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These 3 rows should be drawn as one parking area since it is all one lot. The access and other details here would be the same from one row to another.

I've gone through and updated it. Keep up the awesome contributions. :D

FYI, this would be street side parking since it is just on the side of the street

osm.wiki/Tag:parking=street_side

The basketball court area shouldn't be named since that is a descriptive tag.

FYI, you can use "1" to square the buildings and other features.

Can you elaborate on what is remaining through these apartment buildings and across the freeway that would be an "abandoned railway"? Bing streetside and aerial imagery shows no trace through the buildings and across the interstate.

Was wondering if you found rails or something that still exists on the ground across the road and through the buildings?
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What source was used for these railways?

In areas such as:
osm.org/way/158589507/history#map=15/38.8598/-94.7588

It appears that there is nothing there, no trace, no rails, etc. that would be considered "abandoned". In the subject area, it appears to have been completely overbuilt and replaced by homes, roadways, a freeway etc. I would argue that there is no rail going through someone's living room.

These should probably be moved to OHM if they are for "historical" purposes.

And to clarify the question at hand, what about the short, specific segments that have been over-built and replaced by a building or roadway. These features require excavation and there generally is no trace through a large flat parking lot or through someone's bedroom. Specifically, what if the only way to verify anything was ever there is to use a metal detector and ground penetrating radar?

Short of breaking out the high-tech, what is good enough to consider proof? A suspicious discoloration of crops in farmland where the land is level and the field has been plowed?

While our opinions may disagree and the community may disagree on what should and should not be mapped, it isn't something that the two of us have been able to work out, and likely will never work out. The community needs to work it out. And I recognize that.

It is actually surprising that the community still has not decided on what the "best practice" is for mapping or not mapping long removed railways and railway crossing. Especially ones intersecting houses and other modern buildings, often times incorrectly snapped to roadways and power poles.

That being said, I am done with the railways, will leave them untouched, regardless of their actual status.

Understood. Are we able to map "razed" and "abandoned" roadways and buildings? I would find them especially useful in knowing how the roadways and buildings have changed over time and how they have adjusted.

I give up on trying to update railways for what actually exists on the ground. If railway mappers want to keep outdated and long-gone features, that's fine. I would think that having a map that only has what is actually on the ground would be important. I apologize for trying to update outdated features to bring the map up to date to represent what is truly on the ground where no railways crossings exist across freeways and through people's living rooms.

I digress. I will not edit railways going forwards, and apologize.

This golf course does not exist anymore and it is now an entire residential neighborhood. It has been completely removed and overbuilt by houses, roads and other structures.

Features that no longer exist and have been overbuilt should not be mapped on OSM. A good place to put them would be on OpenHistoricalMap (OHM) though so that the history may be preserved.

Reverted in:
osm.org/changeset/134908249

Is construction complete? It looks done on Mapbox Aerial Imagery?

Completely understood.

Thanks for that. I am definitely keeping it as nodes going forwards. Screw that headache - I don't want to do that again.

For reference, I duplicated the 'new' nodes, then deleted store info and merged it with the buildings to get that nyc node back.

Updated in:
osm.org/changeset/134885099

Thanks and updated. Corrected in changeset: osm.org/changeset/134884855
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Thanks for the feedback and the education.

I have updated it in changeset:
osm.org/changeset/134884833#map=15/40.7294/-73.9021
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Is there a reason you don't connect the cartpaths over the waterways with a bridge? Would add a lot more details to the map.

Reverted in:
osm.org/changeset/134793156

Additionally, golf course has gone out of business.

these buildings aren't even remotely square nor do they match aerial imagery. I have cleaned it up.

What source did you use for this "proposal"? I can't seem to verify it based on aerial imagery or ground truth.

Doesn't look like any construction has started yet, even 4 years later. Has construction begun? Are they even still planning to build it?

Generally, things aren't mapped even as a proposal until construction has started.