Since this is kind of your area, do you think the surrounding burbs like Sherwood Park, St. Albert etc. count as "city"? By OSM rules it seems they shouldn't, but I'm reluctant to wade into that...

I never knew there was a distinction. :) Sounds like you know what you're doing; carry on. Thanks.

Hi AG.

You've got a suburb node for Strathcona mapped much farther south than the other ways the same name is mapped, eg osm.org/relation/7820664

PS, leisure=common (used nearby) doesn't seem right either. That's for land that has an owner, with some public rights of access. The river valley is public land, so it doesn't really have an owner.
osm.wiki/Tag:leisure=common

Hi AG.

For urban wooded parks, may I suggest natural=wood, but NOT leisure=park? The wiki at osm.wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dpark suggests the latter is for "parks" in the open-space-for-recreation sense.

The wooded area can still have a name, as in the nearby Mill Creek Ravine example.

BTW, the parking lot at Henrietta Muir Edwards Park has trees in it. :)

Thanks,
VP

This answers something I've wondered about. It looks like the CanVec imports (grr) have mislabelled schools as prisons all across Canada, not just in Alberta.

(Somebody's attempt at a joke based on their unhappy schooling?)

If you come across a situation like this again, you might like to mark the area as landuse=construction. That would make the intent more clear.
Happy mapping. :)

Hi KOE. I'll interject here.
JOSM complains when you remove the name from a bridge (imports have created these aplenty) when the road/bridge is tertiary or above.

I've been removing names (sometimes) because I agree with your logic. But the warnings bug me.

Hi. Looks good, but I'd leave the house number blank rather than "not visible".

You left behind a mess.
Do you feel any sense of obligation to clean it up? Because someone will have to.

Hi OrcaTheBrave.

Re Hasse Lake Park, it looks like you've confused the concept of "park" vs "forest/wood", as you've re-traced the boundary of the park to follow the forest contours.

But a park boundary is a property boundary, and the previous version was more accurate. Properties in this area tend to be rectangular, and quite likely the east shore of this lake is private property.

Also, leisure=park in this area isn't appropriate; see osm.wiki/Tag:leisure=park
The original leisure=nature_reserve was more suitable.

I'd suggest reverting these changes.

Hi.
It seems you've accidentally deleted part of 100 Street northbound. This will break routing. I've fixed it.

Please be careful editing major streets.

Hi. Something seems wrong with the tagging of Hong Kong Station. You removed "station=subway". Perhaps as a result, when you search OSM for "Hong Kong", this station shows up near the top of the list, as a house.

Hi. I know I'm coming to this discussion a year late. This must be the discussion referenced in the change that promoted Sherwood Park to a "city".

Sherwood-Park-as-city seems and looks wrong. We're expected to map using OSM classifications, per the wiki, not according to the whims of government officials; they tend to have grandiose views of their jurisdictions.

The wiki for place=city says "largest settlement or settlements within a territory". Being right next to Edmonton, Sherwood Park (not to mention Fort Sask, et al) are hardly the "largest".

With Sherwood Park being the same level as Edmonton, some maps might possibly render SP but not Edmonton, due to a lack of space for both.

Hi Sundance.

You never attribute your sources. I came across www.openstreetmap.org/way/31930832 which you recently promoted to a secondary highway, Highway 921. In various imagery sources all I see is a wobbly track that hardly qualifies as unclassified, and GeoBase Roads calls it a Range Road.

Do you have info that it was recently upgraded to a proper highway? (I'd be willing to believe that, but there's also a highway immediately east of here.)

Thanks,
VP who's working on road classifications and noticed this.

Also source=survey, local usage

Motorway?!? No no no...

I'm happy to clean up raw-GPS tracks, which I know are scattered around the mountains. I've cleaned up a bunch already; I've got the technique figured out. If you find more, just send me a message, or maybe put a Note on the map, and it'll be taken care of. Thanks.

The "motorway" stood out dramatically even at very low zoom.

The official street names in Edmonton are "NW", not "Northwest". Hence, they should be mapped exactly, "NW".

Expanding an official abbreviation is not the same thing as declining to abbreviate something for the map.

Please contact MapRoulette and abort this task for Edmonton and Calgary. Calgary is same.

I've manually fixed many of these, probably for the second time.

Source: official street address on my property tax bill: "NW"

Hi Scott.
Thanks for clarifying that you did indeed check the quality of the CanVec data you added, and my apologies for a blunt message based on a quick sample of a single changeset I looked at. (I've been burnt before; seen accurate hand-traced waterways removed in favor of sloppy CanVec ones, so was afraid it was the same all over again.)

If you're satisfied that the features you're updating are more accurate than the ones they replace, then I'm okay with this.

Thanks, and happy mapping,
Tom / VP

Hi SRD GIS.
leisure=park doesn't seem appropriate for woodlands (or water) areas, such as Carrington Bay. See
osm.wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dpark

Might I suggest instead,
leisure=nature_reserve
boundary=protected_area