Haha, yes. I've been working on this area in OHM, so the old nonexistent railroads will just need to find a home there.
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Hi SINY_King.

I saw you requested your changeset to be reviewed. Welcome to OSM! Here are two main tips for editing buildings in NYC:

1. Buildings are typically aligned with ESRI imagery, not Bing. This has been the local standard after a big import of buildings in 2013. You can change your imagery source or offset using the Background Settings panel on the right side of the iD editor interface.

2. When adding new buildings, to make all the right-angle corners cleaner, it is recommended to square the feature by pressing Q while the building is selected.

I don't see any changes comments yet that elaborate on this change. Have you spoken at all with the local community about this beforehand? (This borough/town designation seems to be a recurring issue from what I've heard.)

It's also best not to publish a large-scale change like this merely for making a label render better on OSM Carto.

Try to consider the following.
osm.wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer

That'd be nice to do sometime for here as a type=boundary, but it wouldn't be as simple as a tag swap. Over 80% of this area's ways would need to be redrawn to include the non-residential parts of the neighborhood on the periphery that are omitted
Ideally such a boundary aught to be drawn as a relation bounded by the island coastline, Nassau Place, Bethel Ave, and Page Ave. That may be my homework project, breaking this big egg to make an omelette.
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Tagging the entire neighborhood (minus certain parks and shopping centers on the periphery) as a residential area is also highly misleading, as there are many additional non-residential areas within this polygon, including schools, parks, and the large commercial district along Amboy Road. Adding multi polygon holes in this residential area for these dozens of exceptions would then imply that these non-residential areas aren't in "Tottenville".

Overall, it's better to have no data than this highly generalized and inaccurate data, especially when preexisting neighborhood nodes, building types, and POI nodes do a much better job at indicating where Tottenville is and which parts of it are residential.
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Glad you ask! This large polygon was added by an amateur (now inactive) mapper many years ago and is riddled with verification issues and syntactical inconsistencies with the rest of the surrounding area. I've done my best to work around this feature over the years, but it's become clear that there's no real utility left to this feature.

The area was originally drawn to denote the location of the neighborhood of Tottenville, but all other New York neighborhoods since follow a system of simply using a node to mark the general center of a neighborhood, as there often is a slight grey area as to where each neighborhood officially cuts off.
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Thanks for catching that. I was just hyper-focused on converting name=* tags to description=* for those objects.

Thanks for addressing this.

I added some access=no tags just to be safe with routers. Also did some contextual micromapping of fences and walls to make it extra obvious that these objects aren't accessible.

Hi wilfisher,

If possible, would you be able to restore a few of the ways removed in this changeset? Although they are abandoned and not for vehicle access, the overpasses on Richmond Ave and Arthur Kill Rd are still physically present.

Old OSM objects in context:
https://imgur.com/a/qYMKaxq

Physical overpass structures (now used as art exhibits):
https://imgur.com/a/f3TGLT5

I understand. This just seems like a strange use of alt_name when the physical signage (at Osborne & Woods of Arden), school website, and NYCDOE registry all list the school's name as one title with both the number and the dedication name.
https://www.ps55.org
https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/R055

Although the full name seems excessive and wordy, the short_name tags provide proper context as to how the schools are referred to colloquially (P.S. XX) without needing to shorten the regular name tag.

I'm all on board for using alt_name for roadway segments with memorial name dedications, but at least here in Staten Island, numbered public schools having a "full" name with dedication to a person/neighborhood is the norm, not the exception.
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Makes sense that a few 2 digits numbers ended up getting reused. Can definitely confirm that THIS location is 55, since I have a friend who teaches here and calls it "P.S. 55".

The alt_name situation is a bit complicated. I feel it might be inconsistent to put the name dedication under that tag since there is usually official NYCDOE signage that would say "Public School [Number] The [Name/Neighborhood] School" or just "Public School [Number] - [Name]. DOE websites also use this nomenclature as the school's "full" name. I have been reserving alt_name for schools that have additional signage that refers to the school a different way, usually with a notably different word order, such as :
way/1014952230/history
way/34988445/history
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Good question. I just walked there a few days ago. Considering the paving stone surface and lack of guard rails along the rocky shoreline, I wouldn't consider this to be a great path for cycling like changeset/16570005 implies. I'd favor changing the Esplanade to a footpath.
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Hi Yuliya. Don't worry about deleting landuse areas that have been modified by me since they were added by Lyft.
I added names to several retail areas that I have been able to validate as a local.

My bad! I split it into four separate sport pitches but didn't notice the tag.
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Thanks for the help!

Just leaving a comment here in case any other changeset comments arise.

I'll confirm when I go to Hoboken next week. It's likely a vacant storefront currently.

Hello!
I removed the four orphaned node you mentioned. Sometimes these occur due to a glitch in the iD editor when up-loading. Thank you for finding them.
changeset/119083317

Thanks for reaching out! With only two countries left that use waterway=riverbank in some capacity, hopefully the tag is deprecated soon in newer versions of JOSM.

Here's the ticket for more info: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/21630

Good question. I'm fairly confident this call box is still functioning given that its wire connection to the telephone pole seems to be intact and maintained. I live in this neighborhood, so I've walked by it fairly often. I obviously won't test the thing by pulling the alarm handle, but I'll reach out to the local fire department and see if they know something the residents here don't about the call boxes.
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Thanks for improving the terrain mapping on Hoffman Island. Only one small issue I have is with the pier names. Values like "Ruin", "Ruins", "Ruined", and "Pier In Ruin" don't seem official or appropriate to be tagged as the name of these features.