Hi, it looks like you've added an "Ishihara Park" at the intersection of Stewart and Delaware. But Ishihara Park is already mapped a block north of your new area: way/468462659. Is that area what you meant to map?

Best,
Will

Hi, welcome to OSM! Please note that highway=trunk is defined in California, as in most of the US, as a key long distance connection, not by the presence of an interchange. This definition is documented in the wiki: osm.wiki/California/2022_Highway_Classification_Guidelines. Therefore, I don't think this short stretch of Olympic warrants a classification change.

Also, it looks like you've dragged the sidewalk near La Cienega/Obama so that it crosses the road. Please take care when modifying ways so that they all align with each other.

Thanks!
Will

Hi, why did you delete this neighborhood? It certainly exists in real life and is called this by residents.

Hi, thanks for doing what appears to be a lot of hard work adding all these service roads around the country. In the future, do you think you could try to keep your changesets at bit more local, or maybe state-by-state or region-by-region at least? Having these US-spanning changesets makes it hard for others to tell what's actually been changed where.

Thanks!
Will

Old changeset I know, but I've just come across this. Are you sure this portion isn't supposed to be HI 2000? I think I saw signs with 2000, and it looks like 200 goes down Kaumana Dr into downtown Hilo. See also wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Route_200#Related_route

Great, thanks for fixing these so fast!

I'll try raising the issue on OSMUS Slack, I think I've seen folks there post about this effort.

Will

Hi again,
Browsing around a little more, it seems like the problem of defunct KFCs still being in AllThePlaces that I pointed out in changeset/152662539 is a general one. I pretty quickly found at least two more that appear to be permanently closed: node/11980218990 and node/11980210168. They are both also listed as closed 24/7 on the provided websites, maybe that's something the challenge can check for?

Best,
Will

Hi, thanks for doing this import, it seems like it's mostly adding good data to the map. However, in my local area I noticed a couple of errors in these data:
-This KFC doesn't exist: node/11980259978. It was torn down in 2018 according to streetlevel imagery, and something else (a Starbucks) was built in its place. Weirdly, in the website you appear to be scraping from, it shows the opening hours as closed 24/7: https://locations.kfc.com/ca/los-angeles/3061-sawtelle-blvd.
-This Panda Express is in the wrong place: node/11980259979. It looks like the website is referring to this already-mapped one: node/441936006, but for some reason you've placed it directly on top of the Culver City place=town node. Maybe an issue with the geolocator you/ATP is using? I notice someone else added a note to the existing one that they couldn't find it in ATP. In any case, there's certainly no Panda Express in the middle of the road next to Culver City Hall, nowhere near its street address.

Hopefully these edge cases can help you/the challenge designers better identify more false positives in your data.

Will

Hi, welcome to OpenStreetMap! Thanks for adding this business to the map. However, I noticed a few issues with your edits, which I tried to correct in my past change, but that you seem to have switched back:
-Your description is very subjective, reading as if it were advertising or Search Engine Optimization. This is not what OSM's description= tag is for, see description=*#No_advertising. Please kindly refrain from adding this sort of thing to the description.

-You also added back the "keywords" tag. This tag has no documented meaning in OSM. Are you aware of a service that uses these keywords, or one that is prompting you to add it to the shop? It would be useful for the community to know about.

-The value of the shop= tag is supposed to describe the type of product sold. There are quite a lot of possible values (see shop=*#Shop-specific_information), but "Retail" does not really describe the type of shop. From the website it seems like LA Mart sells mostly decor, so I thought interior_decoration would fit, but maybe there's a more accurate value? If you could describe what is sold in a comment here, that would be helpful.

-A small detail, but the correct address format in OSM is to keep the street name alone in addr:street, whereas the unit number should go in addr:unit. It looks like you put the unit number back in the street name. Again, is there some service that's prompting you to do that?

Again, welcome to the community, and I hope we can work together to properly represent your business while conforming to OSM standards. Please let me know if there's anything I can help with!

Will

Hi, welcome to OpenStreetMap! Is there really a "pond" here? From Bing aerial imagery it looks like a parking lot, is the pond underneath?

It looks like in other changes you added multiple ponds to this complex. I only see one in the middle, and it looks more like a swimming pool (leisure=swimming_pool). Is that what you might have meant?

Best,
Will

No problem! I moved the info you added over to the existing building in this change: changeset/151655920#map=18/34.10194/-118.33940. Thanks for contributing!

Hi, welcome to OpenStreetMap! It looks like Madame Tussaud's is already mapped a couple of blocks over: way/424105889, next to the Chinese Theatre. Is that what you meant to map? I think the existing location is the correct one, unless it's moved since I've last been in the area?

Best,
Will

I happened to be driving by here today, and I verified that the signs prohibit parking overnight, not during the day. I've fixed it in changeset/150603883

Hey, it looks like on this change you added a no parking restriction from 10am-6pm along PCH. Is that really what is signed? Not to doubt you if you just surveyed it, but I feel like I always see cars parked there during the day. Are you sure it wasn't maybe no parking 10pm-6am (i.e. 22:00-06:00 rather than 10:00-18:00) or something? That would seem more likely to me if they don't want people there overnight. The Bing streetside was a bit blurry for me to make out though.
Thanks!
Will

Hi, welcome to OpenStreetMap! Quick question: did you mean to delete LaSorted Pizza or was that an accident?

Hey, yeah I'm leaning that Avalon is now appropriately tagged. What my comment is getting at is that this area has a lot of close-by parallel primaries: Vermont, Figueroa, Main, Avalon and Central. It's possible that their all roughly equally important for crosstown traffic and all thus deserve to be highway=primary. But I tend to find that a lot of the LA area has "too many primaries", and that a more hierarchical scheme, where there are more secondaries than primaries for example, is often a better description of the real relationship between streets in the area.

From aerial imagery, it seems like much of Main, Fig, and Central in this area are two through lanes each direction, are they all really equal in importance to Vermont and Avalon, which appear to have 3? I'd guess at least one or two of them is not, but I lack the on-the-ground knowledge to confidently say which. (Though that's not to imply that every road should be tagged strictly by its lane count: there can be relatively wide, unimportant roads and relatively narrow, important roads. But lane count is often correlated with importance)

Hi Channers,
No worries! I added the restaurant as a node at the correct corner in this changeset: changeset/150046439. Here's the restaurant: node/11819502353. Hope that looks ok!

Will

Hi, thanks for adding this sushi restaurant to the map! It looks like you might've accidentally changed the whole block to a building in this edit, did you mean to add the restaurant to one building?

Best,
Will

Hi, welcome to OpenStreetMap! In this change, it looks like you added crime=robbery and date=* tags to a variety of roads and businesses. Can you clarify what purpose these serve? Note that OpenStreetMap is a public database that records real-world data.

-Will