162 changesets created by Minh Nguyen have been discussed with 102 replies of this contributor
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166493926
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2025-05-19 19:38
12025-05-19 19:38Minh Nguyen Addresses are from https://gis.countyofnapa.org/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0bbafe490c58430da719ff851c78b7fa
166460272
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2025-05-19 07:04
12025-05-19 07:04Minh Nguyen Also added some traffic signs at the Napa County line about the glassy-winged sharpshooter.
165698735
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2025-05-02 01:23
12025-05-02 01:24Minh Nguyen This was also based on a field survey in 2022.
164907952
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2025-04-13 18:26
12025-04-13 18:28Minh Nguyen See the discussion in changeset 162094261.
163261458
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2025-03-05 21:03
12025-03-05 21:04Minh Nguyen Source was a survey back in November.
163109218
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2025-03-02 04:47
12025-03-02 08:16mcliquid
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Really just out of pure personal interest, away from OSM. Where is this abbreviation defined? I was still aware of “USA” until now. Or just “U.S.” in reference to the government, but without the “A”. And even with a quick internet search, I only find “USA&rd...
22025-03-02 17:03Minh Nguyen U.S. is the preferred abbreviation of United States in American English. U.S.A. is the preferred abbreviation of United States of America, which is much more common overseas. Domestically, native speakers only use United States and U.S. in most contexts. U.S.A. only occurs for nationalistic emphasis...
32025-03-02 21:41Minh Nguyen Changeset 163139172 moves U.S.A. to short_official_name=*, which appears to be in use as well.
161870600
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2025-01-28 19:15
12025-01-28 21:48jogemu
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Is Vịnh Mexico more common than Vịnh México? If not I would propose:
name:vi=Vịnh México
alt_name:vi=Vịnh Mễ Tây Cơ;Vịnh Mễ;Vịnh Mexico;Vịnh Mê-hi-cô

In case you agree, could you do me a favor and change alt_name:he to name:he as well? I tried ...
22025-01-28 22:11Minh Nguyen Sorry, I didn’t realize I was getting in the middle of things. Another mapper reached out to me and asked me to take care of Vietnamese.

> Is Vịnh Mexico more common than Vịnh México?

It’s complicated. Vietnamese spelling of foreign place names is notoriously unstanda...
32025-01-28 22:24jogemu
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No, problem. Thank you for the explanation. Using the same spelling as the country relation seems logical. Adding Mexico to alt_name:vi of the country relation could be done as well. Since, I am not really qualified I can't make those decisions.
125964044
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-09-09 04:00
12025-01-01 21:17Kai Johnson
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Would you happen to remember where you found the name for this turn-off? I think it may be due for an update, but I couldn't find any signage in street level imagery.
22025-01-01 21:26Minh Nguyen It came from a sign a quarter mile north that appeared in Mapillary [1] and KartaView [2] as late as 2019. Mapillary also has imagery from two years ago, but I can’t tell if the sign was removed or buried under the snow.

[1] https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=489650309015635
[2] https://k...
32025-01-01 21:47Kai Johnson
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I see. You can compare heights with the sign across the road. The sign was tall enough that it wouldn't have been buried by that snowbank, so it was clearly gone as of 2023.
42025-01-01 21:57Minh Nguyen Yeah, sounds like they would’ve removed it anyways. I don’t think Caltrans tracks turnout names as anything particularly formal, other than in project specifications, so we can just remove the name if there’s no sign.
52025-01-01 21:59Kai Johnson
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Sounds good.
62025-01-01 22:28Minh Nguyen Thanks for fixing it! By the way, Caltrans apparently hasn’t updated a different sign further up that refers to the road by the old name. (That sign is also unusual for the dyadic fraction. Hadn’t seen that before.)

[1] https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=932214371489044
72025-01-02 00:01Kai Johnson
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I did notice the sign, although the fraction didn't catch my eye. I suppose Caltrans is just waiting until they have a reason to replace it.
160111603
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2024-12-10 00:39
12024-12-10 07:49Minh Nguyen The source was https://web.archive.org/web/20241117171033/https://www.caltrain.com/location/stanford-stadium as well as https://www.caltrain.com/news/caltrain-will-provide-big-game-service-cal-vs-stanford-saturday for the fact that northbound trains stop at the southbound platform.
159766513
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2024-11-30 09:05
12024-11-30 09:06Minh Nguyen Also removed bike paths in Augusta and Waterville from USBR 1 superrelation.
158989447
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2024-11-11 00:07
12024-11-11 00:13Minh Nguyen See https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/135363897 for more discussion.
158923526
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2024-11-09 08:53
12024-11-09 09:00Minh Nguyen This updates the boundary to reflect the land swap effective October 30. [1]

I took the coordinates specified in the unsigned draft compact [2], which match the signed and executed compact [3]. This work is in the public domain as an edict of government. [4] Since the coordinates are given in NAD...
158465646
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2024-10-28 17:15
12024-10-29 02:57HubMiner
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Not sure what happened, but that was cute. :)
22024-10-29 03:45Minh Nguyen Hehe :-)
156261727
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2024-09-06 08:15
12024-10-09 17:57hoserab
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Thanks for adding these, Minh. :)

I don't know speak Chinese (or any other language that may historically/incidentally use Han characters), so wasn't very confident about adding the names in Chinese. (Whereas e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/128536413 I had public online sou...
22024-10-09 18:04Minh Nguyen Glad to help. I’m kicking myself for not taking more photos while I was there.

I don’t read Chinese myself, beyond a handful of characters. Fortunately, the Google Translate application’s Google Lens feature does a somewhat decent job of OCR’ing CJK text out of photos if y...
32024-10-09 18:05Minh Nguyen (Typo: I meant “transcriptions”, not “translations”. I didn’t rely on Google Translate to do any actual translation.)
93515210
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-11-04 05:17
12020-11-04 09:35Carnildo
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Please don't do huge edits like this. It's not showing up properly in any of the QA tools, so it's impossible to tell if there are any mistakes.
22020-11-07 20:01Minh Nguyen Sorry, I won’t do it again. If it helps, https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/ZQ8 returns elements that were added or changed in this changeset. A more sophisticated attic query could return deleted elements as well.
32020-11-09 02:39skquinn
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Agree with Carnildo here; these should be split into smaller changesets. I do appreciate the spirit of generally fixing up things across the country on Election Day, though.
42024-10-02 17:17Arlo James Barnes
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funny that I was about to do something similar on a local scale when I decided to see what changeset last touched a commercial area with a voting location for _this_ election cycle...
96469787
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-12-27 00:21
12024-08-05 16:22eteb3
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Hi Minh Nguyen

I'm on a bit of a foray to discover how people are using the place_of_worship=musalla tag.

It seems you added one here: n8262966505

Do you remember why you chose to call the place =musalla rather than =mosque?

My wiki discussion is here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.o...
22024-08-24 18:46Minh Nguyen Hi, I’m not very familiar with the distinction, so apologies if I’ve made a mistake. I added https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8262966505 based on https://saesdp.sccgov.org/sdpdocs/4215410-SocialDistancingProtocolForm.pdf , which is part of a dataset we were importing at the time. The n...
150431540
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2024-04-24 08:26
12024-04-24 08:28Minh Nguyen Actually, it was originally introduced in changeset 91106420.
148156332
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2024-03-03 08:22
12024-03-03 08:25Minh Nguyen https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/tagging-counties-and-planning-regions-in-connecticut/109799
142123640
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2023-10-04 03:13
12023-10-24 08:31csomerville
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Hello Minh Nguyen. I noticed you tagged barrier=kerb + kerb=rolled. This has caused OSRM to no longer route on these roads. It seems to be a bug. Would you be willing to follow up with OSRM team?
22023-10-24 17:24Minh Nguyen I used the iD preset for rolled curbs. The bug in OSRM is being tracked in https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/issues/6582 .
32023-10-28 08:57csomerville
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Just stumbled upon 6582 myself and came to share but you've already beat me to the punch. Kudos.

Now, based on a review of street side imagery, aerial imagery, and USGS 3DEPElevation multidirectional hill shade visualization, I don't believe there is a rolled curb here. I believe it is ...
42024-02-27 06:06Minh Nguyen Sorry for the delayed response. I don’t think you’d be able to tell a curb from a painted line in 3DEP. Anyhow, you’re right, these are clearly just red painted lines, judging from Bing Streetside imagery. Fixed in changeset 147958271.
142055828
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2023-10-02 20:21
12024-02-08 01:47Spaghetti Monster🍝
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What is the usefulness of having this relation? To me it seems like unnecessary complexity for maintenance etc..
22024-02-08 02:07Minh Nguyen This roundabout cannot be represented by a single closed way because of the routes that traverse it only partially. Including the entire roundabout in one of these routes would inaccurately indicate a loop (and also cause some editors to scramble the member order). Since there’s still only one...
32024-02-14 00:36Spaghetti Monster🍝
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In my opinion this is essentially duplicate data especially since the major routers on OSM work perfectly without it. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element
Since it was proposed in 2007 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Junctions and only has 1400 uses I don�...
42024-02-14 01:28Minh Nguyen I would concede that a junction relation is inessential for a minor, unnamed roundabout such as this. However, I don’t think this mapping style is completely superfluous.

Again, the only reason I bothered creating a relation here is that I had to split the closed way into five ways for accu...
142503902
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2023-10-13 04:15
12024-01-22 00:27Jordan Moldow
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Somehow the map of the history walk medallions ended up with an extra node: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1GgO . There are two identical nodes, at different GPS coordinates, for "1870–1872 Vine Street Chinatown". I don't believe any medallions are missing; I counted 13 medallions ...
22024-01-22 00:32Minh Nguyen You’re right, I must’ve duplicated that one, forgot it, and duplicated it again as a starting point for the next medallion. Thanks for your vigilance. Fixed in changeset 146532532.
104391694
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2021-05-09 10:46
12024-01-07 12:11osmuser63783
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Hi, I'm creating a Wiki page for amenity=lounge, after looking at how the tag is being used. The overwhelming number of cases are for airport lounges, so I was wondering if there is a better tag for https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8714553104?
22024-01-07 17:02Minh Nguyen Thanks for looking into amenity=lounge. I agree we need a tag for lounges – not just for airport lounges, but also for less exclusive lounges, like at train stations. That said, judging from http://morganhillbowl.com/strixe.html , I think this one might be better described as a sports bar.
32024-01-13 07:50osmuser63783
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Thanks! The Wiki page has since been improved to make clear it isn't just about airports.

We can change this object to amenity=bar then, with bar:type=sports_bar, following a suggestion on the old help site, unless you have a better idea?
42024-01-13 08:05Minh Nguyen Thanks, that’s definitely an improvement. I retagged the POI in changeset 146205486.

Since the linked proposal mentioned hotels, I wonder if I should also use it for a dormitory lounge like https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8562709678 . I’ve previously used amenity=clubhouse, but tha...
145404433
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2023-12-22 12:12
12023-12-23 08:41Minh Nguyen Moved to OpenHistoricalMap in https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/changeset/103581
144063434
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2023-11-15 18:26
12023-11-15 18:58Black_Diamond
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This looks like a good change! Thanks.
142498123
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2023-10-12 21:37
12023-10-13 10:18danieldegroot2
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Hey Minh,

I've added some details in
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/142515759
( Changes: https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=142515759 )

Let me know what you think.

impiaaa adviced against adding an address earlier as most of the other city parks don't have one an...
22023-10-14 19:11Minh Nguyen Thank you for taking an interest in this neighborhood!

I agree that many of the city’s parks lack an address [1], but this park has a different address than either of the apartment buildings in the complex [2], because the block was subdivided into parcels with addresses long before the par...
32023-10-14 19:26Minh Nguyen Changeset 142589542 adds the apartment buildings’ addresses and also restores the overall development’s landuse area, which had gotten conflated with the plot next to the park where the Center for Creative Arts is being built.
133645751
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2023-03-14 00:06
12023-09-07 18:18Mateusz Konieczny
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Is it now safe to delete https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7413032778 ?
22023-09-07 21:10Minh Nguyen Moved to OpenHistoricalMap in https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/changeset/86325 and deleted from OSM in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/140958637
32023-09-08 13:56Mateusz Konieczny
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Thanks!
133378102
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2023-03-06 20:06
12023-03-06 20:07Minh Nguyen The tagging was discussed on OSMUS Slack: https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C2VJAJCS0/p1677722616750459

Even though this isn’t a vet facility that would accept walk-ins, it is a veterinarian who makes house calls.
4226716
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2010-03-25 05:43
12023-02-23 19:04Allison P
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Might be good to come back and square these now that we have better editing tools.
22023-02-27 10:21Minh Nguyen Yep, I’ve got thousands of these buildings in the area that I’m slowly going back and cleaning up – not just squaring but in many cases complely redrawing, because I often mistook one building for two.

There’s also the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hamilton_County_Bu...
132702177
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2023-02-18 04:27
12023-02-18 23:20Hufkratzer
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Hi,
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1147258471 looks more like a riding arena to me (pitch + equestrian).
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1147258472 and
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1147258473 : I don't know, large enough for riding arenas, but look more like paddocks on bing.
htt...
22023-02-19 08:48Minh Nguyen Good catch. I meant to use leisure=pitch sport=equestrian in these cases, though you’re right that some of them look more like paddocks.

The translations are fine but I still got confused. Vietnamese has very similar words for “riding arena” (“sân cưỡi ngựa&rdqu...
13755456
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2012-11-05 00:12
12023-02-03 04:45watmildon
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way/189149801 has gnis:feature_id=10/01/1990

I've taken the liberty of patching it up for you. ;-)
22023-02-03 06:43Minh Nguyen Thanks!
125092305
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-08-19 07:26
12023-01-28 15:25DUGA
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WTF is shared_driveway?
22023-01-28 16:38Minh Nguyen See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:service%3Ddriveway#Pipestems . I’ve been avoiding the term “pipestem” because it’s jargon and it only describes a subset of shared driveways.
124252126
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-07-30 01:38
12022-11-20 13:57stevea
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Really nice work here, Minh! I appreciate your research and mapping a great deal. Long ago, I added the locality node of the same name, you've made it a real place!
126967459
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-10-04 02:58
12022-10-04 03:20Minh Nguyen Also updated the address in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/126968013
126149631
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-09-13 19:43
12022-09-13 19:44Minh Nguyen I meant to say: name:was is for the name in the Washo language; use old_name for the former name
120922336
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-05-13 08:24
12022-08-21 16:13clay_c
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Did you mean to add the Wikipedia and Wikidata tags for Elora, Tennessee to these route relations?
22022-08-22 05:38Minh Nguyen Huh, I must’ve misclicked or something. Fixed in changeset 125208043.
123447364
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-07-10 21:06
12022-07-13 16:12Vladislav Konoplev
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Hello. May I know where you got this data from?
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22022-07-13 19:20Minh Nguyen I traced these geoglyphs from South Africa CD:NGI Aerial imagery, which is the default imagery layer in this area. (I think it’s supposed to be an advertisement for a roadhouse.)
32022-07-15 07:35Vladislav Konoplev
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Thanks for your reply.
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123055526
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-06-30 17:47
12022-06-30 17:48Minh Nguyen …added bridges, culverts; realigned roads, streams
22022-07-07 00:11stevea
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Minh, please undo the railway=disused tagging from here. Just months ago, there was a demonstration train here (from Capitola to Santa Cruz, I believe, though Watsonville must have been "connected").

See https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/11/04/rtc-moves-past-tig-m-roaring-camp-req...
32022-07-07 00:25stevea
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Additionally, SCBTRR has trackage rights on the (publicly-owned) Santa Cruz Branch (to Watsonville Junction / UP), otherwise it would be isolated from the rest of the national rail.

These are "lightly used" rail, not disused.
42022-07-07 00:55stevea
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Saint Paul Pacific (subsidiary of Progressive Rail, Minnesota) has an operator's license (contract to operate freight rail) on this entire branch until 2029, I believe. These are legally active rail.

See https://www.progressiverail.com/rrspp/spp.html and https://www.up.com/customers/shortli...
52022-07-07 18:42Minh Nguyen I’m happy to retag the specific portions that have had this occasional service. I thought I was merely acting on the note that was added in changeset 67040694.

It wasn’t clear to me from my research that this occasional service extends all the way from Santa Cruz to Capitola. In fact,...
62022-07-07 19:07stevea
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While the traffic that happens on Santa Cruz Branch IS "occasional service," it isn't (necessarily) always for freight. Though, SCBTRR ("Big Trees," who run the tourist train between Roaring Camp and the Boardwalk "Tram Hump" halt) DO need the branch from the Dave...
72022-07-07 19:22stevea
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Regarding maxspeed, I think that somebody mistakenly "guessed" the tracks were already Class 2 (25 MPH) and set them to be "40" (meaning km/hr, essentially the same thing). But people misunderstood the 40 as km/hr and thought it meant 25 MPH. It still isn't clear to me whe...
82022-07-07 19:39stevea
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Mmmm, because of demonstration trains sometimes going as far as Swift Halt / Natural Bridges, I've made the disused portion from at the wye, but from Moore Creek (approx. Shaffer Road) westerly out to Davenport.
92022-07-07 20:19stevea
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Oops: minor corrections to the above:

"thought it meant 40 MPH"
and
"I've made the disused portion NOT from at the wye, but from Moore Creek"
102022-07-08 06:23Minh Nguyen Thanks for taking care of the retagging so quickly. The idea that a one-off trip could prove decisive against years of inactivity boggles my mind. There’s a parallel discussion in Slack about when to call a road under construction versus no-access with a very different conclusion. But with rai...
112022-07-08 06:37stevea
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Delighted to "retag quickly." (a.k.a. "heavy lifting is simply lifting").

I really didn't know about the fallen tree, but I agree with you that "it must be open." I saw (in some imagery) what looked like one, but I saw no such tree (and "miles of parked t...
122022-07-08 08:14Minh Nguyen The Bing and Esri imagery showing the fallen tree is from late 2020, according to the metadata for those images. None of the other layers offer such metadata but are most likely older.
122942229
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-06-28 07:41
12022-06-28 07:42Minh Nguyen The crossing had already been mapped; this changeset indicates that the crossing is uncontrolled.
122531746
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-06-18 05:38
12022-06-23 19:27OpenBrian
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I see you :)
22022-06-23 19:30Minh Nguyen More context in https://github.com/ZeLonewolf/openstreetmap-americana/issues/428#issuecomment-1159349224
122313748
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-06-13 08:48
12022-06-13 08:48Minh Nguyen Also adjusted the position of various POIs.
103818501
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2021-04-29 06:31
12021-05-13 16:32impiaaa
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This change includes a number of duplicate addresses (including unit number, and without feature tags). Is there a way to clean that up or should they be left?
22021-05-13 21:50Minh Nguyen This was based on the SCCProperty2 layer tagged on this changeset. Normally when I encounter a building with individual units in that layer, I add points for each of the units and then tag some of them with the information from the SDP dataset. That way we aren’t left with a false sense of hav...
32022-06-09 01:07impiaaa
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In changeset 122140017 I imported the addresses here from City of San Jose data, merging and replacing the old points.
42022-06-09 03:22Minh Nguyen Thanks!
121595808
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-05-27 22:48
12022-06-04 08:19mueschel
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Hi,
I don't think we need to use -fonipa in name tags - name:pronunciation is already defined to be the IPA transcription of a name and can be combined with multi-lingual names like name:en:pronunciation.

22022-06-04 19:59Minh Nguyen I mostly agree and have been pretty active in promoting that tagging scheme. However, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to humor the mapper(s) who suggested the more standards-compliant en-fonipa code on the wiki. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name:pronunciation#Possible_synonyms If history...
120948165
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-05-13 17:49
12022-05-14 00:55sam-mapbox
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe_eraFWWs
120900807
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-05-12 18:04
12022-05-13 02:00MxxCon
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Looking on wiki and taginfo, it seems like the value is "legislative"? "legislator" has never been used before.
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22022-05-13 03:29Minh Nguyen government=legislative is apparently for the main legislative meeting hall. (Don’t ask me how the State Capitol counts as a single office.)

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/government=legislator was used three times until today, based on the discussion at https://osmus.slack.com/archi...
120065242
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-04-22 18:27
12022-04-22 18:29Minh Nguyen See discussion at https://github.com/ZeLonewolf/openstreetmap-americana/issues/289
118889384
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-03-25 02:44
12022-03-25 02:45Minh Nguyen Sorry for the big bbox; didn’t realize these two changesets were so far apart.
117938144
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-02-28 10:25
12022-03-08 16:28Joel Amos
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There is no longer a congregation here. See version #3 of the church building
22022-03-08 23:21Minh Nguyen Ah, sorry about that. I’ve been going through GNIS records and missed that this one had been moved. Tagging it with `disused:amenity=place_of_worship` or `old_name` would keep someone from making a similar mistake in the future based on these records.

I attempted to fix the mistake in chang...
32022-03-09 18:21Joel Amos
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Changes look good, and nice addition of detail. I updated the church address just now. It would seem we have similar masochistic tendencies per GNIS clean-up haha.

Nice catch with the church hall; it looks like I worked on the church and hall 6 months apart and didn't notice the connection.
116480319
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-01-22 21:03
12022-02-13 10:38marczoutendijk
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Hi,
Is your use of man_made=traffic_signals based on this:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtraffic_signals
Marc.
22022-02-13 10:43Minh Nguyen Not quite. highway=traffic_signals is for the point along a roadway that is controlled by traffic signals, whereas I was attempting to also mark the location of the physical signals. I avoided highway=traffic_signals for this purpose because of the likelihood that it would generate validator errors ...
32022-02-13 13:30marczoutendijk
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I found similar use of that here:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1045079682 (and a few more in that area)
Worldwide 44 (mostly yours).
Wondering how useful it is, though.
Who (or what) would benefit from such data?
42022-02-14 09:48Minh Nguyen It wasn’t a particularly serious endeavor. The locations of the highway=traffic_signals nodes didn’t quite describe the complex layout of this bridge and intersection, so I had a bit of fun micromapping it all. As far as I can tell, the more practical aspects of this bridge are already i...
116169894
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2022-01-15 02:42
12022-01-15 02:43Minh Nguyen This changeset also removes a fictitious off-ramp in favor of existing turn lane tags at an at-grade intersection.
115231332
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2021-12-22 02:14
12021-12-26 15:12mueschel
♦6,560
Hi,
I don't think it's necessary to have so many tags for the charges here - it's common to combine them into one tag, e.g.

charge = 1 USD/motorcar; 2 USD/hgv; ...

Could you consider changing this?
22021-12-26 19:21Minh Nguyen Unfortunately, the access keys as units would be inconsistent with the differing prices per axle along other sections of the highway, which require conditional tagging. There would still need to be charge:txtag for the TxTag-specific prices too. It looks like there is precedent for keeping the price...
32021-12-26 19:26Minh Nguyen By the way, I don’t mean a fixed price per axle; there are sections that have unrelated prices depending on the number of axles on the vehicle: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3248852590 These signs are newer than the signs showing prices by vehicle type that I saw in Bing Streetside, so th...
42021-12-26 19:59mueschel
♦6,560
(I don't say your choice of tags is wrong in any sense, I just think that we could keep it a bit more "compact" with fewer keys. "charge:txdot" seems necessary to have in your case as well as the charge:conditional for the axle counts)

It's not a recent addition to t...
52021-12-26 20:54Minh Nguyen Ah, I hadn’t noticed that earlier appearance. In any case, this syntax is disputed in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:charge#Proposed_advanced_usage so I’ll throw my 2¢ into the talk page.

You’re the expert on key order, so I’ll defer to you on that point...
57732228
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-04-02 08:21
12021-12-21 20:16marczoutendijk
♦2,755
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5521977792
What is craft=television describing?
22021-12-22 09:35marczoutendijk
♦2,755
Wouldn't the use of amenity=studio be a better choice?
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dstudio
It has more than 10000 uses while craft=television only 2!
32021-12-25 19:10Minh Nguyen Hi, thanks for asking. Based on the DirecTV logo visible in the window in https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=478695443574475 , I surmised that it’s the office of a satellite TV dish installation business. I’m aware of shop=telecommunication and office=telecommunication, but those tags d...
114125647
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2021-11-23 06:48
12021-12-03 18:14b-jazz
♦644
I'm guessing these aren't really curbs, but more appropriately very short walls, right? The fact that the way doubles back on itself (ie. nodes A-B-A) leads me to think this was done on purpose to indicate it is "lower" on both sides. But this triggers various Q/A tools like OSM ...
22021-12-03 20:32Minh Nguyen They’re more like curbs than walls, hence the kerb:height=6" tags. They’re tapered so that emergency vehicles and delivery vans can back in directly from the through lanes. Here’s what they look like on the ground:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontage_lane_on_So...
32021-12-05 17:33b-jazz
♦644
A double sided tag seems like the right answer to me. In the meantime, maybe they can be represented with parallel lines separated by a small distance?
42021-12-05 22:46Minh Nguyen Parallel lines would represent these standalone curbs too similarly to curbs that surround a traffic island, but anyways Bing imagery doesn’t have high enough resolution to distinguish the gaps in the curbs that allow stormwater to pass through, let alone the edges of the curbs.

In changese...
106314160
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2021-06-14 06:56
12021-11-27 11:56Sugar momma mary
♦1
Hi
26229502
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2014-10-21 08:29
12021-11-11 10:10TheAdventurer64
♦107
Are the roads supposed to be this far offset from regular imagery alignment?
22021-11-11 10:31Minh Nguyen Which roads are you referring to? This is an ancient changeset based on imagery that’s no longer available online, so I don’t think I can really answer your question without more information.
72199190
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-07-12 22:19
12021-11-10 23:26txemt
♦70
Out of curiosity.....why is Crescent Avenue split, but St Andrews isn't toward the west of this intersection?
22021-11-11 10:28Minh Nguyen TIGER represents divided roads as single lines, so we have to manually split them into parallel ways. I did that for the remainder of St. Andrews in changeset 113645057.
59507747
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-06-03 12:42
12021-11-05 23:54TheAdventurer64
♦107
Somebody should try and indoor map this, that would be impressive.
112685515
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2021-10-19 08:27
12021-10-19 22:32stevea
♦304
Serious kudos, Minh. This is truly nice work!
110453900
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2021-08-30 10:52
12021-08-30 14:24Korgi1
♦42
beat me to it lol
109719499
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2021-08-16 01:02
12021-08-16 03:25MxxCon
♦3,358
Did UN and US officially recognize the "new" country?🤨
Just because a bunch of thugs with guns declare something, doesn't mean that's the new fact...
---

Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/109719499
22021-08-16 03:36Minh Nguyen Please follow the links to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108111555 and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30747910 . This change merely clarifies that, whatever happened in Afghanistan today, the flags in Washington and New York represent the internationally recognized government.
32021-08-16 03:52Minh Nguyen I belatedly realized the flagpole in Washington is on private property. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/109721756 adds the flagpole in front of the embassy (still presumably flying the U.S.-recognized flag, designed in 2013).
108639533
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2021-07-26 17:48
12021-07-26 17:53ElliottPlack
♦926
Holy Cow!!
22021-07-29 03:11ZeLonewolf
♦556
Okay, now you're just showing off :)
92815363
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-10-21 08:25
12021-06-04 12:29Nate Wessel
♦59
Whenever I stumble across random highly-detailed, well-tagged data in the middle of nowhere, I wonder "who did that?" Almost inevitably, it is Minh.
92352503
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-10-12 11:52
12021-03-12 03:10DUGA
♦548
bridge:ref vs bridge_ref? I don't see the latter being mentioned on wiki.
22021-03-12 05:45Minh Nguyen bridge_ref was far and away the more common tag until this year, well after I uploaded this changeset:

http://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/bridge:ref/&***/bridge_ref/

The mention of bridge:ref at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:bridge#The_building_number is somewhat obscure, so I wa...
99933892
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2021-02-24 22:58
12021-02-26 18:33mirror176
♦26
I usually leave things like 'name' as is if the building still has it as retained signage until that is gone. Contacts direct people to website for how to reach out to the company for final things like customers picking up equipment being repaired or vendors getting product back which woul...
22021-02-26 21:25Minh Nguyen Thanks for taking a look. I see your point, but I’m hesitant to tag ghost signs with the name key because a data consumer could look at the combination of that key and addr:housenumber or shop (as in shop=vacant) and make it look too much like a shop by the name Fry’s. If I were to add a...
32021-02-27 00:59mirror176
♦26
I set opening_hours=closed (better than disused:opening_hours=... as they are not open to general public; guess I could have put 9-17 as I've overheard from phoenix, az employees doing final closing steps and some strict access= terms, but why try that hard for a short term tag) and changed sho...
42021-02-27 02:39Minh Nguyen Yeah, it’s an awkward situation to be sure. To complicate matters, at least one of these locations actually closed for good a few months ago, but we hadn’t gotten around to retagging it until now.
96504296
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-12-28 02:23
12020-12-28 02:25Minh Nguyen Sorry for the large changeset – this is the result of following up on systematic but problematic edits by ZenithTheFox, who was quite prolific before being blocked.
96404277
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-12-24 22:41
12020-12-24 22:51Minh Nguyen The Ismaili Cultural Center (node 8258604837) was a tough one to find: they list their address incorrectly in the social distancing protocol submitted to the county and also in some (but not all) of the permit applications to the City of Milpitas.

https://saesdp.sccgov.org/sdpdocs/2901694-SocialD...
95075484
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-12-01 03:01
12020-12-02 15:27user_5359
♦19,340
Hello! There is no necessary for writing a language code after phone:mnemonic. Because you have only number and the big ASCII letter (you can't type 1-877-XINH-ĐẸP you type always 1-877-XINH-DEP)
22020-12-02 16:52Minh Nguyen The store posts signs with both spellings (also on their website). I realize it’s unusual; however, mnemonics may or may not be typeable anyways. (It isn’t uncommon for a pnemonic to be too long for a phone number, for instance.)
92997565
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-10-24 19:15
12020-11-29 09:22user_5359
♦19,340
Hello! Please have a look on https://www.osm.org/way/863374660: What is the meaning of this access value?
22020-11-29 09:25Minh Nguyen I’m pretty sure I was trying to straighten something (using the L key in iD’s Vietnamese localization), but the focus was on that text field by accident. Fixed in changeset 94976651. Thanks for the heads-up!
94935084
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-11-28 09:24
12020-11-28 09:25Minh Nguyen The source for hazmat classes was https://dot.ca.gov/programs/traffic-operations/legal-truck-access/restrict-list , which is in the public domain as a work of a California state government agency.
94917704
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-11-27 23:43
12020-11-27 23:43Minh Nguyen …added traffic lights, crosswalks; upgraded tracks to cycleways
94751447
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-11-25 06:48
12020-11-25 15:31skorasaurus
♦215
aha, thanks for adding detail minh, I was wondering if anyone added this to osm :D
94008245
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-11-12 16:45
12020-11-12 16:46Minh Nguyen https://transportation.ky.gov/DistrictSix/Pages/Brent-Spence-Bridge-Update.aspx tracks reopening for both the bridge and the river.
34297390
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2015-09-28 07:20
12020-09-19 06:56TheAdventurer64
♦107
Hello Minh Nguyen,
Did you use GPX tracks for this?
22020-11-11 01:50Minh Nguyen No, I didn’t need to because the road geometries were already in good shape. I recorded voice notes from a trip to this area and entered all the details after I got back.
74400169
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-09-12 16:09
12020-10-31 23:32TheAdventurer64
♦107
Could you try and make the pathways more aligned to the aerial imagery? I have been working to clean your edits up. Check your Slack DMs.
Thanks,
TheAdventurer64
22020-10-31 23:41Minh Nguyen If you’re referring to https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/37511419, that way was originally added in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/1785400 based on Yahoo! Aerial Imagery (grainy even at zoom level 17). Your efforts to clean up my early edits are greatly appreciated!
93032920
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-10-26 00:51
12020-10-28 14:16mueschel
♦6,560
I don't think maxspeed and capacity tags are the right way to add old, outdated inscriptions to the database.

By the way, the sign doesn't limit the number of horses galloping across the bridge! It's just forbidden to lead/drive them over the bridge.
22020-10-28 15:27Mateusz Konieczny
♦7,574
old, outdated inscriptions - do you think that this sign lost its legal meaning?
32020-10-28 18:00Minh Nguyen Certainly, there was a bit of whimsy to the city posting this sign when opening the bridge in 1983, but it is serious enough to be mapped in OSM based on what we currently know. I’ll humor you with my best understanding of the situation, though I’m by no means a lawyer, and OSM’s g...
80111045
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-01-26 22:48
12020-10-24 22:34TheAdventurer64
♦107
Nice job!
92859741
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-10-22 02:13
12020-10-22 05:26TheAdventurer64
♦107
Why did you leave the reference number on the fire station? In my opinion, that is like saying “Safeway #3794”.
22020-10-24 00:00Minh Nguyen Most fire stations have a reference number assigned either by the department itself or by a larger district or county. I think it’s entirely appropriate to use ref=* for that reference number.

Or are you commenting on the inclusion of the number in the name? I didn’t add that. It came...
92076556
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-10-07 03:22
12020-10-12 08:34mueschel
♦6,560
Hi,
could you explain the key "maxspeed:relative = yes"? This seems a bit strange.

Thanks!
22020-10-14 07:00Minh Nguyen It’s quite strange, but true: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Minh%20Nguyen/diary/394347
32020-10-14 07:02Minh Nguyen The “yes” is because the street-level imagery was just clear enough to tell that it was a relative “Weight Limits Reduced” sign, but not clear enough to see the actual percentage that the weight limit was reduced by.
42020-10-14 07:11mueschel
♦6,560
The relative maxweight is strange but fine. I asked about maxspeed:relative
52020-10-14 07:16Minh Nguyen Oh! That was a typo – thanks for catching it. Fixed in changeset 92454686.
91948917
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-10-04 23:52
12020-10-04 23:53Minh Nguyen …idges; reclassified alleys
91169091
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-09-20 08:56
12020-09-20 10:41TheAdventurer64
♦107
Hello Minh Nguyen,

I just wanted to let you know that I have added a few fixmes and notes to the area. If you could fix them, that would be very much appricated.

Thanks,
TheAdventurer64
91164178
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-09-20 01:46
12020-09-20 01:49Minh Nguyen …ion from abandoned railroad; LMST is a bike route
59500463
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-06-03 07:09
12020-09-12 06:36TheAdventurer64
♦107
Hey there! I just wanted to let you know that the correctl way to tag a place that sells shave ice and boba is to use the tag cuisine=bubble_tea;shave_ice. Keep up the good work!

Thanks,
TheAdventurer64
22020-09-12 06:43Minh Nguyen Yup, back when I added cuisine=boba here, we still had a mess of four or five equally common tags for the same thing. I later settled on cuisine=bubble_tea and documented it in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:cuisine%3Dbubble_tea so I could start adding some boba chains to NSI. If you spot o...
90466286
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-09-05 23:21
12020-09-06 08:39TheAdventurer64
♦107
Hey there! As a mapper who has been to the Westfield Promenade a few times, along with what Wikipedia says, shouldn't the shops be tagged with disused:building=retail and something to distinguish that the buildings are planned to be demolished in the future, and have no plans to reopen?
22020-09-06 08:45Minh Nguyen Once the buildings are demolished, then demolished:building=* would be appropriate. But until then, the buildings are still standing, so an unprefixed building=* is correct. You could add end_date=* if you know when they plan to demolish the buildings.

A lot of the shops are already tagged disuse...
32020-09-06 18:00TheAdventurer64
♦107
Hello Minh Ngyuen,

I appreciate your comment, however you didn’t mention using the tag disused:building=retail. Also, I added the old Barnes and Noble that closed here a while ago. I know some people in that area, so I’ll ask them about the businesses located here.

P.S.
There are...
42020-09-06 18:13Minh Nguyen I don’t think disused:building=* (including disused:building=retail) is appropriate. building=* tags refer to the building’s original purpose when built, not what it’s currently used for. For example, https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/498357508 is still building=retail despite havi...
89889006
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-08-25 05:04
12020-09-04 22:03TheAdventurer64
♦107
Hey there! Just wanted to let you know that amenity=fire_station should have the building=fire_station tag. Thanks!
22020-09-05 06:49Minh Nguyen Ah, I wasn’t aware of that tag, thanks!
32020-09-05 09:18TheAdventurer64
♦107
No problem. Anytime!
88427368
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-07-23 22:31
12020-08-22 22:10AnonymousAlligator
♦48
Hi, you marked the parking garage here as bicycle parking. Is this a mistake?
22020-08-23 00:56Minh Nguyen Yes, that was by mistake. I’m using the Vietnamese localization of iD, which for some reason is showing bicycle parking ahead of car parking when searching for parking.
32020-08-23 01:04Minh Nguyen Fixed in changeset 89795914.
89141793
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-08-09 01:15
12020-08-09 01:16Minh Nguyen I also used https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Civic-Center-Plaza-Flagpoles-Historical-Background.pdf as a source. https://www.kqed.org/news/11787663/why-is-there-a-texas-flag-in-front-of-city-hall says this document was authored by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Depa...
89112696
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-08-08 00:37
12020-08-08 00:38Minh Nguyen This changeset also restores several through roads that got deleted in changeset 68990604.
88269365
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-07-21 00:43
12020-08-03 01:58CamelCaseNick
♦174
Hey,

for https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/12698692 I couldn't find a Wikidata entry for Hung Van Chu for the name:etymology:wikidata. Could you look into it and find the correct item (or just use name:etymology)?

CamelCaseNick
22020-08-05 15:53Minh Nguyen He’s a local community activist. I was having some difficulty finding any verifiable published sources that establish his notability for inclusion in Wikidata, but I’ll keep looking.
32020-08-05 15:54Minh Nguyen Oh I see, looks like autocomplete got me again. I’ll fix that.
42020-08-05 16:00Minh Nguyen Fixed in changeset 88991079.
87545891
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-07-05 04:21
12020-08-03 02:18CamelCaseNick
♦174
FYI at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8889285 I've moved name:etymology:wikipedia=Q6232232 to alt_name:etymology:wikidata=Q6232232.
22020-08-05 15:51Minh Nguyen Oops, thanks for catching that!
60050099
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-06-21 17:02
12020-07-27 02:35Riyadi IRM-ED
♦140
hi minh. just wanna inform you. i modified this road, change to tertiary and smoothing the geometry. w7742475246 . thank you
86284322
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-06-06 16:17
12020-06-06 19:24ppjj
♦56
Is the mapbox layer not a real aerial photo? Just wondering
22020-06-06 19:26Minh Nguyen Not yet, the yellow “Black Lives Matter” was composited in for the time being while waiting for updated satellite imagery. Otherwise the muralists painted over the hoods of some parked cars. 😬
32020-06-06 19:27ppjj
♦56
Ohhh I see, it's just an overlay over the road (cars are covered by it).
42020-06-06 19:27ppjj
♦56
Didn't look close enough!!😳
52020-06-17 12:13trial
♦870
Apparently according to the Wikipedia article the full quote is now
BLACK LIVES MATTER DEFUND THE POLICE, the second part not from the same artist. Splitting in 2 parts would make sense : this area is probably too big.
Bing imagery seems to be real.
62020-06-19 15:46Minh Nguyen There’s already a separate area for the “Defund the Police” addition to the south, which makes it easier to tag the different artist and subject information about each part.
72020-06-20 08:17trial
♦870
you're right, I missed the second part.
86019512
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-05-31 19:50
12020-05-31 20:21stevea
♦304
Cool. Thanks!
83765364
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-04-19 09:11
12020-04-23 22:00CamelCaseNick
♦174
Hey,
your *:wikidata tags are off. 1252239 is definitely not Q1252239 here. Did you mean Q668687?
CamelCaseNick
22020-04-25 17:23Minh Nguyen Whoops, I accidentally copied the GNIS feature ID from way 161269489 nearby. Thanks for catching that!
79491267
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-01-13 01:09
12020-01-19 20:55CamelCaseNick
♦174
Hey,
I see, you have here an incorrect subject:wikidata value. Though are you sure, subject:wikidata is here better, than flag:wikidata=Q2166712?
CamelCaseNick
22020-01-22 09:19Minh Nguyen Thanks for catching that copy-pasta; fixed in changeset 79904988.
79206161
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2020-01-05 06:30
12020-01-06 21:28CamelCaseNick
♦174
Hey,
for node 7108590349 do you mean operator:type=public instead of operator:wikidata=public?
CamelCaseNick
22020-01-07 19:40Minh Nguyen Yes, thanks for spotting that mistake. Fixed in changeset 79308549.
76996700
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-11-13 08:01
12019-11-13 08:02Minh Nguyen CAGIS 2019 orthophotography was a source for these changes.
76320537
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-10-29 01:47
12019-10-29 01:47Minh Nguyen CAGIS 2019 1-foot orthoimagery was the main source for this change.
76237993
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-10-26 08:55
12019-10-26 08:56Minh Nguyen Disregard the last part of the changeset comment.
75943812
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-10-20 04:17
12019-10-20 04:18Minh Nguyen Also undivided a portion of Alexandria Pike that has a center turn lane down the middle.
75256346
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-10-04 01:09
12019-10-04 01:13Minh Nguyen CAGIS 2019 imagery was a source for some of these changes.
75211328
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-10-03 06:02
12019-10-03 06:02Minh Nguyen CAGIS 2019 imagery was a source for some of these changes.
75167429
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-10-01 19:08
12019-10-01 19:08Minh Nguyen CAGIS 2019 was the imagery source.
75139406
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-10-01 09:45
12019-10-01 09:46Minh Nguyen The source for these changes is CAGIS orthoimagery.
75123326
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-10-01 00:15
12019-10-01 00:18Minh Nguyen CAGIS imagery was also a source for this changeset.
75119933
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-09-30 20:52
12019-09-30 20:53Minh Nguyen The source for these changes is CAGIS.
75086779
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-09-30 08:51
12019-09-30 08:51Minh Nguyen Also used CAGIS 2019 orthophotography.
75077898
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-09-30 04:33
12019-09-30 05:08Minh Nguyen The source for these buildings is CAGIS 2019 orthophotography.
15170947
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2013-02-26 09:36
12019-09-10 15:02freebeer
♦1,598
hoi,
can you help me with the puzzle presented by https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/509583261 ?

one-way seems wrong, so might you have meant a re-ordered `no' to be expanded into, oh, i dunno, no-exit, no-way-out, no-future, no-worries, or something equally negative?

thanks
22019-09-10 16:23Minh Nguyen Thanks for spotting this error. I had intended to tag it as highway=turning_circle. Most likely I used the R key (repeat) but previously mistagged another node due to an overreliance on Potlatch 2’s autocompletion suggestions. Sometimes my keystrokes got inserted out of order due to asynchrono...
73803147
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-08-27 14:55
12019-08-27 14:55Minh Nguyen The source for the boundary changes was CAGIS: https://data.cincinnati-oh.gov/Thriving-Healthy-Neighborhoods/Cincinnati-Community-Council-Boundaries/6aci-7ivg
69888588
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-05-04 20:05
12019-05-04 21:04Mateusz Konieczny
♦7,574
Is it a model of road for use with bicycles? I would use highway=cycleway for such objects.
22019-05-04 21:05Minh Nguyen I think it’s intended for toy tricycles or something along those lines. It’s part of a playground.
32019-05-04 21:06Minh Nguyen Toy cars or tricycles, rather.
42019-05-05 13:53Mateusz Konieczny
♦7,574
I am pretty sure that highway=footway (or maybe highway=cycleway) would describe it better.

Is it something like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/traffic_park ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Traffic_Park_Oulu_2006_06_13.JPG ) ?
52019-08-23 23:22Minh Nguyen It kind of does look like that from aerial imagery. However, it’s probably less rigorous in terms of traffic education, meant more for exercise. There’s also a little parking lot within it that’s cleverly patterned as a ruler. If I knew for sure that the school uses tricycles there...
72320147
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-07-16 19:25
12019-07-18 02:20raito
♦66
Hi Minh Nguyen. Its name signage in Jawi is bigger, but so are a lot other shops. Also, for this restaurant specifically (looking at old photos from Mapillary), its name in Jawi is almost same colour as the background and it does not stand out. I think for most businesses, the English name is the or...
22019-07-19 00:51Minh Nguyen Thank you for the clarification; I’ll keep that in mind in the future. Changeset 72410107 switches the main name to Phở Hòa, including the diacritical marks.
70866594
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-06-02 21:41
12019-06-04 13:51mueschel
♦6,560
Hi,
in general it's not a good idea to have one node for several POI - as you see you have to introduce new tags that are unlikely to be understood by any map or search engine.
Could you separate the insurance and driving school nodes into two?

Thanks
Jan
22019-06-04 14:57Minh Nguyen I agree with you in general, but in this case the insurance agency, bail bond agency, and driving school are all one office – a single desk in a single office, at that. The fact that there are two websites for the same business isn’t really verifiable on the ground, but I added that tag ...
69891225
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-05-04 22:37
12019-05-05 01:46stevea
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Nasty storm recently. I'm weathering it OK.

What is your source for the lcn 11 extensions along Monterey Highway? I'm not doubting you, more like fumbling myself for a good/recent source for those data and I wasn't sure I saw it in your tagging/source comments.

Though there ar...
22019-05-05 15:54Minh Nguyen The bike route 11 signs are visible all along the road in Mapillary imagery (going southbound) and OpenStreetCam imagery (going northbound). I used the Mapillary sign layer to more easily locate the signs, and the Mapbox layer was just on as a matter of course. (I used that layer for pinpointing cit...
32019-05-05 16:02Minh Nguyen I originally didn’t intend to map bike route 11 in this changeset, but as I went looking for the “Welcome to San Jose” archway along Monterey Rd. (which sadly seems to have been taken down), I encountered the BEGIN and END signs for bike route 11 at the San José/Morgan Hill ...
42019-05-05 17:59stevea
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Thanks for your answer: ground-truth bolstered by Mapillary and OSC images. Wow, not only bike route signs, but BEGIN and END signs for them, too! (I'm impressed with VTA for being so complete with its signage).

I don't want to sound publicly contentious, but when you say you're...
52019-05-05 19:12Minh Nguyen Unlike the other routes that have been entered, route 11 is designated and signposted by the City of San José. I’ve never actually seen a VTA map that indicates route numbers; do you know where they come from?

The VTA LRT maps are posted on information boards at each station, so it&r...
62019-05-05 19:13Minh Nguyen Clarification: The Mountain View–Winchester line will be an O in an orange circle after BART opens, so some signs have been updated to that instead.
72019-05-05 19:33stevea
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I've been "watching" as VTA prepares for BART and "going to orange," but yours (above) is the first confirmation that I've seen (either on a map, not a planning map, an actual route map) that there really is an "orange" right now. So, thanks for that, I did n...
82019-05-05 19:43stevea
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Much has happened since 2008-9 when SCC's Countywide Bike Plan (CBP) was adopted, including a lot of work in 2016-7 to revise the CBP. I've just taken a look at that (and probably should have a year or three ago) and also find a dearth of bicycle route numbers on many of the related docum...
92019-05-09 22:57stevea
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I'm not sure where I got this (I sketched my understanding with a pen, leving my notes "source-less.") It was from maybe six months ago about how "orange" was being introduced into the VTA light_rail lines when BART SV arrives in the 2020s and it didn't call Orange MV-...
102019-05-10 21:27Minh Nguyen https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/CyiLY1mIydftpEA-xn5YvA is from the Downtown Mountain View station. (I took it from the comfort of a second-story seat on Caltrain.) The new signage has also gone up along the 1st St. corridor, if not elsewhere, though it isn’t reflected in Mapillary or OpenStre...
69918853
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-05-06 00:52
12019-05-06 01:04stevea
♦304
OK, I sorta get it. Thanks, Steve.
69496754
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-04-23 16:51
12019-04-23 17:10Minh Nguyen Due to an edit conflict with changeset 69492678, this changeset broke the TAH 7 route relation in many places. Changeset 69497394 fixes the route relation.
67061454
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-02-09 23:30
12019-02-09 23:30Minh Nguyen Also corrected tagging of channelized turn lanes.
54293494
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-12-03 10:23
12019-02-05 19:39ragingtoro
♦1
Hi Minh!

I am trying to figure out what is the correct way to tag lane count for the long portion of Alma Street that follows the Peninsula rail line. Is it supposed to be like this:

lanes=5
lanes:backward=2
lanes:both_ways=1
lanes:forward=2
turn:lanes:both_ways=left

OR

lanes=5
lan...
66723568
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-01-29 02:12
12019-01-29 02:14Minh Nguyen This reverts changeset 66118008, which incorrectly conflated a business with the street it’s on.
66287502
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-01-14 00:16
12019-01-14 03:18Minh Nguyen This changeset reverts changeset 65776972 because it duplicated changeset 65776820.
66261145
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2019-01-12 21:37
12019-01-12 21:39Minh Nguyen Also named Banklick Creek and removed it from boundary relations.
65758924
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-12-25 12:07
12018-12-25 12:09Minh Nguyen …maneuver override, athletic fields
65522868
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-12-16 13:50
12018-12-17 09:13Minh Nguyen I got a bit carried away here by carrying out this change across the state, rather than in the corner of the state where I usually map. I’ve written up a proposal for standardizing on the “SR” prefix here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Indiana#SR_for_state_roads
64617015
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-11-18 11:02
12018-11-18 11:04Minh Nguyen I restored the Smart City Bhopal office POI as a separate POI in changeset 64617043.
62896281
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-09-24 22:12
12018-09-24 22:14Minh Nguyen Añadir los códigos FIPS 6-4 en las relaciones de límites de municipios de Puerto Rico.
62895570
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-09-24 21:27
12018-09-24 21:29Minh Nguyen Independent cities have both FIPS 6-4 and FIPS 55-3 codes. This changeset only adds FIPS 6-4 codes, for consistency with other county-level administrative boundary relations. A future change that introduces FIPS 55-3 codes for all municipalities would have to figure out where the codes should go on ...
10404969
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2012-01-16 00:55
12018-08-26 07:39FreedSky
♦181
The guidance of the Chinese OSM community is that you must use the city
22018-08-27 07:11Minh Nguyen Can you clarify what you mean? I didn’t change any place tags; I only added name:vi tags for features that already had place=town.
32018-08-27 07:13Minh Nguyen By the way, this changeset is over six years old. If you’re seeing a major tagging problem, it could be due to a more recent change by someone else.
42018-09-04 05:21FreedSky
♦181
Did not pay attention to time, there was no specification at that time. XD
61934167
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-08-23 21:36
12018-08-23 21:37Minh Nguyen Technically, “Huỳnh Phi Long” is a homophonic translation, not a calque. Apologies for the mixup.
61605955
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-08-13 00:45
12018-08-13 02:06carnevalem
♦4
As of last year, there were plans to remove it:
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/04/25/relic-closed-blue-ash-airport-rests-alone/100893658/
22018-08-13 04:20Minh Nguyen The DigitalGlobe Standard imagery shows what looks like the beginnings of construction, so I guess it’s quite imminent if it hasn’t already happened.
52776421
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-10-10 01:59
12018-05-14 11:50hoream_telenav
♦14
hello, I saw that you added a conditional turn restriction based on OSC; but I can't see it; are you sure it's there? because as I can see you also have a "only_left" sign
22018-05-14 16:42Minh Nguyen I was referring to this image: https://openstreetcam.org/details/522233/2531/track-info
Apparently I was off by one intersection; fixed in changeset 58958432.
57580849
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-03-27 20:57
12018-03-27 20:58Minh Nguyen Actually, the population and census tags previously contained the 2000 count – almost two decades out of date.
57300825
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-03-18 20:54
12018-03-18 23:00stevea
♦304
Nice work!
54536490
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-12-11 11:10
12017-12-12 09:36GerdP
♦2,751
Hi!
I've corrected typo highway=4, please review :
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/54561252
22018-02-28 06:32Minh Nguyen Thanks! iD’s raw tag editor must’ve jumped around without my realizing it.
55426018
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2018-01-14 10:01
12018-01-14 10:17Minh Nguyen This changeset comment should be: Added lane counts, turn lanes, lane change restrictions, parking aisles, sidewalks, crosswalks, traffic lights, buildings; micromapped Sharonville Community Center & nearby parks; corrected forest to woods; disconnected woods from roads
54525819
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-12-11 00:41
12017-12-11 00:44Minh Nguyen …updated buildings
22017-12-11 00:45Minh Nguyen Also, this changeset moves the beginning of many turn:lanes tags to where the turn lane begins to be demarcated, as opposed to where the road only begins to widen.
54149834
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-11-28 13:55
12017-12-01 10:46mueschel
♦6,560
I found many tags like these in your edits:
change:forward_1
turn:lanes:backward_1
turn:lanes:forward_1
turn:lanes:both_ways_1

Please watch out for correct tags, especially correct use of :forward and :backward!
22017-12-01 10:50Minh Nguyen Yikes, sorry about that! I’ve been manually entering these in iD, and unfortunately, iD silently adds the _1 instead of forcing me to notice the existing tag. I’ll double-check my edits for this error in the future. Thanks for noticing!
32017-12-01 10:59Minh Nguyen https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/3625
53852954
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-11-16 19:23
12017-11-16 19:26Minh Nguyen Also added emergency crossovers, advisory speed limits, height restrictions, and hazardous cargo designations.
52139291
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-09-18 09:59
12017-09-18 10:07Minh 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.
22017-09-20 17:26Harald Hartmann
♦827
Hello Minh Nguyen. At http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/474098021 you have used `xxx:disused` instead of `disused:xxx`. Please have a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix #newkey
32017-10-20 08:36Minh Nguyen Ah, I always mix that up. Thanks for the reminder.
52976807
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-10-16 09:42
12017-10-16 17:39Minh Nguyen Cross Country Roads was a source for this changeset.
52968215
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-10-15 22:37
12017-10-15 22:38Minh Nguyen Cross Country Roads was a source for this changeset.
52967979
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-10-15 22:23
12017-10-15 22:23Minh Nguyen Cross Country Roads was a source for some of these destinations.
52583476
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-10-03 04:09
12017-10-06 10:17Harald Hartmann
♦827
Hello Minh Nguyen. At
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/18969870
you have tagged
`destination:pronuncation` instead of
`destination:pronunciation`, right? #typo
22017-10-06 10:20Minh Nguyen Good catch, thank you! Fixed in changeset 52678656.
52401591
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-09-27 02:46
12017-09-27 05:18Minh Nguyen This changeset missed a few duplicate features that had gotten joined to preexisting features in changeset 52372799. The remaining duplicate features were removed in changeset 52402863.
52402022
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-09-27 03:33
12017-09-27 05:11Minh Nguyen Some of changeset 52313882 was omitted from this reversion due to intervening edits; these ways were deleted in changeset 52402863.
52160098
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-09-19 01:47
12017-09-19 01:57Minh Nguyen Typo: that should’ve been Almaden, not, “Los Amaden”, in the changeset comment.
52128996
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-09-17 23:33
12017-09-17 23:41Minh 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...
48298222
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-05-01 06:47
12017-08-02 04:56OpenBrian
♦20
Minh, I see all the work you did here. Thanks. cảm ơn bạn

Brian, MappingDC
49263713
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-06-05 09:24
12017-06-05 09:24Minh Nguyen Also added or adjusted several businesses downtown.
48854754
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-05-21 04:20
12017-05-21 10:28bhousel
♦278
👏
46688558
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-03-08 18:29
12017-03-08 18:29Minh Nguyen This resolves note #876899.
46544559
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2017-03-03 09:51
12017-03-03 09:55Minh 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.)
15391147
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2013-03-17 03:22
12017-01-20 14:06Johnny Mapperseed
♦99
Yo!

Is it cool if I add a wikidata tag to the stadium?

Thank you!
22017-01-20 15:54Minh Nguyen Hi, absolutely – this area could use a lot more Wikidata tags. 😀
43785169
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2016-11-19 00:36
12016-11-19 00:42Minh Nguyen See changeset 43190645 for discussion in English.
43683918
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2016-11-15 23:23
12016-11-15 23:24Minh Nguyen Specifically, this changeset reverted changeset 43455064.
42262691
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2016-09-19 07:10
12016-09-19 07:15Minh 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.
42139417
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2016-09-14 02:49
12016-09-14 02:56Minh Nguyen s/Walgovel/Waldvogel/
41465224
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2016-08-15 11:04
12016-08-15 11:09Minh Nguyen To clarify, the semicolon-merging and lane-splitting was what happened to this road before I cleaned it up.
33535247
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2015-08-24 00:12
12016-01-28 17:35Luis36995
♦64
Hi
this line is correct, is not like the image bing
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/360916851/history
22016-01-29 07:04Minh 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.
34294650
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2015-09-28 00:38
12015-09-28 00:39Minh Nguyen This changeset also redraws Maple Dale Elementary, which was completely rebuilt/reconfigured.
30493645
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2015-04-26 07:36
12015-04-28 04:13Nate Wessel
♦59
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...
22015-04-28 05:24Minh 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...
32015-09-22 18:39Minh 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...
33699511
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2015-08-31 09:57
12015-08-31 18:20Alan
♦134
Excellent
33114041
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2015-08-04 21:41
12015-08-04 21:42Minh Nguyen Or rather: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ohio/Route_relations
32276056
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2015-06-29 04:55
12015-06-29 04:59Minh 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”.
29556184
by Minh Nguyen
@ 2015-03-18 06:14
12015-03-18 06:15Bryce C Nesbitt
♦159
Thanks on the tool stand. Could you confirm there are really TWO of these right next to each other, as currently mapped?
22015-03-18 06:16Minh Nguyen Yes, you can see a photo of the stands here: http://www.simonkentonpathfinders.org/
32015-03-18 06:22Minh 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?
42015-03-19 07:55Bryce C Nesbitt
♦159
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.
52015-03-19 07:55Bryce C Nesbitt
♦159
Normally the Dero stations are sold as a two part kit: pump & repair stand. Other brands integrate the pump into the stand.