Copy that. Sounds like a solid rationale. I checked the USGS LiDAR DEMs for the area and didn't see any trace of the Aspen Trail. For a route on a sidehill that's a pretty strong indicator there's not much of anything left to follow.

This seems rather questionable to me. The full route of the Chiricahua Peak Trail is still part of the USFS trail system. With these trails it is difficult to say whether it is "abandoned" or not. Having worked in trail maintenance for the USFS for several years, I can attest to the fact that they can sometimes go decades without maintenance due to budget limitations and yet still be considered active.

For the Aspen Trail, which does seem to have been formally abandoned, I might instead tag it as informal = yes along with appropriate tags denoting it’s visibility and passability, as some advanced hikers might be interested to know that there is still the possibility of following a route there.

I've been meaning to work on this for some time but was previously intimidated by the complexity of the issue. Mappers over the years had added a complex and confusing network of braided trails, switchback cuts, and game trails that cluttered the map and distracted from the actual maintained trails in the area. This rendered the map almost unusable for navigation in the front range.

While working on this changeset I tried to keep informal or social trails that accessed a specific point while deleting redundant trails, as well as disconnected or "floating" trails that were not connected to any network but simply added where a game trail crossed a meadow. I also replaced the highway tag on some bypassed alignments of rerouted trails with disused:highway, to prevent them from rendering on the map, as these trails are generally closed by the state park to prevent erosion.

If anyone thinks I deleted something important please feel free to comment on the changeset or shoot me a message. This is a difficult trail system to work on, but I felt something had to be done.

Regards,
John

https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=454

As for the first one, those tags were already represented on the National Wildlife refuge and Wilderness multipolygons. I decided to remove them from the island as having them on both features seemed redundant and confusing. Let me know if you disagree.

As for the second one, it looks like the JOSM autofill feature got the better of me. I've fixed the issue but feel free to look it over and let me know if you find anything else.

Regards,
John Hanover

Hello VLD192. I'm somewhat uncertain as to the purpose of your recent coastline edits in the Aleutian Islands. These edits were made around the beginning of the month. The data you used to replace the existing coastline appears to be of substantially lower quality than what was there previously, making it look suspiciously like an import. Also, when you deleted the old coastline, you did not remove it from the relations for the wildlife refuge and the area that shared the way. This has resulted in the relations having a double boundary, which prevents them from rendering on most maps. I’m hoping you can clarify the purpose of these edits and whether you intend to clean up the relations affected by them.

Respectfully,
John Hanover

Thanks for the heads up. It looks like someone beat me to it with changeset/145079240. I'll definitely work to keep an eye out for stuff like this in the future.

Apologies for the bounding box size.

Reverted by changeset/128748170.

Reverted by changeset/128748170

Hello JordanAK,

It looks like you have a disagreement about what name should be applied on the map to the mountains formerly known as the Suicide Peaks. The reason I changed the names to Yuyanq’ Ch’ex as opposed to the English translation is that this was the name decided upon by the US Board of Geographic Names and is also the name listed in the Geographic Names Information System database maintained by the USGS, as a result Yuyanq’ Ch’ex, and not the English translation, is considered to be the official name for these peaks.

I am open to communicating further with you on this issue. If I do not hear back from you within five days I intend to change the names back to Yuyanq’ Ch’ex.

Regards,
John Hanover

Agreed. I have implemented the changes in changeset/127642306.

The Dena'ina name is the one shown in the USGS GNIS database so I think it makes sense to use it as the primary name. The English translation should be tagged using name:en

I'm curious about your source for the name of Little Teton Mountain. As far as I'm aware this minor summit has no locally used name.

I typically use the National Forest System Trails shapefile downloaded from https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/datasets.php?dsetCategory=transportation. I then import the file into QGIS and extract small portions of it as GPX files, which i then trace over in JOSM.

So far this is the best source of data I have found on USFS trails short of tracing them myself.

It's also worth noting that some forests are better than others at keeping their trail data up to date. Most of the trails data on the Nez Perce-Clearwater NF is still based on the USGS maps.

I hope this was helpful.

Cleaned up Fairbanks area residential roads.

Fixed. Thanks for letting me know.

Got it. Thanks for letting me know.

Planned to make two separate changesets, accidentally uploaded as one.

Added streams and roads in lower Newsome Creek drainage.

I traced the trails in this area using USFS trail data, most of which looks to have been gathered with GPS. I'm unsure of how recently this data was collected and it is possible the trail has been re-routed since then. The USFS data shows the trail a ways up the slope from where it is shown on the USGS topos, so I think the re-route is covered, but I guess the only way to know for sure is to check it on the ground.