Thanks for changing my path to footway. I suppose footway=sidewalk would do the same thing as highway=footway +surface=paved

Thanks for fixing this. I too like keepright for finding these things.

Yes, thanks, I do understand. andygol had changed all highway=pedestrian area=yes to area:highway=pedestrian which caused all plaza type areas in the USA to become black holes in the map. I've been following this note "Note on area=yes
Don't use area:highway=* for plazas and similiar features. These are described by highway=* combined with area=yes, while area:highway=* combined with area=yes is incorrect. Use area:highway=* only to add an area representation for linear highways where a way tagged highway=* without area=yes exists. This applies mostly but not exclusively to highway=pedestrian and highway=footway. Found at osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Street_area#Note_on_area.3Dyes

Yes, that one is ok. This area:highway=pedestrian or footway all seem to have cropped up in 2015. I was wondering why they did not render and got an answer from scai https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/60067/why-are-some-pedestrian-areas-not-rendering I'm attempting to fix the problems in the USA and guess I messed up a couple.

Thanks for your comment. I'll verify all the changes. This one was not by andygol but has the same problem and needs area=yes.

Hi andygol, I asked the question and got some interesting comments.
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/60067/why-are-some-pedestrian-areas-not-rendering
I'll be changing the MA ways to highway=pedestrian area=yes

No problem. I too appreciate it when people comment on my changesets. Thanks for all the work your doing. I encourage you to spend more time mapping in the Bedford/Burlington MA area. Alan

Hi, Looks like you were busy adding parking lot lanes near Crosby Drive in bedford. Many of them seem to be missing connectors between the ends of aisles. You might consider adding the tag service=parking_aisle to complement highway=service
Thanks for your work, the map is looking more complete

After highway=pedestrian and area=yes were changed to area:highway=pedestrian and area=yes they no longer render in OSM . I'm looking at the 50+ occurrences in Massachusetts? Do you know why?

Nice. I'll have to check it out.

These tags are artifacts of a long ago import. Many Massachusetts mappers, but not all, agree they should be deleted. I try to delete them from highway ways and nodes I edit. I'll consider deleting them from landuse or leisure ways as well. What we need is a mass removal. Thanks for the comment. Alan

Not an import. Reworking bad data from 2009. Old polygons were from digitized maps and poorly aligned. More recent data is now available which is replacing old one polygon at a time after review. I'm lobbying our local community to remove all these massgis: tags that came with the import.

Not an import. In Massachusetts we have about 20 dumb keys that were introduced during the original import in 2009. see osm.wiki/MassGIS

deleted tags, added new

Thanks, tags have been deleted.
Alan

Nice catch. Yes, that was my mistake. I remember now that I was trying to use the iphone app go map!! .

Thanks for catching that error and notifying me. I found that I had another similar error which I have corrected.

Thanks for breaking up these ways. It made it a lot easier for me to add road names from new TIGER data.

I can understand how the comments are confusing. In Massachusetts did have an import of land boundaries many years ago. Problem is that they were all skewed. We use newer imagery to re-align them.

Sorry, this wasn't an import. I made a number of local changes then did a couple map roulette fixes and they probably got caught up in the same changeset. That accounts for the wide distribution.