Hi Zol87,

How come you changed the street geometry of the bus terminal back to a one-way loop? This doesn't appear to have any physical divider, which would make it a large highway=turning_circle.

Hi again goldenking05. Thanks for your detailed contributions.

Do these residential streets in Fort Wayne really have Spanish names? On OSM, we generally only tag multilingual names on streets if they're signposted that way—are there Spanish signs here?

Translations removed here: osm.org/changeset/158146899

https://revert.monicz.dev/ is an easy way to revert changesets.

Were there any tagging changes in these changesets, or was it purely adjusting the geometry of things? I'd hate to see your other contributions get undone in the process. If we need to do a partial revert, I'm happy to handle it.

Hi again snake21,

It has been almost a month since you were made aware of this issue, and you seem to have moved on to mapping other things. Could you please resolve the improperly placed railroad switches, or revert your changesets?

-Clay

Hi Zol87,

I see some railroad crossings along the surface-running segment of the Brown Line were retagged to crossing:barrier=no here. It appears that these crossings are indeed protected by barriers as previously tagged. Was this an intentional change?

Hi adnvadnmbasvdgh, and welcome to OpenStreetMap.

I see a section of 103rd Street changed to highway=construction, implying that it is closed due to long-term construction. Was this an intentional change? If so, could you please tell me where you found out that it was closed?

If we're looking at the same imagery (Bing), I see a switch stand about 25 feet to the east—I've gone ahead and moved it to that position [1]. It's much easier to figure out the precise location where the rails "meet up" by finding the neighboring switch stands, rather than eyeballing the converging point of the rails.

[1] osm.org/changeset/157060879

Hi snake21! Thanks for your contributions to railways on OpenStreetMap.

I noticed that in some of your railway changesets that switches have been moved farther away from the actual switch. For example, the node at [1] was originally parallel with the switch stand, and is now about 25 feet west of it towards the frog.

Could you please review your previous edits, and move all the switches back so that they're parallel with switch stands?

-Clay

[1] osm.org/node/2146365782

Temporal restriction, not temporary—in other words, these tracks are restricted to certain types of trains at different times of the day. Even though these tracks carry light rail trains most of the time, they're still built to a higher standard to support conventional freight trains. More examples of this situation can be found in the San Diego area [1] [2].

[1] osm.org/#map=19/32.584523/-117.083760

[2] osm.org/#map=18/33.141931/-117.161298

What is the reason for this edit war? Please participate in discussion before continuing to make classification changes to roads and places.

usage=main is not synonymous with "main line rail" either. On OpenStreetMap, usage=* is indeed subjective. Official government classification is not the only factor we consider when determining the value of usage=*. As with roads, we prioritize connectivity to the national network when determining how to classify them.

We don't retag things to make them show up a certain way on a particular renderer; see [1].

I've gone ahead and reverted the South Shore Line back to usage=branch [2]. To avoid disputes like these in the future, I strongly encourage you to discuss any large-scale edits on the community forum [3] or the OSM-US Slack [4] before proceeding.

[1] osm.wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer

[2] osm.org/changeset/156450223

[3] https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/us/78

[4] https://slack.openstreetmap.us/

usage=main is not synonymous with "main track". On OpenStreetMap, we tag main track with usage=branch, usage=industrial, or another value of usage, when it doesn't carry long-distance traffic.

Track class can be tagged as railway:track_class=4.

Please revert the South Shore Line, and any other suburban railways you may have edited, to usage=branch.

What is the reason for changing the South Shore Line to usage=main? This does not carry long-distance traffic.

This changeset has been reverted here: osm.org/changeset/155264314

Hi mrhercli89,

I see that several independent municipalities and charter townships have been changed to place=suburb in this changeset. This doesn't appear to match the OpenStreetMap definition of "suburb", which is a section of a city, akin to what we might call a district, ward, or borough in North American English. Suburbs elsewhere in North America are not tagged like this. This is affecting renderers like OpenStreetMap Americana, where places like Livonia, Dearborn and Hamtramck are missing from the map entirely [1].

The previous place tagging was appropriate. Could you please revert these changes?

[1] https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana/#map=10.02/42.3649/-83.1532

I went ahead and removed this polygon: osm.org/changeset/152512865

A business service area is generally not suitable to be added to OpenStreetMap. If your business has a physical location that's open to the public, I suggest mapping that instead.

Hi someone123457 and welcome to OSM!

How come FM 1151 was changed from secondary to trunk here? It doesn't appear to be a major through route between metropolitan centers.

Hi homeslice60148,

I came across this edit when investigating the changing of the ref value on this stretch of road to "SH" then back to "TX". There's now an ongoing discussion of which one should be considered correct. I invite you to join in if you have any opinions or insights.

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/should-ref-for-texas-state-highways-begin-with-tx-or-sh/112783/11

Hi jakTTU2020,

Your changes here caught the attention of another mapper when they noticed "SH" was changed back to "TX" on certain segments of State Highway 195. There's now an ongoing discussion of which one should be considered correct. I invite you to join in if you have any opinions or insights.

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/should-ref-for-texas-state-highways-begin-with-tx-or-sh/112783/11