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177356680

Signs confirm that "Montrose Shopping Center" includes the southeast building and the west side of the west building.

174795514

The Mapillary photo shows a turn restriction without the "except buses"; I assume that was added after the photo was taken. I was still able to use Mapillary to confirm everything else about the turn restriction.

174348602

I tagged these ways as crossings in changeset/104519460 as a hack to ensure that pedestrian routers would consider them, since I was unfamiliar with the handling of driveways. After recent research, I believe tagging the ways as driveways is more accurate and probably just as functional for routing.

174118350

Forgot source = shop web pages

173465063

This changeset messed up the turn restrictions at Wootton Parkway & Fleet Street, though some popular routers were still able to guess what was intended. I fixed the turn restrictions in changeset/173815915 .

173810887

I'm guessing the error was caused by TIGER misalignment (osm.wiki/TIGER_fixup/Alignment) and the TIGER tags were intended to apply to the northern way, so I moved the TIGER tags rather than just deleting them, FWIW.

173689442

Note: For several existing shops, I changed the addr:city to match the address shown on the shop's web site, according to the guidance at addr:city=*#United_States .

173467789

The area probably needs more work, but this should at least stop car routers from trivially bypassing the barrier I just added in changeset/173466895.

173424437

Oops, forgot survey:date=2025-10-09

173376310

The entry restrictions at East Jefferson Street are mapped separately. In a survey, I saw no evidence of an access restriction along the segment of Rollins Avenue.

173151604

I think this restriction was left over from the temporary closure of westbound Randolph Road in 2021-2022. I have on hand a track from 2025-08-02 that shows that I took the turn in question; I think that's sufficient evidence that it's no longer restricted.

172671578

Addendum to the source tag: I consulted aerial imagery for a general sense of scale, not to trace the actual new geometry (the images I could find hadn't updated yet). The imagery might have been any of the following: Esri World Imagery; Esri World Imagery (Clarity) Beta; Bing.

172717136

I also consulted Esri World Imagery to try to refine the location, so that should be a source too.

172717136

Correction to changeset message: I don't remember whether the bookcase belongs to 10 or 11 Scotch Mist Court. The location is approximately correct from GPS (I guess I should have added that as a source).

170268366

Re unknown246: I agree it seems bizarre for someone to reference CPAP in their user profile. But shaming a medical condition on OSM seems uncalled for, if that was indeed what you meant. As it happens, I currently use a CPAP. I too am frustrated to have to spend time dealing with this vandalism rather than just contributing to the map, but let's find some other way to express it.

169796802

DWG has blocked cpapdaddy (osm.org/user_blocks/18566) and I've reverted the remaining changesets except for the stream names (I leave it to others to decide about those). I'll be watching in case similar vandalism comes from another user account.

170010828

While I can't immediately prove this edit is incorrect, I consider that it risks "bringing the project into disrepute" per osm.wiki/Vandalism and cpapdaddy has shown bad faith elsewhere, so I've gone ahead and reverted it in changeset/170269180 .

169796802

It looks like the vandalism has continued, e.g., in changeset/170268366. I've submitted a request to the Data Working Group to block cpapdaddy and will revert some of the vandalism in the meantime, though I'm not going to sit around watching for changesets to revert them as soon as they happen.

169796802

Hey! This changeset appears to consist mostly if not completely of spam, similar to the spam we previously saw from unknown246's account (discussion on changeset/169357242). For now, I've gone ahead and reverted the whole thing in changeset/169829340 .

What happened? Was your account hacked too? If you are intentionally creating new accounts in order to continue spamming, I'll have to ask what tools the Data Working Group has available to stop this. If you believe some of your edits to elements are valid, please explain which ones and where you got the data (your changeset has an unhelpful description and no source) and we can reinstate those edits.

Thanks for your cooperation.

169357242

OK, I reverted the remaining parts of your changesets 169310048 through 169373059, even the parts that looked potentially valid. (Technicality: I didn't revert discardable tags.) I think this is the best way, to make sure that other users don't contact you with questions about data you didn't intend to submit. If any of the changes are valid and important, someone can redo them later.

I didn't touch your changesets after 169373059, except I reverted changeset/169482172 because I didn't think it made sense to leave the business with a city, state, and zip but no house number or street. If you can vouch for all the address tags, feel free to resubmit them.

Thanks again for your cooperation. I'm glad to see that this incident apparently hasn't turned you off of contributing to OSM.