I forgot to mention, the 40 mph speed limits for NJ 21 came from Newark's 2024-11-07 Charter 23:13-1.b.4 Speed Limits Designated which states:

"Zone 2: 40 MPH between Miller Street and Murray Street."

I have validators enabled but I'm overwhelmed by the number of them in the area. I tried to fix as many as I could, but somehow that one slipped through. Thanks for catching it.

I'm still working on the area as I'm trying to figure out why OSRM has a poor route to the airport.

After failing to get a turn restriction sign added, I have readded the implicit turn restriction. I did not realize there was a tag for implicit and I believe your original changeset was correctly tagged and I was mistaken in my reversion.

I apologize for any inconvenience I have caused to your drivers in the last 3 months.

I must have dragged it accidentally when trying to navigate the map. I have moved it back. Thanks for catching that.

Howdy. I map nearby. I see you're adding some houses. Just thought you should know the proper way to add the addresses to building is not the name field, it's an address field with the number. The exact tag is addr:housenumber.

Thanks for catching my mistake.

OSM is intimidating in that there are a lot of tags and conventions that are slowly changing.

When flipping through backgrounds, you'll find they all have different offsets. If you're not sure what is correct, most people in the US align/offset the other aerials to Bing.

While your changes are public, there's actually very few people who will check your work unless you're mapping in area close to another person's. The number of daily mappers for Northern NJ can be counted on one hand with fingers to spare.

Lessons I learned the hard way...

1. Just cause it's on the map doesn't mean it's an approved way of doing things.

2. Don't glue/connect landuse to roads, go to the edge of roads. This is the most common mistake you'll see on the map that is very slowly being cleaned up.

You can join the discord or Reddit if you're not sure how to do something. Good chance you're not the first person to run into a problem.

Alrighty, since you ask for a review I thought I'd do that for you. Thank you for adding the missing path. The more you look the more you'll find places to add to the map.

There are other aerials you can use to better align the walking path to them. You can find them in the background section in the Id editor. For tree covered areas I usually look at the Orthoimagery from 2020 first.

The name field can be blank and actually should be blank unless it has a sign for the name. If you know that it lacks a name, you can manually add a tag noname=yes

I reviewed it for you. That outline is for the building not the property lines. I have fixed it for you and added a parking lot for you.

Please reread the changeset comment. I fixed some of the landuse issues, but not all of them.

If it's on public land and my checking of public plots indicates it is, it shouldn't be private. It'll confuse mappers in the future.

Now, if the gate is locked, set the gate to locked .

Change the track surface and smoothness to like ATV so routers won't route through it.

It's slightly more correct. This gives people all the information they need to know about it.

Just FYI, when you're adding generic POIs, like parking, dumpsters, picnic tables, fire hydrants, etc. Please omit the name tag. See the wiki for more information for when to use it.

osm.wiki/Key:name

I have removed the name tag on a few of them for that reason.

Just a heads up. It's not considered a good practice to attach landuse to roads. The roads should be consider the centerline and not the edge.

If you see it elsewhere on the map (and you will) it's a minor mistake.

It seems like a small things but it makes the map more accurate and maintenance easier.

You can attach landuse to other landuse if it's not separated by a road/river.

Hello, you requested a review. First thank you for contributing. OSM seems extremely intimidating at first, but reality is very few people are contributing in the US so each of our contributions are impactful.

Alright review time.

Be careful not to attach buildings to roads. The only time this is acceptable is when there are roofs for like gas stations and drive-throughs. If you accidentally attach something, hit the d key to detach it. You can also hit the undo button or ctrl-z.

Be sure to hit the Q key on rectangular buildings to give them pretty right angle corners.

I also recommend zooming in a bit more when drawing, it makes it easier to position buildings correctly.

In Id (the web editor you're using), you can search for the most common businesses brands (Giant, Michaels, Starbucks, McDonalds, etc) when choosing an area type and it'll fill out more information for you.

I have already cleaned up the buildings for you.

Please keep contributing, even just leaving notes that a certain business is open or closed is really helpful to people who are mapping states or countries away.

Township let me know I have to submit it to state. I have also done this and have requested a response.

The Mount Olive Township request to have the sign added is #745338289.

I spent 15 minutes checking double line laws and referred to somebody who drives by that gas station daily for work.

The best I can tell is Title 39. Section 39:4-123 covers it. It is legal to cross double yellow lines to enter businesses and residences as per page 75 the NJ driver's manual under "Left turns, between intersections."

https://www.nj.gov/mvc/pdf/license/drivermanual.pdf

The person who drives by it daily says the turn is taken but very rarely utilized cause of traffic.

I spend a lot of time mapping this area, unless there is a R3-2 sign saying no left turns, I leave it. This is to respect the local businesses.

I recommend contacting your SW team to start respecting the "destination" access value.

All that said, I will contact my local township and inquire about having a R3-2 sign added to the location.

I reverted this changeset because this doesn't allow customers to make a turn into the gas station. I understand routers are incorrectly routing through the gas station. A better solution is to set the access of the service road to destination, which I will also make for you.

osm.org/changeset/157063842

If you look at the nearby "Ye Old Mill Shoppe" you can see where it was used. I'll probably be deleting the Mill soon cause it's not present on our newest aerials.

If you do make a mistake on deleting, you can always revert the changeset using https://revert.monicz.dev/ which will readd it with the original IDs. You can revert other people's changes too, but be very careful when doing.

But I expect we'll be mapping a road through it soon anyways.

Well I'm the person who broke the continuity, and in retrospect it was a small mistake for me to do that. Just to warn you, because of the ambiguity the road classification system it is fairly contentious. It's weighs lane counts, what it links, speed and how much traffic is on it. And different people have different weights on each.

For instance, there's a road, "Irish Spring Road" over in Roxbury has been classified as almost everything in it's history.

One of my rule of thumbs was anything with a 30 mph and over speed limit would be tertiary at least.

Regarding source:ref, OSM has a ton of mildly esoteric tags (and they keep making new ones) that ID doesn't show you. I don't blame people for not knowing them. But at OSM scale the more common ones are useful to learn.