Hi Haprager, your addition is timely, it has been discussed a lot recently now that rendering was added for tribal boundaries. You may want to get on the OSM US slack, which has a channel #indian_reservations where interested parties are discussing the best way to get the US reservation boundaries updated.

You can request to join here (approved quickly): https://slack.openstreetmap.us/

Hi jwretlin, thanks for mapping. It doesn't look like you've done anything malicious, but you may want to take a bit more care in your edits - OSM has a lot of standards for how things are done to make sure the map data stays consistent for everyone. Here are a few tips:

- For roads that have a sidewalk along them, instead of changing the tag to "footway", which means it is only for pedestrians, you can add a tag of "sidewalk = both" meaning there is a sidewalk on both sides. This is in addition to the original "highway = residential" tag.
- For grassy areas, you can use "landuse = grass", but don't add "leisure = park" unless the area is specifically intended for recreation, and managed that way.
- For parks, make sure that it isn't just a "park-like area", but a real managed park for recreation. And if it is public, that should mean that literally anyone can show up there, not just residents. If it is private for residents you can add, "access = private" as a new tag.

And in general, be as precise as you can about your drawing of new features - it really does help. Thanks, and hope you don't take this as a discouragement from learning more and mapping more, it takes practice to make good updates.

Hi, welcome to OSM! Good edits on the golf courses, thanks for improving the map. If I could make a request, a more verbose changeset comment beyond just "." helps your fellow mappers check work, and make sense of the local change history. Thanks - phidauex
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Hi, noticed your updates to these old arroyo roads. A useful tag is "highway=track" along with tracktype= and osm.wiki/Tag:smoothness=. The tracktype and smoothness tags let you indicate how soft the material is, and what type of vehicle would be needed to traverse it.

tracktype=*
smoothness=*
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Hi, welcome to OSM! You may not have heard of it before, because it is usually used "in the background", but enables tools like Bing Maps, Apple Maps, Pokemon Go, Telenav car navigation, and many other services. It is 100% volunteer run, much like Wikipedia, so it is only volunteers like myself (and now you) who improve and correct the map.

The reason the road was passing through your property is because the US Census believed that at one time a road passed through there, connecting Lunns Store Road and Simpson Road. It is clear that no longer exists, so it is right to remove it. You can delete a feature by using the "delete" key after selecting the road. In this case I went in and cleaned things up for you, so it is all good now.

Good luck, and if you enjoyed improving the map there are surely many parts of the map of your local community that can be improved.
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Unsolicited recommendation: the "abandoned" prefix to the highway tag can be helpful for cases like this, since it will prevent the line from being rendered, but will still show up in the editor so that someone doesn't come along and just add it again.

A tag combo like, "abandoned:highway=track, access=no, note='in remediation, no access'" would prevent rendering, and inform mappers that the paths they are seeing aren't intended to stay there for long.

Once again it appears you are several steps ahead of me. The "word" right now for the ongoing DRCOG import is to simply not import that multi-part buildings for the moment. Someone is working on a auto-magic script to turn those multipart geometries into OSM-compliant 3D buildings, but in the meantime it has to be done manually.

I'll find the time to go through and correct the ones I imported and bring them up to current standards, referring to yours as examples. The good news is that the height values appear realistic, so the geometry should render well as a 3D building.

Oh, and one tip, you can remove the tag "construction = path" from the ways, because they are no longer in construction. You can also remove the larger area around the construction site that is tagged "landuse = construction", if the construction is complete. If the construction isn't quite done yet, you can leave the area.
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They got that open fast! Thanks for updating the map.
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Apologies for frustrating you. I agree that consistency is important, especially over time. I'm just watching and learning so I can best maintain the resources in my area.

From the Dept. of the Interior: "Wilderness areas can be part of national parks, national wildlife refuges, national forests or public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management." https://www.doi.gov/blog/americas-public-lands-explained

Unfortunately, that results in just an "it depends" answer - some wildernesses are part of and managed by a national park or forest, and others are not.

Thanks, I think I understand the technical implications in the data model now. I think the issue is really just one of semantic representation of the real world (which requires us to figure out what is going on there).

I don't think anyone would argue that if I was standing in Medicine Bow National Forest that I would be simultaneously "inside of" Medicine Bow, the State of Wyoming, and the United States of America, all at the same time. Likewise (insofar as US law is concerned), if you are standing in the Navajo Nation you are inside of the Navajo Nation, the state of Arizona, and the United States.

I suppose a quick way to find out would be to break a law in the Encampment River Wilderness Area and see how many organizations ticket you. ;)

I'll follow the discussions from the sidelines, and then can help with any required modifications in the mountain west.

I think I understand now, in that case, the Medicine Bow relation should indeed be "type=multipolygon" (I see Adam just changed it!). Clearly it worked both ways, but I suppose this is the better long-term path.

To the issue of "holes" for wilderness areas, I'd be interested in the consensus on that (and maybe an update to the wiki?). Medicine Bow has a few of those as well, in both "forms" of a complete "hole", as well as a "notch" cut out of the side.

Hi, I'm interested in this discussion because I've done some repairs to CO and WY national forests. I agree with the end result here, but I question the "type=multipolygon" part of the relation. I thought "type=boundary" was actually the newer standard, with "type=multipolygon" being deprecated for boundaries? osm.wiki/Relation:boundary

Hi, I don't think shuui is a new user, the shuui_upload account looks like it was created for imports (as you are supposed to do), but user shuui has been around a while.

As for the gnis tags, I've been doing waterway cleanups in Colorado, and the best practice I understand is that geographical features that have an entry in the GNIS database should retain at least the gnis:feature_id tag (the unique identifier for the feature in GNIS), if not a few others. Sometimes when merging or uploading you have to put those tags back onto the new geometry, which is what I think is happening here. gnis:feature_id=*

Hope that helps!

Thanks for confirming! I just hadn't seen that tag get a lot of use, but it sounds like the right choice here. Keep at those TIGER tracks, amazing how many of them are out there with only modest links to reality.

Hi, welcome to OSM! I think the pond you added isn't really a pond, but just a lawn. Can you please remove the pond, or at least change it to "landuse=grass" to show it as a lawn? Thanks!

Thanks for all the TIGER cleanups! Just to be clear on the tagging, when you are using "motorcar=no", you mean that cars are not permitted, but other types of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, are permitted? If not, then "motor_vehicle=no" would be more broad.
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Hi, I see you requested a review on your edit of 18th st. through CU - your change makes sense to me, and you are using the tags correctly in my opinion!
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Hi David - Don't forget to correct the addr:street field to match the street naming in OSM - the church should be "Bolling Drive" rather than "E Bolling Dr". I missed this a few times on my DRCOG import cells, too!
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