Also, the name field should hold the actual name of the thing (the name of the business, or the park, or the school, etc) not a description of the thing.

Hey! I happened to come across some of your edits. First off, thanks for adding to the map!

A couple tips: Rather than creating a landuse area (like Commercial) and then labeling it with the business in it, put a point where the business is (or trace the building) and choose the correct business type ("Bank," "Car Dealership," etc). Then put a commercial landuse area around the whole district. See what I've done in this area as an example.

Thanks again!

From what I can tell, the name of this body of water is "Buhl Lake," and the community around it is called "Lake Arrowhead." For example, see the website of the Lake Arrowhead Property Owners Assocation: http://www.lapoa.com/wp/

Is the lake itself commonly referred to as "Lake Arrowhead?"

Gotcha. Thanks!

Hey, I just came across this pond, and I'm curious: Is "County Line Pond" a commonly-used name for this pond? It's not on the USGS topo map, but maybe it's a local name? Just checking on it.

Hey, when you're working on this MapRoulette challenge, make sure you're only joining (and tagging) railway crossings where they actually exist. I found a couple in this area that needed a bridge instead. (For example, node #73049707)

Hey, I happened to notice your changeset description. Just as an FYI, we definitely cannot use ANY information from Google Maps to add items to OpenStreetMap. That would be a violation of Google's copyright.

Hi! Welcome to OpenStreetMap, and thanks for adding this park!

There's a lot of nuance to the tagging in OSM, and "pedestrian street" probably isn't the most appropriate for the path here. That's more for a street where cars are permitted but pedestrians have priority. Foot path is a better choice here, so I took the liberty of updating the tag, and added a few other details to the park while I was at it.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about OSM.

Hi! I'm glad to see a new editor, but it looks like some of your edits could use some more scrutiny. This park doesn't exist in this location, or at least not to this extent.

I've gone ahead and deleted it, but if you want to add it in the correct location, please do so.

Hi Thanks for contributing these changes. A couple of things to remember for next time:

- You need to give your new features a type (the sidebar in the editor). In this case, Sidewalk seems the most appropriate.
- Where a sidewalk or path crosses a road, you need to have the two join at the same node, unless there's a bridge or tunnel involved.
- OpenStreetMap is only for objects that exist on the ground and can be mapped. Part of the path that you traced doesn't show up on the satellite imagery, so I'm wondering if maybe there's not an actual sidewalk there? If there is, please feel free to go in and add it to the map again.

I'm going to go ahead and make these corrections. If you want to see the details. you can view the area in the editor.

The parks that you've added don't show up in satellite imagery, and they all appear to be privately-owned. One seems to have a house on it.

Do these parks exist? OpenStreetMap is only meant to map objects that can be verified on the ground.

Thanks for responding to this comment. If these parks don't exist, I will remove them from the map.

Hey Greg. I think for non-existing railways (such as way/133307564) you want railway=razed, not highway=razed. See here for more info: osm.wiki/Demolished_Railway

Yeah, they pulled it out a few years back: http://www.9and10news.com/story/19076426/the-spirit-of-traverse-city-train-moved-to-buckley

Hey, just curious what your source was for the railway you added in Clinch Park in this changeset? There was a miniature railway there in the past, but it was removed several years ago.

Hey, I don't think some of these edits you made are correct. For example, you joined an underground pedestrian tunnel (way/112974438) to a surface street (way/17810117). They really shouldn't share any nodes.

Likewise you joined a lot of ways to the overhanging parts of buildings (bank drive-throughs and such). They shouldn't really be joined.

Could you look over the edits you made and check that they all make sense? Or maybe share the validation errors you were trying to correct? Often validation tools will warn you about something that MIGHT be a problem, but really isn't in some cases.

Yeah, tagging can get confusing. The bigger issue here I think the non-intersecting ways, since that can potentially affect routing. (keep right)[http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?zoom=17&lat=42.64872&lon=-83.53082&layers=B0T&ch=0%2C180%2C191%2C195%2C196%2C201%2C202%2C203%2C204%2C205%2C206%2C207%2C208%2C210%2C220%2C231%2C232%2C281%2C282%2C283%2C284%2C291%2C292%2C293%2C311%2C312%2C313&show_ign=1&show_tmpign=0]

FYI: The detail you're adding here is awesome, but I think you're not using highway=crossing the right way. For one thing, there needs to be a node wherever a road and a pedestrian way cross. Secondly, the street crossing tag needs to be put on that intersection node. At least, that's what the wiki seems to indicate: highway=crossing

OpenStreetMap isn't really the place for personal routes like this. Someplace like MapMyWalk would be more appropriate. I deleted this path.

"Do not know flow" is cute, but we probably don't want to go making up names for things. ;-)

FYI if you switch the background imagery in iD to "USGS Topographic Maps," you can often get the names of rivers and lakes from there.

Lastly, I think this particular waterway is more properly categorized as a drain (waterway=drain) and sure enough, that's what the USGS topos name it. (I've already updated the name and tagging, this is just for future reference.)

FYI, I don't know for sure, but judging from the satellite view, this is probably center pivot irrigation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation) not a power line.