Hi brc22, and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

While these trails are partially on private property, they are good data to include in OSM since they do exist on the ground. Portions of the trails are also on Elk Knob State Park and NC WRC lands.

The way they were tagged indicated they were private trails, and very strenuous hiking. This discourages people from trying to trespass and tells software not to route people there.

I have reverted these changes in changeset #130964000. Let me know if you have any questions!

Sounds good, for now I'll just align to existing good data.

I checked on the Strava discussions out of curiosity and it seems they've pretty much stalled over the last couple years even though we seem to have permission.

Hey InsertUser, what are you aligning to generally? I was going to work the buildings on Andros Is. but the data doesn't match any imagery well

Well I'm not insisting on anything, it's a community project. But incompleteness does not ask for deletion, only that the rest be mapped. Which it seems like you are doing in other areas, I just don't see why we need to delete properly mapped things

Why are you deleting features that exist? You removed a whole bunch of power features, including half of way/816606775 which definitely hasn't gone anywhere

Is the construction actually completed? You changed it to complete a month ago and it was changed back by @TheConductor

That works fine for me, was just wondering if there was a different criteria you were following

Well no but some of the large ones like node/10036278900 seem like they would qualify for me

Is there a reason you use pole instead of tower on the high voltage lines?

Is this an actual protected area, or just an area where protected plants occur? Also why is it part of Lenoir town boundary?

is this verifiable in any sense? Of note is that the language seems to have <1000 possible users worldwide.

Welcome to OpenStreetMap! Please be more careful when removing things in the future. Several streams that definitely do exist were deleted, and the boundary for the Town of Boone was edited as a result.

So is the mountain area a property boundary or just a wooded area? natural=wood is used for mapping landcover, not landuse areas.

What data source(s) are you using? There's a lot listed on the wiki for potential sources for Canada.

Reverted in changeset #119916479

Please revert these changes if you can. The imagery you used is several years out of date; those paths do not exist and the building was already mapped properly as a construction area.

I removed them because they are not useful data. We already have the outline of the Wayne NF there. Should we just add random blocks of woods everywhere because they're not incorrect?

What source are you using for the roads? Are you tracing the Bing imagery found in iD or actually tracing Bing Maps?

So since we agree on a coastline we can work on beach mapping. I have no problem with mapping the low-tide beach (I like the idea of it being separate with a tidal tag), but what I removed were not parts of any real beach. They extended several hundred feet into the ocean, which is just not realistic. This is similar to the beaches you added at north Pea Island (see node/8544312354) which go 200-600ft into the water (from high tide).

You can try to pull a high tide line out of the imagery but I'm telling you it is correct. Those cars are about ten feet above (vertical) the ocean. The high tide line is in front of them. A quick check of the tide chart also shows that it was near high tide when the image was taken