Alan Bragg participated in the following changeset discussions
Changeset # Tmstmp UTC Contributor Comment
149494509
by Alan Bragg
@ 2024-04-02 18:32
12024-04-03 12:01emersonveenstra
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Hi there,

Why did you delete this road? https://pewu.github.io/osm-history/#/way/16940970
22024-04-03 13:49Alan Bragg My mistake. Confused by boundary being same as road. Corrected. Thanks for pointing out the error.
133146101
by Alan Bragg
@ 2023-02-28 20:53
12023-03-05 07:30Spaghetti Monster🍝
♦2,068
amenity=toilet is for the feature tagging the toilet itself not whether a feature has one.
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22023-03-06 01:02Alan Bragg I believe this is correctly tagged. It building is a typical forest service toilet. There is nothing else in the building.
32023-03-06 01:55Spaghetti Monster🍝
♦2,068
The tag is on the whole park
42023-03-06 03:23Spaghetti Monster🍝
♦2,068
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/325284266
52023-03-06 13:19Alan Bragg OK, deleted the tag. Thanks
35348544
by Alan Bragg
@ 2015-11-16 11:40
12023-02-15 21:44Antonin Del Fabbro
♦310
Hi Alan!
What are your thoughts about this edit nowdays ?
Thanks!
22023-02-16 14:30Alan Bragg I removed the pitch inside the pitch since the sports center was for soccer. I don't see a way to make separate pitches for the multiple overlapping fields.
32023-02-16 14:38Antonin Del Fabbro
♦310
Alright, thank you!
48100208
by Alan Bragg
@ 2017-04-24 19:04
12022-11-08 11:19user_5359
♦19,369
Hello! Please have a look on https://www.osm.org/way/211982490/history. Did you really need on the foreign OSM keys? What is the meaning of this tags?
BLDG_USE=RESIDENTIAL
GlobalID={E42D0618-CEE2-43AB-8EE6-F1398315C73E}
NEAR_DIST=37.70422227
NEAR_FID=18632
OBJECTID=18723
RuleID=1
SHAPE_area=2...
22022-11-08 12:15Alan Bragg I don't remember. They are not necessary.
123988239
by Alan Bragg
@ 2022-07-23 19:40
12022-07-24 17:57MxxCon
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What does it mean "tracks and streams"? This comment doesn't help others understand what you are editing here, especially considering your changeset bbox is spawning most of US
22022-07-25 15:41bradrh
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Agree with MxxCon. changeset is too big, and comment is vague.
32022-07-25 16:05Alan Bragg I agree with both comments. The changeset includes streams and tracks that were traced in a small section of a Sitgraeves NF in Arizona and a minor node change on Cape Cod, MA. Should have used a second changeset. I appologize.
42022-07-25 16:20bradrh
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:)
123529495
by SimMoonXP
@ 2022-07-12 17:04
12022-07-21 23:44Alan Bragg I
22022-07-21 23:46Alan Bragg I've noticed (survey) that a few of these roads no longer exist. I changed one to abandoned:highway and another to a footway and driveway segment and deleted the rest. Was there a historical objective to the edits?
88532077
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-07-26 20:37
12021-10-25 01:34TomPar
♦123
Hi Alan. Is this specific route referenced somewhere? Is there a reason this point-to-point was put in? Thanks.
22021-10-25 10:35Alan Bragg Hi Tom, Nice to hear from you. See
https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#route?id=11351528&map=15!42.3949!-71.3365
It is a nice walk I recommend to friends. Parking at both ends makes it an nice route over several properties. I especially like the boardwalk at different times of the year.
Ala...
32021-10-25 20:47TomPar
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Yes, my family and I were there this weekend. We particularly liked the pastoral field views from Lincoln Road. Amazing fall colors and sun! I asked my question imprecisely: I meant if this was an established route published in some trail guide by a land manager, etc. No matter either way. Tha...
96582009
by Mashin
@ 2020-12-29 07:51
12021-07-22 10:30Alan Bragg osmc:symbol not matching symbol= on relation 12107000
Not trying to be picky, just curious based on slack discussions.
22021-07-22 19:15Mashin
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it has `symbol=White rectangle`, which should be described as `white::white_stripe`. At least some sites render it correctly..

I am in contact with Sarah and Nop and looking for solution for two color blazes.
84038683
by sawhs
@ 2020-04-24 05:54
12021-06-25 10:59Alan Bragg A crossing was added at the intersection of a street and a driveway. I believe this was in error.
22021-06-25 13:20sawhs
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Hi,

Thank you for reviewing my changeset and correcting the edit.
Apologies for the incorrect "highway=crossing" tag.
It's an honest mistake from my end, I'll ensure not to repeat such errors going forward.
Looking forward to learn more from you!

Regards,
sawhs
32021-06-25 20:23Alan Bragg The problem was caused by a mapper who incorrectly added a footway on top of a road when trying to create a long hiking trail. Adding a "crossing" to an intersection with a footway was a correct action on your part.
86281706
by juan214
@ 2020-06-06 14:37
12021-06-08 20:45Alan Bragg Hi, I extended the handicapped access aisle connecting it to the parking aisle. That way a router can get folks from one place to another. Nice work thinking of the handicapped customer.
102154543
by bikingaround244
@ 2021-04-02 02:41
12021-05-29 21:37Alan Bragg Nice work adding boardwalk.
98869812
by Trail_Caretaker
@ 2021-02-08 00:28
12021-04-18 16:15Alan Bragg Neat way to adapt "ball" golf to "disc".
I added the name "The Lyons Den Disc Golf Course"
22021-04-18 17:35Trail_Caretaker
♦20
Hi Alan, thanks, I am not sure what you mean though. I am not a golfer of either but thought I could put this on the map and maybe bring some clarity for someone. I am assuming that they might still use tee box, fairway, or putting green but have no idea.Maybe that is what you meant? You can also...
24103920
by 93Ice
@ 2014-07-12 16:03
12021-01-07 11:57Alan Bragg These ways have no tags and are not part of any relation. They are 6 years old. Is it ok to delete them?
22021-01-30 06:02ZeLonewolf
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I am removing them as part of the current import of Maine boundaries:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Maine_Admin_Boundary_Import
32021-01-30 08:05Alan Bragg Thank you for your effort. I've seen a lot of nice work by 93Ice and assumed he was trying to docent townships and just gave up 6 years ago.
96587621
by NikitaSalt
@ 2020-12-29 09:26
12021-01-03 12:29Alan Bragg Thanks for fixing this.
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96796032
by TomPar
@ 2021-01-02 06:53
12021-01-03 12:02Alan Bragg I'm not so sure about removing private CR's. They do indicate that the land is "conserved"
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22021-01-04 06:48TomPar
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Hi Alan. Thanks for the feedback. I acknowledge this is an often contentious issue.

In my opinion, these private CRs, where there is no general public access, has caused more issues than benefit. My main points:

There is a proliferation of third-party apps, like AllTrails, that suck in OSM ...
95449363
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-12-07 22:58
12020-12-08 00:15blackboxlogic
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https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/11499611 has a fun zig zag on it's western end.
22020-12-08 01:47Alan Bragg Thanks, fixed it.
94456643
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-11-19 19:07
12020-12-02 00:01Korgi1
♦42
is the name "Dick Ford Road" correct?
22020-12-05 16:19Alan Bragg Yes. It's in the state enhanced 911 emergency database. That's where you'd go to rescue someone. Driveways are often named after their owners in Maine
32020-12-06 03:38Korgi1
♦42
Alright no problem. It just showed up as "suspicious" due to profanity in the name.
95150293
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-12-02 10:58
12020-12-02 22:57Alan Bragg Recognized error of my ways and reverted changeset. My bad, sorry. Good lesson in using revert plug-in. My excuse: moving josm to a new computer and hadn't got all the settings correct and accidentally uploaded file.
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94728983
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-11-24 20:45
12020-12-01 17:29vorpalblade-kaart
♦21
Did you intend to delete https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/449879791? It is still visible on all publicly available imagery. And the deletion definitely does not match your changeset comment.

If you did intend to delete the way, it would have been nice to know why (e.g., the road was razed/demoli...
22020-12-01 19:08Alan Bragg Good catch. That was an accident. Surprises me because I usually catch something like that with JOSM validation indicating that there were other unconnected ways in the area. I've been working on updating Maine roads for many months and have touched thousands of roads that are misnamed, misalig...
32020-12-01 19:37vorpalblade-kaart
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No problem. I thought it was probably accidental, but it might not have been. You are a bit more local than I am, after all.

I don't know if you are going to revert the deletions, or just redraw the road, but either way, good luck, and have fun. :)
60711583
by Alan Bragg
@ 2018-07-14 12:56
12020-11-22 23:33TomPar
♦123
Hi Alan. I see you added nature_reserve to way 35261320 (across the street south side from Whipple Hill). However, this looks private to me on Lexington GIS. Do you have any more details on this parcel and the trail? Thanks.
22020-11-23 14:01Alan Bragg I have no details. I was probably aligning the property boundary to the latest MassGIS L3 Parcels. The way was originally entered by Tim BL in 2009 along with the path. Feel free to update anything I have mapped if you have new information.
92654748
by 25or6to4
@ 2020-10-18 12:08
12020-11-06 10:40Alan Bragg Looks like the cemetery edit removing the area tag has accidentally changed the adjacent the minuteman bikeway into a cemetery. Please take a look.
22020-11-06 15:0925or6to4
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Whoops! Looks like I pasted the GNIS data to the wrong area. I have fixed and updated this. Thanks for letting me know!
87996880
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-07-14 20:54
12020-10-12 05:15Ryan Teksten
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There is no path. Access is posted as trespassing. Remove this ‘bushwhacked path.’ In its entirety.
All trespassers will be prosecuted.
22020-10-12 11:27Alan Bragg removed trail
90466097
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-09-05 23:07
12020-09-21 06:45General Updating
♦6
Hi Alan,

was it intentional to delete Loring Airport at https://pewu.github.io/osm-history/#/way/815655014 ?
22020-09-21 16:57Alan Bragg Thanks for catching that mistake. I see that you've already re-instated the airport. Today I deleted the description describing it as and Air Force Base.
88403086
by cnelson Bedford DPW
@ 2020-07-23 12:13
12020-07-27 16:01Alan Bragg Chris, Points are fine for addresses. Thanks. Alan
87236896
by Modest7
@ 2020-06-27 21:57
12020-07-15 07:46Nakaner
♦3,147
Hi,

you added tracktype=* tags to many highway=track in this and other changesets at various locations in Europe. How did you determine the tracktype? What sources did you use other than the one specified in your changesets? I am quite curious to learn who one can do this satellite imagery only.\...
22020-07-16 13:32Modest7
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I used the cards currently available. Of course, the exact type of track can only be indicated when exploring the area. But, it seems to me, it would not be worse if I indicate the type of track close to real, than to indicate nothing.
32020-07-16 16:39Nakaner
♦3,147
Hi,

sorry but our opinions on this matter are different. By adding tracktypes without a local survey, you make the map to appear as having a high quality (surveyed tracktypes everywhere) although it is just "best guess" from a satellite imagery.

I am going to revert these changes. Pl...
42020-07-17 18:27Modest7
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I think it’s not difficult to distinguish type 1 track from type 5 track. There may be an error in determining the type of track 2 with 3, 3 with 4, 4 with 5. In this case, indicating the type of track, this will be more informative for the map user, even if there is an error with determining ...
52020-07-18 12:21Alan Bragg I agree with Modest7. There are almost 7 million tracks tagged with tracktype, I suspect most were tagged armchair mappers. I don't think it would be a good idea to remove them.
62020-07-18 13:17tekim
♦696
I agree with Nakaner. It is very difficult to determine tracktype remotely. One would need to have at least surveyed similar tracks nearby and be familiar with the soil types in the area, and the terrain, but even then, it would be difficult.
72020-07-18 14:35SomeoneElse
♦13,362
> I suspect most were tagged [by] armchair mappers
I really hope not! I regularly find that "what things look like from imagery" and "what they look like from the ground" are very different. You might be able to tell whether a a road is paved or not, but telling whether &q...
82020-07-18 15:23Richard
♦220
A wholesale revert would be an over-reaction.

OSM is iterative - it doesn't have to be 100% accurate at the first attempt, though it should take care never to be actively misleading. Lots of OSM data, particularly in remote or less travelled areas, has been added by reference to imagery. Tha...
92020-07-18 15:32Richard
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To add with reference to this particular example:

There is very very clearly a difference between https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/129297661 (which already had tracktype=grade2) and https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/370062638 (to which Modest7 has edited tracktype=grade4 in this changeset). If y...
102020-07-18 15:42rab
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Mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schiessen? Given the fact that the track type of nearby roads was added 10 years ago, we might also have a problem with pretending a high accuracy.
But all in all, comparing roads with given track type with nearby roads in the same area, on the same image. Then the results o...
112020-07-18 19:28SomeoneElse
♦13,362
Thanks Richard - a "source:tracktype=imagery" tag here would allow consumers (such as me!) to filter or flag stuff that may be dubious (I already do that for some other source tags).
Best Regards,
Andy
122020-07-18 19:32Nakaner
♦3,147
Hi Modest7,

I forgot to mention this morning that I raised this topic on the Talk mailing list myself. That's why a couple of people commented to this changeset. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2020-July/085082.html

Best regards

Michael
132020-07-18 19:53RobJN
♦77
+1 to Richard's comments. Particularly that OSM is iterative and the suggestion to add "source:tracktype=imagery" rather than revert.
45335621
by jim_snyder-grant
@ 2017-01-20 19:42
12020-07-17 13:51Alan Bragg I like what you did to move the BCT to the sidewalk. I added more sidewalk to Jay Lane and Stoneymeade Lane. I'm breaking our BCT into contiguous sections. Yours is BCT 6 Action/Concord. I'll eventually build a super relation of all the sections.
87308406
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-06-29 18:11
12020-07-03 01:22b-jazz
♦654
Hey Alan, can you take another look at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29795501? Several nodes got deleted and now the polygon is a figure eight, which I'm guessing isn't what what intended.
22020-07-03 19:13Alan Bragg Ooops! Fixed it. Thanks for notifying me.
60216553
by Sweetkiss92
@ 2018-06-27 12:40
12020-06-26 15:52Alan Bragg Thanks for adding the Temple Stream to Openstreetmap. I extended it another 8 miles northward.
63292562
by ke9tv
@ 2018-10-08 00:36
12020-06-23 11:18Alan Bragg This is very nice. I've been mapping northern Maine and many long snowmobile trails are single paths adjacent to tracks. I'm thinking of breaking them down but snowmobile route is used very little in US. All snowmobile maps seem to be made clubs not using OSM.
26450187
by 93Ice
@ 2014-10-30 22:24
12020-06-23 10:41Alan Bragg Is the "Arnold Trai" ferry route a snowmobile trail? If so the snowmobile tag is missing
85913455
by aweech
@ 2020-05-29 01:36
12020-06-20 12:31Alan Bragg Don't nuke them yet. I started converting some into routes using highway sections that are found in E911 roads and MapWith AI. Do you know who added all the landuse but not the roads they define.
22020-06-20 13:18aweech
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The touble with snowmobile routes is sometimes they go on the road and sometimes they go off to the side, and I don't have the local knowledge to know what happens. It looks like most of the natural=wood was added by user/Bkissin, who edits mainly in Portland.
86426635
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-06-09 20:58
12020-06-09 21:42blackboxlogic
♦458
Is there any way to filter out the source tags? Do you see any value in having them?
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22020-06-09 22:58Alan Bragg The source tags are generated by MapWithAI and may help us know where the data came from as we continue to fix Maine. The could be deleted when we're done. I'm no fan of extra tags.
85782607
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-05-26 17:35
12020-05-27 01:50blackboxlogic
♦458
looks like you meant to put ref=ME 166 on a way, but it ended up on NODE: 7480246646
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22020-05-27 12:07blackboxlogic
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Fixed in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/85831475
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32020-05-27 12:20Alan Bragg Thanks for catching that. I'm surprised the JOSM validator didn't warn me. Or, maybe it did! I liked the slack discussion about ref= and relations.
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85715820
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-05-25 11:40
12020-05-25 17:02blackboxlogic
♦458
Hm... you removed WAY: 800664256 and the addresses around it. If I look at newer imagery it looks like this road and buildings (most of them) exist (or soon will). I'm not experienced at reverting parts of changeset so I'm hesitant to try. If you have time, could you give it a go?
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22020-05-25 18:13Alan Bragg I looked at those buildings in the best imagery I could find them. I double checked google also. That's the best I can do to from an arm chair. Reverting the change will destroy a lot of new mapping of the school area so I'm reluctant.
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32020-05-25 18:17blackboxlogic
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Thanks for taking a look. I thought it might be easy. Is fine.
84914724
by SAMBHUNATH R
@ 2020-05-08 20:08
12020-05-24 12:08Alan Bragg Thanks for adding buildings. It's very easy to make square buildings. Please read instructions.
85408069
by blackboxlogic
@ 2020-05-19 01:38
12020-05-19 10:29Alan Bragg Can't figure out how I would have deleted a "highway" tag. Thanks for fixing.
85408207
by blackboxlogic
@ 2020-05-19 01:46
12020-05-19 10:21Alan Bragg always nice to know others are fixing the map
83080746
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-04-04 19:02
12020-04-04 19:26Alan Bragg My bad. Changeset is being reverted.
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82437109
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-03-20 15:11
12020-03-20 18:53user_5359
♦19,369
Welcome to OSM! You added a bigger number of unknown tags
LCITY=T10 Sd Bpp
LCOUNTY=Hancock
MAP_LABEL=Blacks Woods Rd - Route 182
in this change set. Please explain the source of this information and the meaning of the keys.
22020-03-20 20:32Alan Bragg Yes, This all is an inadvertent upload that I am currently removing. Sorry, I screwed up.
79493889
by Brian Turcotte
@ 2020-01-13 03:17
12020-03-01 12:51Alan Bragg The old Maine E911 addresses for all the houses on Paris Hill Drive is Old Route 26
I'm not local so I can't verify.
78884193
by SonicBarbecue
@ 2019-12-26 13:53
12020-02-23 12:31Alan Bragg Nice job getting the new facilities on the map. It's still a High School and not a University. I changed the "amenity" tag.
74734108
by sfn
@ 2019-09-20 20:16
12020-01-22 13:42Alan Bragg I like the walls. I just did some more aligning of the conservation lands with the Massgis L3 overlay. A couple of boundaries lined up with some walls.
79140999
by Sampool15
@ 2020-01-03 04:49
12020-01-18 22:26Alan Bragg Nice mapping. Just curious, what does "hum" mean?
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76782700
by juharris
@ 2019-11-08 01:21
12020-01-17 14:06Alan Bragg Nice catch. I believe all secondary roads in Bedford are suppose to be 25 mph.
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79576996
by greg23s
@ 2020-01-14 17:58
12020-01-17 12:52Alan Bragg Thanks for updating the map. Nice work.
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79178669
by Tantalum73
@ 2020-01-04 01:23
12020-01-16 22:22Alan Bragg Nice. I love it when folks correct the boundaries by adjusting them to the MassGIS L3 Parcels layer. I assume that was your process.
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22020-01-17 01:49Tantalum73
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That's correct. The MassGIS layer is really useful, and in my opinion fixing boundaries makes the map look a whole lot neater.
79178561
by CiscoHansOlego
@ 2020-01-04 01:10
12020-01-16 21:07Alan Bragg Nice to have identified the pool. II changed tags from natural=water to leisure=swimming_pool. This is a pretty common issue for new users. Keep mapping.
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79271628
by PaulBrown2
@ 2020-01-07 02:41
12020-01-15 22:51Alan Bragg There has been no change to the refuge name according to the refuge manager
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79271564
by PaulBrown2
@ 2020-01-07 02:37
12020-01-15 21:34Alan Bragg Interesting. Could you site some federal legislation that renamed this section of the refuge. I couldn't find anything on google.
22020-01-20 07:46freebeer
♦1,598
if you check https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/PaulBrown2/history you will see a lot of these changes that have not yet been reverted and for which google provides absolutely no hints. looks to be completely bogus, as such a great benefit to society should not need to be hidden in the results reda...
32020-01-20 20:55Polarbear-repair
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This CS was reverted in 79817172 with the comment:
US: revert vandalism, DWG Ticket#2020012010000056,
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/3388
79485931
by Alan Bragg
@ 2020-01-12 19:51
12020-01-13 02:58freebeer
♦1,598
hola alan,

i see a weirdness in the map rendering, a discontinuity that when investigated shows a line attempting to represent a bollard that is not rendered (should be a point along the way) as well as a discontinuity along the way.

a bollard does not imply a road break, quite the opposite, a...
22020-01-13 19:12Alan Bragg Interesting. Whats on the ground is a line of about 15 boulders creating a wall with a space for pedestrians on the east side. The road is none existent. I re-mapped the area with a path, the sidewalk connections, fire hydrant and bike rack.
79462244
by saabgeorge
@ 2020-01-11 22:02
12020-01-12 19:40Alan Bragg Welcome to OSM. Amazon has added a lot of driveways to help their drivers make delivery. You could add access=private if you'd like to reinstate your driveway. No router will send cars down your driveway.
22020-01-13 02:49freebeer
♦1,598
as seen in https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/645169783/history the access tag was already present and there is no grounds for this deletion, which IMHO should be reverted as the mapping reflected the actual situation that there are in fact driveways (not all mapped yet) branching from the roads to r...
32020-01-13 15:17saabgeorge
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The problem is that Apple Maps uses this information and depicts my driveway as a public road - not a driveway. This is a violation of my privacy especially since my driveway is only three feet from my house at it's closest point. Also my wife and I daycare my grandchildren who use the driveway...
42020-01-13 19:00Alan Bragg I added driveway stubs at both ends of your un mapped driveway. That should be enough to let Amazon find your house. It's not right for a map to cause you grief. Living near Boston, the worst congested city in the US causes a lot of people to seek a short cuts and your driveway is a huge short ...
52020-01-13 22:10saabgeorge
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Thanks for all your help Alan - your latest edit is great and should please everyone. Now I just need Apple to change - they will be getting a registered letter tomorrow with my complaint but I''l also contact the Amazon person to see if he can help.
62020-01-13 23:35PerplexingPenguins
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If the road exists, it should be on the map. Issues with rendering should be addressed by the renderer.
72020-01-14 01:19saabgeorge
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I would have to ask what your definition of a road is. Does a 12 foot wide driveway - just wide enough for a single vehicle to pass - used for a private home and located on private land meet the need to be made public?
82020-01-14 02:15PerplexingPenguins
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Maybe not "need", but yes
77891359
by William Owen
@ 2019-12-03 16:54
12019-12-17 13:13Alan Bragg Hi William, Thanks for taking a stab at the continuation of the BFT but I don't think just adding it to the RR is correct. There's a mess of abandoned railroads in W Concord and sections of the BFT adjacent to the old RR. At least part of the BFT doesn't follow the RR where it jogs th...
76974268
by rfguba
@ 2019-11-12 17:29
12019-12-01 20:53Alan Bragg Instead of removing a path, consider adding an access=no or private or permissive. All trails do not have to be access=yes. The main OSM objective is to map whatever can be seen on the ground.
76854623
by Roy Herold
@ 2019-11-09 21:16
12019-11-30 13:25Alan Bragg Nice change. Keeping the map up to date.
71902456
by Elli21486
@ 2019-07-04 15:56
12019-10-27 20:05Alan Bragg Hi, The work you did mapping the mall is really impressive. I changed the sections that had "levels" from building=yes to building:part=yes , That seems to eliminate overlapping building QC warnings. I'm not 100% sure that's the right thing to do. The "Cycle Map" layer...
76268058
by KB-01
@ 2019-10-27 14:53
12019-10-27 18:40Alan Bragg Hi, Nice work. I've been doing the same thing in other parts of the state and noticed your work. I've been using http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr and checkmark objects overlap under the building topic.
75606893
by Paul Zrimsek
@ 2019-10-12 18:19
12019-10-19 12:16Alan Bragg Nice job adding house numbers. I removed old misleading data. Looks great.
22019-10-19 17:06Paul Zrimsek
♦1
Thanks!
72181267
by Alan Bragg
@ 2019-07-12 13:28
12019-07-17 03:40freebeer
♦1,598
servus,

can i ask you to take a close look at the southeast end of this changeset at https://nrenner.github.io/achavi/?changeset=72181267 ?

it looks like something has gone horribly wrong down there, with self-intersections and overlaps and i don't know what-all, as i view the raw data po...
22019-07-17 11:59Alan Bragg Thanks. It's been corrected now. We have a spaghetti bowl of sloppy polygons that were imported 10 years ago for landuse=reservoir_watershed used only in Massachusetts. Makes mapping very difficult..
70492543
by Alan_Bragg_Import
@ 2019-05-21 20:38
12019-05-24 15:48user_5359
♦19,369
Hello! Please use the correct OSM keys for the import! addr:street instead addr_stree and addr:housenumber instead addr_house
I have correct the imported values.
22019-05-24 16:23Alan Bragg Thanks for catching that. I missed a step in a manual processs.
Alan
69914884
by Alan_Bragg_Import
@ 2019-05-05 19:58
12019-05-17 07:54mueschel
♦6,565
Hi,
here are again / still 8 nodes with strange tags:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/?Q=%5Bout%3Ajson%5D%3B%28node%5B%22UL_PC_NAME%22%5D%3Bway%5B%22UL_PC_NAME%22%5D%3B%3E%3Brel%5B%22UL_PC_NAME%22%5D%3B%29%3Bout%20meta%3B
22019-05-17 11:03Alan Bragg Thanks once again. This is embarrassing. The stragglers have been fixed.
69763109
by Alan Bragg
@ 2019-05-01 11:23
12019-05-01 11:26Alan Bragg The changes resulted from investigating orphan ways http://osmoscope.jochentopf.com
37541397
by mtblocal1
@ 2016-03-01 12:15
12019-04-28 00:06Alan Bragg Are these untagged ways mtb trails?
65098494
by Joe Holmes MA
@ 2018-12-02 15:50
12019-04-19 19:09Alan Bragg Changed address for parking lot at end of street from Billing to Billings
68623028
by Awm Lamp
@ 2019-03-28 12:08
12019-04-19 14:03Alan Bragg Changing road name: Shops As 5 Way to Shops at Five Way
Found discrepancy at https://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ setting "View" to "addresses" and checking only "Street not found"
69145226
by Vera Kozlova
@ 2019-04-12 10:57
12019-04-14 11:37Alan Bragg Nice work. I added the sport fields
64829975
by Arcureil
@ 2018-11-23 18:55
12019-04-06 15:54Alan Bragg Hi, There are 7 polygons surrounding apartment buildings at Nagog Woods that have no tags and are not part of the larger "grass" relation. I hesitate to delete and would prefer that you investigate.
Thanks,
Alan
68834872
by Alan Bragg
@ 2019-04-03 11:53
12019-04-04 10:35mueschel
♦6,565
Hi,
these buildings have two strange tags:
POINT_TYPE=BMP
STATUS=ACTIVE
Could you check / remove this?

Jan
22019-04-04 10:50Alan Bragg Jan,
Thanks and corrected
Alan
68019702
by goody52
@ 2019-03-11 11:58
12019-03-29 12:54Alan Bragg Hi goody52, Thanks for mapping the building on the golf course. I'm replacing the "node" with a building outline drawn from imagery.
67205747
by Sproid
@ 2019-02-14 19:44
12019-03-29 12:04Alan Bragg Hi Sproid, Thanks for adding the spanish restaurant on Main Street. I added the addr:housenumber to the building.
67686763
by srinatpa
@ 2019-03-01 13:48
12019-03-05 14:58Alan Bragg Nice work. I added a couple buildings
67080228
by Roy Herold
@ 2019-02-10 19:17
12019-03-05 14:13Alan Bragg Roy, I like your use of trail junctions. Really nice for folks without a GPS app.
Alan
67754426
by Paul Knight
@ 2019-03-04 05:34
12019-03-05 14:11Alan Bragg Thanks Paul,
I need to use a spell checker.
I like those trails. Wish the grounds maintenance folks wouldn't dump clippings on one of the entrances
Alan
67407713
by cforin
@ 2019-02-20 21:04
12019-02-27 14:59Alan Bragg Looking at your changes in MA. Very nice! There are over 30 datasets at massdot. Which one are you using. I'm interested in your process. Thanks, Alan
22019-02-27 17:47cforin
♦3
Hello Alan, thanks for the feedback I greatly appreciate it! I used the dataset https://geo-massdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ef9192ecac9d44deac4a6b8711868c21_0 and specifically the "road inventory 2017". Let me know if you have further questions! -Cody
58392019
by Geminithunder
@ 2018-04-24 23:17
12019-01-28 19:22Alan Bragg Hi, Thanks for mapping. The tag landuse=forest is for managed forest. natural =wood better describes this property that is owned by many individuals. The name "Davis Forest" needs to be verified on the ground by a sign.
65900746
by Alan Bragg
@ 2018-12-30 23:42
12019-01-05 13:29freebeer
♦1,598
hola,

looks as if this changeset as visualised by https://nrenner.github.io/achavi/?changeset=65900746 has had an unwanted effect towards its eastern extent...
22019-01-06 00:04Alan Bragg You are correct. I fixed it. Thanks
65956335
by mueschel
@ 2019-01-02 12:08
12019-01-04 15:29Alan Bragg Thanks mueschel, I never won any spelling contests.
64387165
by Alan Bragg
@ 2018-11-11 22:30
12018-11-14 11:05mueschel
♦6,565
Hi,
it looks like something went wrong here, there are several objects with only foreign tags like this one:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6053438457
22018-11-14 12:04Alan Bragg OOPS! I'll take care of it. Thanks for the comment.
63703974
by LeifRasmussen_import
@ 2018-10-20 13:35
12018-10-22 17:17Alan Bragg I'm not sure it's possible to determine that a building is "detached" from MS data or satellite imagery.. building=yes is always a safe bet.
22018-10-22 17:22LeifRasmussen
♦88
Well, I left half of the buildings as building=yes. I only choose building=detached if I was certain that the building was a detached house. Some buildings looked like houses, but were in commercial looking areas. I left those as building=yes to be safe.
I generally tried to stay on the safe s...
32018-10-22 17:23LeifRasmussen
♦88
Esri World Imagery in this area is pretty high resolution, so things looked pretty clear.
63710299
by Alan Bragg
@ 2018-10-20 17:52
12018-10-21 17:49mueschel
♦6,565
Hi,
you added strange tags like "geoid10=120370004" to almost 1000 buildings. Looks like a mistake, could you check that?

Thanks, Jan
22018-10-21 19:44Alan Bragg Thanks, I'll get direction from project leader. This part of /tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/87#bottom
61907614
by Yury Yatsynovich
@ 2018-08-23 03:40
12018-08-29 18:19Alan Bragg Interesting! address point calls this Levis Path and so does www.mapsonline.net/chathamma/web_assessor with no apostrophe. Nice add of new road.I'm working Chatham today.
62058785
by Victoria J Ball
@ 2018-08-28 05:51
12018-08-28 12:36Alan Bragg I believe amenity=dentist might be a good choice for your office. If you need help let me know.
57250041
by Fivea
@ 2018-03-16 18:49
12018-08-24 11:54Alan Bragg Like your sidewalks. Eastham is looking pretty good.
59323114
by Alan Bragg
@ 2018-05-27 21:59
12018-08-20 11:00Petr Fukátko
♦19
Hello, I would like to ask why have you changed Karakum Desert from natural=desert to natural=sand.
According to osm wiki (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dsand) deserts should not be tagged like this.
22018-08-20 22:26Alan Bragg Thanks for the comment. It looked like a sand desert to me. I read the wiki and changed it to natural desert. It looks to me like the polygon needs some work.
32018-08-21 05:52Petr Fukátko
♦19
Thank you for changing it back.
Hopefuly there will be someone with better data able to refine this polygon. But the information that geographically significant desert is there is valuable nevertheless.
12094521
by Tolly
@ 2012-07-02 21:33
12018-08-20 19:05Alan Bragg Could this be Ball Hill Road trail instead of Bare Hill?
22018-08-21 00:54Tolly
♦1
Correct trail name.
60045946
by AlexTriloba
@ 2018-06-21 14:06
12018-08-08 10:07Alan Bragg Thanks for adding the address. I changed Ave abbreviation to Avenue and added a private driveway named Lonsdale Avenue. Is this really a 2 unit 18;20. The mass 911 system thinks it's only number 18?
22018-08-18 15:22AlexTriloba
♦3
Yes, the post office definitely delivers to both 18 and 20 at this address. I'm not sure that the private driveway should be listed as Lonsdale Avenue - the actual route of the historical Lonsdale Avenue is behind the house, and can be seen on city assessor's maps.
32018-08-18 16:24Alan Bragg Make sense, I'll drop the driveway name. I wasn't sure how anyone finds the address.
61664908
by Alan Bragg
@ 2018-08-14 17:29
12018-08-15 17:35user_5359
♦19,369
Hello! You use on node http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5832668548 (only as example) the not standard tags
COMMUNITY_=WELLFLEET
COUNTY=BARNSTABLE
FULL_NUMBE=20
GEOGRAPHIC=WELLFLEET
OBJECTID=610151
PC_NAME=WELLFLEET
POSTCODE=02667
STREET_NAM=MOUNTAIN AVENUE
cty_town=BARNSTABLE, WELLFLEET
...
22018-08-15 20:05Alan Bragg My mistake. Thanks for the notice.
61153745
by Alan Bragg
@ 2018-07-28 23:48
12018-08-05 01:07OceanVortex
♦18
"Somerville" is spelled with a single "m"
22018-08-05 01:08OceanVortex
♦18
(For houses on Lowell Street)
32018-08-05 12:30Alan Bragg oops! thanks, I'll correct them. I'm trying to convert the few address interpolations in MA before an address import makes things more confusing.
42018-08-05 14:51Alan Bragg I think they are all corrected now. Thanks for the changeset comment
60629414
by Alan Bragg
@ 2018-07-11 22:25
12018-07-15 06:04user_5359
♦19,369
Hello! Please have a short look on https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/607171854: Did you mean name=Jennings Road or name=Hannon Road ?
22018-07-15 15:41Alan Bragg It's Hannon Road. The name has been added to the street. Nice catch, thanks for commenting
25609001
by dmgroom_ct
@ 2014-09-22 18:01
12018-03-21 12:25Alan Bragg I would like to delete the ways tagged natural=old_coastline. They confuse me and probably other mappers without your experience. Thanks.
22018-03-22 16:15dmgroom_ct
♦51
A lot of these ways do represent featues such as islands, which Is why I left them. I'll try and merge this into the exisiting data
32018-03-22 20:40Alan Bragg I see what you mean. I'll try to do the same.
I find the imported land use multipolygons and relationships hard to work with and not aligned with reality.
42018-03-23 13:26dmgroom_ct
♦51
Alan. I've merged what I can, and deleted those which didn't represent anything. Whilst doing this I've also tidied up some of the imported landuse multiploygons.
52018-03-23 21:17Alan Bragg I took a look at what you've done and I'm really impressed. It's much easier for me to work with this data now. I'm tweaking the geometry using bing imagery. I'm visiting Savannah for a week and got interested in the map.
62018-03-24 20:58dmgroom_ct
♦51
glad to be of help
56868153
by user_5359
@ 2018-03-04 11:29
12018-03-04 15:00Alan Bragg I'm not sure how to change the hours. The place is always open 24hrs/day, 7days a week.
22018-03-04 15:07user_5359
♦19,369
Please see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours: The value is 24/7.
46373139
by SlimyJane
@ 2017-02-24 16:57
12018-03-01 22:34Alan Bragg Thanks for adding Locke Park to Openstreetmap. It looks nice. I added the football field and track across the street. Have fun, add some more details to the map.
56566104
by Alan Bragg
@ 2018-02-22 01:02
12018-02-22 12:49Constable
♦1,294
Hi there Alan, do you mind if I ask you to double check this park location? Looking at ESRI Imagery I can't see any park here. It looks like there are just a few buildings here.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/563157164
Thanks!
22018-02-22 13:04Alan Bragg Yes, there is a park. Drove by it yesterday using Mapillary. Unfortunately Mapillary images didn't line up due to GPS problem. Y
55329987
by zephyrz4
@ 2018-01-10 18:18
12018-01-13 22:30Alan Bragg Hello!
I reviewed your changeset on OSMCha and it looks great!
Thank you very much for your contributions to OpenStreetMap!
#REVIEWED_GOOD #OSMCHA
Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.mapbox.com/changesets/55329987
55368648
by jremillard
@ 2018-01-12 02:53
12018-01-13 22:18Alan Bragg Hello!
I reviewed your changeset on OSMCha and it looks great!
Thank you very much for your contributions to OpenStreetMap!
#REVIEWED_GOOD #OSMCHA
Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.mapbox.com/changesets/55368648
54714219
by Greg Stathis
@ 2017-12-17 21:09
12017-12-24 20:33Alan Bragg I read your note and added access=private to the road.
54419166
by Will Stewart
@ 2017-12-07 02:25
12017-12-17 12:27Alan Bragg I'm responding to your request for a review. I looked at your changes and they are far superior to most first time mappers. I hope you keep on mapping.
54354225
by Jsolares
@ 2017-12-05 06:01
12017-12-13 14:19Alan Bragg Hi, Thanks for mapping. I split the gameshop from the bank and added a building where the gameshop is located. Keep on mapping, it's great to have your input.
22017-12-19 14:50Vitru
♦11
Which religion has the Temple Anumah?
48972728
by maxerickson
@ 2017-05-25 12:35
12017-12-08 20:28Alan Bragg Thanks for fixing the golf hole number changing name to ref.I was wondering about the correct way to tag it.
54273587
by Naoyuki Tai
@ 2017-12-02 15:47
12017-12-03 15:35Alan Bragg Nice addition to OSM. Thanks
50140956
by Roy Herold
@ 2017-07-08 22:28
12017-11-22 16:58Alan Bragg Thanks for changing my path to footway. I suppose footway=sidewalk would do the same thing as highway=footway +surface=paved
53224138
by Joe Holmes MA
@ 2017-10-25 02:59
12017-10-29 10:32Alan Bragg Thanks for fixing this. I too like keepright for finding these things.
52889496
by Alan Bragg
@ 2017-10-13 12:06
12017-10-13 18:43SomeoneElse
♦13,362
Hello,
I think that this change might have included rather more objects than anticipated (including some not previously edited by andygol), such as https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/420984991/history
Best Regards,
Andy
22017-10-13 19:09Alan Bragg Thanks for your comment. I'll verify all the changes. This one was not by andygol but has the same problem and needs area=yes.
32017-10-13 19:32SomeoneElse
♦13,362
There were also examples such as http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/374923973/history which were previously mapped as area:highway.
42017-10-13 19:49Alan Bragg Yes, that one is ok. This area:highway=pedestrian or footway all seem to have cropped up in 2015. I was wondering why they did not render and got an answer from scai https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/60067/why-are-some-pedestrian-areas-not-rendering I'm attempting to fix the problems in...
52017-10-13 20:19SomeoneElse
♦13,362
For completeness (and apologies if I'm stating the bleeding the obvious here), an "area:highway" is fundamentally different to a "highway; area=yes". Usually it won't make sense to change either the latter to the former or the former to the latter. There is at least o...
62017-10-13 20:42Alan Bragg Yes, thanks, I do understand. andygol had changed all highway=pedestrian area=yes to area:highway=pedestrian which caused all plaza type areas in the USA to become black holes in the map. I've been following this note "Note on area=yes
Don't use area:highway=* for plazas and similiar...
29915730
by andygol
@ 2015-04-01 21:08
12017-10-11 15:06Alan Bragg After highway=pedestrian and area=yes were changed to area:highway=pedestrian and area=yes they no longer render in OSM . I'm looking at the 50+ occurrences in Massachusetts? Do you know why?
22017-10-12 12:30andygol
♦488
Hey,
It is hard to say. This is a good question to ask here https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto
32017-10-12 17:04Alan Bragg Hi andygol, I asked the question and got some interesting comments.
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/60067/why-are-some-pedestrian-areas-not-rendering
I'll be changing the MA ways to highway=pedestrian area=yes
52781127
by TeresaPeteti
@ 2017-10-10 07:11
12017-10-11 22:03Alan Bragg Hi, Looks like you were busy adding parking lot lanes near Crosby Drive in bedford. Many of them seem to be missing connectors between the ends of aisles. You might consider adding the tag service=parking_aisle to complement highway=service
Thanks for your work, the map is looking more complete
22017-10-12 04:24TeresaPeteti
♦35
Hi, Thank you so much for bringing these to my notice, will try to correct them and in future will be careful.
32017-10-12 10:33Alan Bragg No problem. I too appreciate it when people comment on my changesets. Thanks for all the work your doing. I encourage you to spend more time mapping in the Bedford/Burlington MA area. Alan
52565231
by Roy Herold
@ 2017-10-02 13:55
12017-10-08 00:11Alan Bragg Nice. I'll have to check it out.
52286423
by Alan Bragg
@ 2017-09-22 19:00
12017-09-24 08:31Harald Hartmann
♦827
Just leaving this comment as a reminder for `source` and `SOURCE` ... and all the other MassGIS tags ;-)
22017-09-24 11:55Alan Bragg These tags are artifacts of a long ago import. Many Massachusetts mappers, but not all, agree they should be deleted. I try to delete them from highway ways and nodes I edit. I'll consider deleting them from landuse or leisure ways as well. What we need is a mass removal. Thanks for the comment...
52052569
by Alan Bragg
@ 2017-09-14 21:43
12017-09-15 06:38Harald Hartmann
♦827
Hello Alan Bragg. Is this an import? Is there any discussion about your edit?
Why i'm asking: in this changeset you have introduced a lot (nearly 20) of new, unkown, undocumented and uppercase keys! I don't think, that this should be in the osm database.
22017-09-15 09:48Alan Bragg Not an import. Reworking bad data from 2009. Old polygons were from digitized maps and poorly aligned. More recent data is now available which is replacing old one polygon at a time after review. I'm lobbying our local community to remove all these massgis: tags that came with the import.
52031606
by Alan Bragg
@ 2017-09-14 09:42
12017-09-15 07:13Harald Hartmann
♦827
Hello Alan Bragg. Also this changeset looks like an import. And at http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29776747 you haved tagged `lleisure=..`, i think there's a `l` too much ;-)
22017-09-15 09:43Alan Bragg Not an import. In Massachusetts we have about 20 dumb keys that were introduced during the original import in 2009. see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS
51694977
by Alan Bragg
@ 2017-09-03 15:04
12017-09-15 08:48mueschel
♦6,565
Hi,
here is a way with only foreign tags:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/521034908
22017-09-15 09:32Alan Bragg deleted tags, added new
51894448
by Alan Bragg
@ 2017-09-09 23:20
12017-09-12 08:17mueschel
♦6,565
Hi,
there are two ways with many foreign tags, looks like a mistake:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/523877443
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29690100

Jan
22017-09-12 08:18mueschel
♦6,565
Here as well: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/374691498
maybe there are more.
32017-09-12 11:03Alan Bragg Thanks, tags have been deleted.
Alan
37965966
by Alan Bragg
@ 2016-03-20 23:24
12017-09-07 08:58GerdP
♦2,751
Hi!
Please review way https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/7712049
It seems you changed that way accidentially.
22017-09-07 10:22Alan Bragg Nice catch. Yes, that was my mistake. I remember now that I was trying to use the iphone app go map!! .
50680289
by Alan Bragg
@ 2017-07-29 20:48
12017-07-30 15:37mueschel
♦6,565
Hi,
some of the nodes have many foreign tags, could you check that? E.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5002215004

Ja
22017-08-01 18:46Alan Bragg Thanks for catching that error and notifying me. I found that I had another similar error which I have corrected.
12208163
by marnen
@ 2012-07-13 15:49
12017-07-04 14:40Alan Bragg Thanks for breaking up these ways. It made it a lot easier for me to add road names from new TIGER data.
49514175
by Alan Bragg
@ 2017-06-13 22:43
12017-06-14 10:01TagaSanPedroAko
♦524
It looks like this is a data import, that even covers a large bounding box. If this is an import done with discussion, this is okay, but it must be reverted, as the data imported may be mostly inserted outside the supposed bounds. I do not know whether SomeoneElse will interfere, any time later.
22017-06-14 10:13Alan Bragg Sorry, this wasn't an import. I made a number of local changes then did a couple map roulette fixes and they probably got caught up in the same changeset. That accounts for the wide distribution.
32017-06-14 10:25TagaSanPedroAko
♦524
The changeset has MassGIS data marked as source and that makes this look like an import. That makes this problematic, but wait for SomeoneElse for comment. The changeset may be reverted any time, but I don't know what to do about those local changes or MapRoulette edits.
42017-06-14 14:19Alan Bragg I can understand how the comments are confusing. In Massachusetts did have an import of land boundaries many years ago. Problem is that they were all skewed. We use newer imagery to re-align them.
39699437
by Keith Tsukuda
@ 2016-05-31 22:28
12017-05-06 22:17Alan Bragg What is the source "HS"?, there is now good bing imagery available.
48168630
by packrattle
@ 2017-04-26 16:44
12017-05-03 11:36Alan Bragg Nice change. I added amenity=police to the building. Thanks for mapping.
48314504
by pjmorse
@ 2017-05-01 18:10
12017-05-03 11:26Alan Bragg Nice fix. The old TIGER census data showed Cypress Road extending southward. That's probably the source of the road you deleted. Thanks for mapping.
43089219
by rirausquin
@ 2016-10-22 20:42
12017-04-30 20:12Alan Bragg This building has no width. Seems to be a shop but I cannot define it with the imagery.
Nice mapping in this area.
45813508
by sazrodrigo
@ 2017-02-04 19:35
12017-04-30 19:39Alan Bragg These buildings don't seem to have any relationship to the bing satellite images.
48069576
by Alan Bragg
@ 2017-04-23 19:18
12017-04-29 12:56muralito
♦2,016
Hi Alan.

You added some strange keys in this changeset. See for exampe the uppercase keys. Was on purpose or a mistake?
22017-04-29 13:30Alan Bragg On purpose. The GIS manager in our town has given me a shp file for new buildings. That field the date he updated the building. I'm using his date to keep track of the geometry as I replace them one at a time. In Massachusetts all our buildings were imported years ago and many have been torn do...
27946689
by xunilOS
@ 2015-01-06 02:34
12017-04-26 20:07Alan Bragg two parking lots were drawn by a single way. This caused a self intersecting way error Invalid polygon
Self-intersection[-71.1326805523277 42.5562496687046]
I split them.
46569006
by legitimate_human
@ 2017-03-04 10:44
12017-04-17 11:36Alan Bragg The cemetery overlaps a large housing area and a lot of open land. It should be re entered if it really exists with a more detailed boundary.
47768442
by legitimate_human
@ 2017-04-14 07:03
12017-04-17 11:18Alan Bragg Hi, Welcome to Openstreetmap. There is a better tag for a swimming pool. I've changed your "lake" to leisure=swimming_pool. There is a good list at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features
47639590
by Barrett SIR
@ 2017-04-10 21:37
12017-04-11 01:32Alan Bragg I'm not sure changing from building=yes to building=house will make much difference. I see your using potlatch now. JOSM is the one I use.
44608626
by hotsaucegg
@ 2016-12-23 02:01
12017-01-29 18:28Alan Bragg Hi, Nice job adding paths. I added some buildings to go with the paths but I don't know their names.
40997014
by LadyDragonfly
@ 2016-07-24 18:47
12016-10-02 18:52Alan Bragg Nice job mapping. I like the pool and playground. I added the main street name.
39857083
by Steven Deeds
@ 2016-06-07 09:46
12016-10-02 13:18Alan Bragg Nice job mapping these school grounds. You may be interested in our Massachusetts OSM mailing list.
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us-massachusetts
25295724
by chimani
@ 2014-09-07 21:05
12016-08-29 10:24Alan Bragg What is this way without tags?
22016-08-29 21:00Alan Bragg I'm finding these ways that appear to be gps tracks converted into ways without tags.
Can they be deleted?
32016-08-30 14:22chimani
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Hi Alan, Feel free to edit anything you see will improve the map. I can't recall exactly the history there but my novice OSM skills may have contributed to some of this poor data.
39542308
by Steven Deeds
@ 2016-05-24 19:09
12016-08-21 13:14Alan Bragg Another possible tag for the water tank at http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/420591091 would be man_made=water_tower.
34318021
by Peter Dobratz
@ 2015-09-29 06:23
12016-08-07 13:06Alan Bragg Came here to look at your bus stops and I noticed the way you mapped the tunnel=building_passage under the gas station roof. I had been using indoor=yes. Learn something every day.
22016-08-07 15:14Peter Dobratz
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Yeah, I like tunnel=building_passage for capturing things like drive-through lanes that intersect buildings as well.
38640779
by mtblocal1
@ 2016-04-17 11:37
12016-06-02 20:57Alan Bragg I can see why you changed this from service to track. I'm wondering about a lot of other roads on the cape that are unpaved. Is track best, or service or even residential. Most of the residential roads in Wellfleet & Truro are unpaved and probably need 4WD but I don't think they should...
35733436
by Joe Carreiro
@ 2015-12-03 19:02
12015-12-06 22:06Alan Bragg Very cool Joe. I guess you updated via wheelmap. I live in Bedford and may be able to map more places. Wheelmap, I'll check it out.
22093609
by dru1138
@ 2014-05-02 20:51
12015-12-06 19:35Alan Bragg I've been looking into adding traffic_sign=maxspeed to Bedford. http://overpass-turbo.eu/ tells me you are the only one who's every used this key in the metro-boston area. Now I'm the second.
35338727
by Alan Bragg
@ 2015-11-15 22:30
12015-11-17 09:20GerdP
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please review
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8876219
You changed a highway=residential
to a highway=turning_circle
with the comment "roundabouts added"
In Bing, the way looks like a turning_loop, not like a turning_circle or roundabout.
Both attributes turning_loop and turning_ci...
22015-11-17 11:06Alan Bragg You are correct. Thanks for reverting my change. I've never reverted a change and just read the wiki to see how it's done. Did you do a "Partial Revert" with the JOSM REVERTER plug-in?
32015-11-17 12:05GerdP
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Hmm
I did not revert your change, and a quick look shows that it is still wrong.
I have done reverts with the plugin,
full as well as partial, but I see no need for this here.
42015-11-17 20:03Alan Bragg Thanks for the feedback. I now understand. The "way" is tagged as a turning_circle. I will remove the tag. I appreciate your help.
52015-11-17 20:20GerdP
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OK, thanks.
34512777
by steverumizen
@ 2015-10-08 15:41
12015-11-15 13:25Alan Bragg Nice work cleaning up this area. I'm adding no-left-turn restriction where Carlisle Road merges onto The Great Road in Bedford. I noticed the sharp angle at the KeepRight site.
20696151
by Echo Echo
@ 2014-02-21 15:48
12015-11-11 22:38Alan Bragg Lots of great mapping in this area near where I live. I noticed that "Keep Right" found a few sidewalks that "are not connected to the rest of the map". I would like to connect them to the nearby streets. Anyone care to comment?
3637788
by Tim BL
@ 2010-01-17 03:31
12015-11-11 15:16Alan Bragg way 48431233 is a floating island in the woods. I deleted it because it's only part of a gps track in OSM. There are no visual or strava indications that it's more than a bushwacked adventure. But, I may be wrong and reinstate it if needed.
30476864
by Nathaniel Cassidy
@ 2015-04-25 15:34
12015-11-11 14:07Alan Bragg Nice mapping of Moriaty Campus. I'm connecting the paths to a parking aisle. That makes transportation routing possible. Unconnected, they are "floating islands". see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Keep_Right/130_floating_islands
31780506
by DougPeterson
@ 2015-06-07 02:45
12015-11-11 13:44Alan Bragg Nice set of changes. I'm connecting path to parking asile at Orchard House to complete link to road system
35015887
by GerdP
@ 2015-11-01 16:36
12015-11-10 21:42Alan Bragg Nice catch. Caused me to visit the site and add details. Wouldn't have found this if I hadn't read about WOHDIDIT in a post to talk@openstreetmap.org by Andy Townsend
22015-11-10 22:09GerdP
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:-)
My first thought when I found this typo
was that highway=memorial is another
tag for something like highway=disused.
32351818
by Santiago Calero
@ 2015-07-02 11:12
12015-08-14 21:16Alan Bragg Nice touch adding trees. natural=wood will render on the map, natural=tree_group is infrequently used and doesn't render. see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dwood
32865465
by Басмач
@ 2015-07-25 06:58
12015-08-14 21:09Alan Bragg I changed natural=tree_group to natural=tree on two nodes where I believe you wanted to map a tree. tree_group is not used often and doesn't render on the map.
32542855
by NaNNaNNaNNaN
@ 2015-07-10 13:31
12015-08-14 20:57Alan Bragg I suspect the tag you are looking for here is natural=wood. natural=tree_group does not render and has only been used a few times. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dwood
31928936
by URcommunications
@ 2015-06-12 18:40
12015-08-14 13:53Alan Bragg Hi, the natural=tree_group is not a common tag. Using natural=wood is a good tag for a tree covered area and renders nicely.
22015-08-14 14:07URcommunications
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Cool. Thanks for the heads-up. I wasn't sure but I'll try that out.
31686255
by Essex_Boy
@ 2015-06-03 08:53
12015-08-14 12:46Alan Bragg Just thought you'd like to know that natural=tree_row is the correct tag for a line of trees, not natural=tree_line. A complete description is in the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree_row
27951964
by Pfad-Finder
@ 2015-01-06 10:27
12015-08-14 12:44Alan Bragg Just thought you'd like to know that natural=tree_row is the correct tag for a line of trees, not natural=tree_line. A complete description is in the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree_row
21641314
by Leon K
@ 2014-04-12 07:34
12015-08-14 12:42Alan Bragg Just thought you'd like to know that natural=tree_row is the correct tag for a line of trees, not natural=tree_line. A complete description is in the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree_row
22015-08-15 00:33Leon K
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Thanks, can't have been concentrating as i've used tree_row hundreds of times :-)
32351007
by Angyork
@ 2015-07-02 10:25
12015-08-14 12:39Alan Bragg Just thought you'd like to know that natural=tree_row is the correct tag for a line of trees, not natural=tree_line. A complete description is in the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree_row
26080469
by dru1138
@ 2014-10-14 19:33
12015-08-11 21:48Alan Bragg This is the first time I've ever commented on a change set. The row of trees with the tag natural=tree_line does not render. The tag that renders is natural=tree_row. According to taginfo there are 126K natural=tree_row and about 900 natural=tree_line in the database.
30291243
by Alan Bragg
@ 2015-04-17 17:28
12015-04-30 07:05Bryce C Nesbitt
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Alan, thanks for mapping.

There are 7 uses of "sanitary_dump_satation:round_drain", which has a typo in the word "station".

Also the name tag should be blank, unless the station actually has a name.
22015-04-30 10:05Alan Bragg Bryce, I can't thank you enough for not just changing the tag yourself. It forced me to find out how to find the other cases. I easily found the 7 instances in taginfo and was wondering how to find the locations. I tried the MAP tab, but that showed the world. Then I found the Overpass Turbo li...
32015-04-30 16:09Bryce C Nesbitt
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Glad you found it. Note with Turbo you can even do fuzzy searches like "waste:grey_water" which will find even partial strings.
30140750
by Alan Bragg
@ 2015-04-11 12:00
12015-04-14 04:58Bryce C Nesbitt
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For the campground in this edit, I think each individual parking spot is a "pitch", where the overall site is a "caravan_site".
22015-04-15 10:21Alan Bragg Interesting, that's what the Key:tourism wiki site says. I couldn't find an example of this using taginfo. Do you know of a caravan_site that is tagged with pitches?
32015-04-15 16:56Bryce C Nesbitt
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No I don't, and I've seen a variety of approaches used, including "addr:housenumber" for each pitch (see 36.48988, -121.148099).

I'm sure that having each one be a caravan_site is unattractive, and would want to find a better way.
29055311
by Alan Bragg
@ 2015-02-23 21:47
12015-03-28 04:11Bryce C Nesbitt
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Retagged https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3369114581/history because that's not a waste water plant.
22015-03-28 14:59Alan Bragg Thanks for changing this. I resorted to coding dump stations back when I had no other choice. I was planning to go back and change them to sanitary dump stations when I have a good internet connection. I like your :gravity, I'll use that myself.
32015-03-29 01:44Bryce C Nesbitt
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http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dsanitary_dump_station