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89106469 about 5 years ago

I noticed you made a lot of edits to parks in West Liberty. Some of the parks you added weren't on the map before, so nice work! Some of the features that you changed were already mapped with their correct boundaries. If you don't mind I am going to go ahead and clean up what you contributed.

88750047 about 5 years ago

Mapping roads on OSM does not matter whether they are public or private access. It only matters if the road exists. The access=* tag exists so people can document access if it is signposted.

Looking at your recent changesets it seems you are eager to delete service roads and driveways. These are perfectly valid things to map. They might be better suited with the tags highway=service, service=driveway, access=private. You can add these tags if you want, but you should not delete data if it exists on the ground.

The people mapping driveways in rural Iowa work for Amazon. They currently employ a large number of people who are working to improve coverage of driveways and service roads to businesses. Amazon's goal is to make it easier for delivery drivers to locate residences.

If you simply delete these driveways, you might make it significantly harder for a delivery driver to locate someone's house. They might give up and move onto the next house, leaving the resident without an important piece of postage, like medication or a letter from a grandson.

87989561 about 5 years ago

It's perfectly fine to map driveways. The driveways you are deleting are already marked as access=private. They are rendered differently on the map and routing apps won't use ways marked private.

86947384 about 5 years ago

The name of the city is Little Rock, not Little Rock Arkansas. Also, this Little Rock is in Iowa and not Arkansas.

78486849 about 5 years ago

Is the Trashmore Trail really for racing? Or is it just a regular bike trail?

86841411 about 5 years ago

Per, osm.wiki/Proposed_features/splash_pad and https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=splash_pad#values it appears the accepted tagging for a fountain area in a park is leisure=playground and playground=splash_pad. You changed it to leisure=water_park

86825245 about 5 years ago

You accidentally changed a primary road into a service road

61959650 about 5 years ago

Do you still need these proposed crime watch zones? They aren't even tagged with anything.

86539886 about 5 years ago

What was the point of deleting all the features on the golf course?

They seem to have already been mapped with relatively high quality. I am assuming you are going to remap the course slightly more accurately. Why not adjust the current data to be more accurate. By deleting everything, the associated edit history is lost.

78659575 about 5 years ago

I've got to ask, what was/is the point of doing these large scale low quality imports from RapidAI. Accepting the recommendations without actually correcting anything is basically just mapping for the renderer. The OpenStreetMap basemap might only display the buildings actually mapped, but many 3rd party maps simply overlay Microsoft buildings or another building source over the map. OpenStreetMap is supposed to be of higher quality than these other data sources rather than the exact same.

The whole point of Facebook's software is to facilitate the process of mapping in relatively unmapped regions and to help identify unmapped regions. RapiD uses Maxar imagery, which, at least in this region, is vastly inferior in quality to some of the other imagery. Therefore, any predictions made by there model will be worse than what an actual human can make by using higher quality imagery like Mapbox Satellite.

Additionally, it is very difficult to correct low quality contributions. It is hard to identify, since without close inspection a region with buildings would be assumed to be high quality. Many mappers don't enjoy correcting existing data and would be much more inclined to add data where it does not exist.

85069994 about 5 years ago

You added a ford where there was actually a culvert. Most mapping services will not route over a ford since it could be dangerous.

For the context of Amazon deliveries, this means a driver would instead be routed to the northern Indian Ridge Drive rather than the unnamed residential road. In this case, it might add a couple of minutes to the route. A couple of minutes is money lost. In other cases it could add an hour to the route if a bridge over a major stream is misrepresented as a ford.

86047277 about 5 years ago

You should take a second look at your edit.

You moved Prospect Street so that it cuts straight through people's yards. You marked some people's yards as part of Alta Park. You also connected the edges of the park to the street, it is preferable to have areas come up to the easement and not connect.

If you are going to continue to contribute, it looks like none of the alleys in the town are mapped. That could be something easy to do.

85507877 about 5 years ago

Isn't that website for the city of Moscow. Why would it belong as the website for the entire country of Russia?

84981383 about 5 years ago

Hey, not a huge deal but I noticed when you remapped the track to be an area you didn't bring forward all the tags. I added the tags back onto the track.

Two months ago, I mapped every (hopefully) track in Iowa to help people whose home tracks were shut down find another place to work out. I tagged them all with name, surface, colour, lanes. Overpass Turbo can provide a nice visualization by looking for leisure=track in Iowa.

Good luck fixing up the Wapsi!

84711699 over 5 years ago

Most buildings are constructed to be like rectangles with square 90 degree corners. If you select a building and press Q it will square it. Also if you right click a building one of the options will be to square it.

84633303 over 5 years ago

Buildings are typically constructed to be square. All of the corners are 90 degrees with one another.

If you select an object and press Q it will square the building. Alternatively right click the object and one of the options will square the building.

84440920 over 5 years ago

You changed the address of a building located in Denver, Iowa. Iowa is not Colorado. You should changed the state back to IA.

83791519 over 5 years ago

It looks like all of the "offices" you added were pretty inaccurate in shape and label. Are you actually getting this information from LiDAR scans?

Since you are using the iD editor, if you right click an object there is an option to square. You can also select the object and press Q which will also square the object.

It seems to me like all of those buildings should be either labelled as "Building" or as "House".

68670416 over 5 years ago

I'm curious where you pulled the names for some of these neighborhoods? Specifically Fejervary Neighbors.

83487636 over 5 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. You can revert the changeset if you want.

My understanding is that it is preferable to tag sidewalks adjacent to a street with sidewalk=both, sidewalk=left, or sidewalk=right. In cases where the sidewalk goes away from the street, map it as a separate way.

I didn't actually add the tags to all of the streets where I removed sidewalks so my edit isn't very productive.