Hey, uh... what the heck happened here?

osm.org/relation/2726614

Thanks!

Hello, you have left a gap in the Chandler boundary, are you able to fix it?

Hello, you have left a gap in the Spanish Fork boundary, are you able to fix it?

Hi, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but you've broken a significant number of boundary relations, which have a missing "role".

All edits reverted and spam account reported to DWG.

I have deleted your recent edits. Please stop spamming SEO links.

Hello,

This appears to be an attempt to circumvent the blocks listed below with new user accounts and new referral domains. This type of behavior will not be tolerated by the US mapping community, and we will swiftly revert and report future attempts to bypass community standards of behavior. Please stop spamming referral links. It is a waste of everyone's time including yours.

osm.org/user_blocks/5316
osm.org/user_blocks/5317

Whoops, put that on my own changeset :-D

Hello,

This appears to be an attempt to circumvent the blocks listed below with new user accounts and new referral domains. This type of behavior will not be tolerated by the US mapping community, and we will swiftly revert and report future attempts to bypass community standards of behavior. Please stop spamming referral links. It is a waste of everyone's time including yours.

osm.org/user_blocks/5316
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Hi, can you explain the use of `website` on hotel POIs? This is not the typical usage of that key. Also, are you working on behalf of a company?

Hello, can you explain why you've drawn many tiny building fragments in this way?

For background, and the reason Moira is asking, is that there is an emerging consensus in the US to tag highway classification based on the importance of roads (rather than by their physical attributes). This is consistent with global usages of that tagging.

A recent talk-us discussion on this topic can be found here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2021-May/021018.html

In short, mappers in various states have been collaborating to develop more consistent definitions for highway classes. We invite you to join this collaboration, with most of the discussion being on the OSM US Slack (https://slack.openstreetmap.us/) at the channel #local-alabama

The new standards we've been developing, with links to state-by-state highway classification definitions, can be found at the following wiki page:

osm.wiki/United_States/Highway_classification

Hi @Chris Lawrence. Regading "promoting residential streets and dirt roads", I don't see any of that in this changeset. If you could comment on the changeset that has the problem, it would be more helpful for the community to understand where there might be a problem.

Cool, that boundary looks pretty good offhand from casual inspection. I did just fix the boundary to tag it as a CDP. I operate a site with similar functionality called StreetFerret and I'm constantly fixing broken boundaries as a result. I'm actually up in RI but I end up doing boundary edits in a lot of places because of this project. Happy running!

Well it's been a year, but most likely this was one that was so badly mangled that it wasn't worth preserving. I fixed as many as I could where the geometries were sufficiently preserved.

Hicksville is technically a CDP and the town is Oyster Bay from my understanding. This and other CDPs on Long Island were imported from I believe TIGER 2008 and tagged as an administrative boundary, rather than the consensus boundary=census for a CDP. Also, since the CDPs actually change over time at the whims of the census bureau (including considerable changes in the last decade), these need to get re-built from the latest TIGER and stitched into the adjacent boundaries. It's something I've been meaning to work on but I've been distracted by other projects and nobody else (until now!) has noticed the condition of the CDPs in this area. If you're up for boundary work (it's kind of tricky if you're not used to sparse editing in JOSM) I'd be happy to work with you on Slack to help you get started, otherwise -- thanks for prompting me to revisit Long Island boundaries :)

That arcgis link seems to divide up the state into "Administrative Unit Names", each with "Such and Such Field Office". That implies to me that this is the field office responsible for BLM lands within that area.

From their web site (https://www.blm.gov/office/san-luis-valley-field-office): "The San Luis Valley Field Office manages nearly 500,000 acres of public land in Colorado’s Rio Grande Basin."

If you pull up individual parcels in ArcGIS, there's a field "Allotment Name" which is what should go in the name field, and there's also "Allotment Number" which likely should go in the ref tag.

Are you seeing cases where individual parcels have an Alltoment Name of "Such and Such Field Office"?

This seems a little strange to me to name BLM lands as a "field office"? Is that actually the name of the area or just the name of which office is responsible for it?

Hey, so I don't know if it was your edit that did it, but the Caldwell boundary currently has a huge gap in it.

Thanks for mapping the Narragansett Indian reservation! It looks like there's a misalignment between that boundary and the Francis C. Carter preserve just to the north where I'm guessing they should be adjacent. Did you trace this boundary by hand or was there a GIS file of some kind available?