PS, I'll be incommunicado for a week or so. Going off the grid to map more trails. :)

Hi rhaasdyk.

You fixed up Sugar Daddy from a GPS track, didn't you? (I seem to remember corresponding with somebody about it; maybe that was with you.)

Anyway, if the trail is now GPS-based which I think it is, you could remove trail_visibility=no, my note, and perhaps change footway to path for good measure (as footway suggests primarily foot use, but this is largely a bike trail).

I noticed because it rendered as a very faint dotted line in the map I use; that's a result of the visibility attribute.

Thanks,
VP from Edmonton

Also source=uploaded GPS traces (mine).

Hi Brendan.

Wouldn't the peak of Iyarhe Ipan be just a bit SE of where it's marked now? That's per the note on the nearby cache page...

Lowest of low priorities. :) Happy mapping and everything else.

Hi. Nobody asked me, but I do a lot of mapping in Alberta of forest roads, including a lot of reclassifying after a bad import (all tertiary). I think most logging / oilfield roads are properly highway=unclassified, with the rare major road qualifying to be tertiary if it goes to many destinations. Also, I think "track" is too minor, as the logging/oil roads I've experienced are built to a better standard.

Also, the public is generally welcome/tolerated on these roads, even though there may be signage about restricted access; such signage usually refers to commercial usage, those companies being expected to contribute to maintenance.

I restored the deleted town name (too important in my mind to wait around). Prison was likely bogus, like other "prisons" from that CanVec import.

Other deleted items remain unresolved.

PS, nice work. Mascota and Talpa look a lot more complete than the last time I looked.

Hi Cindy.

I noticed you added access=no to the Ayuntamiento street in front of the plaza. That's a pedestrian street as I remember. In that case, it should be motor_vehicle=no, because access=no means people in general aren't allowed. I'm pretty sure I walked right past some policemen who didn't even give me a dirty look.

I've also noticed some features such as hotels are now doubled, first as a point (eg the entrance, or close to it), then as a building outline. I added some of the former, but don't mind if you delete them in favor of the building outline versions.

Cheers,
VP up in chilly Canada

Hi. Why remove the name=ATM? (Autotransportes Talpa Mascota, from memory)

Looks good.

Now I see more clearly why you wanted to fix this up. I like your version better. :)

Hi. My point was, the trees likely no longer exist there. CanVec has old data; the subdivision is new.

Just trying to encourage you to be careful when importing CanVec, if you must at all. As you might know, I have a low regard for the quality of that data. Cheers.

You put forest atop existing landuse=residential, see
osm.org/way/261105003#map=16/51.0984/-115.3316

Ah, this is why I couldn't duplicate the routing errors I'd taken note of a couple of months ago: you've already fixed them.

Good job, thanks.

Hi Brett.

I see you've been making improvements in some areas I'm also interested in, which is great.

Just a heads-up: when you add lakes inside an area marked as forest, some maps (such as OSM Default) render them with trees in the water. Assuming that's not the intent, you'd need to make the lakes inner members of a multipolygon, with the wood as the outer member. I've already created the outer multipolygons for much of western Alberta, so all that'd be needed is to mark the lakes as inner members.

I've already fixed up the four lakes in this changeset. (Two were on wood boundaries, so in those cases I split the wood to go around them.)

In JOSM, if you don't see the outer wood boundaries at all (too far away), you can do a Download from Overpass API, specify natural:wood, and select a larger area.

Cheers and happy mapping,
Tom / VP

The suffixes (NW, SW, etc.) are how the City of Calgary spells the names, same with Edmonton. The OSM wiki pages for Calgary and Edmonton use NW, SW, etc. in their examples; the latter page is more explicit than Calgary's with naming examples.

So NW is literally correct, and "Northwest" is expanded. And Telenav might be more welcome editing somewhere else.

PS, JOSM threw an error I'd never seen before: "length_units without waterway". I removed length_units because those default to metres anyway.

Also source=GPS (uploaded trace).

Ran out of good imagery before I could connect it to the "hydraulic network".

Yes, some trails are incomplete. I only added what I could spy from satellite view, looking for the odd glimpse of a quad trail on sunny parts of cutlines.

Aha! Pre-existing natural=water on the surrounding lake was the problem. I knew that was discouraged, but left it alone because there were no warnings from JOSM, and it was also properly on the relation.

But that breaks some maps apparently, including OSM Default.