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140571800 over 2 years ago

What on Earth did you do here? Why did you change freeway ramps to tertiary links and various roads to primary? I am reverting these changesets. Please inform yourself of how road classification on OSM works before you reclassify any more roads.

139931425 over 2 years ago

Hello, this road should not be a motorway as it is an undivided 2-lane highway, so I have reverted it back to trunk.

140458271 over 2 years ago

Hello, while these roads can be used to access Pentagon City, their primary purpose is to serve the Pentagon and through traffic is intended to use the ramps from 395 or Joyce Street to access the area.

130427126 over 2 years ago

Hello, these individual trees should not be mapped as natural wood, which is why I had deleted them.

139765640 over 2 years ago

Hello, I have reverted this changeset. Interstate 27 following along 87 is still only a proposal and it would not at all follow the surface streets you gave the designation to. As for Interstate 327, this is not a real nor proposed highway, and I cannot find anything anywhere mentioning it. Please do not add nonexistent highway designations to roads, as it could be misleading to users. Thanks.

132426844 over 2 years ago

It is typical for there to be a few large suburbs of major cities that are relatively notable on their own to be classified as place=city (those around Washington, Baltimore, Kansas City, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Miami, and Los Angeles for example), especially if they are a bit further away from the city proper or are outside of the primary city's beltway/ring road. I believe it would also make sense for a place with its own city center/main commercial area that is outwards enough to be considered as its own entry on a highway classification page unless the place is much smaller or is right up against the city center of the primary settlement.

132426844 over 2 years ago

I think that city classification is appropriate for a place of this size and regional prominence, given that similarly-populated/sized cities in the area like Clermont and Apopka are also tagged as cities.

132851794 over 2 years ago

Oak Street does seem like a textbook definition of a tertiary road to me. It's a shortcut between two other major roads and it looks like it's intended to be a collector road due to it having a centerline like the majority of collector roads throughout the area do.

139051502 over 2 years ago

Sorry for the cut off comment. I meant to put "Retagged and adjusted roads".

138208068 over 2 years ago

It is a busy road, but busy doesn't always equal primary. International Drive mainly serves as a connection to the commercial and residential areas that are within the northeastern quadrant of Tysons rather than serving as a major arterial road like Gallows Road, Route 123, and Route 7, which all connect several towns and cities in the area and serve as alternatives to nearby freeways. International Drive does have a connection to the DTR, but if you're going up Gallows Road to get onto the DTR, it is more direct to make a left onto VA 7 rather than to follow International Drive.

138210269 over 2 years ago

Thank you for the clarification about the farm landuse in the west. If they're crop fields that are intermittently used as pastures then farmland seems to be the best tag for that. Though I also think the tagging channel in the OSM US Slack server would have a field day (pun not intended) trying to figure out how to incorporate both meadow and farmland tags into one to indicate what they're used for often differs.

Just a note about the highways, I did initially plan on creating a discussion for the highways I changed, but ultimately decided against it since I didn't want to make a convoluted proposal that would end up without a consensus and thought they were uncontroversial enough to not really need one. I did however decide against upgrading the Boise/Mountain Home - Elko route to trunk since that is undoubtedly more controversial and would also require getting in touch with Idaho editors. I will probably make a Slack proposal for that later on to see what others think.

138210269 over 2 years ago

Were the fields used for grazing temporarily during the 2022 drought? AcreValue shows that the land was used for "Grass/Pasture" and "Non-Cropland" during that year. There also appears to be animals grazing the fields in Esri Clarity, but that could be from well over a decade ago.

About the other landcover, a lot of it appears to be traced from Esri imagery, so that would explain the patterns west of US 95 not matching up with the Bing imagery, but I can't really see anything outside of large shrubs or standalone trees that would count as natural wood - not from the aerial imageries provided by OSM nor the Bing/Mapillary streetview from Interstate 80. It's completely different from the natural wood you've been mapping in the mountains (which does look great, by the way), which is actual forest versus wetland with some scattered trees, so the distinctions you're trying to make between natural area tagging around this area aren't entirely clear to me.

138210269 over 2 years ago

Hello, some of these area tags are incorrect. The farmland along the Humboldt River would be more correct tagged as meadows since they appear to be used for grazing rather than growing crops, and a lot of what is tagged as natural wood would be better tagged as scrub and wetland since it's mostly inundated shrubbery/stunted trees or reed with very coverage from trees that would warrant calling it woodland (way/885010630 for instance).

138152571 over 2 years ago

I'm not too sure about this section of Herndon Parkway being primary, especially considering it's not much different from the northeast/southeastern section. It does look like a bypass of Herndon and is even designated as a truck route, but in reality it serves more as a circular collector road and alternative connector between Old Ox Road and VA 228. I'm already skeptical about VA 228 being primary since it runs so closely to FCP without serving its own purpose like 657 and 602/608 do, but 228 does connect to the Herndon town center whereas FCP bypasses it. That aside, I think all of Herndon Parkway should remain secondary.

138208068 over 2 years ago

I think primary is overkill for Lewinsville Road/Great Falls Street, same with Spring Hill Road. SR 694 kinda just straddles the area between Tysons and McLean and bypasses anything of signiciance like a major commercial area like Tysons Corner or the Chain Bridge Road/Old Dominion Drive junction in McLean, while Spring Hill Drive doesn't serve much as a major road either. Secondary would be ideal for both of these roads.

137853006 over 2 years ago

For VA 228, I used the LRS Route Master (https://www.virginiaroads.org/datasets/VDOT::lrs-route-master/explore), which shows VA 228 deviating from its original route through Herndon to the Herndon Parkway truck bypass. The re-routing was made as a recent request by the Town of Herndon.

As for SR 606, the route is (very loosely) signed on the ground at many major intersections as following all of Herndon Parkway, however the SR 606 designation does not show up in the Route Master. Often times, secondary state routes are not signed within towns, so this could be a case of outdated signage or an error on part of the Route Master.

136181691 over 2 years ago

Sure, I suppose that would be a good thing to do. I did have a very brief discussion with other users on the OSM US Slack (I think it was in the tagging channel?) about desert landcover classification but it didn't really go anywhere, so a second one might be better.

137976801 over 2 years ago

Hello, building=yes should not be added to the school grounds and only to the building itself. Doing so causes the entire property to render as a building and creates a bunch of errors due to it overlapping with ways and other buildings.

137939415 over 2 years ago

Meant to say secondary, not tertiary

137493814 over 2 years ago

Hello, 'west' and 'east' shouldn't be added to ref=*, as this would imply that there is a spur route of US 64 designated as 'US 64 West/East'. If this is for navigational system purposes, the cardinal direction a highway is signed as can be added to the highway ramps that connect to it in destination:ref=* (which has already been filled in).