Can you also please explain why you downgraded the Everett Bypass from motorway to trunk? It has two consecutive interchanges, so that's generally considered to be sufficient for a road to be motorway.

Really would be helpful to explain this in your changeset comment, especially when this road has been tagged as motorway for years. Thanks!

Can you explain why you downgraded US 22 from motorway to trunk between Ebensburg and I-99?

To me, it seems like a long enough segment that is a freeway for this section to be tagged as a motorway.

Hi, I noticed that you upgraded some roads from trunk to motorway where there was one interchange sandwiched between at-grade intersections. In case you weren't aware, freeways should have multiple consecutive interchanges in order to be tagged as a motorway. You can't just upgrade a short stretch of road to motorway just because there's an interchange there.

Is this new ramp from I-26 EB actually open? Currently, the way you have it shows it as just a dead-end.

No problem; it's iD's fault for making it too easy to accidentally drag nodes.
BTW, OSMCha is a really helpful website that gives people a more in-depth look at how things changed in a changeset, and is what showed me where Der Man Shoppe was before you moved it.

No problem, I've fixed it now.

It looks like you moved Der Man Shoppe by mistake, as it is now in the middle of Waterfront Park. Can you please try and fix it?

Thanks!

Looks like you tagged parts of Ogden Avenue and Joliet Road with the ref tag as US 66. However, since US 66 doesn't exist anymore, so you should really change the tag to be old_ref=US 66. Thanks!

But the fact that you claim to have used an external data source, (TX National Resources Information System) as opposed to just tracing from aerial imagery, is what makes this an import. If it isn't an import, why did you indicate that an external government data source was used?

The difference is that an import is bringing in data to OSM that was created by someone other than you, usually like a governmental source as is the case here, as opposed to GPS data which you would have most likely collected yourself. And using the aerial imagery to trace landcover isn't an import because you're creating the data yourself and interpreting what the aerial imagery shows.

Also, can you provide examples of "other areas that match [my]
concerns that aren't being reverted"?

Here's the link to the Slack thread where this was discussed: https://app.slack.com/client/T029HV94T/CCJ2P6KCH/thread/CCJ2P6KCH-1624314522.088100

I didn't participate in this discussion but you can see that most of the people who participated in that discussion agreed that the data quality was poor (I would agree with that myself), and that seems to be the main reason why it was reverted.

I'm sorry if you feel that the definition of what is an import isn't clear. I'd agree that this does meet the definition of an import since you took an already-existing data source and imported it into OSM. It doesn't matter that you may have modified the data a bit (this is often necessary anyway), but you are taking an external data source and bringing it into OSM.

Hello,

Please don't tag roads as motorway unless they have more than one consecutive interchange with no at-grade intersections in between. This is based on the consensus of the US OSM community. Please keep this in mind in the future, thanks!!

There's a reason why this road was split into separate ways, because parts of this road are a bridge and parts are not, so the road has to be split into separate ways where the bridge starts and ends. Otherwise you have an extremely long bridge where there isn't actually a bridge.

I've fixed this for you but please be aware of this in the future.

In case you're not already aware, you shouldn't tag a road as motorway unless it has at least two consecutive interchanges and is at least 2-3 miles long. The Clifton Boulevard bridge across the Rocky river does not meet those qualifications. This is based on the consensus of the US OSM community.

I would really appreciate it if you change this back to how it was before. Thanks!!

I'm referring to all the ones tagged as access=no currently.

A freeway has to have at least two consecutive interchanges in order to be considered a motorway. Please change these back; thanks!!

You might want to add a note=* tag to the building way stating this, in case someone else comes across this and has the same question I did.

Interesting....thanks for letting me know.

Why did you tag the Northgate Link Extension as railway=rail when it should be railway=light_rail?

Does the Seattle Ice Centre really use the British English spelling of the word center?