At the end of Larkin Road, it looks to me like the address and =house is on a barn-type structure and the likely house is NNE. I'd just change it if from import, but it looks like you did this on purpose. I am curious what you think now, with 2023 imagery.

ok, will leave it then. You will notice that I did extend it down the side of the building (#15) to the walkway in front. I was able to walk (easily) from the school parking lot to the parking lot by Maynard Veterinary. I also shorted the emergency way because it is physically blocked, and added a path because you can obviously walk to it (checked by seeing, not actually walked).

I walked this today, and I didn't really study your drawn trace first, but it felt straightish to me compared to how it looks on the map. ok to straighten, or do you really think it has a semi-circular jog right as you go from school to maynard crossing?

If you think you can resolve it on imagery, and fair point about the line, that's totally fine. You might also note the specific surface as while paved is ok, it's broad. Most roads here are "surface=asphalt". At the risk of sending you down a different rabbit hole, StreetComplete is interesting (android app, perhaps also iOS but idk).

I put in a note rather than editing because I was only able to see the end while driving (passengering - I try not to map and drive!) from Causeway street. I wonder if you are able to see the road well enough in imagery, or if you observed it on the ground, or somehing else?

Yes, I meant that. I will try to add fences if they exist, and I guess mixed-use industrial/commuting is just messy! I can't think of better tagging.

Thanks. I will go look sometime as i am in Stow, post storm issues, so please don't innconvenience yourself. sometimes changes are from paid armchair mappers and I am much more deferential in editing to other locals. What didn't make sense was that the shelter building was not obviously reachable from the platform. The ones on the platform seem totally right. Its the big one ese of the South Acton label.

Did you actually see the "building=roof" between the 21 Martin lot and the south platform? It doesn't make sense, and I didn't notice it while there, but I didn't know to look.

There is a place=locality node at the rotary. The name Maynard Crossing applies to the entire large area, but there are multiple landuses within it, and the name is not appropriate for some of them. Having a relation with a locality tag leads to 2 nominatim hits for what is essentially the same thing. By having just a node, this is similar to locality names at the main interesection of villages.

As I understand it, there is an easement to the public for recreation, and I'm pretty sure that's limited to foot/bicycle. There is car traffic, but those are people with permission to be at the airpark. There aren't any no trespassing signs, but permissive requires "owner is known to permit use" which is a much higher bar than "not posted".

I'm in the middle of adjusting tagging to make this clearer right now.

Also, it's not actually a legal road, so not highway=unclassified, and the signage, at least yesterday, was not at all consistent with permissive. I am unaware of any evidence that the property owners are ok with motor vehicles driving on it for no apparent reason.

This name change is incorrect. All locals know that the name of the road is "Track Road". An example official document is https://www.stow-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1286/f/pages/01.25.2023_track_road_rfq_final.pdf

The name change has since been reverted, so this is just FYI.

For name reference, the Stow Historical Society (people who run programs there) refers to it as "West School Museum".

This edit is incorrect. I added "West School Museum" in 2009 as a local, and I still think that's right.

The website added is not official and appears to be some random site intended to get views for ads. In addition it has incorrect information about hours.

I'll fix this (and I pointed out the bad website to the Historical Commission, which acts on behalf of the town.

landuse=conservation is not deprecated in massachusetts. Please do not remove it.

Also, natural=wood is wrong on a landuse/boundary polygon. The area that is wooded is not the same as the boundary.

(I will fix; I am the local mapper.)

The path from Samuel Prescott is signed No Trespassing. Would be great to add access tags on the connecting path to Donoma, and also verify if it still exists.

You are correct that it has cheese and deli also, but by floor space prominence arguably mostly wine and some beer is the primary content. There is also a good selection of chocolate and things like hot sauce, bread, but those IMHO do not merit tagging.

I merely added hours, but if you want to adjust tagging to represent it as a single business that is simultaneously a wine/beer store, a cheese store, and a place to buy prepared foods to eat at home and sandwiches, feel free.

As for 70s, that's before my time, but this store was around in the mid 90s when I first became aware of it.

This showed that the building was entirely a business, and the assessor's data and the feel from driving by say residential. So I separated the residence and the business tags into two objects. Please feel free to message me directly if you think I did that wrong. If there really is solely commercial use we probably ought to add a landuse=commercial polygon.

Also I should have said that I'm adding historic=boundary stone for markers that do exist, and those I am putting at my observed coordinates.

I'm curious if you are local to Stow/Maynard. I would also like to know when you used the survey points data, if you transformed the points (in NAD83(2011) to some approximation of WGS84. They are really not equivalent, but much software wrongly assumes a null transform. I have been using ITF2014 as a proxy for the current WGS84. I have also been making RTK GNSS measurement of the boundary markers, although those have come out very close to the survey points data that I have deferred to the survey points.

I will be making an adjustment pass at some point to align Stow's points with the properly transformed towns survey dataset points, if I haven't already.