Hi TheRealDaymill,

Sorry, I know this was awhile ago. Is there a reason why you removed `religion=christian` from Central Community Church?

Should I add it back?

Thanks,
nullroute

Hi wx4caster,

Thanks for your first edit!

I'm not sure an operator is really necessary as I believe Flock Safety technically operates the cameras and provides the data to law enforcement. So just setting it as the manufacturer should be sufficient.

Take at look at this Flock Safety camera which was added by another user using the DeFlock website:

node/13323202101

It should give you an idea on the correct values for the tags for these cameras.

Thanks,
nullroute

Hi Melissa69420,

I have been reviewing your edits to OpenStreetMap. I see you have added some Flock Safety automated license plate reader cameras.

The locations where you have added the cameras to the map seem to not be correct.

Could you verify you added the cameras to the location where you intended?

Thanks,
nullroute

Hi tippetariuslattice,

Thank you for your contributions. I think it is great you are adding information for these features from posted signs.

I just wanted to point you to some things from the Wiki to ensure your edits conform to OSM standards.

I noticed some of your edits are using abbreviations in the addr:street value. Abbreviations in general shouldn't be used here.

See:
osm.wiki/Abbreviations

Ideally, street names you enter for features should match the addr:street on the road where the feature is located (unless of course the street name in OSM is wrong).

I also noticed in some of your edits you are including the house number in the addr:street value. Make sure you place that in addr:housenumber instead.

Finally, there is a preferred format for phone numbers in the United States. That is documented here:

phone=*#United_States

It is a minor thing and I don't think it is wrong to use a different format but I think ideally people should use the preferred format.

Thanks!

Hello ICT_maps, it seems we are both pretty active in the Wichita area.

I have some concerns about how you map landuses. I noticed you frequently attach them to nodes on roadways and even to other features like power lines.

In OSM, roadways are mapped as a one-dimensional line which represents the center line of the roadway. Landuses by their nature represent areas. When you attach a landuse to the center of a roadway, you are implying the landuse extends out into the road which is a less accurate way to map the landuse.

I have also noticed sometimes you attach one or two of the nodes of the landuse to the roadway but skip adding all the in-between nodes on the roadway to the landuse. This can cause problems if someone comes in after you and tries to add an unmapped side street. When they click on the way which they think is the roadway but might in-fact be your landuse, the side road will be attached to the landuse and not the roadway. The only way to separate them would be to zoom in and very carefully attach the node to the correct way.

See this relevant page on the wiki:

landuse=residential#Separation_from_roads

> It is strongly discouraged to glue landuse to road lines. Glued landuse makes the data much harder to work with. It is better to have the landuse boundary stop at the edge of the road, the edge of right of way, or overlap the road completely if the same landuse continues on the other side.

Personally, I try to avoid attaching landuses to roadways whenever possible unless it is a special case condition where it makes sense as it tends to make the map more difficult to maintain for others.

In fact unless a feature clearly boarders another feature I try to avoid attaching them together entirely. This keeps each feature independent which makes the map easier to update and maintain. Especially if someone comes in after me to improve the accuracy of the map.

Obviously I am not perfect and I am sure some of my edits have problems. I don't think what you are doing is necessarily wrong, but I don't think it's the best practice. Let me know if you have any input or a different perspective on this.

Thanks,
nullroute

Hi Maddie, thanks for your update. I was looking at your changeset, and I had some questions.

I was wondering how you know this section of creek is part of the Cowskin. Clearly it dumps into the Cowskin.

However, I took a look at Google Streetview, and I found a sign on South 119th Street West that references the "Calfskin Flood Improvement Project."

It also seems to be labeled as the Calfskin not Cowskin on the Wichita GIS Viewer.

Here is a link to the GIS viewer from the city:

https://city-of-wichita-gis-cityofwichita.hub.arcgis.com/

Am I missing something? Thanks.

Sorry the changeset comment should have read:

Add a couple buildings.

Hi, new OSM mapper here. I was adding a theme park in Wichita and I used Worlds of Fun as a reference.

I noticed that the new theme park boundary that you added (way/1271569173) nests a more detailed existing theme park boundary for Worlds of Fun. Perhaps this changeset should be reverted?