#saveyourchangesbeforemovingfromcanadatoethiopia #remembertotagyourobjects

"Service" is almost never the correct classification for a miles-long road: it's intended for things like driveways, alleys, and the occasional road up a hill to an antenna.

From what I can see of NFDR 313 in the aerial imagery, it looks like it's a mix of unclassified, track, possibly some trails, and road that simply doesn't exist.

I've re-tagged the shooting range using standard tags, so it'll show up on maps. Does it have a name?

Thanks for your contributions.

A couple of tips for improving your work:

1) After you've traced a building or other man-made feature, you can square up the corners by highlighting it and hitting the "S" key. It's hard to draw a perfectly-square corner; this is an easy way to solve the problem.

2) You can switch between background imagery by clicking the "Background settings" tab (the thing that looks a little like three stacked sheets of paper). In the Walla Walla area, I think the "DigitalGlobe Standard" imagery is the newest, the "Esri World" imagery is the sharpest but oldest, and the default Bing imagery is a balance between the two. I don't know which has the best alignment.

In case you haven't noticed, you can change which imagery you're using by clicking on the "Background settings" button in the editor (the icon that looks a little like three stacked sheets of paper). In Spokane County, for example, the "Esri World Imagery" is far sharper than the default Bing imagery.

I don't know where you got a speed limit of 45 from, but the sign said "35" when I drove through there this evening. I've reverted the change.

When did they raise the speed limit on Magnesium? It was 35 when I drove through there last December.

Thanks for your contributions.

Please don't use abbreviations in names. A computer can easily abbreviate words if it needs to save space, but it's impossible to automatically go the other direction. For example, is "st" an abbreviation for "state", "street", or "saint"?

A quick editing tip: if you click the "Background Settings" button on the side of the editor (the one with the icon that looks sort of like three stacked sheets of paper), you can switch to "Esri World Imagery", which is much sharper in Spokane County than the default Bing imagery.

I noticed you used the Bing imagery for this changeset. When you're editing in Spokane County, the ESRI imagery is *far* sharper than Bing, and usually better-aligned.

Why did you delete the traffic camera here? Has it been removed?

In addition to whatever you were trying to do in Tanzania, you dragged a couple of nodes in Portland. Please be more careful in the future.

Please be careful not to join buildings to sidewalks or roads, as you did in this changeset. Some routing software interprets "building on a path" literally, and assumes the building is blocking the path.

Thanks for the addition to the map.

Right now, you've got the entire facility marked as being a single building. Is there a particular building, possibly the big one in the middle, that's the actual office?

Sounds good to me.

Which imagery did you use when adjusting the cliffs? Not all aerial photographs are created equal, and when tracing something with abrupt changes in height like this, it's critical that you use images with good orthorectification.

I've reverted this changeset. Yes, the current mapping throws up all sorts of automated QA errors, but fixing it properly involves an afternoon of hiking up and down the hillside to see how the trail network is adapting to the road and road-removal efforts.

Why do you think this street is residential? It has an elevated speed limit, right-of-way over traffic on cross streets, is classified by the city as an arterial, and in general is How You Get Places in that part of town. In short, it looks an awful lot like a tertiary road.

Does Go Map!! have a way of adding "building=yes" or similar when you're adding the name? Doing that would make it obvious that adding a standalone name wasn't a mistake.

This bridge is straight. It only appears bent in the imagery because of bad orthorectification.