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| 175866193 by watmildon @ 2025-12-12 23:11 ~ 2 months ago | 1 | ~ 1 month ago | b-jazz ♦813 | Hey wat,I appreciate any work towards cleaning up golf courses, but I found a problem in your methodology. If you look at the second hole fairway, you'll see that the nodes on either side of node 4218321798 were removed from the fairway, but not the green. This leaves the two objects overla... |
| 2 | ~ 1 month ago | watmildon | Oh goodness. Let me review this and the couple of my other recent changesets like this. I am a bit surprised this did trigger a JOSM warning but will investigate that too. Thanks for pointing it out! | |
| 3 | ~ 1 month ago | watmildon | It's super weird. I must not have had both geometries downloaded into the layer. So one got simplified and the the other didn't but because they were somewhat gradually shifting, I missed it as I did my manual scroll through. I have patched that spot up. Good catch.Can you tell me abou... | |
| 4 | ~ 1 month ago | b-jazz ♦813 | Thanks for the clean-up.I get a weekly dump of the US from geofabrik and run it through a bunch of filters and code and SQL/PostGIS magic to generate working data files (lists of URLs of problem golf course features). I then go and clean those up best I can. The two major phases of my project ar... | |
| 175907560 by watmildon @ 2025-12-14 06:21 ~ 2 months ago | 1 | ~ 2 months ago | mueschel ♦6,937 | Hi,could you check your edits? There are at least 9 'macot' and 'macot:...' tags around the world. |
| 2 | ~ 2 months ago | watmildon | The wiki has some documentation you may find informative. Can you be a bit more specific about your concerns? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:mascothttps://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:mascot:iconography | |
| 3 | ~ 2 months ago | mueschel ♦6,937 | My concern is the missing "s" :-) | |
| 4 | ~ 2 months ago | watmildon | A ha! Love an easy fix. I will periodically look at the "similar" things in tag info to catch stuff like this (https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/mascot#similar). Thanks for the note. I will tidy things up. | |
| 173295555 by watmildon @ 2025-10-14 22:14 ~ 4 months ago | 1 | ~ 4 months ago | iandees ♦766 | 🐝 |
| 135993574 by watmildon @ 2023-05-11 20:48 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 7 months ago | Lonestarmapper ♦1 | Building is demolished and replaced with the Ralph S. O'Connor Building for Engineering Science. |
| 159828124 by watmildon @ 2024-12-02 05:09 ~ 1 year ago | 1 | ~ 7 months ago | chef bama ♦10 | went to a lot of trouble to put those in. perhaps you would like to pay for my time. |
| 2 | ~ 7 months ago | watmildon | Hello!There's community consensus that OSM isn't and shouldn't be a map of parcels. I am sorry if this causes you downstream issue but you're free to use the parcel layer directly in whatever downstream use you have for it.You can see a discussion about this class of issu... | |
| 3 | ~ 7 months ago | chef bama ♦10 | "community consensus". Wish that could have been expressed before I spent the time on it, and before it was part of the map of my neighborhood for years. This is among the reasons why I mostly don't contribute anymore. | |
| 4 | ~ 7 months ago | watmildon | I hear ya. It's totally possible that there wasn't any consensus when these went in or that there was and it changed over time. This happens and it can definitely when effort gets caught in the crossfire. Has happened to me too. One of the dangers of the loose schema and "rules" ... | |
| 5 | ~ 7 months ago | ZeLonewolf ♦576 | Unfortunately there is no way to read the minds of users that take it upon themselves to conduct undiscussed imports that are at odds with community consensus. That is the reason for the import guidelines and the Automated Edits Code of Conduct.https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelin... | |
| 6 | ~ 7 months ago | chef bama ♦10 | Likewise, there is no way to read the minds of the "OSM community" when the docs are fragmented and at times at odds with themselves. 7 years ago I brought in the data a few blocks at a time, hardly a mass import. And only for my own small neighborhood, not the whole city. Every time my co... | |
| 162640240 by watmildon @ 2025-02-18 00:17 ~ 1 year ago | 1 | ~ 1 year ago | SD Mapman ♦63 | FYI I can get the rest of the "can't complete" ones in SD. Ran against most of them back in the day...Also that open green field on the west side is the purple horse practice football field/discus area/only place to tie a tent to when it's windy, I added it back in |
| 2 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | Oh goodness. Sorry I went overboard there!LMK if you hit any fun things that need icons for the map. Happy to add some weird crop or animal lol. | |
| 160364180 by watmildon @ 2024-12-18 18:42 ~ 1 year ago | 1 | ~ 1 year ago | SD Mapman ♦63 | Should I not add "boundary=administrative, admin_level=whatever" to boundary ways when I'm updating them? The iD validator gets upset with me if the way isn't tagged |
| 2 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | Let me check and see what iD is trying to warn about but from a practical standpoint, all admin boundaries are supposed to go on relations and the tagging should go there. I think the previous practice from older imports was to also include the tags on the imported ways, presumably because the tooli... | |
| 3 | ~ 1 year ago | SD Mapman ♦63 | I think it was just warning about completely untagged ways that weren't part of a multipolygon relation, I went back and added the source tag to the way and that solved the problem | |
| 4 | ~ 1 year ago | SD Mapman ♦63 | Once I have some free time (ha ha ha) I'll go back to the counties I've done boundary cleanup in and make that the standard way for tagging ways in boundary relations (at least in SD) | |
| 5 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | Hmmm. Can you post an example? Playing around with the boundaries near me I am not able to reproduce a validator error. Both of the below work without triggering the validator for me.ex: remove boundary tags from a way (admin_level=, boundary=, boundary_type)ex: change the geometry of a boun... | |
| 6 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | If you want a decent list of "homework" zelonewolf has been work on a bunch of boundary checking. It includes "simple" stuff like these tag issues as well as warning about things missing or misnamed (when compared to wikidata or census lists) etc | |
| 7 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | https://zelonewolf.github.io/wikidata-qa/Obviously I forgot to add the site. Sorry about that. | |
| 8 | ~ 1 year ago | SD Mapman ♦63 | I've had that pulled up as I've been going through the state, need to add some of the relations I've added to WikidataBasically the issue was I was seeing iD not let me save anything unless my ways in the boundary relation had a tag, I've been using boundary=administrative fo... | |
| 9 | ~ 1 year ago | SD Mapman ♦63 | The issue was creating a boundary relation with untagged ways | |
| 10 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | Gotcha. Odd that iD complains about the way in that case but that’s a simple enough workaround. Let me know if I can help with anything. I am almost done refreshing all of the 2008 imported census boundaries for WA and wouldn’t mind lending a hand elsewhere. | |
| 11 | ~ 1 year ago | SD Mapman ♦63 | If you could add the "X is missing from OSM but is listed on the Census Bureau list of CDPs" ones that would be great... there's a couple out there that have name conflicts/SD-specific issues (Dakota Dunes is a CDP with an administrative boundary!).Feel free to message me if thing... | |
| 12 | ~ 1 year ago | SD Mapman ♦63 | I've tried to document the SD oddities in the US boundary (or admin level, can't remember which one) page on the wiki | |
| 13 | ~ 1 year ago | SD Mapman ♦63 | Update, iD didn't like me just using source either"Line must have descriptive tags"so I added a descriptive tag and then deleted it and it was okay with that | |
| 14 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | lmao. Oh iD. Bless.I am happy to work on getting those added. Will reach out if I hit anything super weird but I'll try to rip through the straight forward stuff. | |
| 142077533 by watmildon @ 2023-10-03 04:12 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 1 year ago | Kai Johnson ♦171 | I think this may be the "Roach Valley Reservoir" or that's possibly an alternative name. https://greybullvalleyid.com/reservoir-levels/ |
| 2 | ~ 1 year ago | Kai Johnson ♦171 | Oops. "Roach Gulch Reservoir" | |
| 3 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | Seems reasonable. Would you like to make the edit (and take the glory?) or shall I? | |
| 4 | ~ 1 year ago | Kai Johnson ♦171 | I decided to keep Greybull as the primary name and add Roach Gulch as the alt name to align with NID. We'll have to see what GNIS says. I suspect they'll want someone to make an official name submission rather than picking up the name from another government organization. | |
| 155393973 by watmildon @ 2024-08-18 01:05 ~ 1 year ago | 1 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | Needs reviewhttps://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/155394029 |
| 140905334 by watmildon @ 2023-09-06 17:35 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 1 year ago | Mateusz Konieczny ♦9,532 | Hello! https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/11172366369/history has shop = vintage that was added in this edit (if I checked things correctly)shop=vintage ? What kind of shop, if any is here? Is it simply shop=second_hand ? See good discussion in https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3865985 |
| 150989722 by watmildon @ 2024-05-07 04:21 ~ 1 year ago | 1 | ~ 1 year ago | user_5359 ♦20,548 | Hello! Please have a look on http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1280448751, http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1280448750. What is the meaning of the tag REMOVE=ME? |
| 2 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | Oh bother. I set up some guide lines to help get the spaces aligned while drawing and the tag bled over. Whoops. I'll get em outta here. Great find. Thank you!! | |
| 140392718 by watmildon @ 2023-08-25 23:59 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 1 year ago | Saad927299 ♦1 | Saad |
| 146764860 by watmildon @ 2024-01-28 02:32 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 1 year ago | Spaghetti Monster🍝 ♦2,159 | Are you planning to finish conflation so there's less duplication? |
| 2 | ~ 1 year ago | Spaghetti Monster🍝 ♦2,159 | thanks for doing this btw | |
| 3 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | The intent was for there to be no duplication but it's totally possible I botched it somehow. Was there some place in particular that needs some more attention from me? Happy to take a look at it. | |
| 4 | ~ 1 year ago | Spaghetti Monster🍝 ♦2,159 | The downtown area has several businesses and apartment buildings that already have the addresses that were added in this changeset. 100 Corrina, 110 Corrina, 100 East Main for example. | |
| 5 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | Gotcha, I will check it out. Thanks for the heads up. | |
| 6 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | Curiously the JOSM validator does not flag them as duplicates. I am asking around if that's expected and will make sure I get this cleaned up once I get that sorted out. Hopefully only a few days. | |
| 7 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | So it seems JOSM will not flag things with name= as it presume they are a separate entity with (potentially correct) duplicate tagging. There's a setting that will be available in JOSM in the next release that will make this check a bit better so I'll have to roll through in a month or so ... | |
| 8 | ~ 1 year ago | Allison P ♦1,144 | In the meantime, one technique is to remove all the extra tags, then perform the dupe check. You can then purge the existing objects before uploading. | |
| 9 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | Oh that's a lovely workaround! Very clever.On it. | |
| 10 | ~ 1 year ago | watmildon | This method is very slow but works. I should have this all cleaned up in a bit. Thanks all! | |
| 148228987 by watmildon @ 2024-03-04 23:42 ~ 1 year ago | 1 | ~ 1 year ago | HBanu ♦42 | Awesome work. Keep map well. Thank you. |
| 140203594 by watmildon @ 2023-08-21 23:18 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | waradah ♦5 | انت الا حق بثات الخنث والقحاب والمحرمات والخمر والحبوب والحشيش شوف كيف انت كذاب وخداع غدار خاين ومنحرف تهوا وتعشق المحرمات وتبثهن لك وللي معك بهذا محمد تمكني معي مو... |
| 146388023 by watmildon @ 2024-01-18 03:37 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | hoserab ♦225 | I've just deleted this way entirely, it's mostly standing water. |
| 2 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | Totally sensible. Thanks! | |
| 146388582 by watmildon @ 2024-01-18 04:02 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | Sorry about this bounding box. The dangers of "upload" button beating out my attempts to do "upload selection for each one of these. I'll dix up the waterway tags on water=pond areas in just a minute. |
| 146229363 by watmildon @ 2024-01-13 22:39 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | OSM_RogerWilco ♦790 | Hello watmildon,thanks for the correction!My mistake.GreetingsRoger Wilco |
| 2 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | No problem at all. Super easy mistake to make. It's interesting to look through taginfo occasionally and see what issues like this sneak in. Typos like waterway=strem aren't too uncommon either!Happy mapping! | |
| 144310324 by watmildon @ 2023-11-22 04:54 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | Dr Kludge ♦69 | I do not understand why you remove the address that just needs the house number? I added these address components in preparation for when the house number became available. I wound up adding the address back along with the house number for a number of your removal changes. Please stop removing thi... |
| 2 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | Hello! The specific way in question should have had the tags left on it and was erroneously cleaned up by me. My apologies.However, to my understanding, the vast majority of my address tag removals are in line with common practice throughout the United States. The addr:country tag is completely ... | |
| 3 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | I posted a few more thoughts over on the community forum. I hope we can reach a consensus one way or another.https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/questions-about-address-tagging-common-practices/107278 | |
| 4 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | Hello! Would love to have your input about things in the community thread. | |
| 140246163 by watmildon @ 2023-08-22 20:34 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | mbe57 ♦19 | This normalization ended up with a bank that has a population of nearly 7000? |
| 2 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | Hello! I presume you're interested in this node (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/153943762/history). If that's not the case let me know. The data error you mention predates my cleanup work but definitely points to something being wrong. My best guess is the error was introduced in t... | |
| 3 | ~ 2 years ago | mbe57 ♦19 | Spot on, thank you, watmildon.I stumbled into this bank item when rebuilding the dataset for settlements, in preparation for re-rendering them for the openandromaps.org world maps.TXs for the quick response and resolution. CheersMichael | |
| 139941759 by watmildon @ 2023-08-16 03:26 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | SK53 ♦868 | Hi,I know you didn't do the original edit, but can you look at Barnstable MA. The place=town is located at Hyannis/Hyannisport. No-one I know locally calls this area anything other than by the name. Barnstable as a place (vs. admin. entity) is located on the Old King's Highway (Mass 6A... |
| 2 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | Sure! Love a little mystery. I can poke around sometime next week when I’m back at a real computer. | |
| 143635472 by watmildon @ 2023-11-05 01:26 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | ottwiz ♦394 | Looks good to me although I added a little more where there were some wood cutting but yes I was fiddling about that too if I should add (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1221251666) - well I added it, but yes it looks nice! Good job! Although you should omit the "survey" from the sources... |
| 2 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | Thanks! "survey" gets added if you have a gpx layer... I like to convert the boundary for the task to a gpx layer as it makes it more prominent. Definitely need to be more careful about cleaning up the sources! | |
| 141353609 by watmildon @ 2023-09-16 17:52 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | neuhausr ♦341 | Hi, just wanted to let you know that amenity=fitness_station is a deprecated tag. The correct tag is leisure=fitness_station https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aleisure%3Dfitness_station Hope you can adjust these. Happy mapping! |
| 2 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | Good catch. I'll patch these up. | |
| 141187362 by watmildon @ 2023-09-13 03:23 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | phidauex ♦194 | Thanks for this! I keep having to un-expand East->E (and North/South/West) for letter-streets in CO (mostly SW CO). Are you doing the same for the other combos? --- Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/141187362 |
| 141316542 by watmildon @ 2023-09-15 19:08 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | RedstoneRelic ♦1 | Jesus, this is a large edit area |
| 2 | ~ 2 years ago | Awoobis ♦139 | E | |
| 140390872 by watmildon @ 2023-08-25 22:23 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | OddlyAngled ♦121 | looks like these didn't get the GNISID value retained in gnis:feature_id, for example https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4065344346 is --- Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/140390872 |
| 2 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | Oh no! Thanks you for pointing this out!! I'll review this one and the other changesets I made for this class of issue. I appreciate the heads up. | |
| 3 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | This one should be better. Thanks again!https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/140394521 | |
| 140389506 by watmildon @ 2023-08-25 21:28 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | Bah, this one got away from me. Sorry for the huge bbox. |
| 140300432 by watmildon @ 2023-08-24 02:56 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | This should say WV for West Virginia. Apologies. |
| 139992054 by watmildon @ 2023-08-17 04:12 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | whoops, meant this to be a couple of state edits but used Upload and not Upload Selection. Sorry for the huge bbox. |
| 138395257 by watmildon @ 2023-07-11 20:43 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | This changeset should have the comment: Adding addresses into the greater Phoenix area from the ESRI prepared National Address Database #OSMUSProject377 #phoenixaddress |
| 138085312 by watmildon @ 2023-07-04 01:40 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | emersonveenstra ♦1,465 | tsk tsk ;) https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/138183094 |
| 133069784 by watmildon @ 2023-02-27 04:42 ~ 3 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | skquinn ♦811 | Why was building=residential changed to building=yes on some buildings? Also, addr:country=US was removed on those same buildings for no apparent reason. |
| 2 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | Hello!At a minimum, I see there's a bit of doc deficiency here. Thanks for pointing it out. There was more information in the tasking manager project but I see that the detailed info is no longer available after the projected is completed and in "archive" status.The short vers... | |
| 3 | ~ 2 years ago | bisonprarieafternoon ♦32 | Local mapper here in Kansas, a lot of the imports that were done in Topeka over a decade ago were of exceptionally poor quality, duplicate data and the address information was poorly aligned to the point you couldn't tell what house it went to. The import never should have been permitted to hap... | |
| 135523111 by watmildon @ 2023-04-30 03:58 ~ 2 years ago | 1 | ~ 2 years ago | Aim311_ ♦142 | Hey! It seems to me that the tag building=storage_tank describes the facility well. You can see from the picture (https://www.google.com/maps/@52.5144235,16.2571003,3a,50y,355.53h,96.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPIsUgJXi1xaL5rwv3mMeQQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) that it is a building - it has solid foundations... |
| 2 | ~ 2 years ago | watmildon | This is pretty clearly a grain silo and not a storage tank. If there's a conflict in tagging, the accurate tags should be kept and the conflicting tags removed or updated. Almost all silos near me lack a building tag but I have put the building tag back as building=silo. As you point out, our t... | |
| 131003902 by watmildon @ 2023-01-08 06:52 ~ 3 years ago | 1 | ~ 3 years ago | watmildon | Should be "Add Address data from NAD" but I'm not sure how to change the description. Ah well. |
| 129106702 by watmildon @ 2022-11-19 00:20 ~ 3 years ago | 1 | ~ 3 years ago | Friendly_Ghost ♦655 | Hi watmildon. Thank you very much for the help here. All those name=* tags looked very much out of place. |
| 2 | ~ 3 years ago | watmildon | Any time. Happy to help. | |
| 128864534 by watmildon @ 2022-11-13 22:10 ~ 3 years ago | 1 | ~ 3 years ago | Glassman ♦5,778 | I agree that there is no wikipedia article, but according to wikidata, Q7330637 is the valid id for Richland Junction. If you agree can you update your edit? --- Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/128864534 |
| 2 | ~ 3 years ago | watmildon | My goodness you are absolutely right. I will be more careful in the future. | |
| 3 | ~ 3 years ago | Glassman ♦5,778 | I can't even begin to count the number of mistakes I've made. Have fun. | |
| 128152619 by watmildon @ 2022-10-28 03:32 ~ 3 years ago | 1 | ~ 3 years ago | ❤️🔥 ♦449 | this area is within an existing parking lot, i think the proper fix is to delete it or split it into individual parking spaces? |
| 2 | ~ 3 years ago | watmildon | Ah, missed that as the QuickFix UI in Map roulette only shows the one area. I'll patch this one up and try to be a bit more aware. Did you catch this with tooling or just clicking through random edits? | |
| 3 | ~ 3 years ago | ❤️🔥 ♦449 | thanks for fixing this, interesting to know about the maproulette UI... i was just scrolling thru osmcha for NZ looking for one of my own edits :) | |
| 4 | ~ 3 years ago | watmildon | You got it.https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/28573 | |
| 5 | ~ 3 years ago | watmildon | Alright, that should look better and keep some other folks from tripping into it with that MR task. Let me know if something else is amiss. Thanks for letting me know. | |
| 87425803 by watmildon @ 2020-07-02 03:38 ~ 5 years ago | 1 | ~ 3 years ago | tenzul ♦57 | Hey, these solar panel look very crooked and are not contained by the building they are on. You should use the orthogonalize tool and stay within the roof area. --- #REVIEWED_BAD #OSMCHA Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/87425803 ... |
| 87521630 by watmildon @ 2020-07-04 03:34 ~ 5 years ago | 1 | ~ 5 years ago | seattlefyi ♦380 | Wow, just saw these Bennett Elem additions. Looks really good to me! |
| 2 | ~ 5 years ago | watmildon | Thanks! Will probably try to sweep through all the public east side schools over the next while. I wasn't sure about using the pedestrian area in the front of the school.. Anyhow, let me know if you have any suggestions! | |
| 87479849 by watmildon @ 2020-07-03 04:53 ~ 5 years ago | 1 | ~ 5 years ago | seattlefyi ♦380 | Hi, thanks for the recent edits! I didn't review all of them, but the two school ones looked pretty good! One comment: according to the OSM wiki it appears that the school name goes with the amenity=school tag on the surrounding school grounds (which it already was for the middle school). Pleas... |
| 2 | ~ 5 years ago | watmildon | Ah yes. I'll fix it up now. Simple oversight on my part. I appreciate you pointing it out! | |
| 86646894 by watmildon @ 2020-06-15 05:42 ~ 5 years ago | 1 | ~ 5 years ago | Greg_Rose ♦178 | Welcome to OSM! Let me know if you have questions or problems - I'll gladly lend a hand!I'm local - live in Duvall, formerly lived in Redmond. Great to see more local mappers! --- Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/86646894 ... |