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102269873 over 4 years ago

Hi,
The USGS topos are incorrect in this case, as they are often. The USGS maps are very old, although I don't think they were every correct in this location since they think the road went over rocks, and I don't see any traces of an old road besides the road bed that's currently visible.

102187627 over 4 years ago

Hi,
Welcome to OpenStreetMap! I'm reviewing your edit, as you requested, but I'm not quite sure about it yet. Was this intersection reconstructed last summer? I didn't notice any disruption when I drove by a few weeks ago, but I could have missed it. As it was when the last aerial and street-level imagery was taken, Scribner and Huckins Roads don't meet the Parker Mountain Road at the same place, but are offset by more than 30 feet.

101920563 over 4 years ago

Yeah, to compare it to other roads in the region, it looks a lot like Route 9 through Henniker (osm.org/#map=13/43.1601/-71.8351) or Route 16 north of Rochester (osm.org/#map=14/43.4192/-71.0111). I support having it be trunk.

102056569 over 4 years ago

Hi,
Welcome to OpenStreetMap and thank you for your contributions in Northwood! Just letting you know that I reviewed your edit, as you requested.

101945205 over 4 years ago

Hi,
Welcome to OpenStreetMap; thank you for your contributions! Can I ask what source you were using to get names for "Underpass" and "Cottonwood Drive" across I-15 from Red Cliffs? Is it something you saw going by?

101938704 over 4 years ago

Hi,
I reverted this changeset because this node was not "unnecessary", and was in fact the label point for Coos County.

101889002 over 4 years ago

From what I could gather from [their website](https://opentopomap.org/about), OpenTopoMap uses the SRTM dataset from the USGS/NASA, which was taken via satellite a couple of decades ago and has 1 arcsecond resolution. Of course, 1 arcsecond is not that great in this sort of terrain, but it's also the best global dataset that's in the public domain. I downloaded the tile for this area to take a look for myself, and the original data does blur the canyon walls in the Box pretty badly. There's nothing that can be done about that except convince NASA to release a dataset with higher resolution.

101889002 over 4 years ago

Hi,
Welcome to OpenStreetMap, and thank you for your edits in the Cockscomb area! As you have noted in some of your comments, the OpenTopoMap contour lines are too smooth to be of much use in this part of the world. We do have access to some USGS topographic maps, as well as aerial imagery. In the editor, if you click the button on the right that looks like three sheets stacked on each other, it opens a menu with a bunch of options for background layers. Of course, any one layer is imperfect, so it helps to compare a bunch and take the best attributes of each.

It looks like, before your contributions, the trails in this area were traced from one person's GPS recording. Since you seem to have visited the place, if you feel like a trail that's on the map does not exist, please feel free to remove it. Especially the ones that you tagged with trail_visibility=no. From what I can tell from doing research for this review, a lot of people go up the Box Trail, a lot of people go up the Yellow Rock Trail, a lot of people go up Hackberry Creek, and very few people go to the areas in between.

Sincerely,
aweech

101879361 over 4 years ago

Hi,
Welcome to OpenStreetMap! I'm afraid that a natural wood is not an address. There's an address preset in the editor that shows the relevant fields. I changed the point to that preset and started to fill it in, and you can add in the zip code and the house number. I assume that 9000 East is the street name and Gusher is the city name, but, if those aren't correct, you can change them to the correct values.

101743557 over 4 years ago

Hi,
I see that in this edit you changed a conservation area from a nature reserve to natural wood. This tagging scheme isn't great since it conflates conservation areas with tree cover, and this Quail Hill Conservation Area does have places within it that aren't covered by trees. You may have been confused by the many conservation areas across the state that are mistagged this way. This unfortunate situation is due to a long-ago import, and we are in the middle of cleaning it up. For more information, please see osm.wiki/New_Hampshire/Conservation_Clean_Up.

Thank you for your contributions

101753602 over 4 years ago

Hi,
The dangling sections you added are evaporation basins that have been completely cut-off from the main body of the lake. I'm not sure that these should be included in the lake relation? I went ahead and removed them from the relation and tagged them evaporation basin tags. I don't know whether they're skimming for salt or some other mineral there.

101418228 over 4 years ago

Hi,
As you're doing MapRoulette challenges, it's wise to pay attention to what you are doing. This reservoir was very clearly drained years ago, and so should have been tagged as natural=wetland. Also, its name is Ice Pond, not "California Brook Pond".

101391758 over 4 years ago

Hi,
Welcome to OpenStreetMap! Thank you for your contributions. I'm reviewing your edits as you requested, but I'm unsure about connecting the New Boston Rail Trail to Mast Road like this. Last time I went by there (which was a while ago so things might have changed), the rail trail ended at a grassy area, and there was a barrier on the edge of Mast Road. Has this barrier been removed and the grass cut back then? Or do people have to walk through the grass and go around the barrier?

101335556 over 4 years ago

Hi,
I'm responding to your request for review. I spent a while thinking about what would be the best tag for this. I do sympathize with the thought of tagging this as unclassified, and it would be retagged as unclassified or tertiary if Weber County ever decided to reopen it. However, the road is currently closed to cars with no plans and no reason to reopen it, and, as the Wiki says, "Unclassified roads are considered usable by motor cars". I retagged the road as track, since it is common in the US for full, legal roads whose current use is recreational to be tagged that way. Tagging it as a path would also be perfectly valid. I also added in surface=asphalt, which was missing, and fixed the names of the Snowbasin roads, which had an incorrect space in them.

Thank you for your contributions,
aweech

101290307 over 4 years ago

Hi,
I see that you changed the operator on the Deerfield line from Eversource Energy to PSNH. Are you aware that the name PSNH was retired by Eversource years ago? If so, why did you change it to the old name?

101209924 over 4 years ago

Hi,
Thank you for your contribution! I reviewed your edits as requested, and think that they're good. By the way, do you know whether people in Eagle Mountain tend to take the Eagle Mountain Boulevard or Pony Express Parkway to get to Lehi? One of them ought to be ranked as secondary, but I don't know which.

101199082 over 4 years ago

Hi,
Welcome to OpenStreetMap!
I've noticed that you've been adding a lot of ways as minor roads, but really they should be service roads. Service roads are for things like driveways, parking lots, and turn-arounds. Please see osm.wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice for more information.
Thank you for your contributions!

101075269 over 4 years ago

Yes, I manually drew it. It'd probably be neater if I had done it programmatically, but also taken way longer to do. Since you were working in the area, I wanted to make sure that the Ice Gulch Town Forest was tagged correctly, and I figured I'd expand the wooded area out a ways since you were adding landuses like grass and ponds. If you think it's too large, I could split it into a couple smaller relations.

101128281 over 4 years ago

Hi,
I see that you are citing "Google Imagery" as a source. We can't actually use that as a source in OSM because Google's license doesn't allow it to be used here. Anything you add that uses Google Imagery may be subject to removal and redaction. There are plenty of high-quality aerial imagery sources available for you to use, and the trails you are modifying are visible on them.

100801898 over 4 years ago

Hi,
In this edit you removed a bunch of perfectly fine driveways, which are fit for inclusion in OpenStreetMap. Please see osm.wiki/Tag:service%3Ddriveway for more information. I added back the driveways that you deleted. Also, the changeset comment "edits" is not very useful for other mappers to understand what you are doing. Please see osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments for more information on what makes a good changeset comment.