Just a heads up, most houses in the US can be tagged as detached houses. It's a slightly more specific tag.

We understand your frustration. OSM runs into this issue routinely.

Service road is just a classification OSM uses. Driveways are considered a subset service roads.

This driveway has been tagged "private" to both vehicles and pedestrians, which means any routing engine will not use it.

Everything was tagged correctly, and removing correctly tagged features is considered vandalism which is why the change has been reverted.

Anybody making the mistake likely is not using OSM or should be reported to program using OSM data cause their program has serious bugs.

I have mapped the woods around the property to help people realize they can't drive/walk through the area.

At least one person noticed them. Please keep adding more to the map! I love these kind of details.

Why are all your changeset descriptions single periods?

How did Lyft find such a minor change so fast? Does Lyft have an automated GPS trace to compare against the map for differences? Do drivers report errors? AI analysis? Random spot check?

Not bad. I just think you need to add turn restrictions where the one ways join to prevent u-turns.

I got back from surveying it. The gate is indeed locked with a 4 digit code. The front of the gate sign says "Road Closed - Authorized Vehicles Only". It does feels like the sign is on the wrong side cause the rode is not closed on the other side.

Another gate just North of to it has a sign nearby that says "Wetland Mitigation Site". I suspect what happened is the that the surrounding industrial companies were dumping near a protected wetlands, so they closed the road and added a gate and camera.

They also have painted lane lines on both sides of the gate / turning circle

Because it is locked, I think the best compromise is to bump it down to a tertiary, which I have done.

It's gated, so it's not necessarily a dead end road.

It's named for linking Flanders to the South and Netcong to the North. But it also on a census line for Budd Lake / Flanders. The speed limit (40 mph) is consistent with the other secondaries in the area (primary on US 46 is just 45 mph, and US 206 is 50 mph), I only marked it that way cause I haven't confirmed if they repainted the lines.

So it's definitely not a residential road, it's at a minimum a tertiary road.

I did confirm the entire road is public and I'm actively working on the speed limits in that area. The next time I'm in the area during the day I'll see what the gate is about because I am pretty sure I misstagged it's access.

Glad you updated them, the power infrastructure is somewhat of a mystery to me.

No problem.

I routinely peruse the changeset history and drop in a few changes on other people to encourage them cause I know how intimidating NJ is to map.

My advice is don't be afraid to make changes in your area. You'll find all sorts of mistakes and areas that need work. Even just adding a street worth of houses a day adds up.

You can find me and some other NJ mappers on the OSM discord.

I randomly stumbled upon Lafayette college and I was really impressed by your mapping of it. It's a sight to behold.

I don't see any evergreens in the satellite photos. What did you see to mark it mixed?

At the top of iD (the OSM web editor) there are Point, Lines and Areas. You added this swimming pool with a line (also known as a way in OSM jargon) which isn't valid and won't render on the final map. Lines typically are roads, power lines, fences, and very skinny items.

The correct way to do swimming pools is to use the Area and then search for swimming pool.

Hope this helps.

Just FYI, there natural water pools are for non man made water bodies, like lakes and ponds. Search for swimming pool and you'll get the right tag.

Also if you know a building is a house, you can tag it as a house and not just a building.

Instead of just tagging as a building, if you know it is a house, you can tag it as a house. Most houses in the US are actually "detached houses" which is even more informative.

...yes there are a lot of tags, but you learn them one at a time.

Hello. I see you've started updating the map.

I would recommend reading up on OSM tags as you're putting name tags on buildings that normally do not have names. We encourage that kind of data to be put in the building tag instead. For instance instead of building=yes, it'll be building=shed and not have a name tag at all.

Different map renderers will use it to display those kinds of buildings differently.

Welcome. Not bad for a first edit.

I connected the end of a path to a turning circle. OSM has a convention of trying to connect the end of paths to nearby streets so routers can properly transition people from roads to paths.

Eventually it'll be connected to the sidewalk, but that hasn't been mapped yet.

Please keep adding speed limits and paths, or anything else you feel like adding.

Hello, I've been working on the Mount Olive area for the last couple months, and saw this change show up in the history.

OSM has a lot of tags and the name tag that you added isn't the correct one for addresses. I took the liberty of updating it to the correct address tag for you. This should let routers to use the address.

If gnome-maps doesn't have that option, there are other editors, like the web based ID and JOSM.

If anything looks wrong in the Mountain Ridge area (or anywhere else for that matter), don't hesitate to change it. I don't know that area well.

Kind of impressed you found that. I learned about the alt_name tag after making that change and forgot to update it.

I aligned it to Bing Aerial. A lot of the buildings aren't pure rectangles. Do you have an offset on Bing Aerial or a different imagery? Feel free to square them if I forgot.

I had some issues with the web editor not allowing me to click on the links and I could not zoom in enough to fix it, so I merged some of the close cross over nodes to reduce the number of nodes.

I would like somebody experienced with intersections to look it over.