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78939002

Added a lot more than a hairdresser; dunno why that's the comment.

63264181

Hi,
please know that the Esri Clarity layer uses imagery (at least in this area) from around 2011. At least a few of the buildings you added here do not exist and are not visible on any other layers. Clarity is also offset by a couple meters from the other layers and probably reality.
Even though it's sharper than the other layers (thus named Clarity) it is almost never the newest or third-newest imagery.

78074104

... the directional prefixes are also not present in TIGER 2017, 2018, or 2019.

69040931

Hi,
please make sure that you are using the newest imagery, or are aware of it. Bing imagery in these rural Southern African areas is usually quite dated.
At Sirana, the A12 takes a different path, which is not overly important, but in other cases the road might be drastically different in reality than in Bing satellite.
Maxar is almost always the newest available imagery in rural Africa. At Sirana the imagery is from 2016-17; Bing may be as late as 2012 but they do not provide tile dates.
So please be aware of other imagery sources that are newer and that Bing is generally not new, even though it looks the sharpest.

70184828

Hi,
please be careful when splitting large ways like this. You kept the 'surface=ground' tag on all three segments, when both the bridge itself and the way forward of it are both entirely asphalt. I have fixed this.

77193627

Hi NAZIR-SH, and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

Please be careful when editing things. Don't trace over roads that are already on the map, this just creates duplicate features. Also check the type of road that you are adding; most of these are short driveways, not tertiary roads.

I have changed these back to the correct road classification. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for editing, and keep mapping.

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Привет NAZIR-SH и добро пожаловать в OpenStreetMap!

Пожалуйста, будьте осторожны при редактировании вещей. Не отслеживайте дороги, которые уже есть на карте, это просто создает дубликаты объектов. Также проверьте тип дороги, которую вы добавляете; большинство из них - короткие дороги, а не третичные дороги.

Я изменил их обратно на правильную классификацию дорог. Дайте знать, если у вас появятся вопросы. Спасибо за редактирование, и продолжайте отображать.

76868869

Hi, is this import discussed somewhere? I can't find anything on the wiki and your source is wrong; these are not buildings.

65493400

Is way/53040848 broadleaved or needleleaved?
It was fine before, with `leaf_type=needleleaved` but you changed to `leaf_cycle=needleleaved` + `leaf_type=broadleaved`, which is an incorrect use of leaf_cycle.

76597899

Please stop deleting random features without explanation. "FXFX" does not provide any useful information about what you are doing. Why did you remove these in particular? Have you been there and seen them gone?

76372071

I had not been doing any editing in this area. I found the changeset using a tool claled OSMCha (https://osmcha.mapbox.com), which lets people inspect changesets and and helps with finding potentially problematic changes.

I'm not sure what offset problems you were having. The surrounding buildings were traced from Bing, which in this spot has an offset from Maxar of only about 1-2 feet. Any buildings that were in 'green fields' are there because they do not exist anymore. Those should be deleted.

You are correct, that sometimes it is faster to delete and recreate then to fix a badly mapped building. However this causes problems for other mappers who try to follow the history of an object, as well for anyone tracking edits in an area. It's just bad practice.

76372071

Hi,
Please do not delete buildings only to redraw them. You can simply change the outline of the building. There is a history component to OSM and deleting and recreating makes this useless. It also creates unnecessary object IDs.
In iD, the editor you are using, you can add nodes to a way and move them around, which you should know from the tutorial. In JOSM you can also create new geometry and replace the way with it.
Please edit ways from now on instead of deleting and redrawing them. Let me know if you have any questions.

76371814

Why did you delete these buildings? They appear on all the imagery I can see.

63281817

Why did you remove the genus and species tags from many (all?) of these orchards? Is that not useful information?

76180011

Back again. Are relation/10214007 and its members supposed to have any meaning? They are not tagged with anything useful but it would seem that they should be inner ways to the Santa Rosa boundary and that the relation should be deleted.

76180011

See also nodes 410809594 and 5670179896.
When I fixed the dragging of CA 12 I did not edit the Santa Rosa boundary, so please fix it with your data.

I am also not sure whether the data you are importing is licensed properly. The license given on its ArcGIS page does not state how the data may be used, only that they are not responsible for anything arising from use of the data (http://gisdata-santarosa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/city-limits). I'm not sure whether there's a default license that I'm missing but it would be good to know for sure that this is OSM-compatible.

76180011

Be careful when doing large edits like this. You dragged nodes 375144970 and 56036760, which were attached to CA 12 and other nodes, damaging a portion of the network.
Please download parent ways when doing large edits in JOSM so you know what you are editing.
I have fixed these two cases (see c76219337) but there may be others. Please check your work and see if anything else was broken.

75487450

This was reverted in 75953633.

It is supposed to be a roof part, not a solar panel anyway.
I've added the actual solar panels, see changeset/76116519.

56825713

Hi,
Please don't just duplicate nature reserve areas with woods. Woods are intended to describe the landcover outline of a wooded area, not a legal area like a nature preserve. That's why there is a nature preserve tag.
The woods extend far beyond the boundary of the nature preserve, but this makes it appear that they don't and are bounded by the nature preserve. But there's no line in the forest dividing trees on one side of the boundary.

75968904

Stop spamming parking nodes. Most of these are already mapped, and the others are incorrect.
Please read my other comments on your previous changesets and respond to them.

71382324

Hi,
please do not create bridges where there are none, just to fix the crossing ways errors. Usually, the stream goes underground in what's called a culvert. In iD (the editor you are using), this can be created by splitting the stream at the entrance and exit of the culvert, and selecting the 'Tunnel' option. This will add the tags to show that the waterway goes underneath the road in a tunnel.