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Notes submitted or commented on by RSydes

Id Creator Description Created at Last changed
4086779 RSydes

There is a significant discrepancy here regarding the position of the trail as currently drawn on OSM vs. the National Forest System Trails dataset (https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/national-forest-system-trails-feature-layer-f51e8).

4261643 RSydes

The trails need to be updated: [New trail established at Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve | WCIA.com](https://www.wcia.com/news/new-trail-established-at-lake-of-the-woods-forest-preserve/)

3932779 RSydes

There seems to be a clearing here. I'm not sure how to depict that on the map.

3940343 RSydes

What is this?

4801377 RSydes

Note for other mappers: having hiked the area (specifically the southern part of the Group 63 Trail, and the Group 63 Spur Trail) recently, I noticed that the forest service appears to have recently cleared it of some/most trees and shrubs, so it would be a good idea to wait a while before adding vegetation areas to the map.

4789128 RSydes

Once newer satellite imagery is available (or someone adds GPS tracks), the Dark Sky Trail needs to be connected to the parking lot; the observatory and shelter also need to be added.

4719594 RSydes

The following was too much to put into a single changeset comment: These areas are part of the Upper Sangamon River Land and Water Reserve (a nature reserve), therefore "natural=grass" seems more appropriate. Someone with better map drawing skills than I should draw the boundary of the reserve; refer to the Prairie State Conservation Coalition's I-View map of protected areas.

3997281 RSydes

Do the bridge, abandoned railroad, and rail trail all follow the exact path / physically overlap? If so, all three ways should be connected, instead of being depicted as separate but parallel.

4547683 RSydes

What's the difference between "Relation: Red Forest (7281213)" and "Way: Red forest trees (278750261)"?

To put it another way, why is the latter considered separate from the former?

2763330

Red Bison work shed