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98800841 almost 5 years ago

Construction is not complete just because building outlines appear. They were still working on the site when I drove by it a week ago. Even the sales web site has only virtual tours and no actual photos of the place yet.

98800841 almost 5 years ago

Hi, why was the construction area at way/587482738/history removed? Why was the placeholder at way/860352915/history removed? Those are useful markers to prevent roads from 'growing back' when mappers use Bing imagery only.

94328842 almost 5 years ago

Hi, thanks for these edits. When West Georgia Road was moved back to the line of the abandoned highway, that was mis-aligning it to the old imagery. Note the new alignment now visible on Maxar Premium.

97924090 almost 5 years ago

Hi, welcome to OSM! Why were the driveway service entrances to 7-Eleven removed? Why was the fuel location moved from the gas pump area onto the building?

97726019 almost 5 years ago

Please use meaningful changeset comments - 'No one cares' does not help other mappers understand what you are doing. osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments

96695951 almost 5 years ago

Hi, welcome to OSM! The protect_class was missing on Table Rock State Park after converting tag from leisure=park - I have added it.

96552435 almost 5 years ago

Thanks for your contributions to OSM. Please note that street name abbreviations should be expanded. Here's the Wiki page: osm.wiki/Names#Abbreviation_
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96120577 almost 5 years ago

Hi, why was the road changed to dual carriageway? There are only painted lines in the street.

95508642 about 5 years ago

One reason for this change might have been that the previous edit was missing the protect_class, which results in the feature not showing at all.

95754589 about 5 years ago

And you're right - the data is still there. The data can render within a minute, but may be delayed by minutes or hours depending on system load.

95754589 about 5 years ago

Hi, I believe this is an inconvenient feature of the OSM history display. Any large changeset having a bounding rectangle covering a small area will show in the history tab. Then to see if the large changeset affected the area of interest, the OSMCHA tool must be used. I think OSMCHA also has a way to define an area of interest that won't be affected by large changesets.

94733051 about 5 years ago

Hi, why was way/766912500 removed?

94799189 about 5 years ago

Welcome to OSM! When an object needs to be improved, it is better to just directly edit the object rather than to delete and replace by something else such as way/676937274 . This retains the history as a recommended best practice. osm.wiki/Keep_the_history

94024548 about 5 years ago

Hi, Welcome to OpenStreetMap! When improving the shape of things, it is best to adjust the outline rather than deleting and redrawing. For example in this case the address was deleted along with the object history. I restored the address.

Also houses look much better with square corners. You can square them up by selecting and then pressing the Q key.

87218007 about 5 years ago

Hi, does this building match the sat imagery? way/820094049

92189505 about 5 years ago

Hi, welcome to OSM! Normally the school name is added to a building only if the building is the entire school. In this case, the school name is already on the surrounding school ground area, and can even make the name appear twice at certain zoom levels.

92197747 about 5 years ago

Hi, Some times it is better to change the old roads to lines with the tag demolished:highway or abandoned:highway to keep it from 'growing back' from projects that detect missing roads.

91534262 about 5 years ago

Hi MauiEngTech, Thanks for your reply!

My driveway is already mapped for the entire world to see. And that is a minor privacy issue considering that Bing and Google have a full street view of my house along with the address. Since driveways are easily verifiable features, they can be added to the map. There is a growing trend to add driveways for use by delivery drivers. The presence of gates on the map prompt them to ensure that they can deliver without a wasted trip of being blocked by a gate. They can aid emergency vehicle drives in finding driveway entrances even in poor visibility. Uncluttered maps are created by filtering out features not needed for a particular map rendering.
GIS programs using OSM as a basemap need to have filtering to exclude unwanted features - sidewalks for example are also under the 'highway' tag and would similarly create extra lines on a basemap.

91255294 about 5 years ago

Some OSM tags go in a direction that doesn't correspond to any usage elsewhere. For example, there is not a 1:1 translation from the US Highway Functional Classification system and the OSM highway tagging conventions. place=neighborhood seems to be such a tag. I'd recommend not removing marked neighborhoods for now, but if there is a better replacement in the future, just change those that should be changed to the new tag at that time.

91255294 about 5 years ago

There is a mix of opinions - more discussion at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2020-September/020621.html