Ok! Best way to map that is probably to have two lakes connected by a single line tagged as a waterway tunnel. If you really need to represent a building with water underneath, you can also tag the water as layer=-1 but that's hacky and unreliable.

Cool! You requested review, so:
- parking aisles aren't for the main way to access a building, but for the inner grids of large parking lots where the only reason you'll drive there is for parking. A regular service road is fine and preferred for the main way in and out of a parking lot.
- footways should be connected to something: usually a building (you can tag the intersecting node as a building entrance) or a road, that way navigation apps can use it for routing.
- water shouldn't intersect buildings or footpaths or roads without a tunnel or bridge. In this case it looks like the Northwest building maybe straddles two "lakes" rather than the lake actually going underneath? You can mark the paths over the water as bridges as well.
That's about it, thanks for the contribution!
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Thanks for your contributions! The shape of the Uplands Preserve on this website ( https://www.sonomaopenspace.org/lands/?property=76 ) doesn't match the shape in your changeset, do you have a source for the shape? Also, the description of an element in OSM should be about a sentence long and contain only critical information, details can be found by users clicking on the linked website.

Thanks again!
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Hi there, this is a dangerous edit, I have fixed it but Baker Avenue's sidewalk does not have a pedestrian crossing with HWY 101; it's a bridge. This edit would basically have people's GPSes assuming that there's a pedestrian crosswalk crossing 7 lanes of interstate, which isn't the case. I've changed the elevated segment of sidewalk to be a bridge to correct this: changeset/109283174
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Hi Karthoo! I noticed you had Rainbow Connection listed as lgbt=only however as far as I can tell it's lgbt oriented but not necessarily exclusive (i.e. others are "practically banned" per the wiki). do you have better knowledge of this location?

Ah gotcha no biggie, obviously if you surveyed in person that is the most authoritative. (I'm also a big fan of looking at mailboxes!)

your latest change looks good!

some local examples of diverse parking options:

437 College Ave: just service roads in and out

4th Street near D Street: parking lane tagging (with splits so that it's not tagged along the whole way)

2300 Mendocino Ave: large lots with parking aisles
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Hi Steven! See my comment on your previous changeset, but again you've got a parking_aisle way that is overlapping and connected to a separate highway way. This isn't how that works. Again thanks for all your work! way/945235382
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Hey FYI when you're conflating, pay special care not to delete good info. This node for 1532 Brookside Drive #A for example seems to refer to a "granny unit" and was placed over a separate building from 1532 Brookside Drive proper, and yet was deleted. A similar thing happened with 631 Codding Drive as well. Check out tools like OSMCha.org for better ways of visualizing changesets if that helps. Thanks for all your hard work locally!

node/8413909445
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Also as you can see here, user_5359 has fixed most of these issues for you. Just please review what was done so you can know better for the future :) changeset/105044276
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Thank you so much for your contributions to the schools in OSM! You requested a review and I noticed some tagging improvements that can be made:

- please avoid having areas and landuses like school grounds share nodes with buildings: the moment that someone wants to include a parking lot or additional building or sidewalk or fence in the school grounds, or adjust a building, or turn the school grounds/buildings into a relation, suddenly a bunch of unrelated stuff is glued together and it takes effort to messily unglue.

- somehow you seem to have parking_aisles and service roads partially overlapping, especially one case I can see north of the baseball field. parking_aisle isn't intended to be a way that overlaps anything else: to better achieve what you did would be to create two nodes inside of the service road, split the service road at each node, and then edit the service road in between those nodes to have the appropriate tags, instead of just drawing a new way on top of the existing one. however even that isn't right, because per the wiki parking_aisle is only intended for roads whose *only* purpose is to find a parking spot (like in big gridlike mall lots), not roads that people use to get in and out of an area that also have parking. the best way to represent a sort of alleyway with parking on one side is either a service_road split and tagged with "parking:lane:left=perpendicular" for the appropriate parts, or a service_road that enters into a "amenity=parking" area like you've done elsewhere. (people tend to overuse the driveway and parking_aisle tags: it's okay to have most entrances/exits to buildings just be plain service roads, nothing will break.) to fix the overlapping road piece, click on the parking_aisle nodes, choose Disconnect, move the parking_aisle out of the way and delete it, and then proceed to split/tag the service road as appropriate. (nodes and ways in OSM should generally not overlap or connect unless they are really two things that really overlap or connect. tons of validation errors happen when i.e. roads touch buildings or pass over water/barriers without an appropriate tags for the connection or bridge. the school grounds area sharing nodes with buildings would probably also show up as a warning.)

- go ahead and merge the Ridgway High School POI node with the School Grounds if you like. if there's one address for the entire school, go ahead and merge the address POI node with the grounds (or appropriate building, or building-relation) as well, though this is somewhat optional (it's just good to avoid duplication of i.e. objects named Ridgway High School, but since we did a local address POI import sometimes it's ok to just let those POIs hang out as long as, again, there's no duplication or omission.)

thanks again for your contributions! i highly suggest reviewing the wiki as much as possible, it's very informative.

On further review there are some other nitpicky bits to be aware of:

- opening_hours has a special format, instead of Monday – Friday (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM) you should enter Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00 in order for people's apps to be able to understand correctly. (Click on the (i) and View Documentation to see the wiki pages for tags you're unfamiliar with, the wiki is essential reading.)

- the format for phone is +17072368048 without hyphens or parenthesis

- description should only be a few words and not marketing-ese at all per the wiki. For example you can probably leave it blank, but if it's essential you could write something like "Digital marketing agency and coworking space." If people need any more info than that, that's what the website link is for.

It's important to fix all the issues I've mentioned or they'll be fixed for you: apps have a hard time with nonstandard tag formats, and long descriptions can really clutter up the view in some apps. (Just imagine if Google Maps had a full paragraph describing the menu, overlaid on top of every Taco Bell in the country. It'd be unusable.)

Thanks again!

Hi there thanks for your contribution! A few questions or tips:

- am I able to walk into your front door and pay you to use a computer or wifi for a few hours? If so, your website might want to reflect that, and if not then you're not an internet_cafe. Probably you're a office=advertising_agency .
- for addr:unit, you just want the identifier and not the name. So addr:unit=18, without the word "Suite."

Thanks again and as internet marketers please remember to keep all edits useful to map users and don't try to flood your edits with keywords for SEO. If Google Maps or Wikipedia would consider an edit to be spammy, OSM will too. Just the facts, no lengthy editorializing :) thanks again!

Hi there! Yes to my knowledge this hotel is now open for business (especially given that you have a phone number for it now) -- when I tagged it as construction many months ago it was barely built. Obviously it will require some local knowledge or viewing the company website to really make a good determination, but OpenStreetMap should always reflect the visible on-the-ground reality as much as possible.

You did nothing wrong besides removing the building tag from the building. I just additionally made some changes to this area so that it is as accurate as I can make it.

Thank you for your contributions!

Hi Riyana and thanks for the contribution, however it's important not to remove the building tag from buildings. Also, since the construction is completed, we can remove the construction landuse. Finally I did some cleanup to remove the duplicate POI and move the 210 5th St address POI outside of the hotel which has a new address. You can see my changes here: changeset/102947025

Hi there thanks for your contribution! Please consider mapping all buildings on a property OR mapping the boundary of the property for use in a future relation. Many apartments, hotels and motels consist of multiple buildings and so function more like a campus than a single point or structure.

Hi there, thank you for your contributions! FYI according to the wiki the parking_aisle tag should be reserved for service roads that are only used to park in (like the gridlike aisles in front of grocery stores) and not used for service roads that are the main way of getting into or out of a parking lot or business. In other words, a parking aisle should probably never intersect with a street or be present outside of a parking lot.

No biggie just thought I'd share. Thanks again!

No prob! I'll try to wrap this up within 30 days, please to feel free to reach out when you have energy again. I'm always happy to collaborate or help with other local mappers!

Let me know ~12hrs before you make significant changes, I'm in the middle of almost executing this import (you can review my .OSM files for an idea of what's about to be imported, namely the items in the clean folder) https://github.com/zyphlar/sonoma-import/tree/main/out -- my thinking is that either before or after the sonoma import, we do a pass to conflate your address points with building addresses... which should probably be done automatically somehow, but with great care to i.e. merge house addresses but keep the individual address points in strip malls that are valuable. I'm happy to coordinateor work together!

Oh and always happy to have another local mapper!