OpenStreetMap (OSM) Changeset Discussions

Changeset	No.	Date	Contributor	Comment

52160098 by Minh Nguyen	1	2017-09-19 01:57:39 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Typo: that should’ve been Almaden, not, “Los Amaden”, in the changeset comment.

52130591 by doug_sfba	1	2017-09-18 23:50:04 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Hi Doug, note that the maxspeed tag is in kilometers per hour by default. If you want to express a speed limit in miles per hour, please indicate the unit, e.g., maxspeed=25 mph. Thanks!

52139291 by Minh Nguyen	1	2017-09-18 10:07:24 UTC	Minh Nguyen	The newest aerial imagery available was Bing from a year ago, so I reached out to Niederman Family Farm on Facebook asking permission to use <https://nebula.wsimg.com/01699009e4320ed6fb661a0d4f3de60e?AccessKeyId=870A82DEF36C14F24C71> (from their homepage) as a source, and they agreed.

52128996 by Minh Nguyen	1	2017-09-17 23:41:03 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Since the available imagery providers are years out of date, I used <https://www.facebook.com/WendelFarms/photos/a.602837743081207.1073741829.602316163133365/1662595113772126/?type=3&theater> as the source for this changeset. Before starting this changeset, I contacted Wendel Farms on Face...

50955144 by Edward F	1	2017-08-09 00:00:03 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Hi Edward, thanks for your contributions to OSM! Always happy to see more Cincinnatians around here. :-) I noticed that you added a driveway but connected it to a power line. Since the two features aren’t connected in reality, please avoid connecting them to OSM. If you make an accidental c...
	2	2017-08-31 05:24:22 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Fixed in changeset 51598525.

50362820 by 3vivekb	1	2017-07-18 05:23:24 UTC	stevea	I think you should change (fix!) your tripplanner then. Not make changes to the map data which make a accurate tags no longer true. Please revert this change and fix your software, not tag the data with lies so you don't have to.
	2	2017-07-19 21:45:27 UTC	Minh Nguyen	FWIW, a software fix is being tracked in <https://github.com/opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner/issues/2471>.
	3	2017-07-19 21:53:27 UTC	stevea	Nice work, Minh and everybody involved!

14303214 by stevea	1	2017-07-04 21:05:30 UTC	Minh Nguyen	While “CHP Officer John Pedro Memorial Highway” may be signposted in a few spots, it isn’t signposted prominently or frequently enough for general usage. Changeset 50044505 moves it to the official_name tag and restores “Cabrillo Highway”, which is the legislatively def...
	2	2017-07-05 08:49:25 UTC	stevea	Really, Minh? OK, if you think this is more correct. Are you sure you're not checking on many of or all my edits since 2009? I do live here and see the signs (I was just driving this stretch of highway TODAY), but if you want to "localize" this and call the whole stretch Cabrillo Highwa...
	3	2017-07-05 09:09:57 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Haha, no, I’m not stalking you! :-D A coworker of mine pointed out how the Mapbox Navigation SDK was trying to say, “Continue on CA 1, CHP Officer John Pedro Memorial Highway, for 14 miles”. It took almost 7 seconds to say this mouthful, and the corresponding label in the UI shrank...
	4	2017-07-05 09:32:26 UTC	stevea	So, am I understanding you to say is that tagging what the signs say is "wrong" (or less right than"on the ground verifiable") and that what the name tag SHOULD say for corporate consumers of OSM data (like Mapbox and Foursquare...) is what corporate consumers of OSM data like Ma...
	5	2017-07-05 10:15:02 UTC	Minh Nguyen	No, that’s not at all what I’m saying. Just to be clear, I believe we’re talking about these signs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/navymailman/5637080430 As opposed to these signs, which I think do call for using the name tag: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/t/sign-pacific-co...
	6	2017-07-05 10:19:41 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Incidentally, the Mapbox Navigation SDK is open source, and so is the routing software that powers it: https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/ https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-navigation-ios/ I understand that it’d be inappropriate to tailor our mapping to any particular router, b...
	7	2017-07-05 18:37:09 UTC	stevea	Thanks for the detailed explanation, Minh, though I believe you walk a very fine line here.

49776093 by e pt	1	2017-06-28 22:37:54 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Phase II of the BART Silicon Valley project has not yet begun construction. In fact, funding hasn’t even been fully secured for it yet.
	2	2017-06-28 22:41:44 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Construction won’t begin until late 2018: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/01/23/are-you-ready-for-a-subway-digging-for-bart-begins.html Reverted in changeset 49904054. Please let me know if you have any questions.

49513049 by pflier	1	2017-06-14 09:42:47 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Thanks for your contributions! As you add stoplines, please remember to connect them to the roadways, as that would be more topologically correct. In fact, since most roadways in OSM are modeled as lines rather than areas, most existing software prefers that stopping positions be mapped as [highw...

49263713 by Minh Nguyen	1	2017-06-05 09:24:48 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Also added or adjusted several businesses downtown.

47310737 by njaard	1	2017-04-05 03:58:41 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Thanks!

45111511 by haferje	1	2017-03-19 03:22:04 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Thanks for this contribution. FYI, OSM isn’t allowed to accept data derived from Google Maps due to copyright issues, although it’s OK to use it to corroborate information you obtain through other means. It’s unfortunate that the Bing aerial imagery is a bit outdated in this area. ...

46688558 by Minh Nguyen	1	2017-03-08 18:29:50 UTC	Minh Nguyen	This resolves note #876899.

46544559 by Minh Nguyen	1	2017-03-03 09:55:45 UTC	Minh Nguyen	The GNIS import included some Catholic parish names in the West Side of Cincinnati. Locals will use these names in cases where the parish still exists, but St. Jacob’s no longer appears to be a parish. (St. James is right around the block from this POI.)

46181640 by G1ng3r	1	2017-02-19 05:30:50 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Do you know the names of this subdivision, by any chance? Named landuse areas would help to make this part of the map easier to navigate.
	2	2017-02-19 05:31:16 UTC	Minh Nguyen	(The name of this subdivision, that is.)

45959864 by 1112Stitch	1	2017-02-12 07:03:42 UTC	Minh Nguyen	These changes have been reverted in changeset 46012761. You’re welcome to add parks and sidewalks to OpenStreetMap, but please make sure they reflect the real world. In experimenting with this part of the map, you moved some streets way out of place, potentially impacting routing. There are pl...

15391147 by Minh Nguyen	1	2017-01-20 14:06:07 UTC	Johnny Mapperseed	Yo! Is it cool if I add a wikidata tag to the stadium? Thank you!
	2	2017-01-20 15:54:21 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Hi, absolutely – this area could use a lot more Wikidata tags. 😀

44906000 by beweta	1	2017-01-11 11:00:41 UTC	Minh Nguyen	I’m a bit puzzled by your addition of <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4589615728>. The website you tagged doesn’t make it sound like much of a museum.

40647237 by XMAS82	1	2016-12-01 20:36:36 UTC	Minh Nguyen	I undid most of this changeset in changeset 44096514. Don’t use the name field in MAPS.ME to replace a Vietnamese name with a description in Italian. If MAPS.ME lacks a way to add a description in the proper description tag, please find a way to add a note instead of modifying the POI. Thank y...

40647315 by XMAS82	1	2016-12-01 20:27:11 UTC	Minh Nguyen	This changeset replaced the Vietnamese name of this museum an the Italian translation. I fixed the issue in changeset 44096307.

43153979 by nammala	1	2016-11-20 04:52:48 UTC	Minh Nguyen	This changeset added the wrong Wikidata entity for Yên Bình. Q8052180 is for a district (huyện), whereas Q10837974 is for that district’s capital town (thị trấn). I’ve clarified the Wikidata entities and also corrected the wikidata tag in changeset 43814653.
	2	2016-11-21 04:21:10 UTC	nammala	Thanks Minh Nguyen for clarifying and correcting it

43142385 by karitotp	1	2016-11-19 19:46:13 UTC	Minh Nguyen	This changeset turned a residential landuse area into a residential street area that covered an entire city. I reverted this change in changeset 43808341.

43190645 by nikhilprabhakar	1	2016-11-19 00:39:13 UTC	Minh Nguyen	I reverted this change in changeset 43785169 because Q10824750 is for a Thanh Hà in a different province. Thanh Hóa province does have two Thanh Hà villages (thôn), but they aren’t in this part of the province. I’ve added a FIXME tag and will re-add wiki tags i...
	2	2016-11-19 00:51:13 UTC	Minh Nguyen	For what it’s worth, this POI was originally part of an import that tagged all places as place=town. Clearly there’s a place here, but the author of the import has said that POIs that don’t make sense should be deleted.
	3	2016-11-21 07:29:26 UTC	nikhilprabhakar	Thanks for the correction Minh. Lemme know if you need any help with the clean up if you are encountering more of this.

43785169 by Minh Nguyen	1	2016-11-19 00:42:06 UTC	Minh Nguyen	See changeset 43190645 for discussion in English.

43683918 by Minh Nguyen	1	2016-11-15 23:24:31 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Specifically, this changeset reverted changeset 43455064.

43455064 by Anthonyfish46	1	2016-11-15 23:24:11 UTC	Minh Nguyen	This changeset deleted buildings instead of adding them. Presumably this was an accident, so I reverted it in changeset 43683918. Please let me know if you have any questions.

41098742 by Nate_Wessel	1	2016-11-02 23:37:02 UTC	Minh Nguyen	That’s a lot of parking in Peebles. 😬
	2	2016-11-03 00:36:29 UTC	Nate_Wessel	Oh gosh. I must have been copy-pasting tags a little too quickly D: Good catch!

39155099 by TAM TRINH CONG	1	2016-09-19 07:37:45 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Tôi đã lùi lại bộ thay đổi này: <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/42263114>.

42262691 by Minh Nguyen	1	2016-09-19 07:15:36 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Bộ thay đổi này lùi lại <http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40491086> vì nó thay đổi tên thị xã thay vì thêm địa điểm khác.

40491086 by Beauty Salon SARAH	1	2016-09-19 07:12:51 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Bạn đã đổi tên thị trấn thay vì thêm salon. Tôi đã lùi lại thay đổi này trong <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/42262691>. Nếu bạn muốn thêm salon, xin nhấn chuột vào nút “Điểm&rd...

42139417 by Minh Nguyen	1	2016-09-14 02:56:50 UTC	Minh Nguyen	s/Walgovel/Waldvogel/

41465224 by Minh Nguyen	1	2016-08-15 11:09:44 UTC	Minh Nguyen	To clarify, the semicolon-merging and lane-splitting was what happened to this road before I cleaned it up.

40621782 by GeoThings	1	2016-07-10 03:41:44 UTC	Minh Nguyen	This was me, accidentally saving a changeset in geoMapTool. I reverted this changeset in 40621796.

36978629 by andygol	1	2016-02-04 21:24:38 UTC	Minh Nguyen	This edit incorrectly moved the highway on-ramp onto the nearby BART tracks. I corrected the mistaken in changeset 37008781.
	2	2016-02-05 09:10:22 UTC	andygol	Thank you Minh for reviewing of my edits 👍. Maybe I accidentally moved this part of ways while dragging the map.

33535247 by Minh Nguyen	1	2016-01-28 17:35:15 UTC	Luis36995	Hi this line is correct, is not like the image bing https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/360916851/history
	2	2016-01-29 07:04:00 UTC	Minh Nguyen	The Bing imagery is quite out of date in San José. I drive down this road frequently and can confirm that the on-ramp was realigned to accommodate more cars during rush hour. In the Bing imagery, you can see the new ramp under construction, along with various construction vehicles.

32632794 by dcs	1	2015-11-08 19:29:41 UTC	maxerickson	I haven't looked at more than a couple, but it looks like a bunch of the refs on ways in this changeset have been set to "IN XX", which I think must be a mistake, as they are in Ohio.
	2	2015-11-09 01:00:17 UTC	Minh Nguyen	re Ohio: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/35181431
	3	2015-11-09 01:20:23 UTC	Minh Nguyen	This is definitely a mistake. I usually monitor Ohio for changes to the OH ### format, but this land grab by Indiana flew under my radar. ;-)

35181431 by dcs	1	2015-11-09 00:58:49 UTC	Minh Nguyen	The ref changes in this changeset are contrary to longstanding consensus among Ohio mappers (not to mention real world usage). There’s a full explanation at <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ohio/Route_relations>, although something to that effect has been documented on the wiki for ye...
	2	2015-11-09 01:02:05 UTC	Minh Nguyen	And http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ohio/Map_features

34294650 by Minh Nguyen	1	2015-09-28 00:39:40 UTC	Minh Nguyen	This changeset also redraws Maple Dale Elementary, which was completely rebuilt/reconfigured.

28310777 by Nate_Wessel	1	2015-09-26 01:39:40 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Looks an odd editor bug, but several of these bus stop names have numbers randomly inserted in. I removed them in changeset 34255087. I’ve never ridden TANK before, so let me know if this is some strange convention they have. :-)
	2	2015-09-26 03:49:30 UTC	Nate_Wessel	Oh, how strange. I'm surprised I didn't catch that... suppose I never went back for a second look. Good catch!

32268282 by lrhill	1	2015-09-25 19:09:03 UTC	Minh Nguyen	The Drees Pavilion overlook area definitely isn’t landuse=commercial. That tag is meant for office parks…
	2	2015-09-26 00:31:31 UTC	lrhill	I will defer to your change. However, as it frequently serves as a banquet hall / reception hall that brings large traffic volumes not truly associated with the parks' recreational use, I felt that its use should be noted as something other than park. Many zoning codes includes banquet halls in co...
	3	2015-09-26 01:30:07 UTC	Minh Nguyen	That's a good point that I hadn't considered, although OSM's landuse tag isn't intended to strictly match zoning in every case. (We also don't tend to subdivide landuse areas according to legal subdivisions like you'd find on a tax assessor's map.) I did go ahead and tag the building as an event ven...

34222177 by SkipperBuds Tempe	1	2015-09-24 22:51:32 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Hi, it looks like you accidentally commandeered the Tempe point of interest (POI) for the SkipperBud’s boat shop. :-) I cleaned things up in <http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34236043>. In the future, please create a separate POI when you want to add something to the map. If you ne...

30493645 by Minh Nguyen	1	2015-04-28 04:13:40 UTC	Nate_Wessel	Is it in the future if the infrastructure is already finished and in place? Or should it be a route relation (presumed active) that brings the stop into existence? Can a bus stop exist without a bus? Would it matter if that bus were in the past or the future? Would it demand a location between bo...
	2	2015-04-28 05:24:02 UTC	Minh Nguyen	I figured that OSM-based public transit routers would have no way of knowing that the stops have no service yet. The poor hapless users would be waiting far longer than the standard Metro wait… For context, I was getting a bit fed up with the many under-construction and proposed BART and M...
	3	2015-09-22 18:39:08 UTC	Minh Nguyen	After tagging enough “empty” VTA bus stops in San José (with a shelter or bench and a Bus Stop sign that lists no routes), I’ve come around to the idea that the magnificent new streetcar shelters should be tagged as real stops that don’t yet belong to any route relatio...

32986519 by flierfy	1	2015-09-13 09:03:18 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Changeset 33995382 corrects track information in and out of Millbrae station.

33826458 by Aury88	1	2015-09-06 23:37:06 UTC	SomeoneElse	This looks very much like a mechanical edit. Was it discussed anywhere first, as it should have been according to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct ?
	2	2015-09-07 06:43:32 UTC	Aury88	Hi SomeoneElse. the only automated procedures were the import (from the taginfo link in wiki.osm.org/wiki/Gym_/ _Fitness_centre) and the filter in josm to hide the changed element during the edit, but the changes were done to singular element after a one by one element check. if this procedure can...
	3	2015-09-07 09:10:52 UTC	SomeoneElse	It's not (just) about "damaging the database" - it's about communicating what's happening. If someone extracts data or makes a map from OSM, it's helpful for them to know when there's a wholesale change to something that they might have been expecting. Also, if a mapper is adding e.g...
	4	2015-09-07 09:54:22 UTC	Aury88	I perfectly agree with your reasoning about the communication with the user. My reasoning was that the odds are greater that users who use the old tags have already done for the areas of their knowledge, while new mappers will not be misled by the presence of that tag. For the extracted data and m...
	5	2015-09-10 18:25:39 UTC	SomeoneElse	I don't think that it's necessary to revert (from amenity=fitness_center to leisure=fitness_centre isn't a change of meaning, just fixing a typing error), but I'd certainly recheck the items in the changeset. If someone's got one thing wrong then they might have got others wrong too (for example, h...
	6	2015-09-12 01:32:09 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Can you point to consensus about amenity=fitness_center being incorrect (despite the preference for UK spelling)? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gym_/_Fitness_centre is very ambivalent on this point, and until this changeset, amenity=fitness_center was one of the more popular options. A public a...
	7	2015-09-12 07:43:34 UTC	Aury88	Hi Minh Nguyen, The linked wiki page said "The leisure tag is for places people go in their spare time, which is how most people use a gym." the use of amenity is due to an "overloaded with this tags in the early years of OpenStreetMap". The use of leisure=fitness_center/cen...
	8	2015-09-12 09:09:20 UTC	Aury88	sorry. the amenity=fitness_center/centre was the 4-5th most used tag in the wiki page list . the 2nd amenity=gym was (yet) the 3rd the leisure=fitness_center/centre was (yet) and sport=fitness (+ leisure=sport_centre) was (yet) the first
	9	2015-09-12 17:30:37 UTC	Minh Nguyen	No worries, I’ve been known to get ahead of myself too, and it’s clear you had good intentions. :-) At this point, maybe the best course of action is to send a message to the talk@lists.openstreetmap.org mailing list. (Or post a diary entry.) Explain the change you made and the reasoning...

33487634 by Nick D'Amato	1	2015-08-23 16:45:25 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Thanks for adding this information – I had no idea it used to be a landfill. I changed some of the tags on this POI to be consistent w/ how historic features are often tagged. In iD, you can see them under “All tags” in the sidebar. Please let me know if you have any questions.
	2	2015-08-24 13:14:08 UTC	Nick D'Amato	You're welcome. I actually have a map of the extent of the landfill, if you think there is good way to represent that.

28126899 by FTA	1	2015-08-07 21:12:25 UTC	Minh Nguyen	I sketched in the new interchange from (one-year-old) memory in changeset 33190964. Please feel free to correct it if it doesn’t match what you observed.
	2	2015-08-07 21:24:42 UTC	FTA	Wow, nice work! I had my GoPro running when I went through here over winter break, but I never went back to track it down. Strangest thing to switch the side of the road the traffic goes on....
	3	2015-08-07 21:28:59 UTC	FTA	Also, I resolved the note I added to this area regarding the intersection.
	4	2015-08-11 05:15:10 UTC	Minh Nguyen	It is strange. I visited exactly a year ago; at the time, there were electronic signs to alert drivers to the change, and the local newspaper was full of questions about whether the increased flow was worth the confusion. MoDOT built the country’s first divergent diamond interchange up I-44 in...

33114041 by Minh Nguyen	1	2015-08-04 21:42:13 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Or rather: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ohio/Route_relations

32276056 by Minh Nguyen	1	2015-06-29 04:59:29 UTC	Minh Nguyen	I tried my best to transcribe a bilingual sign I took a photo of while passing by. The Amharic name is a little more detailed than the Engilsh name. It transliterates roughly to “Debre Genet St. Mary Beta-Christian Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in San Jose”.

30949995 by Nate_Wessel	1	2015-05-11 08:59:14 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Good idea, though not everyone has easy access to Greek characters on their keyboards. I wonder if the Greek characters are better suited for `short_name`. Also, Φ is phi, Τ is tau, and Θ is theta. In changeset 30993287, I took the Greek characters currently in `name` and expanded t...
	2	2015-05-13 14:24:52 UTC	Nate_Wessel	I'm sticking with name, because the greek characters are the only actual signs on the buildings. Good call with the alt_names. Is there something like a tag for name:english? I know I have one of those wrong (I think it was actually a Tau and not a Theta for one of them), but I'm on campus no...
	3	2015-05-13 14:41:05 UTC	Nate_Wessel	I know only enough ancient greek right now to be a danger. ;-)
	4	2015-05-24 19:59:18 UTC	Minh Nguyen	`name:en` is for English. I went with `alt_name` because these expanded names are what people would tend to search for in a geocoder like Nominatim.

30356996 by Jerome50	1	2015-04-26 22:21:17 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Thank you for taking the time to add these street names in. For legal reasons, OSM can’t accept information copied straight out of another map unless the authors of that map have given permission. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright Would you mind obtaining permission from the c...
	2	2015-04-29 13:40:37 UTC	Jerome50	I was able to drive through the cemetery and verify the names from the street signs posted there.
	3	2015-04-29 16:07:46 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Awesome, thanks for taking the time to do that.

30353003 by cdm2728	1	2015-04-26 22:58:11 UTC	Minh Nguyen	OSM classifies population centers based on population and prominence, regardless of legal status. That way software based on OSM don’t have to worry about every country’s definition of a city when labeling cities a certain way. So as a suburb to another city and as a place with under 100...

30361192 by gregcrago	1	2015-04-26 22:49:07 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Bing aerial imagery in this area is a bit outdated (dating to summer 2010). The Mapbox Satellite layer is more up-to-date at zoom levels 13–17 in Ohio, drawing from NAIP 2013 imagery. You can see the mast’s shadow in that layer. http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/

30361345 by gregcrago	1	2015-04-26 22:42:49 UTC	Minh Nguyen	FYI, man_made=mast is the more appropriate tag for radio/broadcast/cell towers. man_made=tower is for things like watchtowers, and it doesn’t get a special icon on most maps.

30380045 by Nate_Wessel	1	2015-04-26 22:22:25 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Love these changeset comments – keep ’em coming! :-D
	2	2015-04-27 00:29:49 UTC	Nate_Wessel	Ha! I was trying to edit on my phone while I waited for the dentist. Took me 15 minutes to add that stupid hat shop.

30460634 by VertexPG	1	2015-04-26 18:28:08 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Thank you for this edit, and welcome to OpenStreetMap! Note that we spell-out words like “Boulevard” rather than abbreviating them: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29

30464246 by rkachelriess	1	2015-04-26 18:24:28 UTC	Minh Nguyen	* SPAM * not displayed - visit osm.org

30194144 by stevea	1	2015-04-26 05:23:56 UTC	Minh Nguyen	I undid some of these changes in changeset 30491130. railway=construction construction=tram_stop is a well-used and well-documented way of indicating that a subway station is under construction. The name=* tag is not intended for descriptive text, even in parentheses.
	2	2015-04-26 16:08:00 UTC	stevea	Of course, Minh: thank you for your corrections and especially for documenting here the correct way to tag this so I know how to do this if/as I find such construction in the future.

29536698 by Brian@Brea	1	2015-03-24 08:29:44 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Just a friendly reminder that Ohioan mappers have a longstanding consensus to use the prefix “SR” on ways along Ohio state routes, due to the prevailing style used throughout the state by residents, the media, government, etc. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ohio/Route_relations f...

21026895 by Nate_Wessel	1	2015-03-23 05:35:51 UTC	Minh Nguyen	The Caldwell–Seymore trail is definitely either a cycleway or a footway. Neither tag implies anything about build quality, surface material, or routeability. If it’s meant primarily for cyclists, it’s a cycleway; if it’s primarily for pedestrians, it’s a footway. highwa...

29556184 by Minh Nguyen	1	2015-03-18 06:15:28 UTC	Bryce C Nesbitt	Thanks on the tool stand. Could you confirm there are really TWO of these right next to each other, as currently mapped?
	2	2015-03-18 06:16:40 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Yes, you can see a photo of the stands here: http://www.simonkentonpathfinders.org/
	3	2015-03-18 06:22:23 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Oh, one of them is actually a compressed air pump. I’ve retagged it amenity=compressed_air, but is brand=Dero still accurate in that case?
	4	2015-03-19 07:55:22 UTC	Bryce C Nesbitt	No, brand=Dero does not apply. However service:bicycle:pump=no is misleading... as in fact there's a pump nearby. Interesting quandary how to tag.
	5	2015-03-19 07:55:58 UTC	Bryce C Nesbitt	Normally the Dero stations are sold as a two part kit: pump & repair stand. Other brands integrate the pump into the stand.

29171792 by fx99	1	2015-03-14 05:46:02 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Thank you for adding these township boundaries. But wherever possible, please start with the USGS Topographic Maps layer rather than the Census Bureau’s TIGER data. Although TIGER is much more up-to-date than the USGS topo maps, TIGER is also much cruder as it’s primarily meant for demog...

29444561 by fx99	1	2015-03-14 04:35:54 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Thank you! I’ve been undeleting an old, correct version of the OH–WV boundary in Potlatch 1, but that editor often has selection glitches these days… it looks great now.

29171924 by fx99	1	2015-03-11 05:28:51 UTC	Minh Nguyen	What problems exactly did you clean up? It looks like you created additional overlapping ways for one township relation but not adjoining townships. I’m mainly asking so I can avoid causing more problems in the future.
	2	2015-03-13 09:48:03 UTC	fx99	responded by PN

28224271 by Nate_Wessel	1	2015-02-22 22:34:07 UTC	Minh Nguyen	It looks like this changeset merged the OH–KY boundary with the Ohio River centerline. That’s incorrect: KY and WV own most of the Ohio River (at the expense of OH, IN, and IL). See for example: http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/21/us/kentucky-indiana-and-ohio-end-river-boundary-dispute.htm...
	2	2015-02-22 22:35:16 UTC	Minh Nguyen	The previous version of this boundary was based on the USGS topo layer which, while not completely up-to-date with the ’90s court rulings, is much more accurate than the centerline.
	3	2015-02-22 23:31:31 UTC	Minh Nguyen	http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ohio_River
	4	2015-02-23 00:18:20 UTC	Nate_Wessel	Well of course there is a page just about that... To be honest, I'm not sure why boundaries exist in OSM if they can't be related to a real feature... but I bet there's a page just for that dicussion already too. Is there an easy way to fix it? Or does it need to be reverted somehow?
	5	2015-02-23 00:19:27 UTC	Nate_Wessel	Ah! Looks like it's already fixed. My tiles just hadn't updated.
	6	2015-02-23 00:33:41 UTC	Minh Nguyen	River boundaries are more the exception than the rule. We pretty much need them for completeness’ sake if we’re going to include land boundaries. Times like these make me very glad that Potlatch 1 is still around. (Its revert feature is just as easy as Wikipedia’s, for better or...

28687818 by skorasaurus	1	2015-02-11 11:55:11 UTC	Minh Nguyen	OGRIP’s LBRS is public domain? That’s awesome – where does it say that?
	2	2015-02-11 11:57:38 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Never mind, found it: <http://gis3.oit.ohio.gov/LBRS/_downloads/docs/White%20Paper-LBRS_2011.pdf>. We should make a tile layer of it to trace with.

28021253 by Vid the Kid	1	2015-01-16 11:07:58 UTC	Minh Nguyen	How recent was the change? When Wilmington got its bypass, I think it took a little while for ODOT to take all the signs down and hand the road over to the city and township.
	2	2015-01-16 11:08:26 UTC	Minh Nguyen	…the bypassed road, that is.

27510644 by Dr Centerline	1	2015-01-09 10:34:32 UTC	Minh Nguyen	These place nodes shouldn’t have been promoted to place=town. As documented at <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place>, the rule of thumb is to use place=town where the population is 10,000 or more. I’ve also been promoting county seats with only a few thousand residents to ...

27469410 by reportingsjr	1	2015-01-01 10:20:59 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Thanks for updating this interchange!
	2	2015-01-03 01:10:26 UTC	reportingsjr	Thanks! I'll try to keep it updated as construction continues. Winter project until it is warm enough keep mapping local trails. :)

26954634 by gmensch	1	2014-11-23 06:17:27 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Please avoid copying verbatim from CAGIS datasets at this time. They’re free of charge but it isn’t clear whether we can use them in OSM yet. We’re trying to secure permission from them to license their data under terms compatible with OSM’s license. Until then, it’s fi...
	2	2014-11-23 15:41:06 UTC	gmensch	So in the meantime, should I change the grounds to be what one would expect the property line to be? i.e. from road to fence?
	3	2014-11-23 22:30:34 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Yes, that would be best. Thanks! Also, the map currently shows Congregation Ohav Shalom as the only building on the Schilling schoolgrounds. However, from the aerial imagery, it seems like the synagogue is one wing of the building and the school is the other, and both share the same property. I t...

1 by Steve	1	2014-11-15 11:43:09 UTC	Minh Nguyen	From humble beginnings…
	2	2016-05-06 14:14:03 UTC	EzekielT	?
	3	2016-12-06 16:21:28 UTC	Albert Pundt	Ah, the great "first."
	4	2017-02-28 15:41:09 UTC	NiedernhausenerJunge	http://www.directionsmag.com/entry/osm-the-simple-map-that-became-a-global-movement/466280 "The very first contribution to OpenStreetMap was probably a road." Turns out it wasn't
	5	2017-07-23 01:33:07 UTC	tuxayo	What was it then? When seeing the nodes in this changeset, I can't find what they were.
	6	2017-08-23 02:44:15 UTC	Diego Sanguinetti	The first of world :)

26703223 by lgerding	1	2014-11-11 12:03:45 UTC	Minh Nguyen	A single retail building can have multiple tenants: draw the building as one area; then, for each tenant, either add a point or draw an area overlapping part of the building (but not marked as a building).
	2	2014-11-11 12:05:12 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Alternatively, if a strip mall looks like a bunch of buildings smooshed together, it’s also fine to draw each business as a separate building area, but make sure to join the buildings together.

26619863 by CamSawchuk	1	2014-11-09 05:27:00 UTC	Minh Nguyen	No need to name the soccer field “Soccer Field”. Choosing the “Soccer field” option in iD adds a “sport=soccer” tag to the area. Although the main map doesn’t do anything special with “sport=soccer”, various alternative maps do. For example, once...
	2	2014-11-09 05:28:46 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Oh, wrong link. Here’s the soccer field: <http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=19&lat=39.38808&lon=-84.43523>.

26534045 by Nate_Wessel	1	2014-11-03 21:45:36 UTC	Minh Nguyen	By the way, you can often find names of creeks and lakes on the USGS Topographic Maps layer in either Potlatch or iD. (Though years out of date, it’s also really handy and accurate for county/township/city limits.)

26484593 by Nate_Wessel	1	2014-11-02 20:04:54 UTC	Minh Nguyen	Hi Nate, a couple of these `highway=tracks` are named roads, even if they’re unpaved. I’m thinking it might be more useful to tag them as `highway=residential` and add `surface=unpaved` (or gravel or dirt or whatever), since they could appear in addresses. (That, and I’m happy t...