Hi,

Taconic State Parkway is not consistently built to motorway standards in this area.

Hi,

Taconic State Parkway is not consistently built to motorway standards in these areas.

Hi,

A few things here:
- Bear Mountain Bridge Road should be trunk as it serves an important link across the Hudson River. See my changeset: <> for more background.
- Bear Mountain State Parkway should also be trunk here. It serves as a bypass for Peekskill, and carries a significant amount of traffic.
- Crompond Road continues to serve this east-west link, and therefore should be trunk. This is the most questionable one, but is consistent with the new guidelines being proposed for trunk roads.
- Taconic State Parkway begins to have RIRO (right-in/right-out) intersections above the Westchester/Putnam county line. Thus, it should not be motorway.

Please message me if you're interested in joining the discussion regarding the new trunk tagging scheme, and I will send you the appropriate links.

Hi,

Bronx River Parkway is not built to motorway standards here.

Saw Mill River Parkway is not built to motorway standards here.

Hi,

What is your source for the name "Taconic Parkway Road"? I have never heard this name before as a local.

Hi,

Briarcliff-Peekskill Parkway should not be motorway here.

Hi,

Saw Mill River Parkway and Briarcliff-Peekskill Parkway should not be motorway here. They are not built to those standards.

It appears as though there was no exit_to tag on this way. This changeset was the first to show any tags with these values.

Hi,

I'm cleaning up the ramps from I-990 to UB North Campus, and I noticed that you set the destination:street tag.

The destination, and destination:* keys are to be used for destinations that are signposted on the ground. They should not be used simply to refer to where a road leads.

In this case, the exit in question is signposted as leading to "University at Buffalo North Campus", or something similar, I can't remember the wording exactly. It doesn't mention Audubon Parkway at all, so there shouldn't be a tag mentioning it.

I'll go ahead and delete the destination:street tag, but please only use the destination tags for signposted destinations in the future.

Thanks,
John

Hi there,

I noticed that you tagged the turnarounds on Capen and Windermere Boulevard as highway=unclassified. This tag has a misleading name, and does not mean a road that has a nebulous classification. Rather, it is more like a step below tertiary, and is almost exclusively found in rural areas.

Should these roads have been tertiary, I believe that highway=tertiary_link would be the best tag to use for the turnarounds. However, there is no link tag for residential roads, so I'm going to tag these turnarounds as highway=service. I believe that it is more appropriate than unclassified.

To expand upon the downgrade from motorway, there is only one grade separation. It's fairly agreed upon that more is necessary to warrant motorway.

Yes, there's definitely a better way. highway=construction means a road that is currently under construction, and is anticipated to be completed. Since there doesn't seem to be active construction on this road, this tag is not appropriate.

The way I'd usually do something like this is by tagging the road with access=no, foot=yes, bicycle=yes, etc. This means that it's closed to all traffic except for foot and bicycle. However, you run the risk of some piece of software seeing "access=no" and marking the road as closed to everyone.

If you want to say that the road is open to everything except motor vehicles, you could just add motor_vehicle=no.

Is this road really under construction?

Please try to break up your changesets into more localized areas.

Please use NYS Orthos Online as your imagery source. Bing is very poor quality, and isn't well aligned.

Hi,

"The Crossining" is a name that is sometimes used to describe this bridge. I live in the area, but had not heard this name before seeing it on the map, and looking it up. Though it isn't a ubiquitous name, it is used.

"Croton River Bridge", on the other hand, is both ambiguous (see Quaker Bridge just up the river), and not used among locals.

Personally, I would advocate for there to be no `name=` tag on this bridge at all, since there is no common name for it that is used in common speech.

There are at-grade intersections on this part of the Taconic, so it should be trunk, not motorway.

Hi,

It looks like you accidentally changed the maxspeed of osm.org/way/220441219 to 80 mph. Would you mind fixing that, and seeing if you did the same to any other roads?

This changeset (and surely many of your others titled "ggg") is almost entirely obvious vandalism, particularly in absurdly high values for maxspeed. Many of the vandalized ways still have the bad maxspeed tag (see the edited part of FDR Drive, which still has a maxspeed of 120 mph). I will be reverting as much of this as I can, over the next day.