osm.org/way/217742231 was not correctly connected to crossing streets after this update. You may want to review these changes for other connectivity problems.

max

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The place= type is meant to indicate the prominence of a place more than the type of incorporation or anything like that. A small county seat that isn't well known outside the region is a place=town.

There's some argument for place=city given how sparse the region is, but as an outsider I would call El Paso a regional city.

Anyway, I've changed it to place=town but won't change it again if you want to make it place=city.

Max

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Typically things should only be modeled once, so you wouldn't add nodes in addition to the buildings here.

There's a lot of places in the database where things are repeated, but that's mostly a result of people not being sure whether they should replace nodes or not.

Separately, it isn't quite worked out how the parts of a campus should be marked. CUMC is the obvious top level feature here and should be marked as a "hospital" feature. It's less clear if the facilities like the children's hospital should also be marked as "hospitals", or if they are just a part of the CUMC feature.

Thanks for mapping,

Max

This changeset introduced many overlapping buildings.

This is the sort of thing the import process is meant to address, please do follow it in the future.

Thanks,

Max

The changeset comment says "building footprints" but really this changeset contains hundreds or thousands of disconnected nodes. Sometimes ways get uploaded separately from nodes; that isn't what happened here, I'm seeing hundreds of unused nodes that duplicate building nodes.

Please investigate and clean them up.

Thanks,

Max

Smaller bounding boxes please.

Shouldn't these be tertiary?

Just being close to trunk doesn't really make a road a a trunk.

Max

Hi-

I see you've been working on the roads here. I just made an adjustment and wanted to explain myself. I removed the names from most of the parking lanes and marked them as service. I think this better reflects which road is Bayview Avenue, with the other roads being access roads for the apartments buildings. It also makes the main route stand out a bit.

If you think this is wrong I'm happy to help change it back.

Max

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Could you please explain what your source is for these changes?

OpenStreetMap is for mapping the world and many of the changes you are making appear to be fictional.

Thanks,

Max

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Please clean up the addr:street=BUILDING tags introduced in this import. There's ~10,000 occurrences. http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/vXe (it can take a moment but clicking through the warning should work fine in a recent browser version).

Thanks,

Max

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When sidewalks cross other highways they should share a point. Various users of OSM data use the shared point to indicate that traffic on the sidewalk and street interact with each other.

Max

There is a recent discussion on reddit about these greenways: https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/7tg1zb/import_shapefiles_for_park_property/ and from there I decided to take a look at how they were being mapped in OSM.

I point out there that the greenways don't quite meet the definition of a leisure=park used in OSM. The reason I'm concerned about it is that if everything is a park, it makes it harder to do things like find parks or compute statistics about how many parks are in an area and so on. The data becomes less useful as the meaning of the tags is diluted.

This is an ongoing challenge for OSM, both finding agreement about what tags mean, but also making tags that balance being easy to apply and use while still being specific enough to satisfy a wide range of end uses.

Anyway, I wonder if you've considered other ways of tagging the less developed properties?

Thanks,

Max

(If you are the same person that posted on reddit, sorry about the repetition)

Please don't add fake data to manipulate Pokemon Go. There's lots of different uses of OpenStreetMap data, intentionally adding wrong information is vandalism.

Thanks,

Max

(You'll see I've deleted or fixed up a fair amount of the wrong stuff you added)

The boundary improvements here left hundreds of unconnected nodes, as if buildings were supposed to be uploaded but just the corners made it.

Hi, please take a look at osm.wiki/Key:place .

The difference between the OpenStreetMap meanings of place=village/town/city can be pretty fuzzy, but in the US a reasonable rule of thumb is that a place=town will have at least 1 decent sized supermarket and probably more than 5,000 people (in high density areas this might still be a village).

Thanks for mapping,

Max

This animation shows how to manually add a tag when the editor does not suggest it:

https://gfycat.com/ThoseIncomparableAntarcticfurseal

But the park probably just doesn't need any address or is_in tag. Maybe operator=City of Minden.

(the is_in tag is redundant with the park geometry being inside of the city boundary)

Hi-

"Service Road" is the appropriate classification for small internal drives like in a cemetery. "Minor/Unclassified Road" is for a smaller street that would carry normal traffic.

I stumbled across the changes you had made in Sunset Memorial Gardens and have switched the roads there to service.

Thanks for mapping,

Max

Hi-

Welcome to OpenstreetMap.

I just wanted to point out a couple of things. Driveways and sidewalks should connect to the streets. They should also connect to each other if they cross.

"sidewalk" also has a specific meaning for OSM, a foot path that follows alongside a street. So things like walks up to the front doors of houses would just be foot paths.

I've gone through and connected quite a few of the driveways and sidewalks in the area.

Max

Hi-

The convention for mapping lanes is to have 1 highway represent each area of physically separated traffic, with tags adding information about lanes ( osm.wiki/Lanes ).

Traffic streams that cross at grade level should also share a point.

(I'm sending this message because I came across osm.org/#map=19/37.74491/-88.99300 where the left turn lanes are not separated by a barrier and should not be additional objects)

Max

Hi-

I've restored the objects you delete here in osm.org/changeset/54555156

Changes are saved directly to the main database shared by everyone, so make sure to only delete things that are obsolete.

Max