Hi, Noticed some changes you added to airports at the old Pungo Coast Guard radio station: way/417996332

Historic runways that are no longer maintained should not have the aeroway=runway tag applied.

see the Lifecycle section of the aeroway=runway wiki article:
aeroway=runway#Lifecycle

Welcome to the OSM project and happy mapping

The smaller area was drawn by hand from aerial imagery. showing the land that is disturbed from natural condition for the operation of the landfill. The larger area is likely the parcel bounds of the property, It could probably be argued either method is correct but they do appear to be duplicates.

why have you removed the relations for wetland areas? these help in organizing like-areas
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There currently is no good way to reflect the situation where there is a permanent water level and then a larger portion that is intermittent. So we can either do as i have done here and map them as two water bodies, OR we can map it as one larger intermittent water body. I still prefer my method (which I consulted with @ZeLonewolf before implementing). I guess another option would be to have a super-relation but that seems overkill and not a really good way to handle it.

In the end we may just have a difference of opinion on how best to map features like these.

restored in changeset: www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/107321430

I am reverting this changeset as the concerns that led to this reversion have been addressed in comment on changeset: www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/103117490

As you rightly pointed out I did not adequately list the source imagery for this changeset. It appears on review that the two imagerysets used were bing (for the full water level) and Virginia Imagery Service - Most Recent (for the low water level).

This feature is a holding basin for treated water from the Franklin pulp plant (I think currently owned by International Paper Co.)

The is treated and pumped here from their operations in Franklin, VA. Water accumulates until the winter when it is released into the Blackwater river not far from the Chowan junction. The reason it's held is it is extremely poor in oxygen and they wait until winter when dissolved oxygen is naturally higher in the rivers and it will have less ecological impact downstream.

I am reverting your deletion as I feel my original changeset more acurately reflects the reality on the ground. And I hope I have sufficiently answered your concerns.

Hi, I noticed you did a lot of changes in a large geographic area. In the future would it be possible to break these up into smaller changesets.

Also it seems you've removed leisure park from several relations that appear to be parks, is there a reason for this?
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Hi Omri,
The short answer is that 206660 and 1633328 were duplicate relations as they both described the same thing-- the Independent City of Fredericksburg (more on this later) and I did not create a new relation (1633328) It was already existing.

The long version is that Virginia has a weird way of dealing with "Cities" in the law. For all legal purposes they are a combined County and City (admin_level=6) in OSM boundary terms. In many places in the state they had been mapped as duplicated relations, one for admin_level=6 which is normally for county, and one for admin_level=8 which is for incorporated towns & cities. Duplicating them is incorrect in terms of OSM. -- One feature per item. The more correct practice is to map Independent cities as a boundary relation with boundary=administrative, admin_level=6, place=city and optionally border_type=city. Also if a city lies totally within the bounds of a surrounding county its borders should be added to the county's relation with role of inner.

If you have further questions regarding this changeset or others feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer.

Awesome changesets, please consider making your comments a little more descriptive, it gives a little more context with what might have been changed when scanning through changes to the map. Keep up the great work!
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This is inappropriate language for a changeset comment. Please do not weaponize the OSM data.
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doh!, didn't realize I uploaded that
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awesome fix. Question for you though, Why put zip_code on a street? it would seem that postal codes are properties of addresses not the streets (rural areas can be one zip on one side and another zip on the other)
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re: authoritative answers... there aren't really any, the following page summarizes some of the vagaries in the current system.
osm.wiki/Consolidation_footway_cycleway_path

I am by no means an absolute authority on the matter. My advice was more to steer you towards "mapping what is on the ground" rather than attempting to "map for the renderer"—Komoot in this case.
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please consider tagging the feature as accurately as possible, if it's a multiuse path, path is more correct than footway or cycleway with appropriate access tags for foot or bicycle, etc.

the use of the data by downstream data consumers should be addressed with the downstream app developers rather than changing the data in OSM to fit a particular data consumer.

keep up the good work, always good to see new mappers in the area
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Hi, This change caused multiple features to be deleted. For now I have reverted these changes, Please ensure that your edits to not unnecessarily delete features that still exist.
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please consider using an existing tag such as operator=Virginia Beach Public Schools rather than creating a one-off tag this will maintain consistency with the map tagging and allow you to query based on the school system
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please consider using an existing tag such as operator=Virginia Beach Public Schools rather than creating a one-off tag this will maintain consistency with the map tagging and allow you to query based on the school system
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PS, good work, and keep it up, always nice to have someone new helping to improve the quality of the map!
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in that case private is the correct semantics as I understand them. Private = only those with permission allowed. for things like government where only official staff are allowed, never general public, access=no
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