Are you able to respond to this? You also never list sources for any of your other changes. I'm highly suspecting that much of this is copied from some unknown resource.

Oh awesome, I didn't know Madison Co had that resource! Great news.

Yeah for highway ref= tags, it (generally) needs to be a reference number that's signed and used for navigation. The secondary route numbers in NC aren't used this way (you never tell someone to turn right on SR 1411, you use the actual road name). There are a small handful of exceptions where highway exit signs actually use the SR number but I've only seen a couple out east. SR numbers also change at county borders or intersections, which makes them very unhelpful for navigation (they also can get updated over the years, which is annoying for us).

But they do exist and in many cases are physically marked (mostly with tiny white signs on stop sign poles, but they're starting to print them on street signs). Another alternative is osm.wiki/Tag:official_ref=, but this is for when there is a government reference number that's not really intended for public use and usually not signed. So unsigned_ref= is perfect: it's for reference numbers that may be consistently posted, but not prominently enough to be useful for navigation. The wiki page has some other examples for comparison unsigned_ref=*

Please stop using the ref= tag for secondary road numbers. They do not meet the requirements of ref= and *generally* should use the unsigned_ref= tag.

I'm also just curious, where are you getting your building addresses from? A source isn't listed on those changesets.

Do you remember where you sourced this change? It's definitely not a hotel, probably an Airbnb at best if not just someone's summer home.

What was the source for these changes? The Bank of NC has been a childcare facility for a while.

This is no longer a Krispy Kreme, but it's not Mr. Tire which is already added just north on 321.

Can I ask where you are sourcing these changes?

Most of these shouldn't even be crossings, and adding most of these tags is just redundant...

*Is it* no longer called "Mountaineer Dr" or *can it* no longer be called that? OSM only cares about the former.

Why did you remove the descriptive names? These full names are listed on the route schedules at https://www.appalcart.com/route-maps-and-schedules and probably also on the physical route pamphlet.

Please do not just add woods tags to the National Forest boundaries. Tags have actual meaning for things, and the ways that define the NF boundary do not define the edge of a wooded area.

Thanks for adding that so quickly!!

What did you use as the source for the boundary itself, did you just trace from a publication or the website? It's not a copyright issue I'm just wondering why the game lands boundary shares ways with the landcover in places.

Is this the correct changeset comment? I don't see any primary links involved here
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Published using OSMCha: https://osmcha.org/changesets/138090507

@willkmis did you ever get a response? Seems like something we should sort out before retagging all the high-profile geographic features we call deserts.

(They're old but I'm also wondering if there's a good reason for 3938399, 6485749, and 6485753 to have layer=-1 ?)

Are the roads signed TN 331 or SR 331? I can never trust TIGER but haven't driven much of the state only an hour west of me

Hi jdj150, please use more descriptive changeset comments. 'improving' provides no explanation of what you are actually doing and makes it difficult for other mappers to follow your changes.

Is there a tag with equivalent meaning we can use? This is the only usage of tourism=farmstay. There is also one usage of resort=farmstay

What did you mean by tourism=farmstay? I assume it's a typo

You also have a habit of using highway=unclassified exceedingly on normal residential roads for some reason, which is not in line with any NA tagging guidelines that I'm familiar with, certainly not in NC. You also seem to be reusing the maproulette changeset comment for your other changes not touching any TIGER roads, which is quite confusing.

Please stop these large changes until you have discussed them with the local community.

The 'State Road' designation is not a navigable code for use in osm.wiki/Tag:ref=, nor does it belong in alt_name= (which is duplicating information anyway).

Please stop using the name field to name every building 'house'. That is what tags are for. If they really are all houses, please use the tag 'building=house'