I'm confident that some buildings were commonly referred to by name same as address (e.g. 70 South Williams, 284 East Avenue, and a few others).

Some others I mostly heard referred to by function or what was in them (e.g. before it was renamed I heard 438 College Street referred to as "the arts and sciences building", similar for 34 South Williams).

I never figured out what was up with the 475-479 thing. IIRC, my instructors who worked there avoided trying to name the building and just said "come to the Asian Languages department". I'd be happy copying the official map and using the name 479 Main Street with proper address tagging for both.

My overall impression is that people on campus get used to buildings having names and just start acting like they all do. This applies both to people talking and to official sources like the campus map and internal facilities data I worked with that always had a name field filled in.

Of course, all my knowledge is out of date and also UVM specific, I don't know how things work at Champlain.

In my opinion, many of these university buildings do have names, even if their name is a restatement of the address.

See e.g. the UVM map https://www.uvm.edu/map/ which says things like "479 Main Street - Address: 479 Main St." Also, my impression from having been and worked there was that everyone treated them as named.

On the other hand, a lot of this was out of date as you fixed up with renames, demolished buildings, etc. And that only applies to college buildings, I don't have any reason to think non-college buildings have names.

Welcome, and thanks for adding these!

Usually, we don't put names on barns or houses (because a house isn't named "House"). Instead, we can just choose a building type.

I've made the changes (changeset/144177018) so these are now correctly labeled as a barn and a house.

I hope to see you around!

Did something happen to Mountain View Drive in Colchester? Last time I was there it was definitely not highway=service

Reverted in #112889890. This was mostly because it impacted the revert of #112631205.

Reverted in #112889890. You've mapped a building where there is rather famously a large pit in the ground. Are you working from out of date aerial imagery? Please be careful not to mess up work other mappers have done.

Reverted in #112889796. Are you mapping from out of date aerial imagery? The park was redone a few years ago.

These downtown edits are great! I especially like the building edits you did with the lidar source. Thanks for doing this!

Hi, I've changed Essex Junction back to place=suburb in changeset/104960743.

Vermont terms don't match OSM terms - while we call Essex Junction a village, in OSM village means "A smaller distinct settlement, smaller than a town with few facilities available with people traveling to nearby towns to access these." (See place=*)

Also last time I was there (pre-pandemic) you could enter and leave the Brownell parking lot to/from Pearl by going past the fire station - has that changed? I put the road back on the map but it's a recent change I could be wrong.

Thanks!

Hi,

Rather than amenity="Furniture Store", the correct tag here would probably be shop="furniture".

See shop=furniture for details.

Looks like there was a problem with this edit. The entire pond got marked as a dam!

I don't think this is right. The wiki says:

"highway=path is a generic path, either multi-use or unspecified usage, open to all non-motorized vehicles."

This means you're changing the default access rules to say that bikes are allowed. Did you mean to do that?

Note that according to the website there ARE paths here, but it's not what was mapped. They're not clear enough to map from aerial imagery, so someone local will have to do it.

Did the Key Bank building get demolished? Or is the bank gone but the building still there?

Rather than adding leisure=park to three separate areas over by the river, it would make sense to create a new area and mark that as the park.

The buildings of the gas stations and U-Haul over on Riverside are still there, right? For businesses like those that involve more than just the inside of a building, it's common to map the whole area the business takes up and put the business tags on that, and then also map the buildings with whatever tags apply to them specifically. For an example, see how the Cumberland Farms here is mapped, with the fuel as the whole area and the building as a convenience store: osm.org/query?lat=44.46078&lon=-73.21501

Hi, it looks like this is one of your first additions to OpenStreetMap, so welcome! It's great to see so much detail added to Winooski. I used to map there a bunch but since I moved into Burlington I haven't been able to keep up with all the changes.

For the opening_hours tag, there is a specific format that should be used so that computers (like, say, a smartphone gps) can understand it. The easiest way to fill in these values with the right syntax is to use the YoHours tool (http://projets.pavie.info/yohours/), or you can find more information and some other tools on the OSM wiki.

Are you sure this is correct? There's already a Missisquoi river that this merges into.

Thanks for working on this.

Red Rocks Park has actually already been on the map since 2010, see relation/575076 .

I've gone ahead and removed these extra copies.

Hi,

I have removed this with changeset/45948980.

Why did you add this? There is no river here, and if there were it would be flowing uphill the way you marked it.

Only reverted the survey_point nodes.