Or rather: osm.wiki/Ohio/Route_relations

I tried my best to transcribe a bilingual sign I took a photo of while passing by. The Amharic name is a little more detailed than the Engilsh name. It transliterates roughly to “Debre Genet St. Mary Beta-Christian Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in San Jose”.

`name:en` is for English. I went with `alt_name` because these expanded names are what people would tend to search for in a geocoder like Nominatim.

Good idea, though not everyone has easy access to Greek characters on their keyboards. I wonder if the Greek characters are better suited for `short_name`.

Also, Φ is phi, Τ is tau, and Θ is theta. In changeset 30993287, I took the Greek characters currently in `name` and expanded them in `alt_name`, assuming that you got the names wrong originally. But if you had the names right originally, then they should be ΔΘΔ and ΠΚΘ.

Awesome, thanks for taking the time to do that.

I figured that OSM-based public transit routers would have no way of knowing that the stops have no service yet. The poor hapless users would be waiting far longer than the standard Metro wait…

For context, I was getting a bit fed up with the many under-construction and proposed BART and Muni stops that were tagged as being complete:

osm.org/changeset/30491130

I’m definitely open to more specific tagging, though. `railway=fingers_crossed` ;-)

OSM classifies population centers based on population and prominence, regardless of legal status. That way software based on OSM don’t have to worry about every country’s definition of a city when labeling cities a certain way. So as a suburb to another city and as a place with under 100,000 residents, Springdale is tagged place=town, not place=city. Please see <osm.wiki/Tag:place%3Dcity> for more information.

Bing aerial imagery in this area is a bit outdated (dating to summer 2010). The Mapbox Satellite layer is more up-to-date at zoom levels 13–17 in Ohio, drawing from NAIP 2013 imagery. You can see the mast’s shadow in that layer.

http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/

FYI, man_made=mast is the more appropriate tag for radio/broadcast/cell towers. man_made=tower is for things like watchtowers, and it doesn’t get a special icon on most maps.

Love these changeset comments – keep ’em coming! :-D

Thank you for taking the time to add these street names in. For legal reasons, OSM can’t accept information copied straight out of another map unless the authors of that map have given permission.

osm.wiki/Copyright

Would you mind obtaining permission from the cemetery to copy these names? Better yet, if you’re in the area, you could visit the cemetery and ascertain the names in person. (OSM always prefers on-the-ground local knowledge wherever possible.)

Thanks for understanding!

Thank you for this edit, and welcome to OpenStreetMap! Note that we spell-out words like “Boulevard” rather than abbreviating them: osm.wiki/Names#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29

FYI, Bing aerial imagery in this area dates to March 2012: http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=40.04219237131571&lon=-84.20290923118593&zoom=17

The Mapbox Satellite layer is more up-to-date at z13–17, as it comes from NAIP 2013.

I undid some of these changes in changeset 30491130. railway=construction construction=tram_stop is a well-used and well-documented way of indicating that a subway station is under construction. The name=* tag is not intended for descriptive text, even in parentheses.

Just a friendly reminder that Ohioan mappers have a longstanding consensus to use the prefix “SR” on ways along Ohio state routes, due to the prevailing style used throughout the state by residents, the media, government, etc. See osm.wiki/Ohio/Route_relations for more information.

The Caldwell–Seymore trail is definitely either a cycleway or a footway. Neither tag implies anything about build quality, surface material, or routeability. If it’s meant primarily for cyclists, it’s a cycleway; if it’s primarily for pedestrians, it’s a footway. highway=path is for things like forest trails in state parks.

Oh, one of them is actually a compressed air pump. I’ve retagged it amenity=compressed_air, but is brand=Dero still accurate in that case?

Yes, you can see a photo of the stands here: http://www.simonkentonpathfinders.org/

Thank you for adding these township boundaries. But wherever possible, please start with the USGS Topographic Maps layer rather than the Census Bureau’s TIGER data. Although TIGER is much more up-to-date than the USGS topo maps, TIGER is also much cruder as it’s primarily meant for demographics rather than geography.

Thank you! I’ve been undeleting an old, correct version of the OH–WV boundary in Potlatch 1, but that editor often has selection glitches these days… it looks great now.