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156689377 11 months ago

Instead of putting the source into a note. Add a source:ref tag and add the website there.

Various source tags lets others know where you got the information and help avoid unnecessary arguments/edit wars.

For more information:
osm.wiki/Key:source

I'm speed running you through the tags cause it prevents you from repeating minor mistakes.

While on the topic, if you redo the geometry of an imported building (source=Morris County GIS), please delete that source tag as you're now the new source.

156689377 11 months ago

I have found classifying roads into primary/second/tertiary in the area extremely difficult. Due to the hills roads take a lot of non direct routes.

The classification mainly changes what zoom level they render at and gives an idea of how useful they are to know.

As a rule of thumb, I was going off speed limits which is why I initially downgraded it. But you're right it probably should be a secondary cause it looks weird to have a tertiary in-between two secondaries and despite it's speed it's heavily used.

156689449 11 months ago

There is a tag called a lifecycle tag.

osm.wiki/Lifecycle_prefix

We usually add these tags buildings that are demolished but still appear in the latest aerials. Then after the aerials are updated (or possibly the construction is finished), we delete it.

The tag will removes it from the rendered map, but it keeps it in the editor. It mainly prevents people from accidentally readding the buildings from aerials.

...but since I'm the only person who would likely be readding it, don't worry about it this time. I'll add a construction area around it next time I drive down it to remind me and others.

156448128 12 months ago

Hi, thanks for updating OSM.

I reworked the building and your business a bit to make it more consistent with the rest of OSM and the less frequently used tags. Please check it in about a day as map rendering can lag a bit.

147302768 12 months ago

I was impressed by the quality of your work. Keep it up.

156151415 12 months ago

Oops, I think I had conflict that created those. I hate it when that happens.

155947930 12 months ago

Nice job on that baseball field. I wish more mappers had your precision.

155745469 12 months ago

Well done. Don't forget the close the note.

155416495 about 1 year ago

Good job, I added some extra details.

155352603 about 1 year ago

I bumped it down to a school building.

My reasoning is if somebody was using OSM in the event of an emergency, we probably wouldn't want to route them to the CCM building (although there's worst places to route them).

When you start trying to categorize everything on the planet you'll find all sorts of grey areas. The tags are set up from generic to specific, so when we have doubts we tend to make it more generic.

155352603 about 1 year ago

Since you asked for a review, I looked over it.

Overall not bad. Remember to hit Q on buildings to square them up (I did it for you). Also the convention is to add +1 in front of phone numbers. Neither are big issues.

I don't know if CCM Public Safety qualifies as police or just a school building. Would a civilian be ok going there in the case of emergency?

Thanks for updating OSM. Feel free to hit me up with questions as I'm currently the most active mapper in the area.

155163488 about 1 year ago

I reviewed it. Nothing really was wrong with it, but since I was looking at it, I updated the Jersey Johnny's building layout slightly, added the opening hours, phone number and some more food specialties. I updated the city to reflect the one on the website.

Construction area looks good.

155045069 about 1 year ago

Did you forget to include '"mph" on a section of Horace Harding Expressway?

154908573 about 1 year ago

TIGER stands for Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system. Most of the US roads were imported and not hand drawn by OSM mappers. The extra tags were left over from the import. People use the reviewed tag to find roads that have not been reviewed. Adding lane counts, surface and aligning them the aerials is enough to remove the tag.

154908573 about 1 year ago

name_1 is old and should be replaced with alt_name. You can add multiple alternative name values by separating them by a semi colon (;). There's also old_name for when a street is renamed and official_name which I only use for otherwise unnamed ramps.

Tiger tags are also no longer used, although the only one I routinely delete is the reviewed one.

Stuff like this is what makes mapping challenging. You can use plot addresses and the NJ Arcgis Centerline as tie breakers.

154873854 about 1 year ago

Nice source. You'll notice that in the PDF under "Rules of the Trails" that Motor Vehicle/ Dirt Bikes/ATVs / Horses are prohibited. There are access tags that you can add to trails to indicate they are prohibited and dogs are leashes are allowed. A lot of the features have assumed defaults, but it doesn't hurt to tag they're not allowed as it indicates something explicitly stated they're not allowed. (You only need to tag the ones that it mentions).

There's also an opening_hours that can be set to "sunrise-sunset".

There's an "alcohol = no" tag

There's also operator tag to indicator who maintains them, there's even operator:phone number so you can put in who to contact about the trail!

None of these are absolutely required to do, but the more information you can transfer from the PDF the more useful OSM becomes as people can easily search for trails that meet their requirements.

154749309 about 1 year ago

No trespassing trails should not be removed. They should just have the access=private tag added to them.

154504348 about 1 year ago

These are the kind of things that I love seeing on the map.

154506149 about 1 year ago

Nice work on the on ramp.

154029776 about 1 year ago

Sorry about that, I was asked to help map some farmland in Russia. I didn't realize I had some unchecked in work in the US.