to JOSM's way-split function properly adding the new way to all parent relations. I guess that doesn't work reliably for bigger relations. I'll be much more careful in the future.

P.S. For more details on mapping landuse, check out the wiki at osm.wiki/How_to_map_landuse#The_Multipolygon_Method
There are a few different ways to map landuse, each with their own challenges. Personally, I find it easiest to map close to, but not right on the road as including the road makes it harder to update the roads separately.

Hi, welcome to OSM, thanks for the edits.

Looking through your changes, the farmland additions look pretty good, though one of the farmland areas isn't a closed loop: osm.org/way/521882000

As well, it looks like you added a park and a number of peak, cave, and park nodes in a location that looks to be a house. If there isn't actually a park here, these should be removed.

Thanks for these edits. I had been trying to figure out how to properly map this feature. :-)

Thanks for the catch! In some of my early landuse/land-cover additions I used highways as the edge of the land cover, spitting them apart at each change. As you noticed, doing so makes the highways very difficult to edit since they are made of so many tiny segments.

In changeset osm.org/changeset/44312978 I've now made most of the land-cover edges stand-alone and re-merged the highway ways.

Thanks for this addition. It had been a while since I'd been to the cabin and I miss-named the main farmhouse when cleaning up another user's problematic edit. Cheers!

Hi @neshobe, welcome to Open Street Map! I'm a local contributor from Middlebury and based on your handle I'm guessing you're in the area as well. Thanks for contributing!

I was just reviewing local changes and noticed this change, which seems to accidentally convert a relation that was marking the land-cover of the mountains as trees to a giant meadow. Based on the Change-set comment, my guess is that you were trying to change only the small area that contains the Robert Frost homestead rather than the woods surrounding it.

Please let me know if you have any questions about tagging, relations, or how to fix the map to achieve the result you were going for, I'd be happy to help.

Best,
Adam Franco

This changeset broke connectivity of Taylor Street, the alignment of State Street, and the the alignment of the railway. What was the goal of this change?