Hey, it looks like for that, I just converted the existing node from the original TIGER import into a way. I trust your research on this.

As a followup, I do appreciate where you're coming from and what you're trying to do. It is very reasonable, and it's something I've done a lot of myself. It's underappreciated work. However, we want to make sure no real data is being destroyed. Roads sometimes don't show up on LIDAR imagery due to any number of reasons. Since you are armchair mapping (which I do too in these areas), we don't have ground confirmation that the roads fully don't exist. That's why using the abandoned: prefix works so well: it doesn't destroy the data fully in case the road is still there in some form, but it hides the road from the map (and theoretically on all apps as well), and prevents it from being used for routing on every app I know of (Gaia/Trailforks/OrganicMaps/etc.).

I think you are misunderstanding. Roads tagged abandoned:highway=track/service/etc. do not show up on Gaia or Onyx. They don't show up on the OSM map either, not directly, and they are not used for routing.

It is the role of Strava/Trailforks/etc. to police how the trails are displayed on their maps. You should contact them about hiding private/informal trails on their basemaps, but removing them from the global OSM basemap represents a fundament misunderstanding of what OSM is. I encourage you to read the article linked.

Unfortunately, that does not mean you can delete them. They are accurate, but should be marked private. I am reverting all of your edits.

For both this changeset and the Darrington one, I think the right move might be to revert the deleted roads and retag them as abandoned. It accomplishes the same reasonable goal as nilloc29, but doesn't destroy data that might still be valid in some limited capacity, either now or in the future.

Please also see https://map.co.thurston.wa.us/vertigisstudio/web/?app=964be0c07359437bbd8ab7058716b670

Hello, your edit is incorrect. While it does not exist on their website, it is a state park property, as noted in the tags that were on it. Please refer to https://geo.wa.gov/datasets/3385b003af5248e59c1fa68e1411c446_2/explore?location=47.264943%2C-120.839651%2C6 which plainly shows it. Reverting.

Clearly your business isn't in the middle of an intersection. Reverting.

Cool, that works. I'll check in person eventually.

My guess is that the address data is stale since I imported that data over 6-7 years ago, so maybe the address nodes are in the wrong place now. Building A is much newer, or at least recently refreshed as of my visit last year. I'll try to ground truth it next time I'm in the area.

Hey, Black River Elementary/District Office is in Building A in this complex (already mapped slightly south. I checked late last year.

Sites do not have to be operational or accessible for them to be mapped. Reverting edit.

Issues corrected. Review as desired.

No worries! I think it's tagged correctly, maybe an issue on Tesla's side. It has the parking aisle tag and it has a max speed tag of 10 mph.

This broke the roads you changed; highway=service was correct. I reverted it.

This user is a vandal. All edits need to be reverted.

Hey, welcome to OSM. Just FYI, we can't use Google Maps as a source. That tends to get people pretty riled up around here.

Let me know if you have questions, I'm a local editor.

Changeset reverted.

Reported. Quit spamming.