Hey, I reverted this change in changeset/166573750. I recently went through this intersection and it's been reconfigured from what appears on aerial imagery. In other words OSM was more up-to-date than the available imagery. In the future it might be good to check for tags like demolished:highway=footway before readding something, since I left that as a hint that the aerial imagery is out of date.

OK, that makes sense. I mostly didn't like that there were two park objects mapped on top of each other. Based on what you said, I removed leisure=park from the Estate and retagged it as historic=estate (only 8 uses per taginfo, but I couldn't find a better historic=* tag): changeset/166497969. I also added some additional tagging for its NRHP status. Let me know if that looks reasonable.

Hi, I noticed you added a new park here for the Tregaron Conservancy. The whole estate including the school was already mapped as a park: way/295652629. These seem redundant, did you mean to add a duplicate? Or should the old one be deleted/retagged? I'm not sure if the school is technically part of the conservancy or not...

No worries! That's totally the format of typical descriptive OSM trail names, so it's understandable to usually be removing stuff like that on sight.

Hey it looks like you removed (Strenuous) and (Moderate) from the names of the branches of the Western Ridge Trail. I was by here recently and it's worth noting that these aren't just ad hoc descriptions, they're actually signed on the ground. Here's a photo of the sign (node/12259289996) at one end: https://npplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Rock-Creek-130.jpg.

I don't know if there's a better way than parentheses to include them, but I do think Strenuous and Moderate belong in the OSM names somewhere.

Hello, I noticed that this and some of your other imports nearby seem to have added duplicate nodes for Hudson Bay surrounding the island: node/11984448996, node/11984440129, node/11986418090, node/11986478828. Were these meant to be something else, or can they be safely deleted?

It appears this is the case with all your recent edits. This area's buildings were fairly completely mapped already, other mappers have just already changed the buildings to destroyed:building. Probably all your recent changesets in this area should be reverted.

Hi, please note that you are mapping buildings on top of buildings that have already been marked as destroyed. For instance: way/1350607793 duplicates way/420509388. Please check to make sure a destroyed:building does not already exist before mapping. I think this changeset should be reverted.

Hi, just FYI that building=destroyed is not a supported way of tagging a destroyed building. I've changed them to destroyed:building=yes, following the wiki guidance (osm.wiki/Lifecycle_prefix), in changeset/161171074.

Hi, can you clarify what source you're using for this information? In an uncertain environment, I think the last thing we want to do as OSM is to communicate that houses have been destroyed without firm evidence. I also don't think that name=Wildfire damage is exactly right, maybe destroyed:by= or something?

Bethesda is not a town boundary, it is a CDP. There probably should not be a border_type or place tag on this boundary TBH

No problem! I don't think it's particularly urgent

Hey thanks for importing these, great to have better bus stop coverage in DC! I did notice one thing about these nodes, however: it looks like you haven't added the typical PTv2 tagging, namely public_transport=platform + bus=yes. Was there a reason you skipped these? Beyond prompting a warning in iD for each node asking to add them, I think some renderers and transit analysis programs might use these tags rather than highway=bus_stop.

Huh, that random rectangle in the middle of a TV studio is a weird one. But looking at other official maps, like https://data.lacity.org/City-Infrastructure-Service-Requests/City-Boundary-of-Los-Angeles/ppge-zfr4, it seems real! I guess it's just one parcel that never got annexed for some reason, though I wasn't able to find any specific information about it anywhere. It should probably be an "inner" member of the Los Angeles city relation.

Thanks for the quick response, appreciate it! It seems like you've been adding a lot of good details to the map, so keep it up!

Hi, thanks for adding to the map in the area! I noticed you have created neighborhood boundaries for Sawtelle, Century City, and Westwood sourced from the LA Times's Mapping LA project.

While I appreciate the effort it probably took to draw these, I find the Mapping LA boundaries unsuitable for OSM and think they should be removed. These boundaries were essentially made up for the purposes of a newspaper project and have no official status. Moreover, these boundaries are copyrighted with a CC BY 4.0 license, which is incompatible with OSM without a waiver from the LA Times.

Anecdotally, I also tend to find the Mapping LA boundaries to be inaccurate, or at least oversimplified (as a former Sawtelle resident, I would not consider anything south of the 10 or east of the 405 to be Sawtelle, for instance). I don't think that LA has any well-defined neighborhood boundaries, so I've tended to map them as nodes near their centers, per place=neighbourhood#Node_or_area?. At the very least, any boundaries drawn should not be boundary=administrative, admin_level=9, because they are not administrative boundaries.

Also, I am changing Sawtelle back to place=suburb. Note that in OSM, "suburb" (place=suburb) just means a very large neighborhood within a city, not the US English definition of a separate outlying town. Sawtelle is definitely bigger than a place=neighbourhood.

That seems sensible. I'm not sure I agree with adding leisure=park as well though, which is meant for landscaped, city parks used for general recreation: leisure=park. Does Fairplex really match this description?

Hi, welcome to OpenStreetMap! Can you clarify what this line was for, or were you just testing things out? Please note that changesets immediately go live in the database, so you should only upload real-world information.

Best,
Will

Reverted in changeset/155036115

Hello, welcome to OpenStreetMap. Please note that your edits to the map are live on the database, so please do not upload tests that delete correct data. I am reverting your edit since I am fairly sure these features still exist.
Best,
Will