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66009901 almost 7 years ago

You're missing my point: the previous tagging carried more information than the current one does.

66058596 almost 7 years ago

Are you using an imagery offset? These building outlines are consistently about seven feet southeast of where unadjusted imagery puts them.

66009901 almost 7 years ago

In your experience, perhaps, "car repair" inherently implies oil changes. But I'm aware of one "car repair" shop that *only* does transmission rebuilds, and a number of body shops that aren't even able to handle oil or other fluids.

Further, almost all car-repair shops around me will only do inspections as part of the initial evaluation before servicing a car. If you need a general roadworthiness inspection, you'll need to go to a specialist.

66035372 almost 7 years ago

Please don't add things to the map if they don't exist.

If you're trying to attract Pokemon, natural features such as woods, streams, and ponds are always a good bet, and I see a number of those nearby that haven't yet been mapped.

65819799 almost 7 years ago

"cycleway=shared_lane" should only be used when there are actual lane markings indicating that a lane is used by both bicycles and automobiles: osm.wiki/Proposed_features/shared_lane

65819218 almost 7 years ago

I'm not sure how useful it is to add "bicycle=yes" to most of these roads. The default for routing in the USA (osm.wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions#United_States_of_America) is that bicycles are permitted on everything except footways and motorways.

Adding "bicycle=designated" to signed bicycle routes is useful, as is adding "bicycle=yes" to the sections of interstate that permit bicycling.

65791020 almost 7 years ago

If you're editing in Spokane County, I recommend using Esri World Imagery. It's far sharper than DigitalGlobe Premium, and nearly as new (I think the difference is only a few weeks).

65724492 almost 7 years ago

I've changed "Tolido" to a "locality", which should remove it from the address-lookup system.

65724492 almost 7 years ago

It looks to me like Otis Orchards is already mapped, a bit to the southeast of where you've placed it.

65548976 about 7 years ago

I don't know about Reese Technology Center or the farm in Spain, but Mountain View Cemetery was tagged as "boundary=administrative" because the cemetery is a disconnected part of Davenport.

65541616 about 7 years ago

Was removing "surface=asphalt" from the south end of Iron Court intentional?

65554651 about 7 years ago

As far as I know, the U-District bridge was designed, advertised, and intended as a pedestrian bridge. Yes, bicycles are permitted, but that doesn't make it a cycleway.

65538097 about 7 years ago

#please-edit-in-smaller-pieces-or-use-a-meaningful-changeset-commment #or-both :)

65461456 about 7 years ago

Is this actually in use for commercial purposes? I'm not seeing anything that looks like commercial buildings, or even commercial construction, in last week's Sentinel imagery.

65296511 about 7 years ago

On the subject of software not displaying things properly, I'm currently 0 for 9 on web browsers showing this changeset discussion as intended (Seamonkey on Gentoo Linux comes close, but the flag more closely resembles that of the Netherlands than the intended rainbow flag). Email clients are currently 0 for 4 at displaying comment notifications, with Gmail on Firefox/MacOS coming closest ([white flag] [rainbow between two clouds] = primary). That's a lot of software we'd need to fix before this could even be considered for use.

65296511 about 7 years ago

Even Unicode-aware programs can fail to handle emoji correctly, since they're combining characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. JOSM on Linux shows the tag as a black-and-white scribble, while viewing a dump of the changeset in a text editor shows the scribble plus a black-and-white flag.

For that matter, programs that handle emoji correctly can have problems. I came across this changeset while trying to figure out why a bunch of stuff had been tagged as "[flag of the Netherlands]=primary". I'm now reasonably sure it's supposed to be "[rainbow flag]=primary", but when the flag was shrunk for display, the color bands got merged to produce red-white-blue.

65299166 about 7 years ago

Do people call it this, rather than something like the "West Richland Post Office" or the "Van Giesen Post Office"? Is the name actually on the building somewhere?

If neither of these is true, it should probably go in the "official_name" field rather than the "name" field.

65251265 about 7 years ago

As far as I know, this ramp meter is still merely proposed.

65225957 about 7 years ago

Standard practice is to only add a name to the school building if it's different from what's on the school grounds.

65216649 about 7 years ago

I don't think "level crossing" is the correct tag for a railroad that runs down the middle of the street the way the WIM Industrial Spur does in Palouse.