Next task: making sure all the Wilderness areas are included in the NF areas. (I'm not sure why someone decided that they should be separate!) I've already done it for Oregon and Washington.

Ah yes, now I remember: we've been using "boundary=national_park" because boundary=protected_area doesn't get rendered at all! (Which is the same reason I tag Wildernesses as leisure=nature_reserve.)

As we speak, I'm working on standardizing all the tags on the western NFs.

I personally didn't set them as boundary=national_park; I just changed them to multipolygons, which they definitely should be.

As to what value should be assigned to the "boundary" tag, that seems to be up for debate. (See: osm.wiki/WikiProject_United_States_Public_Lands.) "National Forests" in the U.S. have the same legal status as "National Parks" in some other countries. I don't have a strong opinion either way.

I re-checked it; the Wild Sky boundary DOES in fact cut across a swath of non-public land. (By the way, those angular overlapping rectangles are usually mining claims.)

Yeah, that's a weird spot, and it's all intentional. The boundaries for the Morning Star NRCA and MB-S NF are definitely correct, but I need to double-check and see if the Wild Sky Wilderness is really supposed to include part of that private land there. That IS what the BLM's maps show, but I'll look again.

I did fix many (but not all, yet) boundaries of Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The individual items don't have a protect_class, but the parent relation does. (Your shared file doesn't work; it's password-protected!)

According to NHD, the real Tamarack Creek is actually a mile northeast of Camp Baldwin... although the camp may also give that name to the officially unnamed creek that runs through the camp. (The real Wolf Run Ditch feeds that creek.)

I already expanded it to cover 2S 11E 0 300; that's the bit they lease from the Forest Service. I don't think we need to distinguish between "new" and "old" though; they own all of it. Looks like the "lake" on Ramsey Creek is now mostly just a swamp.

What would you change? I did some research and found that they do lease the 40-acre square below the dam from the USFS... but I'm pretty sure the rest is correct, unless they also use some of the land to the east owned by Kenneth Thomas. (See: http://wasco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=f24046bfb0eb4ffcb3d11fd612b4c39b)

I checked it on the Wasco County assessor's site. Of course, it's possible that they use some of the adjacent USFS land as if it's part of the camp.

I did add "Salmon River Highway" as an alt_name tag on the bypass. But let's leave "No. 39" out of it, since it's really only for internal ODOT use.

I interpret that sign to mean "this way TO the Salmon River Highway." No one typically refers to it by that name until west of McMinnville. (And "Salmon River Highway No. 39" is an ODOT designation that is unknown to the general public, and putting it on the map would just be confusing; see https://highway.odot.state.or.us/cf/highwayreports/road_parms.cfm)

FYI, I just double-checked ALL reservoirs in southern BC and didn't find any others that should have been covered. (But I did find a few that clearly don't exist anymore, and one node that I turned into a way.)

It wasn't "automated," but it wasn't discussed either. I just took all of the objects that had been tagged as landuse=reservoir and added water=reservoir, because as I understand it that's the preferred scheme now.

Yes, I suppose this could create problems with untagged covered reservoirs, but isn't that a pretty small number of objects?

It doesn't really matter to me. I just re-split the two Deschutes River (big and Little) in logical places and also used the river(s) as municipal boundaries in a couple spots (changeset/62538422).

Don't worry, I was just using GE as a drawing tool to trace my own GPS data. :)

Oopsie-daisy. That happens sometimes when I draw something in Google Earth. Fixed.

I didn't do the whole west coast... but I made some modifications to the PCT, and it extends all the way down through California.

Yeah, I'm trying to stay on top of it. Just now, I added the actual lava flows based on the USGS thermal maps, and I put gaps in the streets where lava is on the road.

From what I've seen around here, both of them are frequently are used for hiking trails; I chose "Foot Path" because it's not open to other modes of transportation. But I see in the wiki that highway=path is probably a better choice.