Good additions to the fort collins map, thanks! One small suggestion is to be careful about unintended connections between ways - one of your sidewalks was connected to the Poudre in a way you probably didn't intend. Holding "alt" or "option" while drawing will disable snapping in iD. Happy mapping!
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Thanks for re-opening the connector to Stazio, don't forget to remove the "construction = cycleway" tag to finish the job!
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Thanks - I saw a lot of changes coming through and just wanted to make sure you had noticed this issue before you got too deep into it.

Hi, your recent imports are leaving tons of orphan nodes - are you seeing these and cleaning them up before proceeding?
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CyclOSM gives a good idea of how data consumers see the relationship between paths with or without "designated", which I find helpful for identifying mismatches between the intended use a path and the tagging: https://www.cyclosm.org/#map=17/41.71700/-73.96699/cyclosm

Hi, I do a lot of cycleway cleanups, and would potentially recommend going further in order to retain compatibility with major cycle renderers and data consumers:

True multi-use path:
highway = path
bicycle = designated
foot = designated

Cycleway, but foot traffic is allowed (probably wider, may have center stripe, may have "bike" in the trail name):
highway = cycleway
foot = yes

Footway, but bicycles are allowed:
highway = footway
bicycle = yes

What doesn't tend to make a lot of sense is something like highway = footway and bicycle = designated. If it is designated for bicycles, then it is a path or cycleway.

More tips here: https://github.com/BikeOttawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide

Hope this helps - phidauex

Thanks, if you are filling in details after the fact then it makes sense, just making sure it wasn't a normal process. Thanks for your attention to detail and the good map work. An Amazon Logistics mapper added my own driveway the other day - I never bothered to add it myself!

Thanks, I wasn’t sure if you were local since most of your change sets were elsewhere in the world. If you can confirm the road types and tag them correctly, that is ideal. Thanks!

If someone is going to restore these, please at least evaluate their alignments and tagging from the imagery available - they are definitely not residential roads.

Hi Daungg, I'm not the original editor, but A41 is a TIGER road classification, not the name. The US has a lot of these old imported roads, and many aren't at all accurate so they get regularly deleted or changed, and we tend to trust local mapper's judgement in this regard.

In this case, that way is definitely not a residential road - track at best - and it may not even be passable anymore. Be cautious when restoring TIGER imported roads - they may have been removed for a good reason.
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Hi, can you please add the source information to the changeset notes, rather than adding a comment? Many of us follow the comment feeds to see what is being discussed, and having these default comments show up is spamming the system. I assume it is an automated feature since I'm seeing a lot of it right now - would you please mention to your team lead that it would be better to put the source into the changeset rather than a comment? Thanks - Sam

Thanks for updating - routers may someday allow for routing across an area, but there are subtle challenges that have kept it from being supported so far. Parking lots and pedestrian plazas and outdoor malls are the most common case where routing across an area could be useful.

FYI, I took a closer look at this one as well, and Bowers does have a dedicated cycle lane - you can see in the tags that it has already been added correctly - the only issue here is the relation, which is used to join large city-wide or state-wide cycle networks, not mark individual streets.

Hi Michaela, please remove the cycle route relations you've created - it isn't the right way to add cycle infrastructure. Refer to my other comment and see the tagging guide for how to add bike lanes to roads (after you've verified that they exist).

Hi, we don't copy anything from Google Maps - both because it is a violation of Google and OSM's licenses, but also because Google is often wrong (a good reason to have a community edited map!).

In this case, looking at the aerial imagery sources, Sherman does not appear to have any cycle infrastructure, unless some was very recently added. I removed the cycle relation and the cycleway since they don't seem to exist.

If I'm wrong, and there is a dedicated bike lane there that you can confirm locally, then instead of stacking two ways on top of each other or using a relation, you would add the correct cycleway tag to the main road way. See this guide for a list of cycleway tags used to describe different types of bike routes on a road. https://github.com/BikeOttawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide/blob/master/README.md

Hi, thanks for mapping! Another tip - the grassy median areas are probably best tagged "landuse = grass" rather than as a recreation ground, which implies that you can use it for activities, hiking, dog walking, etc. In this case I don't think the small grassy areas you traced would quite qualify as a recreation ground.
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Hi, thanks for editing the map! When you are done tracing a building, use the "Q" shortcut in the editor to square the corners of the building - it will make your additions look much more professional.
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Haha, sorry, this is Sherman and Congress in NJ, not CO, they look similar up close. :)

Either way, same comment - Sherman Ave. here doesn't really look like a cycle route to me, though cycleway=shared_lane may be an appropriate tag if cyclists are allowed/expected to share the traffic lane with cars.

Hi Michaela, thanks for editing. I'm in the denver area and am pretty familiar with the neighborhood. What is it you are trying to accomplish exactly? Cycle route relations are typically used for large routes that span cities or states, while individual tags on the way such as "cycleway=shared_lane" are used to indicate how a cyclist can use a particular road.

Hi Polarbear, you may not be familiar with US map sources, but the snippet is clearly a USGS quad topo, which is released in the public domain by the US government and is fully license compatible with OSM.

Of course that doesn't address the other tagging changes - sounds like some cleanup is needed for tag consistency.