36 changesets created by watmildon have been discussed with 35 replies of this contributor
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162640240
by watmildon
@ 2025-02-18 00:17
12025-02-18 04:05SD Mapman
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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
22025-02-18 05:04watmildon 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
12024-12-18 19:35SD Mapman
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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
22024-12-18 19:39watmildon 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...
32024-12-18 19:44SD Mapman
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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
42024-12-18 19:46SD Mapman
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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)
52024-12-18 19:48watmildon 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...
62024-12-18 19:50watmildon 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
72024-12-18 19:50watmildon https://zelonewolf.github.io/wikidata-qa/

Obviously I forgot to add the site. Sorry about that.
82024-12-18 19:52SD Mapman
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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 Wikidata

Basically 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...
92024-12-18 19:55SD Mapman
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The issue was creating a boundary relation with untagged ways
102024-12-18 20:31watmildon 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.
112024-12-18 21:10SD Mapman
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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...
122024-12-18 21:11SD Mapman
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I've tried to document the SD oddities in the US boundary (or admin level, can't remember which one) page on the wiki
132024-12-18 21:38SD Mapman
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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
142024-12-19 02:31watmildon 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
12024-12-03 20:50Kai Johnson
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I think this may be the "Roach Valley Reservoir" or that's possibly an alternative name. https://greybullvalleyid.com/reservoir-levels/
22024-12-03 20:51Kai Johnson
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Oops. "Roach Gulch Reservoir"
32024-12-04 02:47watmildon Seems reasonable. Would you like to make the edit (and take the glory?) or shall I?
42024-12-04 17:54Kai Johnson
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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
12024-08-18 01:10watmildon Needs review

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/155394029
140905334
by watmildon
@ 2023-09-06 17:35
12024-05-24 12:53Mateusz Konieczny
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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
12024-05-08 11:32user_5359
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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?
22024-05-08 21:20watmildon 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
12024-03-28 22:16Saad927299
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Saad
146764860
by watmildon
@ 2024-01-28 02:32
12024-03-07 11:04Spaghetti Monster🍝
♦2,068
Are you planning to finish conflation so there's less duplication?
22024-03-07 11:07Spaghetti Monster🍝
♦2,068
thanks for doing this btw
32024-03-07 18:33watmildon 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.
42024-03-07 23:35Spaghetti Monster🍝
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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.
52024-03-08 18:54watmildon Gotcha, I will check it out. Thanks for the heads up.
62024-03-08 19:06watmildon 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.
72024-03-11 21:36watmildon 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 ...
82024-03-11 22:22Allison P
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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.
92024-03-11 23:22watmildon Oh that's a lovely workaround! Very clever.

On it.
102024-03-11 23:50watmildon 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
12024-03-05 00:42HBanu
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Awesome work. Keep map well.
Thank you.
140203594
by watmildon
@ 2023-08-21 23:18
12024-01-26 23:18waradah
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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
12024-01-19 18:35hoserab
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I've just deleted this way entirely, it's mostly standing water.
22024-01-19 20:37watmildon Totally sensible. Thanks!
146388582
by watmildon
@ 2024-01-18 04:02
12024-01-18 04:03watmildon 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
12024-01-15 07:35OSM_RogerWilco
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Hello watmildon,
thanks for the correction!
My mistake.
Greetings
Roger Wilco
22024-01-15 19:40watmildon 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
12023-12-21 03:32Dr Kludge
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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...
22023-12-21 04:03watmildon 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 ...
32023-12-21 04:18watmildon 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
42023-12-22 22:03watmildon Hello! Would love to have your input about things in the community thread.
140246163
by watmildon
@ 2023-08-22 20:34
12023-12-12 12:01mbe57
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This normalization ended up with a bank that has a population of nearly 7000?
22023-12-12 19:27watmildon 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...
32023-12-13 00:43mbe57
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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.
Cheers
Michael
139941759
by watmildon
@ 2023-08-16 03:26
12023-11-10 22:59SK53
♦864
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...
22023-11-11 03:06watmildon 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
12023-11-05 10:48ottwiz
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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...
22023-11-05 23:20watmildon 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
12023-09-21 19:53neuhausr
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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!
22023-09-21 20:47watmildon Good catch. I'll patch these up.
141187362
by watmildon
@ 2023-09-13 03:23
12023-09-18 16:34phidauex
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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?
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141316542
by watmildon
@ 2023-09-15 19:08
12023-09-15 19:14RedstoneRelic
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Jesus, this is a large edit area
22023-09-16 17:10Awoobis
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140390872
by watmildon
@ 2023-08-25 22:23
12023-08-25 23:41OddlyAngled
♦100
looks like these didn't get the GNISID value retained in gnis:feature_id, for example https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4065344346 is
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22023-08-26 02:30watmildon 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.
32023-08-26 02:32watmildon This one should be better. Thanks again!

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/140394521
140389506
by watmildon
@ 2023-08-25 21:28
12023-08-25 21:29watmildon Bah, this one got away from me. Sorry for the huge bbox.
140300432
by watmildon
@ 2023-08-24 02:56
12023-08-24 02:58watmildon This should say WV for West Virginia. Apologies.
139992054
by watmildon
@ 2023-08-17 04:12
12023-08-17 04:14watmildon 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
12023-07-11 20:44watmildon 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
12023-07-06 10:55emersonveenstra
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tsk tsk ;) https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/138183094
133069784
by watmildon
@ 2023-02-27 04:42
12023-06-13 08:58skquinn
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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.
22023-06-13 21:38watmildon 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...
32023-06-13 21:56raisinsfried
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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
12023-05-01 11:19Aim311_
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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...
22023-05-01 17:28watmildon 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
12023-01-08 06:53watmildon 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
12022-11-19 01:30Friendly_Ghost
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Hi watmildon. Thank you very much for the help here. All those name=* tags looked very much out of place.
22022-11-19 02:56watmildon Any time. Happy to help.
128864534
by watmildon
@ 2022-11-13 22:10
12022-11-14 01:05Glassman
♦5,216
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?
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22022-11-14 18:44watmildon My goodness you are absolutely right. I will be more careful in the future.
32022-11-14 19:51Glassman
♦5,216
I can't even begin to count the number of mistakes I've made. Have fun.
128152619
by watmildon
@ 2022-10-28 03:32
12022-10-28 10:27❤️‍🔥
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this area is within an existing parking lot, i think the proper fix is to delete it or split it into individual parking spaces?
22022-10-28 18:43watmildon 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?
32022-10-28 19:25❤️‍🔥
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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 :)
42022-10-28 20:35watmildon You got it.
https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/28573
52022-10-28 21:22watmildon 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
12022-05-11 10:56tenzul
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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.
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87521630
by watmildon
@ 2020-07-04 03:34
12020-07-05 00:23seattlefyi
♦369
Wow, just saw these Bennett Elem additions. Looks really good to me!
22020-07-05 05:23watmildon 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
12020-07-03 08:15seattlefyi
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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...
22020-07-03 11:18watmildon 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
12020-06-15 18:01Greg_Rose
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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!
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