**compiled in 1968**

I don't know who is right. My experience with my other goto source, the Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, was compiled in 198 and their coordinates are sometimes significantly off.

If you have a better alternative, go ahead and correct the position. I did not see "another guy" or another position.

Maybe I was the "other guy"? I added the node using the Dictionary of Alaska Place Names coords then changed it a few minutes later.

There was no Pillar Mountain node before I added it AFAIK.

Hello,

Many of the edits and additions you made in this changeset are questionable. You have added many nodes as fords over canals and rivers. I am quite familiar with this area and do not think those fords exist. Just because a stream or canal crosses a highway and there is no bridge on the map does not mean the highway crosses the stream or canal on a ford. Some earlier mapper has merely forgotten, or didn't take the time, to draw the bridge. Assuming it's a ford is probably wrong. Unless you know for a fact that those crossings are fords, do not assume it to be so.

Also, you added some sort of religious area, perhaps a temple or roadside shrine, tagged it with amenity=place_of_worship, and used "Hinduism god place" for an English name. That's totally wrong. If anything, it is a buddhist place. How you decided to give it that name is a mystery. (Way: ศาลพระภูมิ (712590405). Using the Thai name you supplied (ศาลพระภูมิ), the correct name:en for that place is "San Phra Phum".

Please read the Thailand section of the Wiki and use the guidelines in it to help your mapping efforts.

AlaskaDave

I meant to say, I've struggled with it on a number of occasions.

Cheers,
Dave

I'm sorry that happened. I know it was a ton of work to get that thing done in the first place. I've with it myself on a number of occasions, and quite possibly screwed it up myself.
I'll delete those stray bits of ways I found yesterday.

Hi Johnny.
I'm back in Thailand and came across several untagged ways. I'm sure they were inner areas for the large residential area multipolygon you worked on years ago. It now seems that the big multipolygon has disappeared. Is that true?

Hi,
I am working in the area of Ban Phra Phutthabat Si Roi and have a few questions to ask about the edits in this changeset. You have tagged several buildings as "wilderness_hut" and then added some name:en tags that are not translations of the Thai names you provided. Foe example, you tagged one such building with name:en=Abandon in longan farm. Using the recommended program to convert Thai to English, Thai Romanization (from the Dept.of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts
Chulalongkorn University), and the Thai name you added, that program reports "Ban Rang Nai Suan Lamyai" as the correct transliteration. I agree that those words mean "abandoned house in a longan farm" but that is not the normal use of the name:en tag. I moved your name to a different tag, alt_name:en, which is better suited to descriptive names.
Then there is the question of whether these buildings are actually wilderness_huts. See the Wiki at osm.wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dwilderness_hut#Description. If these buildings have the features described on that page, then I agree that your tagging is correct.
Another point is that when mapping a wat there is no need to add the English word "temple" to the name:en. The word "wat" is enough because it means "temple". Also, when mapping wats, please be sure to add the tag religion=buddhist.

Thank you for your work.
Cheers,
Dave

OK. Thanks. The full history of that way must have gotten reset somehow.

Hi,
I can't find any reference to the cycleway in downtown Eugene you tagged with name=Corvallis Eugene Expressway.
Can you help me out?
Thanks,
Dave

Hi,

Can you explain your reasoning for changing several cycleways in Eugene to highway=path? It seems you and user:shanerh are both doing this.
It seems obvious to me that cycleway fits their intended use much better than the more generic "path". I've changed them back to cycleways but maybe I'm missing something?
Cheers,
Dave

Hi,
Could you explain why you changed the highway classification of the West Bank Trail in Eugene from cycleway to path?
Thanks,
Dave

Hi,

First of all, thank you for adding many WWII sites to the Alaska OSM map.

However, you have tagged an area near Dutch Harbor with some tags I don't think are correct. I'm referring to the "Summer's Bay Canon Battery. " You tagged it landuse=military, which may be true, but I believe it should be tourism=attraction, attraction=historic.

Also, is the name of this place an official name? If so, you have misspelled "cannon" as "canon". Otherwise, the name really isn't appropriate unless it's known as such by locals, in which case it would best be tagged as loc_name=Summer Bay Cannon Battery.
What do you think?
Best,
Dave

The changeset comment should be merely DigitalGlobe-Premium. The "2019-03-28 survey part" is an unintended carryover from the previous changeset.

Hi,
I do a lot of work aligning the terrible PGS coastline of Alaska. It's slow difficult work and the number of hours required to properly edit all of Alaska's coastline is daunting. Today, while working in the Glacier Bay area, I came across this changeset of yours that quotes Geobase as a source of your coastline data and from what I cans see it's a huge improvement over the miserable PGS data. Can you suggest a method for me to obtain some of this same data?
I realize this all happened a long time go but perhaps you still have a finger in that pie.
Thanks,
AlaskaDave

That's good to know, Giblet.

The boundary of the Fruit Belt is nearly the same as the one I drew however because its western boundary extends to Main Street it includes the controversial Medical Center "neighborhood" mentioned in the article. I wonder if that neighborhood has any mappers who will defend that name and want to separate it from the Fruit Belt?
It's an interesting problem.

Haha - that very article is the reason I decided to revise the map. I left Buffalo many years ago and live in Alaska and Thailand now so I'm not a "local" in any sense of the word but I do have a continuing interest in the Buffalo area.

Your idea of a boundary relation is a good one. I would rather not connect it to street nodes, however, because it will possibly add complexity to maintaining bus routes, etc. As for labeling a point near High & Jefferson as the center, sure I can do that.

By the way, the reason I have an interest in this area is because it's my hometown. I lived on High St near Herman and attended PS 39 for the first 10 years of my life.

Hi,
I took the positional source from a link in the Wikipedia article cited and did not check for copyright status, thinking if it was in Wikipedia it was okay to use. I agree that it cannot be used as such given the copyright issue you raise. However, rather than revert the changeset. let me redraw the boundaries approximately following the guidelines in the written Wikipedia article.

However, the problem of the centroid and where it happens to render is not something I think should influence whether or not we describe the Fruit Belt using a node or an area. Also, I don't believe this is an "administrative area" in the usual sense so using administrative boundaries wouldn't be appropriate or correct.

AFAIK, this area is merely a locality. Unless you know otherwise, I think it's best to leave it as place=neighborhood.

I will go back and change the boundary to align better with Michigan Ave., etc., and remove the reference to city-data.com.

What do you think?

I think it is, especially when the beginning of a river is not obvious from the available maps.These nodes don't take up a lot of space and IMO offer useful information to anyone curious about a named river's starting position.

Hi Jordan,

There are two guest houses with this same name that you created. Can you please check to determine which one is in the correct position and delete the erroneous one?

Dave