It’s an old unused fire station.

The building architecturally is a fire station and has a BFD (Brooklyn fire department?) engraved on it, but appears to the currently be empty.

Yes indeed, thanks for catching that. Updated!

Yeah — from my reading of the wiki, it seems little unclear where the difference between waterway=canal + tunnel=flooded and waterway=pressurized is, so I’m fine with either.

Though I think it’s not showing on certain waterway maps layers because certain layers explicitly exclude any man-made waterway types — so I don’t know if the tag change will impact that at all.

Hey there -- the classification of Barnstable and it's villages has been discussed pretty extensively in the OSMUS by many folks with local knowledge. I'd encourage you to checkout this thread https://osmus.slack.com/archives/CDW2RNQ5D/p1700002365783089 and engage in the conversation there before changing things extensively.

@streetsurveyor unless you have any strong objections, I’m going to go ahead and restore the place nodes for Barnstable’s villages.

Seems like these are Barnstable county borders so admin_level=6 would be correct? (Barnstable county encompass all of Cape Code — distinct from Town of Barnstable and Barnstable Village) — though diving into these ways it seems like they are all part of multiple boundary relations, so maybe they don’t need admin_levels at all, since that’s captured on each boundary relation?

It is! The building’s an old fire station building.

I definitely agree we should have the admin boundaries in there.

place=city/town/village/hamlet are typically used to map population/commercial centers.

Having them in addition to admin boundaries are helpful in a few cases — one main one being if the population center of a municipality isn’t at the center of the admin boundary area.

Another one is like this, where the legally definite municipalities don’t map 1:1 with legally defined municipalities.

What sort of mapping issues were you seeing with the place nodes?

It looks OSM Carto may only use place node for place labels, and not areas — as right now it looks like the labels for the Barnstable villages are all just gone from the map.