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59882511 over 7 years ago

There are two problems with what you've added here:

First, you've drawn the building outline over two different structures, presumably a house and a garage. If you're having trouble seeing things in the background imagery, try switching to a different background with the "background settings" tab on the right (the one that looks sort of like three stacked sheets of paper). In the Kalispell area, the default "Bing" option looks like it's the newest, while "Esri World Imagery (Clarity) Beta" appears to be the sharpest (but somewhat older). If you're having trouble getting your corners square, draw them reasonably close to accurate, then highlight the building and hit "S" to square them up.

Second, the name "Best Parents House" is unverifiable: no other mapper can come along and tell if it's correct or not. Please only add things to the map if they can be verified.

I've fixed both these problems here, but it's something to keep in mind for the future. Happy mapping!

59854021 over 7 years ago

It's probably what OpenStreetMap considers a "track".

To tag the road, start editing, and highlight a section of the road you created. Enter "track" into the search field on the left, and it should bring up "Unmaintained Track Road" as one of the options. Click on that to apply it to the road segment. Repeat for each of the other road segments, and then save your changes.

59854021 over 7 years ago

Did you forget to tag what sort of road this is?

59826519 over 7 years ago

Did something go wrong with your edit here? A boundary_type of "border_type" doesn't strike me as correct.

59686232 over 7 years ago

If these have the usual "Authorized and emergency vehicles only" sign, the correct tagging is "access=no, emergency=yes". Tagging them as "access=permissive" means that anyone can use them, and routing software will tell people to make U-turns across them when they miss their exit.

59514082 over 7 years ago

A quick tip: when you're working in Spokane County, Esri World Imagery is generally the best option. Bing and DigitalGlobe Standard are usually a bit newer, and Esri Clarity usually has better contrast, but Esri World Imagery is far sharper than any of them, and almost always better aligned.

59446437 over 7 years ago

Two important things to notice about "North North Lane":

First, the name ends in "Lane". This is a nearly-infalliable way to identify privately-owned roads in Spokane County. As such, "officially a road" is meaningless -- the property owner can freely make changes to the road, and if government maps still show the old routing, that just means they haven't been updated.

Second, if you look at recent high-resolution imagery, the road's been cut at both ends. This is very much an abandoned road, and I've re-tagged it as such.

59446672 over 7 years ago

Um, that map you're citing as a source is over a century old. If "Dragoon" ever existed as more than a named railroad stop, it doesn't today.

59414886 over 7 years ago

I think you shouldn't be relying on WSDOT for road classification -- they make mistakes from time to time. Spokane County classifies it as "Local" (ie. the lowest importance class), and on-the-ground observations support that.

A quick look at the WSDOT map for Spokane shows five places where they call something a "collector" or "arterial" when it isn't, at least one place where they're missing a collector, and a number of places where I feel they've inflated the classification of the road. There are also a few places where the map is clearly out of date.

To give a specific example where all three errors are present, WSDOT calls Indiana from Belt to Adams a major collector, Adams from Indiana to Northwest a major collector, and Indiana from Adams to Northwest isn't on their map. In actuality, the through route follows Indiana all the way from Belt to Northwest, is a very minor route seeing only a few hundred cars a day, and Adams is simply a residential side street.

59412062 over 7 years ago

Did you know that your business will be much easier to find if you tag it as a "car dealership" rather than merely as an address point?

45608038 over 7 years ago

And here we see the hazards of using sans-serif fonts. That was a capital 'i' in the street name, not a lowercase 'L'.

59191333 over 7 years ago

I'm pretty sure Hill Airport still exists. The service road a bit to the west of the airport marker is a bit wider than normal for a farm access road, but it perfectly matches the FAA's description of the Hill Airport runway (mixed concrete and gravel, 1680 feet long, bearing 20 degrees magnetic.

59132761 over 7 years ago

You appear to have encountered a bit of terminology confusion here. OSM uses "dock" for the area of water the ship goes in, and "pier" for the thing you tie the ship to. I've fixed this up, but it's something to keep in mind in the future.

59069700 over 7 years ago

I've reverted your changing of County Road 250 to a service road. Service roads don't normally extend for 15 miles, providing significant local access.

58939541 over 7 years ago

I think you've got a short-circuit in the roundabout: someone going from westbound Kennedy Road to northbound Webber Canyon Road won't get "take the first exit from the roundabout" in their driving directions.

58860523 over 7 years ago

If you're going to be adjusting road geometry in Spokane County, please use the "Esri World Imagery" option. It's newer, sharper, and better-aligned than the Bing imagery.

58812863 over 7 years ago

The 1100 west block of Park Place is somewhat to the southwest of where you added this. I've moved your business to my best guess for the correct location.

58801524 over 7 years ago

If the businesses are no longer in operation, you should also remove the business-type tagging. Right now, the former Spirit and Food Mart will show up on the map as an unnamed gas station and convenience store.

58713478 over 7 years ago

The correct way to indicate that a golf course is private is to add the "access=private" tag, not to change what sort of thing it's tagged as.

58635477 over 7 years ago

Welcome to OSM! A few suggestions for better mapping:

First, you can change the background imagery using the "Background settings" tab (the one that looks a little like three stacked sheets of paper). In the Spokane area, the "Esri World Imagery" option is far sharper than the default Bing imagery.

Second, there's a shortcut for making your building corners look good: trace the building more-or-less correctly, then hit the "S" key to square the corners up.

Third living streets are virtually unheard-of in the United States -- they're pretty much a purely European concept. The road into the Parkside Apartments is better tagged as a "driveway".

And fourth, don't add made-up things to the map for the purpose of attracting Pokemon. It just annoys those of us who work on keeping the map accurate. There are plenty of real things you can map instead.

Happy mapping!