Hey, just letting you know this change seems to have put some strange names on a few towns. I undid the changes (changeset/43848768), which also undid the hostel that you created here.

I wasn't sure if the hostel was supposed to be there (aerial photography showed a bunch of trees and no nearby buildings that looked like a hostel to me) but if it was, sorry about that and feel free to add it back.

I have reverted this changeset in changeset/43677142. The courthouse was better aligned before, and the building next to the courthouse definitely exists, I went past it yesterday,

Actually I'm seeing that you moved almost every node you touched. Is something wrong with your editor? You should fix it to not move the nodes.

Hey, looks like you accidentally moved a node and messed up some roads with this edit. See https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=43659171

Also, it looks like the change to Stowe is wrong. It looks like there's two wikidata entries that need to be merged, but the one previously linked in osm is the better one.

That's a really cool survey! Can I ask where the list of what you asked about came from? Some of them I wouldn't even know to ask about, and I would have expected a "campus district" or "university district" instead of a UVM-specific neighborhood.

You might want to recheck this edit, it doesn't look correct.

Do you have a source for these neighborhood names (in this and later edits)? Lots of names I haven't heard before. I do see real estate listings with them so I'm not questioning accuracy, but I'm wondering if there's a list somewhere or if it's just local knowledge.

I investigated a bit more. Some of the cleanups you're doing are great, but others (like this one) are not. You really should be discussing these kinds of changes in advance, to avoid removing the work that other people have done. I've posted to the mailing list https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-November/074913.html to follow up in a place with a wider variety of opinions.

I don't understand this change. That looks like a residential_link to me. You're doing this all over the world? Did you discuss anywhere first?

This seems like an undiscussed mass edit. Please note that you're supposed to talk about these kinds of things on the imports mailing list first, and many similar edits that aren't discussed get reverted by the DWG.

For everyone else: In all of the cases I checked (5), the change here is changing "denomination=non-denominational" to "denomination=nondenominational" (removal of the hyphen).

highway=bus_guideway says that bus_guideway is for when buses run on a specialized track that steers them automatically. On the Bing imagery this looks more like a normal road. Should it be changed to highway=service access=no bus=yes?

What does "width=-1" (on the way) mean?

There's a lot of features added in this changeset that don't have any information except "area=yes". Did you mean to tag them as buildings?

You changed the name of a bike relation here from "Champlain Bikeway" to "Terry Gordon Recreation Path". Are you sure about that change? I'm not particularly familiar with it, but all the references I can find to a Terry Gordon path are specific to Plattsburgh, whereas this relation is much larger.

Hi, welcome to OpenStreetMap and thanks for adding this data!

Based on your user name, it looks like you're adding this information on behalf of a client, is that right?

In OSM, we have a number of conventions for how data is entered. Keeping things consistent makes the data searchable and makes it so people can build applications that use the data usefully.

One important convention is that things are given a tag that describes what they are. For example, a shoe store would be given the tag shop=shoes (shop=shoes), or a restaurant would be given the tag amenity=restaurant (amenity=restaurant). Doing this lets people do searches like "what are the restaurants in my area?".

For Casella, it looks like an appropriate tag might be amenity=waste_transfer_station (amenity=waste_transfer_station). However, if these (or some of these) aren't waste transfer stations but just offices, the tag office=company might be appropriate.

Another important thing is to use the same tag as other people use for a given type of data. Here, you've set "Main Phone=207-561-6289", but the convention in OSM is to use "phone=207-561-6289". Using the same tag as everyone else makes the phone number usable in applications--for example, my phone's GPS would let me call the store directly.

Another case where using the same convention as everyone else would help is for hours. If you follow the convention set at opening_hours=*, software (again, including GPS) will be able to let someone know if a place is currently open. Similarly, there's a convention for setting addresses on things, which can be seen at addr=*.

A very important one: everything in OSM uses the tag "name" to set something's name. That's all lowercase! Using the uppercase "Name" means it won't be searchable!

If you have any questions there are a whole bunch of ways to get help. osm.wiki/How_to_contribute lists a lot of them. Hope this helps!

Reverted in changeset/33472229.

You've made some of these changes before, for example in changeset/32940036. They don't match reality. For example, for the parking lot on Trinity Campus at UVM, every available aerial imagery I can find shows what is currently mapped in OSM, and I personally verified that it's correct a few months ago, but you've tried to change it several times.

Why are you trying to put this incorrect data in?

See changeset discussion on changeset/33466513 for context

Hi, I'm a little confused by this change. Is there an actual path (i.e. something you can walk on) here, that's named "SATEC SRTS MAP"? Or if not, what's being added to the map here and what's actually on the ground in these locations?

Looks like it was already fixed in https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=32665804

Reverted in changeset/32954650.

Quarry Hill road does not have a loop there in any imagery I can find. Why do you think it has that loop? Please use changeset comments, source tags, or really ANY way of giving reasoning for your edits. Also, this change removed the name from part of Quarry Hill Road.