Thank you for working on my challenge! I see you have completed all of these. Great work.

No problem, I am just doing a little investigating here to see if I can trace it back to a source, then we can update that. In the meantime, yes there are a few great MTB resources on OSM's wiki. In short, mtb=yes is used on paths that are MTB suitable...

- - osm.wiki/Mountain_biking#How_to_tag_ways_appropriate_for_mtbiking
- osm.wiki/Key:mtb

Cheers,
Elliott

I took a look at my old run through and see where the issue is. At some point the track was merged with a larger trail. Only the straightaway section that comes off DV Rd is a track, the rest is path. It is important because horses are only allowed on the track sections.

As for the path tag, it is the preferred tag for woods paths/trails, whereas footway is meant for pedestrian features near road. There is a lot of nuance to that, I apologize, but it is well known/documented. I fixed the one section of track and left the rest alone here.

Hi there, this edit removed a designated trail name and converted a track to a path. This goes against the local convention for highway=track in Baltimore City reservoir property. Any fire road should be tagged as a track. The use of footway is discouraged for any off-street path. Please review osm.wiki/Maryland/Baltimore_Reservoir_Watersheds before mapping in the watersheds.

Hi there, I see you changed the access tag of your own trail here from bicycle=yes to bicycle=mtb. The MTB tag is not documented (that I can find) and so I am not entirely sure what it means. Can you tell me, did you read somewhere that you should enter mtb trails this way? Thanks!

Elliott Plack
OSMF Data Working Group

Hello there. The DWG received a complaint about this mass deletion of trails. How can you be sure the data was copied directly from TF, and not the reverse? I see the the source for the trails included a GPX file as the source. Further, I can see there is evidence of trails there on Strava's heatmap, which is an allowable source for OSM. Therefore, they do not exist "only" in Trailforks, but also Strava. I find it unlikely that a trail in both of those sites does not actually exist on the ground, unless it was physically closed. In the case of a trail being physically closed, it is best not to delete and instead mark it as closed.

Additionally, I saw you'd changed a footway that was marked as no bikes/horse, to a path with those access restrictions lifted. The person that originally added that information, did they do that in error?

Please help us understand why these trails were all deleted en masse. In the future, if you think something "cannot be included in OSM", you should reach out to the DWG first, so we could avoid all of this.

Thanks,

Elliott Plack
OSMF Data Working Group
data@openstreetmap.org

Hello there. In this changeset, I see you are adding mountain bike routes and trails, which is great. However, the bicycle=mtb tag is not one that I can find any documentation for in the wiki. I think you are meaning to use the mtb=* access tag. MTB access is handled separate from regular bicycle access in OSM. The same applies for E-Bikes.

Have a look at these wiki articles before adding more MTB routes:

- osm.wiki/Mountain_biking#How_to_tag_ways_appropriate_for_mtbiking
- osm.wiki/Key:mtb

Please confirm, and thank you,

Elliott Plack
OSMF Data Working Group

No one should mind, no. If they do, mention this changeset thread. You can take as much time as you’d like. Add notes/fixmes if something is too complicated.

Ah nuts, no good way to automatically consolidate them. You could pick the best and delete the others. I can take a look too.

It is for verification of the turn restriction. What is the point of you questioning this?

Interesting, I see you requested review but regrettably, no one has responded yet. I think this looks good (and I've wondered how to add this sort of thing). How do you like how this worked?

Hi Joy, if I understand correctly, you're tracing all the buildings as boxes with no tags and then wanting to tag them all as buildings at the end? If that's the case, you can draw all the boxes then in JOSM:

1. Find (Ctrl F)
2. type 'new untagged type:way closed' (without quotes). This will find all the new closed ways that are not tagged
3. add building tags

For tagging building boxes you've already uploaded but are not tagged yet, you could modify the search to 'untagged type:way closed' to find any closed way (e.g. a square building), and then update those.

Cheers,
Elliott

Aloha! Nice work mapping all these buildings. However, there is a small problem with this edit. All of the nodes on the buildings are also tagged as buildings. I assume this was a mistake. You can fix it easily in JOSM by searching for buildings and then tapping 'E'. That selects all the nodes. Remove the building tags on the nodes. Let me know if you need assistance.

Thanks,

Elliott Plack
Data Working Group

Hi there, what was erroneous about the foot access here?

I see you added a foot=no prohibition to these roads. This tagging is only appropriate if there is a sign posted saying that no pedestrians are allowed here.

Tell me about what you were trying to do here and I can try to help with the community. I see you are a runner, so perhaps this was an edit geared towards removing these roads from CityStrides, StreetFerret, or Wandrer? I'm into those as well, but I also represent the OpenStreetMap Data Working Group where we keep OSM data consistent and to the community's standards. Thanks!

Something seems amiss with this edit. mostly that it crosses the earth. The motorcycle parkings look more like woods. Was that intentional?

meant to say adding some greenery around the APG triangle near the power plant

Hi bgo_eiu, this changeset was flagged due to the presence of an attribute typically associated with an import. What is the source of this fiber data?

I'd ended the contraflow at the crosswalk because that is where it ends though, would you typically extend it to the road in this case? It is sort of a no-mans land for that very short gap between crosswalk and road: https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=7172678422807433

Brandon, what brings you to Baltimore for bike map editing? No issues here, just curious.

The DWG has investigated and agrees with eerib. Further, we discovered many attempts to obscure trails here, going back some years. Bookwus is now blocked, as will be all of the related accounts: osm.org/user_blocks/6216

osm.org/changeset/119965285

- Elliott
Data Working Group
OSM Foundation