Hi Ajcvt,

Welcome to OSM!

This is a real world map used by many services and organisations. Please do not add fictional features such as parks at your hour, they will be quickly removed.

Hello Tennyson Vedamuthu and thanks for your recent changes.

We define parks in a particular way here, which doesn't include land used for private homes. You can read more here: leisure=park

The OSM wiki is a great resource if you're unsure how to tag something. If you need any help, please reach out!

Even though this local suburb is called Forest Park ( node/158656360 ), it is not a park by OSM definitions. I can however spot many parks in the suburbs around this location, so it might be a good use of your time to find and add those.

Hi jkole,
Apologies for the comment so long after you made this change, but this is a rather oddly shaped apartment building - did you possibly intend to mark it as a parking lot?

Hiya Viper3321!

Welcome to OSM and thanks for your recent changes.

We define parks in a particular way here, which doesn't include land used for private homes. You can read more here: leisure=park

The OSM wiki is a great resource if you're unsure how to tag something. If you need any help, please reach out!

Hi FantasticalFruit,

Welcome back to OSM!

I must ask, what is your data source for this change?

Regardless, you've currently got this feature mapped as a lake on ground level, I'm not sure of the best way to map underground features like this (if there is a "best" way at all), but as it stands, the map basically saying that all the buildings at this location are currently submerged.

Hi gobearsberkeley,

Thanks for the article, however it doesn't seem to mention the parks you added, or their adjacent streets.

"Areas up for consideration in the program include several blocks of Broadway spanning El Camino Real to Main Street and the section of Main Street between Broadway and Middlefield Road. The project as presented would leave three cross Streets of Broadway open including Winslow Street, Hamilton Street and Jefferson Avenue. "

This would put the changes more towards the city center.

Searches for "Cleveland Urban Park" and "Fulton Urban Park" also reveal nothing - no reported council business, no newspaper articles, no references to development or legislative applications.

bollard*

Hi gobearsberkeley,

These parks have been added by new mappers before and subsequently flagged as fictional and private front yards

Do you have any evidence these exist?
Newspaper articles? Photos of the location?

This actually reverts changeset #86266768, but for the same reason.

Previously, the account "ProfessorOak" (user:8081423) has added fictional parks in this general area, including two almost identical parks over this same building.
They have been requested to stop via comment on changeset/86214052

Hello ProfessorOak,
You have added several parks over houses and apartments. This is not how we use park tagging on OSM. Please do not add fictional features to the map, they will be removed.

Aaaaannnd all 527 nodes have been (poorly) reverted back into existence in changeset/86143199 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hi Pitner,
Thanks for the response.
I can see how some of this area would be considered a park or similiar, by OSM definitions, a lot of this area looks like it should be residential landuse instead?

leisure=park
"A park is an area of open space for recreational use, usually designed and in semi-natural state with grassy areas, trees and bushes."

landuse=residential
"An area of land dedicated to, or having predominantly residential buildings such as houses..."

Hi Pitner,
I commented the last time you did this and you didn't respond. Are you sure the tag leisure=park applies to the entirety of this area? There appears to be houses, farmland and other features here that clearly aren't a park.

If these areas have sports courts and other features, they need to be added separately.

If you continue to add fictional features, they will be removed and you will be reported to the DWG.

Hi msbshow,

You seem to be adding park tagging to a lot of things that aren't parks. Two things I've noticed in this changeset at the moose lodge, the resort and the volley ball court.

There are other tags you can use to describe those kinds of features.

You can read more about park tagging on the OSM wiki: leisure=park

The wiki is a great resource if you're ever wondering how to tag something.

Hiya,
Looks like you accidentally dragged some footways at the north end of this edit : way/34152172

(please excuse that random "f" I pressed comment to quickly)

And secondly, please be careful adding personal information to the map. Who owns a path or a private house shouldn't be added to the map. Additionally, there are limits to what you should add to private property, you can read more here: osm.wiki/Limitations_on_mapping_private_information.

Hi Bradlee,

Welcome to OSM and thanks for your recent additions!

Just some comments on your recent changes: f

Firstly the yard surrounding a house is not a park. OSM defines parks in a specific way, you can read more here: leisure=park. If you want to map grassed areas, there are other tags you can use, such as landuse=grass or landuse=meadow depending on their application.

Hi Tomahawk414!

Welcome to OSM and thanks for your recent additions!

Have you checked out the OSM wiki yet? It's a great guide on how to use different tags to describe things.

I've noticed you've used some tags a little bit incorrectly in your changes- some of those incorrect usages include "natural=grassland" on tennis courts and park areas (when it comes to grassland, think plains of natural, unmaintained wild grass) and also "landuse=greenfield" which implies natural land slated for development.

You can find the wiki here: osm.wiki/Main_Page