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176109871 1 day ago

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That's not the way to do this. Please see
osm.wiki/Why_can%27t_I_delete_this_trail%3F

175468484 16 days ago

The opposite is better. Merging identical street segments allows renderers to draw the name if it requires more length than a single block, eg medium zooms. When split, you see the name much less often.

160418777 12 months ago

Which is the correct spelling: the node, or the changeset description?

159862024 about 1 year ago

The bridge still has access=no, so routing won't work.

156706677 about 1 year ago

Is that really a rule? As a cyclist, I'd roll my eyes at the suggestion to use the street, and choose the cycle track instead. :P

157176159 about 1 year ago

Oops, I confused you and the reverter, sorry. In the editor you're using, there's a way to align imagery too; I just don't know what it is. Happy mapping. :)

157176159 about 1 year ago

I think you're supposed to know, when you're scolded after-the-fact.

Next best thing: download GPS traces at the same time as loading map data into JOSM; tick the checkbox. Find some heavily-GPS-traced main arteries, and adjust the offset for that imagery in JOSM until those line up. Preferably, do this every time, rather than following the lore that "it's always 3.14 2.78 in this town".

155888982 over 1 year ago

I'll chime in. name:en and name:fr are correct and unchanged, but simple name was missing.

Given this is an English-majority region, setting name = name:en seems reasonable to me.

141074156 over 1 year ago

Hi crindler. I really do believe this road deserves to be tertiary. It connects to the BC highway system and is the first drivable connection north of #16. I've driven it; it's a good road.

127012057 over 1 year ago

PS, nobody thought to ask me if I had a random-camping permit (I do). Enforcement, hah. :D

127012057 over 1 year ago

Hi. I mapped much of the forest/wood in western Alberta originally. At first I was marking it all as natural=wood, but came to realize that landuse=forest was likely more appropriate. It's all managed forest in some sense, logged, replanted, ...

So when I revisit an area such as here, I've been switching the tagging, unless it's within a park where logging etc. is unlikely. (The old CanVec imports were all natural=wood, but that doesn't mean anything.)

The distinction is subtle enough, that I know of no renderers that show the two styles differently.

In the case of Cache Percotte Forest, it's demonstration/training forest with a sign to that effect at the entrance. I was camped in it when an enforcement training exercise formed around me. I was a surprise to them (it wasn't focused on me), so I agreed with their polite suggestion I'd sleep better if I'd moved camp elsewhere.)

151208180 over 1 year ago

Busted! :D

The walls have eyes.

150925725 over 1 year ago

This is not the correct way, and likely will be reverted. If the trails exist on the ground they should not be removed, but rather be tagged appropriately, eg access=private.

150718330 over 1 year ago

Also, it's not "Fast" Gas. https://www.fasgasplus.ca/

150718330 over 1 year ago

Superstore names have not changed to Loblaws. See the link on the OSM objects. I shop there regularly and would notice this.

149760554 over 1 year ago

Hi. Don't forget that newly-added water areas should be added to the forest polygon as inner members, unless trees are actually growing in the water. :) Cheers.

149759543 over 1 year ago

PS, may I suggest
name=Ram Falls
full_name=Ram Falls Provincial Campground
?
The latter two words could be considered noise, and can be (Provincial) or are (Campground) covered by other tags.

149759543 over 1 year ago

Hi ContraBand.

Are you sure this circular-ish area is actually not part of the park? If it's merely a restricted-access area, then it's still part of the park, and should be mapped differently, eg access tag. (I mapped the park originally from the AB gov't shapefile; there was no such exclusion at the time.)

Also, when creating a relation such as here, tags need to be removed from the outer way and copied to the relation. You've left them in place on the outer way, but here the whole relation seems unnecessary. Cheers.

149336715 over 1 year ago

This is good. These ways can't logically be merged, because a way can only have two ends, either separate ends or at the same node such as here.

Sometimes ways can be merged, eg adjacent blocks of a street, if they have equivalent tags, and then it's usually a good idea, but not essential.

It's a good idea to have ways connected (as they appear to be here), if they are in real life. EG, the semi-circular path being connected to the street. This helps routing.

BTW, welcome to OSM!

148836712 almost 2 years ago

Poor-quality elevations may be better than none at all, but I'm not encouraging it. My experience has been, the gov't provided elevations, also the peak locations have been quite poor, when GPS readings from the summit have been available. Also, SRTM data, which provides topo contours, clearly disagrees with the old gov't data in many places.