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Adding data to Cypress Cay and Gateway Elementary
Posted by iansan5653 on 30 August 2014 in English.I have added a ton of data to Cypress Cay, Fort Myers, FL and Gateway Elementary School, which is next door. Before I continue, I’d like some feedback on what I have added. I am relatively new to this, so I just need to know what I am doing wrong/right. Please check it out and give feedback.
Discussion
Comment from russdeffner on 30 August 2014 at 16:03
Hello and welcome to OSM,
For the most part your edits look pretty good. I adjusted a few things such as the track/bus lane, and merged multi-segment footways into one. Take a look and feel free to ask questions. One thing I noticed is your most recent edits you stopped using the changeset comment, please leave a comment so it’s easier for other mappers to figure out what you were intending. Thanks for contributing!
Happy Mapping, Russ
Comment from iansan5653 on 30 August 2014 at 16:05
My most recent edits were using MapRoulette, so I had forgotten to add the changeset. Thanks for fixing the track, I really wasn’t sure how to do that.
Comment from Sanderd17 on 30 August 2014 at 16:19
russdeffner, why do you put tags on the outer way instead of the relation?
It’s highly recommended to put tags on the relation when you want it rendered with a hole in it. Certain data users (s.a. the main renderer, sadly) allow tagging the outer way as a fallback, but it’s not guaranteed that other data users will support this.
If you want the hole rendered, you should tag the multipolygon.
iansan: your edits look mostly ok. When you’ve edited a tiger road (imported from the US tiger dataset), you should change the tiger:reviewed=no to “yes” (or completely remove that tag), since you know it’s nicely aligned now.
I also see you put layer=1 on one of the buildings. The layer tag is used to show height relations of different object (f.e. two bridges above each other, which one is the highest). By putting layer=1 on the building, you seem to imply that it’s possible to walk under that building, while I doubt that (layer=0 is the ground, but there’s no need to tag that on all objects). So it would be best to remove that tag.
The rest seems pretty fine, thanks ;)
Comment from iansan5653 on 30 August 2014 at 16:42
you can walk under the building, there is a tunnel (really a covered open-air hallway) through it. A walking path has been made underneath it. It is on the ground though. I didn’t import a tiger road, I drew it myself.
Comment from Sanderd17 on 30 August 2014 at 18:38
Oh, then the layer tag is correct.
About that Tiger. A few years ago (the start of OSM in the US), the Tiger dataset could be used from the US government. Its quality isn’t very good (there are lots of problems with non-connected roads, and even non-existing roads). So it was imported as “needs a review”.
In other words, it was imported with the tag tiger:reviewed=no. Whenever you correct a road having such a tag, or you see someone else corrected it, but didn’t switch the flag, you may set it to “yes” (and it’s even better if you do).
You can see those tags by scrolling down, and clicking on the “all tags” link.
Though I thought iD would show that difference a bit better. JOSM (the offline editor) highlights all non-reviewed tiger roads, so it’s easy to find them and switch the flag.
Comment from russdeffner on 5 September 2014 at 20:31
Sandered17: I just added the multipolygon relation, didn’t adjust/move the tags since it was a ‘simple’ multipolygon; please feel free to change.