When the follow tool would be too tedious I'll split up the big area into a multipolygon then reuse one of the sides in both the old and new. Does that make sense? could be helpful here.

My only comment is to watch for non-wooded areas when covering big swaths of woods this way. There are a couple of homes in clearings in the woods that I just made using a multipolygon as an example (osm.org/changeset/103006808#map=13/39.4008/-77.6473).

Also, I tagged the grassland along the powerline break. Those are useful to do, to give some definition to the woods. All in all good work here, keep it up.

Hey there. I see you've been working along South Mountain and the AT adding forestry land cover. Nice work! I am working in the area on updating the protected lands boundaries with the latest info from Maryland DNR and NPS, and per the latest updated wiki on how to tag protected lands. If you see any sudden changes to the way the natural areas are tagged, that's what's going on.

I love to cover those areas with trees, like your doing, so keep that up. Cheers!

Everything looks good here Mike! Nice work
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Not sure where the missing pieces went but I have it all sorted with several new and changed CDPs in that vicinity added too.

osm.org/changeset/102899962

Hmm, what the heck happened there!

Looking good here Mike!

My question to you is what are your thoughts on changing the PVSP park areas from leisure=park to leisure=nature reserve. Fundamentally the only different between PVSP and a big wildlife management area like Patuxent or Soldier's Delight is just the name. They all have trails and allow recreation. The philosophy is that a true OSM park is a manicured urban park, like Patterson Park, and that these big wooded area 'parks' should be classified nature reserve instead. If I changed all 20 park areas to nature reserve, they'd look a bit different on the map and some websites might show them differently. However, once all the landcover is drawn, they look quite nice. Check out Loch Raven Reservoir for instance.

Thanks for the help. Ideally I think we'd cover the full park with its landuse/landcover so that the underlying "green" area doesn't show. But if you pan west, I just made a bunch of area changes based on Ranger Joe's new plan so now areas like Davis overlap the larger tree area. We could split that tree area up but it does feel a bit like whack-a-mole to do that...

Thank you! I would normally just leave the woods covering the creek and trail, as you said, but I'm trying to prevent the woods from appearing "under" the green park polygons on the main map. This is mapping for the renderer in its truest form, which I normally avoid. However, the park managers are confused by the multicolored areas. The more I go down that rabbit hole (and thank you for mentioning it) the more I'm thinking about switching the park areas over to leisure=nature_reserve. There is much debate in the community over whether large forested "parks" fit the definition of a park by the original design.

I split them up because when the woods are smaller than the park, the woods appear on top. It is annoying. What do you think?

Excellent! I just tweaked it a little with the Strava heatmap source in JOSM. Still an average though. I appreciate your efforts. If not today, going to be a few nice days this week :)

I've got another area in PVSP that needs some good survey. There is a trail that begins in EC at the end of Red Stag Ct and continues down into Ilchester. We're trying to update that area for the new PTAP Traverse trail. Could you take a look with your high-accuracy GPS?

osm.org/way/920975061

Hello there. Per your block by the DWG, please don't change these highway classifications without discussion with local mappers. We did a big review of Maryland roads' classification several years ago and they should not be changed unless there is substantative change to the road geometry since then. Post a message on the talk-us list with any proposed upgrades prior to editing: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Meanwhile, this changeset has been reverted in osm.org/changeset/101513133#map=15/39.3446/-76.6351

Hello there. Per your block by the DWG, please don't change these highway classifications without discussion with local mappers. We did a big review of Maryland roads' classification several years ago and they should not be changed unless there is substantative change to the road geometry since then. Post a message on the talk-us list with any proposed upgrades prior to editing: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Meanwhile, this changeset has been reverted in osm.org/changeset/101512265

DUGA, if you're cleaning up issues by another user, or really anything, try to be specific in your changeset comments. It helps resolve conflicts!

This is great work! Nice GPS too. Today I met with PVSP head ranger Joe and FPVSP management to get more people that manage the park involved with the mapping of it, via trail naming, area naming, access, etc. Looks like you're committed to doing great trail mapping at PVSP. Would you want to get involved in a future mapathon?
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Agreed here. The way should not be separated unless there is physical separation.

Reverted here. osm.org/changeset/101016949

Hello there. Please do not convert ramps to motorway. These edits will be rolled back. If you want to make a case in the talk-us community that ramps should be classified as links, feel free, but until then, please do not make edits like this.

Hello there. Please explain your reasoning for upgrading these roads to trunk, especially Charles Street. It is well established that only partial access control highways are trunks. You've also broken some of the relations here along the bridges over the beltway. Please be more careful editing. We'll have to roll back this changeset, as well as some others that are causing routing troubles. Please consider reaching out to the community in a comment before making drastic edits to existing roads.