Love these changeset comments – keep ’em coming! :-D

Thank you for taking the time to add these street names in. For legal reasons, OSM can’t accept information copied straight out of another map unless the authors of that map have given permission.

osm.wiki/Copyright

Would you mind obtaining permission from the cemetery to copy these names? Better yet, if you’re in the area, you could visit the cemetery and ascertain the names in person. (OSM always prefers on-the-ground local knowledge wherever possible.)

Thanks for understanding!

Thank you for this edit, and welcome to OpenStreetMap! Note that we spell-out words like “Boulevard” rather than abbreviating them: osm.wiki/Names#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29

FYI, Bing aerial imagery in this area dates to March 2012: http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=40.04219237131571&lon=-84.20290923118593&zoom=17

The Mapbox Satellite layer is more up-to-date at z13–17, as it comes from NAIP 2013.

I undid some of these changes in changeset/30491130. railway=construction construction=tram_stop is a well-used and well-documented way of indicating that a subway station is under construction. The name=* tag is not intended for descriptive text, even in parentheses.

Just a friendly reminder that Ohioan mappers have a longstanding consensus to use the prefix “SR” on ways along Ohio state routes, due to the prevailing style used throughout the state by residents, the media, government, etc. See osm.wiki/Ohio/Route_relations for more information.

The Caldwell–Seymore trail is definitely either a cycleway or a footway. Neither tag implies anything about build quality, surface material, or routeability. If it’s meant primarily for cyclists, it’s a cycleway; if it’s primarily for pedestrians, it’s a footway. highway=path is for things like forest trails in state parks.

Oh, one of them is actually a compressed air pump. I’ve retagged it amenity=compressed_air, but is brand=Dero still accurate in that case?

Yes, you can see a photo of the stands here: http://www.simonkentonpathfinders.org/

Thank you for adding these township boundaries. But wherever possible, please start with the USGS Topographic Maps layer rather than the Census Bureau’s TIGER data. Although TIGER is much more up-to-date than the USGS topo maps, TIGER is also much cruder as it’s primarily meant for demographics rather than geography.

Thank you! I’ve been undeleting an old, correct version of the OH–WV boundary in Potlatch 1, but that editor often has selection glitches these days… it looks great now.

What problems exactly did you clean up? It looks like you created additional overlapping ways for one township relation but not adjoining townships. I’m mainly asking so I can avoid causing more problems in the future.

River boundaries are more the exception than the rule. We pretty much need them for completeness’ sake if we’re going to include land boundaries.

Times like these make me very glad that Potlatch 1 is still around. (Its revert feature is just as easy as Wikipedia’s, for better or worse.)

osm.wiki/Ohio_River

The previous version of this boundary was based on the USGS topo layer which, while not completely up-to-date with the ’90s court rulings, is much more accurate than the centerline.

It looks like this changeset merged the OH–KY boundary with the Ohio River centerline. That’s incorrect: KY and WV own most of the Ohio River (at the expense of OH, IN, and IL). See for example: http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/21/us/kentucky-indiana-and-ohio-end-river-boundary-dispute.html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-05-29/news/9102170953_1_wardens-illinois-residents-kentucky

Never mind, found it: <http://gis3.oit.ohio.gov/LBRS/_downloads/docs/White%20Paper-LBRS_2011.pdf>. We should make a tile layer of it to trace with.

OGRIP’s LBRS is public domain? That’s awesome – where does it say that?

…the bypassed road, that is.

How recent was the change? When Wilmington got its bypass, I think it took a little while for ODOT to take all the signs down and hand the road over to the city and township.