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93002850

Thanks! I've actually been using your PAD-inspector... HUGE time saver, thanks for putting it together!
Glad to see you're trying to create formal definitions for parks. I'm in the process of putting together a wiki to document proper tagging and progress of mapping public lands in PA, similar to the one created for National Parks. Let me know if you have any feedback:
osm.wiki/Pennsylvania/Public_Lands

93002850

Actually, disregard my comment about it being class III, I was thinking of Poe Paddy. Regardless, this is still a state park so I would think it would be appropriate to have boundary=protected_area and leisure=nature_reserve

93002850

Hi, do you mind explaining what the proper technique for mapping this feature is if it's incorrect to have it as an inner member of Bald Eagle SF? Poe Valley is an IUCN class III state park, which I believe would qualify it to have the tags that you removed...

95902510

Nice additions to these neighborhoods! So I guess they're eventually going to link the two sections of Jensen Drive?

95757880

Hi Kevin, thanks for contributing to OSM. While you may be right that these game lands are pretty much all wooded landuse, it is incorrect to put natural=wood or landuse=forest tags on SGL, state parks, state forests, etc. See osm.wiki/Pennsylvania_State_Game_Lands for more info about this.

For this reason I'm going to revert this changeset and all others that added landuse to protected areas in PA. However, you're more than welcome to add separate ways with the natural=wood tag! There's more info on this in the PA wiki: osm.wiki/Pennsylvania#Landuse

95383736

Don't worry about reverting it, I can take care of that. ;) It requires you to download JOSM, which can be a little tough to figure out when you're just starting. Keep up the good work otherwise, it's great to see other mappers in the State College area!

95383736

Hi Halbig, welcome to OSM! I see you changed a lot of tags from office=administrative to office=government, likely because the iD editor suggests that the office=administrative tagged is deprecated. While this is true, office=government is not an appropriate tag for university administrative offices since they aren't government run. For that reason, I think it would be best to revert this changeset and be a little more careful when reviewing iD's suggested tag updates, let me know what you think.

95250644

Totally agree that there isn't really a suitable tag for this type of feature yet... but the feature does still exist in some capacity. Would it maybe be best to tag it as natural=dry_lake (proposed feature), natural=water+intermittent=yes, or a tagless feature?

95001198

I can understand why it may bother you how some types of roads look on the map, but you should always choose tags that most accurately describe the feature regardless of how it renders. I'd recommend reading the wiki descriptions of tags to get a better understanding of what should be used. It can be a little subjective at times, so sometimes it's helpful to look at some really well mapped areas nearby and follow their tagging schemes.

As for your point on google maps, OSM is not intended to be a replica of google maps and you should never copy data from them. They spend a lot of time and money creating their maps and it's considered stealing to use their data, satellite imagery or street view to contribute to OSM. For that reason, I'm going to revert this back to a service road.

95001198

Hi, do you mind explaining why you changed this from a service road to a residential road? Residential road is usually reserved for roads that are lined with houses.

94957297

I knew there was a park there but couldn't find the name anywhere! Nice addition

94645781

I believe it was deleted by changesets 91777463, 91777587, 91777706, and 91777922. Possibly others, that's just what I could find from the relation history

94645781

Hey, thanks for reverting this! Would you mind taking a look into reverting the changesets that deleted this park nearby? relation/5429983
I was going to give it a try... But not very experienced with the reverts yet and probably would've just created more issues.

92450823

Hi, is there a reason that you deleted the North Country Trail relation (#880851) in this changeset? Previously, there was a parent relation that bound all of the individual relations for each state that the NCT passes through. I think it might be best to revert this changeset, let me know what you think.

91908699

Welcome to OSM! Are the names that you added to these trails their official, posted names? I've gone runs through these gamelands a few times and don't recall these trails having any signs that would indicate a name

91777463

Hi, do you mind explaining why you deleted this park and all of the trails in it? The park appears to still be in service according to: https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/StateParks/FindAPark/ErieBluffsStatePark/Pages/default.aspx

91708952

Hi, please make sure you're paying attention to the direction of flow when you map rivers and streams! Nearly all of them in this area are flowing in the wrong direction - they should be all flowing into Lake Erie. If you're ever unsure, you can check one of the topographic map layers and map it so that it flows downhill. Also, many of these are mapped as rivers when it appears that they should be streams instead. If you're ever unsure, follow the wiki guideline of whether or not a fit adult could jump across it: waterway=stream?uselang=en

91730644

Hi, please make sure you're paying attention to the direction of flow when you map rivers and streams! Nearly all of them in this area are flowing in the wrong direction - they should be all flowing into Lake Erie. If you're ever unsure, you can check one of the topographic map layers and map it so that it flows downhill. Also, many of these are mapped as rivers when it appears that they should be streams instead. If you're ever unsure, follow the wiki guideline of whether or not a fit adult could jump across it: waterway=stream?uselang=en

91716487

Welcome to OSM! It seems you may have inadvertently deleted the amenity=university tag from the PSU campus relation while you were adding the bike shop in Brambleton, which caused the campus to disappear from the map. I went ahead and fixed it, but a good rule of thumb is to try to stick to a small area when editing and save before moving to a new location.

89930520

Kudos to you! This is a great example of how important it is to read the wiki as I (and likely many others) assumed that building=house was the best tag for most residential homes