I’ve seen this behavior on occasion a few times on I-275 around Sharonville, Ohio, where one of the two carriageways incorrectly straightens out, crisscrossing the other. The problem tends to resolve itself after a few weeks. I’ve never seen it this bad or on motorway_links, though.

Much of Australia was heavily affected by the “redaction” process about a month ago that removed contributions by users who didn’t agree to the new contributor terms and license. (This update even calls out Hobart specifically.) If your contributions (other than the GPX traces) consisted of modifying ways and points that these disagreeing users added in the first place, I’m afraid your contributions may have been collateral. If it’s any consolation, there’s a fork of the OpenStreetMap project called FOSM that mostly reflects pre-redaction OpenStreetMap. They accept contributions too.

maxspeed should be fine. Otherwise we’d have to slap motor_vehicle:maxspeed on everything.

But I get the feeling this way also needs a minspeed. Wouldn’t want an ion to get stuck behind a Sunday driver.

If you plan to delete nodes where ele=0, please make an exception for nodes with gnis:feature_id or gnis:import_uuid tags. Those belong to a huge, perfectly legitimate import of GNIS data in the U.S. Much of the GNIS data is stale, but it provides tons of names that would take us impossibly long to collect ourselves.

I’m glad to hear things are going well in the Cleveland area! Awesome that the GIS department is testing the waters – unsolicited, even?

Recently there was also a flurry of activity from students in Ohio State’s Geography 607: Fundamentals of GIS course, mostly around Columbus but also in small towns throughout the state. A few students have even stuck around after the assignment was due.

Now if only I could pull some Cincinnatians away from foursquare to help with OSM…

The situation in Seattle is mentioned on the talk-us mailing list. There’s a proposal to replace this part of the coast with Canadian GeoBase data.

I once saw a fairly large roller coaster in someone’s backyard, somewhere in western Hamilton County.

Corn mazes are always a pleasant surprise while mapping exurban Ohio.

If not for this contest, the entire cities of Sidney, Piqua, and Troy in Ohio would’ve remained a barren wasteland of TIGER ways. Hooray for big mapping contests!

The warning about lost changes is actually a feature of Potlatch. Webpages have to opt into that dialog.

No como otras mapas construido por usuarios, no tienes que usar solamente las etiquetas que aparecen en un editor como Potlatch 2. Potlatch solamente lista las etiquetas más populares en la mapa actual. De hecho, puedes usar cualesquiera etiquetas (típicamente en inglés) que describan el lugar. Las que aparecen en Potlatch o en el wiki sólo son sugerencias.

Perhaps they think registering will unlock more features like directions. Instead, they get the edit tab. :-)

Thanks for taking the time to keep that part of the map updated!

I’ve been tagging fraternal lodges with amenity=social_club. There’s also amenity=public_hall, amenity=social_centre, and building=hall for similar facilities.

Perhaps the tiles haven’t finished rendering yet, or you need to clear your browser’s cache (Shift+Reload or Ctrl+Refresh).

building=yes
operator=Departement Wiskunde
operator:en=Department of Mathematics

Also, if you don’t mind eyeballing it a bit, it looks like the USGS produced Digital Map–Beta imagery of Illinois last year.

For individual off-campus buildings, setting “building” to “yes” and “operator” to “Kansas State University” should suffice.

It’s not shifted everywhere, but where are you looking? Perhaps with the right tools someone can fix it quickly.

As a point of comparison, Google Maps now has parcel data in much of the U.S. Maps aren’t just for streets these days. But out of curiosity, what type of data are you protesting against?

How about man_made=pier, floating=yes?