Hi Krongrath, welcome to OSM.
This park is already on the map: relation/8319715

Hi,

There now seems to be three areas associated with this community park:
way/333516962 way/619020863/ and way/729404721 - do you know which one is correct?

The natural=valley and natural=plateau areas you've added here don't match the topographic maps of the area at all. What have you used as your source?

Please only add real features to OSM. This map is used and relied on by many services and organisations.

Hi! Horseshoe Park is already on the map as a much larger area: way/579998910#map=16/35.8845/-78.5342

Is there a difference between that area and the one you added here?

Hi Psychodat and welcome to OSM :)

If a park is already on the map as an area, there's no need to duplicate it as a point or node if you're trying to mark exactly the same feature.

If you need any help, please feel free to ask :)

Happy mapping.

Hi again!
You've got McCauleys Pond Park crossing McCauleys Pond Road and covering several houses here - is that intentional?

Hi Gunnarfolke and welcome to OSM!

I noticed you added a park over the entire college campus here. While I can see that there are definitely areas that would be considered parks here, the whole thing probably doesn't meet OSM definitions:
leisure=park?uselang=en

If you want to go through and add the individual park areas, that's totally fine, but you should probably avoid covering the buildings and other non-park features.

Happy mapping!

Hi Brelam and welcome to OSM.

It looks like you made a common error here - when you tag a parking lot, the correct tagging scheme is amenity=parking rather than leisure=park. I've updated this for you and also added what appears to be the location of the actual ramp.

If you need any help, please feel free to reach out :)

Hi again!
The name= tag is typically reserved for actual place names, so if this was the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Field, you'd use that for the name. Descriptions can be achieved using other tags such as in this case: leisure=pitch and sport=baseball

Hi Trinkus,

Is this still called Brodhead Creek Heritage Center with the new building? As there was no building mapped here, just a pin, so long as the place still exists, everything is fine - no need to add a second pin unless you wanted to map out the new building as an area.

Hi Amder and welcome to OSM.

What is a smoke pit in this context? Is it a smoking area?

This is how OSM defines parks: leisure=park?uselang=en

If that doesn't fit, maybe something here might be more appropriate?:
smoking=*

Hi MapLadyEagan,

It looks like you've tried to add a park here a few times and it's been removed each time.

OSM defined a park in a specific way: leisure=park?uselang=en

If you're adding a garden and want to "micromap", there's another tag -leisure=garden - which is sometimes paired with garden:type=flowerbed and is probably more appropriate in this case.

Additionally, the name= tag should be reserved for actual names of things rather than descriptions - there is a plethora of tags you can use to describe things while keeping name= free for actual names :)

If you need any help, just shout out :) There's plenty of mappers that can set you on the right path.

osm.wiki/Contact_channels

Happy mapping :)

Hi Josh, welcome to OSM.

This changeset is a little strange - you placed quite a large wood area right in the middle of suburbia, covering quite a few houses, you added some parks over the top of houses as well.

Additionally, you changed a service road you added in a previous edit into a power line - which one is it?

This park is called Joseph Barboza?

Thanks for the heads up. This one went a little weird while I was uploading. I'll fix momentarily.

Okay, so I found a discord server where a lot of people are discussing the ideas behind Promatia.

Reading through the discussion, it appears that none of this exists at this time. While there may be plans to build similar features here in the future, OSM deals in what is verifiable and "on the ground", if these features don't exist yet, then they don't belong on the map.

Hi Iliketurtles and welcome to OpenStreetMap :)

Parks on OSM are defined in a specific way, and that doesn't typically include residential blocks or houses. You can read more on the OSM wiki: leisure=park?uselang=en

It looks like you might have been mapping for Pokemon GO here. Please remember to be considerate of other mappers. This includes adding only real features to the map.

Fake features waste everyone's time as people have take the time out to clean them up. OSM is used for many purposes outside of games, so it's important to keep the map reliable and accurate.

The URL you've included on some of the features you added just goes to a parked GoDaddy domain site.

Hi MrMashy,
Do you know where other mappers might find more information on this location? It's not on any imagery and I can't find any references to it elsewhere either.