Hi Nick,

The platforms at Clybourn were intentionally divided down the middle to preserve information about which routes stop on which side, as well as avoid creating multipolygons. Technically it could be mapped either way, but as a railway mapper, I find it easier to maintain when platforms are mapped as ways without multipolygon relations. I hope you don't mind me changing it back.

-Clay

Oops, should have been under my personal account

Changeset reverted here: changeset/115435567

The LA Metro G Line is not a guided busway. A quick read of the wiki page for busways could have prevented you from making this mistake: highway=busway

Honestly there wasn't much thought behind it. I put it in that order because I felt US 62 was sort of a hodgepodge of other roads that formed a neat grid. It doesn't reflect any on-the-ground reality.

No worries! Just curious. I went ahead and reverted it.

Why did you change the Metra 47th Street Yard from railway=service_station to railway=yard? This facility does not handle freight.

Hi Nick,

Could you explain what the ref value of "FAP 370" represents, and why it was applied on such a short segment of Western Boulevard?

In the future, please use more descriptive changeset comments than "adding details". Consider being more specific on what kinds of details you're adding. If you can summarize what you've worked on, it saves a lot of time and effort on the part of other mappers.

-Clay

It could, but it'll simply be re-added shortly after by someone else. If you choose to keep deleting things that exist in the real world, like this driveway, you may lose your permission to edit again.

Sorry to inform you, but there's really nothing you can do about that.

No worries, thanks for understanding.

Hi Ian,

Looks like you merged the Amtrak station node with the building outline here. Since the node represents the whole station, rather than just the building, please keep them separate going forward.

Partially reverted here: changeset/114714240

Hi matteditmsts,

Looks like you merged the Amtrak station node with the building outline here. Since the node represents the whole station, rather than just the building, please keep them separate going forward.

Partially reverted here: changeset/114714143

It looks like this changeset mistakenly merged the node for the Mystic Amtrak station with the station building outline. Since the node represents the whole station, rather than just the building, please keep them separate going forward.

Partially reverted here: changeset/114713974

Hi Arlo. I noticed you merged the Amtrak station node with the building outline here. The station node (along with the public_transport relation) represents the whole station, which the building is just a part of. In the future, please keep them separate.

Partially reverted here: changeset/114713714

Hi Michael,

It looks like you've mistakenly deleted the station node here. Buildings are not stations—please keep them separate. If you choose to map a train station as a way, map an area covering the entire station including platforms.

Changeset partially reverted here: changeset/114194156

These roads are variably signed as "CR 600 E" or simply "600 E". I can see the rationale for removing the route relations. I'll pop in on the mailing list.

It may not necessarily be high speed, but it does at least have relatively low intersection density and it's designed for continuous traffic flow. Would you consider the lower speed limit to be a dealbreaker for expressway=yes?

Hi ppjj,

This changeset mistakenly promoted various residential and service streets near Downtown Houston to tertiary and secondary, seemingly based on having the same name as a street you demoted elsewhere.

I've reverted some streets that I think should remain at a lower classification in changeset here: changeset/113003150

Best,

Clay

This is not usage=main. It looks as if you chose an arbitrary track to be a "main" track through this yard, regardless of the actual operation of the railroad. No part of this route has been a main line for decades.

Partially reverted here: changeset/112703642

Continuing in English.

In OpenStreetMap we map the current state of things, not history. Today this segment of track is usage=industrial. If you would like to tag it as usage=main, feel free to record the history of the line on OpenHistoricalMap.

If we were to map *any* historical main line as usage=main, regardless of the actual operation of the line, we would end up with a lot of short dead-end main lines cluttering the map. There are quite a lot of historical main lines in the US that are today truncated to local industrial spurs. Thus, we do not automatically tag usage=main on historical main lines in the US.