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54668694 about 8 years ago

iD has a built-in function for squaring up the corners of an object to the nearest 45-degree angle: either hit the "S" key or right-click and select "Square" from the menu that appears. I don't know how you'd use either of them on a tablet, though.

54690272 about 8 years ago

You don't need to put descriptions such as "home" in the "name" field -- it's obvious that a building is a house because it's tagged as such.

54646841 about 8 years ago

Is Dart-Lo a public park, or a private youth camp? (I'm not sure how you'd tag the latter, but calling it a "park" would be misleading.)

54646943 about 8 years ago

In case you haven't already noticed it, the "Esri World Imagery" for Spokane County is far sharper than the default Bing imagery -- it's detailed enough that it should show things like the cemetery fence.

54504023 about 8 years ago

In case you haven't noticed, you can change the background imagery you're using by clicking on the "background settings" tab (the one that looks vaguely like three stacked sheets of paper). In Spokane County, the "Esri World Imagery" option is much sharper and better-aligned than the default Bing imagery.

54442093 about 8 years ago

Okay, thanks for the confirmation.

54442093 about 8 years ago

Thanks for the addition!

In my experience, actual speed limits on offramps are rare. Is this one a legal limit (a white sign), or an advisory speed limit (a yellow sign)? It makes a difference in how they should be marked on the map.

54352878 about 8 years ago

A useful technique I've found for mapping apartment complexes and other groups of related buildings is to draw an area around the entire complex, tag it with the appropriate land use (such as "Residential Area"), and put the name on that. It saves cluttering up the map with dozens of identically-named buildings.

54351357 about 8 years ago

It looks like you did what's called a "node drag" here, where you accidentally grabbed part of an object and pulled it across the map. I've fixed it, but it's something to watch out for when you're editing.

54350557 about 8 years ago

Welcome to OSM!

A quick tip for getting good-looking buildings: you can trace the approximate outline, then hit "S" to square up the corners. It sure beats trying to do it by hand.

54252403 about 8 years ago

Thanks for your additions.

Spiral roads like you drew in the southern parking lot here are far from the best way to do things. Routing software tends to be rather literal-minded, and will give people directions to drive around in circles. Instead, you should draw parking aisles as a series of lines or boxes, and make sure that roads are connected (there's a grey dot) wherever they cross.

54244593 about 8 years ago

Thanks for the updates.

A quick tip: this sort of short access road is usually better tagged as a "Driveway" or "Service road", rather than as a "Minor/Unclassified" or "Residential" road.

54207246 about 8 years ago

I'm not sure what you were trying to do here, but you re-named a section of a street as "Chelan Public Utility District".

I've undone the change, but please be more careful in the future.

54131353 about 8 years ago

Thanks for the help improving the mapping of rural areas.

In the future, when you save your changes, could you include a descriptive comment? For example, this could reasonably be described as "Improve road alignment".

54084579 about 8 years ago

Please don't put descriptions such as "unoccupied" into name fields. It causes no end of confusion to computers.

54074247 about 8 years ago

Are you sure this isn't an airport? Aerial imagery shows a very runway-like structure going north-south and a taxiway-looking structure heading off to the northeast to a group of hangar-like sheds. Additionally, the FAA records state that there are 14 general-aviation aircraft based out of an "Ox Meadows Airport" in that location.

54049622 about 8 years ago

Is the "Payday Loans" business you added an actual bank, or would it be more accurate to tag it as a "Money Lender" (shop=money_lender)?

53823358 about 8 years ago

Thanks for your additions.

For future reference, it's best if you save your changes before moving to edit in a new area. An edit like this will show up in the map history for anyone looking at the west coast of the United States or a large part of the Pacific Ocean, even though it only actually affects two small areas.

53754232 about 8 years ago

I've deleted this and your other edits. Please don't map things that don't actually have a physical presence.

53750733 about 8 years ago

Please be careful with your editing -- you removed the Knoxville city limits with this change.