I just noticed the same strange tags. If wdcrawford doesn't respond soon, I'd suggest deleting those lines.

Hello Julien,

I don't have a problem with that.

Dave

On second look, it appears I did incorrectly extend Hemlock Avenue.
I edited it to remove my error and added the Tiger 2020 name.

It looks as though all I did was add surface=gravel. I somehow missed the name issue you mentioned as well as the duplicate ways. DOH!

I do not know the correct name because I haven't been there but I would use the Tiger 2020 info if I were looking at it now.

Thanks for the note. Feel free to follow your instincts on this.

Indeed. I forgot to include the tag,
old_name=Sears Mall. Feel free to add it yourself if you wish, Hans.

Hi Adam,

There seem to be two separate, almost identical relations for the Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site (id:11,911,719 and id:11,911,720).

I'm not sure you created them but might you know what's going on?

Thanks,
Dave

No problem.

No problem. Things change quickly in Thailand. I added this building five years ago and used imagery that was not as good as what is available now. Please feel free to update anything I added that long ago

I looked at that location but can see no buildings.
Can you help me understand your comment better?

You forgot to add the tag
boundary=administrative to this object.
I added it yesterday,

Hi,

I've been working in the area of Fern Ridge Lake and have come across many of your edits from a couple of years ago. There are many landuse=farmlands areas and natural=wetland that are attached to highways and other things. This is a practice that I would discourage. The natural=wood or natural=wetland or various landuses DO NOT include any part of the highways that border them.
Later on, when one is editing those areas to better align them with recent imagery, each of those duplicate nodes must be unglued before those edits can be finished.
Such edits require a huge amount of time.
Please refrain from doing this in the future.

Thanks,
Dave

You added this viewpoint but I don't see any way to access it. No roads or tracks. It is located in dense forest. How would a tourist get there?

Can you explain your reasoning for placing this?

Also, The name you tagged is certainly not correct — it is a description and does not belong in the name:en tag.

@Ze0zohk1
The reason Taginfo contains so many values is because there is no restriction or controls on how a mapper decides to tag an object. To make matters worse, some editor programs don't dismiss or call attention to a value that includes a slash character.

OSM practically encourages mappers to invent tags, which is a mistake IMO, especially for a new mapper. This mapper is perhaps thinking like an office memo writer where "dirt/sand" means a mixture of dirt and sand. Since no such value exists in the Wiki, he merely invented it on the fly. Then again, maybe he hasn't even read the Wiki.

Happens all the time.

@stephankn
This person does not respond to questions about his mapping. I've been deleting these "wilderness_huts" as I encounter them.

2020-12-26 I removed the access restriction and changed surface tag to concrete

I agree with PerplexingPenguins but if there is a different name being used by the assessor's office then add that name using the tag
official_name=East Redwood Court.

This way, people using the map to find this road will be looking for the version on the road sign "on the ground" rather than a name that is invisible to them.

Adding a clarification:
The slash character is never used in the value side of a tag. If the road is mixed sand and dirt, then it might better be tagged surface=dirt or surface=unpaved.

If you were tagging a restaurant that serves pizza and hamburgers it might have cuisine=pizza;burger. Note the use of the semicolon as separator.

The classification of highways is actually a bit tricky. If one uses highway=track for these roads, that implies a road that is not constructed for carrying vehicles except for farm tractors and the like. Most logging roads that I've seen might be better classed as highway=service with tags to indicate surface, smoothness, etc. If it is a larger road, compacted and in use by heavy vehicles, then I think highway=unclassified is a possibility, again with tags for access, surface, etc.

The Wiki definition of highway=unclassified is very loose and therefore it's difficult to make a positive determination.
We're gone around and around on highway classifications on the Thailand forum but have never reached consensus.
My 2 cents.

Hi Kurt,
I was mapping in this area and noticed this footway you added a couple of years ago. It would be really helpful to other hikers if you could add more information about the trail. For example, surface, visibility, width, degree of difficulty, etc.

This extra stuff is not required obviously but it would really add to the value of the trail data.

Best, Dave

See you soon.

Hi,
I noticed you added a waterfall in the middle of a wooded area near Doi Inthanon. You didn't give a source other than Bing and I cannot see anything in that area at all. I'm curious as to why you added it. Were you perhaps hiking in that area and saw a waterfall?

Thanks,

Dave