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169374658 6 months ago

Thanks! Adding the individual bus stops was good, too. I may be mistaken but I believe they each have unique IDs? The whole region needs a lot of work to add all the stops and update to PTv2 and fix routes...., that's a whole can of worms I'm trying not to think about yet 😅
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169374658 6 months ago

I haven't looked closely at everything, but I can say for sure deleting the University Station building (way/622162363) was wrong. As the tags noted, it has a grass roof. It's built into a hill, appearing at ground level from the bus loop (northwest side), but below ground from the university (southeast side) the building=yes you replaced it with is just the entryway into the station below. Please revert that change and restore the building
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167740805 7 months ago

Hi dball, welcome to OpenStreetMap! Thanks for contributing, so far your edits are really good, but I do have a couple things I want to make sure I mention

- Moving the building: If you switch through the different imagery layers, you'll notice they're all aligned slightly differently from each other. I've found that, despite the lower resolution, "NYSDOP Latest Orthoimagery (Natural Color)" is the closest to reality in this area, so I always try to align to that. Often I'll draw the shape on a higher-res layer like Bing, then switch to NYS Ortho for the final placement
- That being said, when everything in an area is all equally offset, it's better to align to that so everything is in the right place relative to its immediate surroundings. Also, which imagery layer is best will vary region by region, so often just lining up again the nearby mapping is the best and easiest option.
- Starbucks: All the tagging is correct. The only note I have is for opening hours, `;` semicolon is typically preferred as a rule separator (there is a meaningful difference between how they are interpreted), but in this case it doesn't make a difference, so either works, just a note for the future
- Taking a look at your intersecting building fixes: again, you're 95% of the way there. Most important thing, just make sure to press `Q` to sQuare the corners to exactly 90°
- Also on the second (most recent) one: notice how you can see the side of the building in the imagery. In that case, because it's at an angle, where you see the roof is not where the building really is. Just trace the roof as normal, then shift it down to the ground level, that's it. It'll look weird, but that fixes the problem of different-height buildings being more or less effected by that angle

Again, these are all relatively minor things. I dont want it to feel like I'm critiquing every little thing, you're off to a great start! (Those non-square buildings are certainly a lot better than the mess it was before!) I'm just sharing some notes to help make the map the best it can be. I want to see you keep contributing! Please don't be afraid to ask if you have any questions

153182134 over 1 year ago

(this was supposed to be two changesets, i just forgot to close the first for ungluing Walton Woods Park and the natural=wood from houses and paths before uploading the parking lots so merged them and overwrote the details instead)

141235928 over 2 years ago

Thanks for the great notes!

I didn't realize Mapbox was so old, I'll make sure to work off of NYS Ortho going forward

I did get JOSM Gridify already, I'm not that masochistic! I wouldn't make lots like this without it

Good suggestion with sources, I'll include that going forward too. So far all my edits in the area are mainly local knowledge, with extra details backed up by survey

Thanks again for the review!

Best,
Alex