Hi, I have a couple concerns about your edits in this changeset. First you have created a number of residential landuse areas which cover significant parts of lakes--it would be better to limit this kind of way to areas where people actually live. Maybe you are planning to go back later and clean this up? Also, to the east of Eagle Lake you created another lake with an island that does not use the multipolygon relation as it should. I have commented already on some of your past changesets about this issue. You have done over 2000 changesets, it is something very useful you should learn.

Hi, this is clearly vandalism, so I have removed these water features in changeset 55968147. If you are making edits like this for purposes of Pokemon Go, see https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/12/30/tips-pokemon-go/

Hi, this looks like some sort of industrial or commercial area, not a park. Do you have an explanation or source you got the information from?

Welcome to OSM and thanks for adding so many features to Central Park! One question, did you mean to remove the name from the Central Park relation, and add leisure_2=playground? These changes both seem like they might be mistakes. Thanks

Welcome to OSM and thanks for adding to the map! Just wanted to let you know that a couple of those tags aren't quite right. Instead of leisure=park, it'd be better to use leisure=dog_park (osm.wiki/Tag:leisure%3Ddog_park). And instead of using amenity=library for a Little Free Library, use amenity=public_bookcase (osm.wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpublic_bookcase) Hope this helps, happy mapping!

I get what you're saying, but then the overall campus shouldn't be called Edgewood College and tagged as a college. What about modifying the way covering the whole area to be tagged amenity=school and name=Edgewood Campus? As you can see from the pdf I linked to, the college itself only regards its campus as a portion of this area.

good point, I'd missed that

Fair enough, I monitor this area and I've certainly seen plenty of obvious SEO spam! However, if a business owner wants to get their business name in OSM, I hope it won't get flagged for removal just because they used their business name for their account and only did one badly tagged node. Note, I don't know if that is the case with this particular node, but it seems like a slippery slope.

Hi, I am an area mapper, wondering why this POI got flagged for removal of data for advertising? Aside from not having the leisure=tanning_salon tag, it seems like legitimate data, and doesn't have a lot of the "description" garbage like a lot of SEO spam does.

Hi, I noticed you added a cycleway=track tag to SE Oak St. Since this cycle track is separated from the rest of the road, it was already mapped as a separate way. Although both methods are described on osm.wiki/Key:cycleway#Cycle_tracks, only one should be used for a given way.

Great! I find it very rewarding to use the data I entered :) Happy mapping!

OK, I didn't realize you are using the source tag for another purpose. Some new users see that tag on other existing features and then think it's required. When you say "app that is sourcing this for me" does that mean you are getting data from that app, or is the OSM data feeding into that app? I ask because if you're getting data from another source, you need to make sure the license is compatible with OSM. See osm.wiki/Legal_FAQ#2._Contributing

Hi, and thanks for adding so much detail to Owatonna! A couple tips based on viewing some of your edits: 1) unless a feature truly goes to the middle of a road, it's best practice to not attach the nodes of landuse ways (ie parks, religious areas) to roads (long story short, it's inaccurate and makes future editing more difficult), 2) in most cases it's no longer necessary to add imagery source to features as this is now included in the changeset tags, 3) it IS good to add the source of your knowledge to the changeset comments--if you live in an area, you might say "survey", "personal knowledge" or something like that.

Welcome to OSM and thanks for contributing to the map. A couple tips for adding additional info to buildings: 1) date something was constructed can be tagged with start_date, 2) you can use old_name for a place like this that used to be a hospital, 3) when tagging building:level on a building outline, include the largest number of levels within the footprint (not a range like 4-5). To add more detail about different parts of a building, see osm.wiki/Simple_3D_buildings Happy mapping!

Hello, and thanks for contributing to OSM! In this changeset, I noticed that in the parking lot of Hosanna Lutheran Church, the highway=service way overlaps itself. It's best to split this into multiple, connected ways. More best practices are here: osm.wiki/Good_practice Happy mapping!

I think that's the convention for areas like this, it's especially useful for routing. More info here: osm.wiki/Sidewalks#Sidewalk_as_separate_way

Hi, I'm wondering why you've disconnected the sidewalks from the streets?

I left a different changeset comment about multipolygon relations--here is a quick-and-dirty how-to: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/22542/how-do-i-map-an-island-in-a-lake-using-id-editor-and-the-multipolygon-tag

The residential area with the school inside should be a multipolygon relation, instead of how you have drawn it. The residential outline would be the outer way, and the school outline the inner way, without a connecting line. Send me an OSM message if you're not sure how to do this--it comes in handy!

Hi and welcome to OSM. I notice you've been adding a lot of buildings. One thing that can make them look a little better (and creating them a bit easier) is to use the Square option in the iD Editor: right click on a building, and select it, or click on a building and hit S. Happy mapping!