OpenStreetMap logo OpenStreetMap

Changeset When Comment
153525815 over 1 year ago

This is not a cycleway. It is separated by paint, and only paint. It is not grade separated, it is not hardscape separated. It is fully part of the road surfaces. It is neither as pleasant nor as safe as your routing is implying. This is incorrect by wiki standards, degrades map data for bicycle routing and bike network analysis, and does not represent the physical reality to users of the map.

I attest to my statement here by way of personal survey, and as a user of the map for bicycle routing and safe bike route planning
---
#REVIEWED_BAD #OSMCHA
Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/153525815

153483102 over 1 year ago

Hmm, given I-90 is a motorway, I'd consider Storrow a grade below, so trunk feels applicable

153434003 over 1 year ago

There's also a path you removed at Drydock Ave @ Design Center Place, and another in Martin's Park, at Sleeper St @ Seaport Boulevard that I don't believe were restored in that changeset?

153390088 over 1 year ago

node/1399798442 does not appear to be on Allston St, why was that address moved from node/9130079442?

Thank you for reverting the harborwalk cycleway designations

You have added a cycleway in Post Office Square. This does not exist, which is why I had marked it as cycleway:right=lane on Congress Street

Please also note that the use of separate cycleways when mapping cycle tracks can substantially impair routing, and the mapping of non-vertically separated one directional cycle lanes as separate ways conflicts with the pattern as described by the wiki as per cycleway=*
---
#REVIEWED_BAD #OSMCHA
Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/153390088

153394409 over 1 year ago

You've removed a couple features that don't seem to be removable based on aerial imagery, specifically the retaining wall for the turnpike ramps under WTC ave, and the ways entering the world trade center, what's the source of these?
---

Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/153394409

153434003 over 1 year ago

Were paths by the Hampton Inn on Summer Street removed? You deleted them but they appear to be there in every set of imagery I have access to, including the MassGIS 2023 Orthos, as well as the bing and MassGIS 2021 Orthos that are referensed by your changeset.

Additonally, you removed paths in Martin's Park, and marked a sidewalk along sleeper street as layer -1? Are you using layer=-1 to hide warnings about crossing or overlapping ways?
---

Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/153434003

153353561 over 1 year ago

What is the cycleway along fresh pond parkway? It appears as though you've marked the sidewalk as a cycleway?
---

Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/153353561

153180969 over 1 year ago

Are laws of states and municipalities in the US not public domain automatically? While works of the states and municipalities might not be public domain, the text of law I thought was.

The municode link there is to the Somerville Code of Ordinances. That said, I can provide attestation that the street is signed as Grand Union Boulevard, in alignment with local law.

I do not believe Somerville provides an online browsable street GIS solution (Vision primarily contains parcel data, and the street basemap is demonstrably out of line with surface conditions and ordinance), however public domain ESRI data is here: https://data.somervillema.gov/GIS-Data/Streets/7jtq-qmnf/about_data

153113017 over 1 year ago

Oh, trust the wiki over the dropdown generally. iD gets updated, but the wiki is generally a more canonical source access=*#access-discouraged

153090243 over 1 year ago

Likewise with other segments of this street, see city ordinances, where Sturtevant is a former name of what is now Grand Union

153090402 over 1 year ago

Per city law, Sturtevant St is now Grand Union https://library.municode.com/ma/somerville/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=APXCCIST_ART1LOLEWIPUPRST
---

Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/153090402

153168640 over 1 year ago

looks like the `crossing` node from the way you deleted is still there?
---

Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/153168640

153113017 over 1 year ago

To my knolwedge, no entrance to Mem Drive is signed as a limited access highway. Per state law, that's bike accessible, see MGL chapter 85 section 11B, first paragraph: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/mass-general-laws-c85-ss-11b

That said, it definitely shouldn't be encouraged or suggested by routing apps in most cases. bicycle=discouraged might be the more precise value to use, since access denotes the legal right of way

153135955 over 1 year ago

This changeset also deletes the tacticle paving information by replacing crossings with less completely tagged ways. The deleted crossings were ways 818789109 and 844315832

153136217 over 1 year ago

You removed a crossing that was richly tagged and replaced it with a minimally tagged crossing, ways 1258468691 and 1295951206. This removed tacticle paving information. Please also be sure that whenever you are replacing cycleway tags with separate ways, you maintain or update the information on what sort of way is being mapped. As increasingly the cycleway key is being used in the Boston area to map things that are not grade separated, dedicated cycleways, but instead on street lanes, the bike network and routing information for the region is degraded. Bike routing tools increasingly cannot note a difference between paint and hardscape separation, and increasingly cannot include street names in routing
---

Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/153136217

152870804 over 1 year ago

I had removed the "cycleway" on Park and Tremont Streets, as to align with the wiki, to connect details of the on street bike lane to the buffer tags. I had flagged this as something to clean up as it was complicating bicycle routing.
---

Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/152870804

152821544 over 1 year ago

Additionally, you've removed the dismount tag on the Poplar St community path exit, which is signed as dismount
---

Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/152821544

152821544 over 1 year ago

You've removed kerb and tactile paving tags from crossings, which is used for accessibility mapping
---

Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/152821544

152785047 over 1 year ago

Hello, it appears you're deleting and recreating crossings while removing tag details, as well as degrading the specificity contained in cycleway tags. Please consider reverting this to restore that data
---
#REVIEWED_BAD #OSMCHA
Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/152785047

152782517 over 1 year ago

Looks like you accidentally dragged a node off of the pedestrian area near the Argenziano