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Did you not even check to see if the water was even valid here regarding this challenge?

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What does "vt" mean in your changeset comment?

Do not add ficticious water features to represent trees and other obstacles.

This edit is being reverted.

This feature:
way/19813510/history

Should NOT have been changed to a golfcart path. It has been corrected.

The roads for the parking lot should not have been changed to a golf cartpath... It has been corrected.

Why did you change the cartpaths that were correctly mapped into service roads without the cartpath tags?

Such as:
way/587935762/history

These should be changed back to cartpaths with path tags.

Please do not remove the "path" tag from cartpaths.

Do not use "name=*" fields to add descriptive names to the features. Only their true official name should be added. Descriptive items should go into the appropriate tag fields.

Please use more descriptive changeset comments. What do you mean by "yes"? Please put what you did, why, etc. Thanks!

You can learn more about good changeset comments here:
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These 3 rows should be drawn as one parking area since it is all one lot. The access and other details here would be the same from one row to another.

I've gone through and updated it. Keep up the awesome contributions. :D

FYI, this would be street side parking since it is just on the side of the street

parking=street_side

The basketball court area shouldn't be named since that is a descriptive tag.

FYI, you can use "1" to square the buildings and other features.

Can you elaborate on what is remaining through these apartment buildings and across the freeway that would be an "abandoned railway"? Bing streetside and aerial imagery shows no trace through the buildings and across the interstate.

Was wondering if you found rails or something that still exists on the ground across the road and through the buildings?
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What source was used for these railways?

In areas such as:
way/158589507/history#map=15/38.8598/-94.7588

It appears that there is nothing there, no trace, no rails, etc. that would be considered "abandoned". In the subject area, it appears to have been completely overbuilt and replaced by homes, roadways, a freeway etc. I would argue that there is no rail going through someone's living room.

These should probably be moved to OHM if they are for "historical" purposes.

And to clarify the question at hand, what about the short, specific segments that have been over-built and replaced by a building or roadway. These features require excavation and there generally is no trace through a large flat parking lot or through someone's bedroom. Specifically, what if the only way to verify anything was ever there is to use a metal detector and ground penetrating radar?

Short of breaking out the high-tech, what is good enough to consider proof? A suspicious discoloration of crops in farmland where the land is level and the field has been plowed?

While our opinions may disagree and the community may disagree on what should and should not be mapped, it isn't something that the two of us have been able to work out, and likely will never work out. The community needs to work it out. And I recognize that.

It is actually surprising that the community still has not decided on what the "best practice" is for mapping or not mapping long removed railways and railway crossing. Especially ones intersecting houses and other modern buildings, often times incorrectly snapped to roadways and power poles.

That being said, I am done with the railways, will leave them untouched, regardless of their actual status.