Hello, and welcome to OSM!

Please note that opening hours must be input in a specific format. Using a standardized format allows your hours to be displayed properly across all maps. It would be much appreciated if you do not keep reverting other mappers attempting to correct this mistake.

opening%20hours=*?uselang=en

No boots on the ground anymore - I graduated a few years ago, but I still know the area like the back of my hand. I learned OSM by mapping BU, so I like to come back and further improve this area from time to time.

Thanks for the quick response! This wasn't urgent, so you didn't need to prioritize this over your other projects. I just happened to notice the Pharmacy Campus hasn't even been mapped yet.

I'll leave the nature preserves out of it for now to keep things simple. There's maybe an argument to add Nuthatch Hollow in the future though, as it's closed to the public and only used for research. I believe there's plans to one day open it for general recreation, not that those plans are moving very fast though.

I just noticed the other 2 BU campuses aren't included within the university's boundaries. Would adding them together into a relation mess with the new boundary=census tag? Should the Nature Preserve and Nuthatch Hollow also be added? It might also be worth separating the Innovative Technologies Complex (the part east of Murray Hill Road) from the main campus while we're at it.

I recently redownloaded Slack, still getting a feel for it. I don't think I can be much help in NYC either as I scarcely find myself that far east, and even less often do I drive there. I'm mostly familiar with northern Jersey, Greater Binghamton, and the highways in between them. But I think those areas alone have more than enough things to improve to keep me busy for quite a while. Once I get a bit more comfortable with classifications, hopefully I'll be able to lend more of a hand. Thanks for those resources!

I see, they did a bunch of road reclassifications in the Binghamton area this year. When I was looking into it, all I found was 2017 data. Parts of Vestal Parkway were ACC=2 as well, so it made some more sense in regards to your last point.
https://www.dot.ny.gov/gisapps/functional-class-maps

Thanks for the clarification! I've been looking into the rabbit hole of correcting road classifications, so I've been trying to learn as much about it first. NY moving to use ACC should make things way simpler - NJ is looking like an absolute disaster to fix. While these highways feel way more important than, say, Main Street, I'm not going to argue with whoever's job is to classify these. I suppose that's what the additional expressway tag is for.

NY 201 is listed as ACC=2/12 Principal Arterial Expressway though, wouldn't that correspond to trunk? Actually, going off the highway tagging section of the NYS wiki page, it might even fall into the motorway category due to complete controlled access. Same thing for the Brandywine Highway. Good catch though on adding the missing expressway=yes to a whole bunch of roads in the area.

I think you are on the right path, especially since the name= tag is primarily used for whatever name is found on the sign, and that isn't the case (at least until you reach Livingston). But the Mount Pleasant name does seem to be used in some official capacity still. Pulling up the Morris County tax maps at https://morrisgisapps.co.morris.nj.us/apps/morris-tax-maps/ and, for example, we can view Parsippany-Troy Hills Sheet 28 or 28.01 and see the two names concurrent. There are other name tags for more specific scenarios, the wiki has a chart explaining them all
name=* . I'm thinking either official_name= or alt_name= would be a much better fit.

On a not so related note, I'm also looking at how Route 10's classification suddenly changes from trunk to primary at I-287. OSM highway classification is a bit weird from a US standpoint, as it's based off the UK system. I was thinking of asking a more experienced local mapper about that, and I can also get an extra opinion on which name tag (if any) would best fit.

Hey there, thanks for all the help mapping this area lately!

I think this changeset brings up an interesting issue with Route 10. Mount Pleasant Avenue was the name for the road before the highway was built, and some towns still state the 2 names concurrently. In Whippany and East Hanover where the highway partially doesn't follow the original route, OSM had two Mt. Pleasants running parallel. I think it's correct to remove the name from these sections, but Parsippany's tax maps confirm we should readd the name back to Rt 10 at least there.

I was wondering if you'd come across some other information which led you to remove the name. I know the name isn't on many of the street signs, so I don't blame you for removing it.

Best Regards,
ScantLeopard336

Hey there. I noticed this changeset seems to be for the San Diego area, but you accidentally removed the highway tags from a road in New Jersey. I hope you don't mind that I quickly fixed that for you.

Best Regards,
ScantLeopard336

The old Tiger import strikes again...

I noticed you've had a great eye for finding these mistakes hiding in plain sight lately. I appreciate all the help!

Hi there, and welcome to OSM!

I've had to revert your changesets, as they deleted several roads through the area due to removing the highway= or aeroway= tags from ways. This also made other roads inaccessible if someone was looking for directions, as the roads they were connected to were no longer tagged as roads. Additionally it appeared you may have left some personal information on the map, so the revert deleted that to help protect your privacy.

If you have any questions, feel free to reply in this discussion. I can assist you in mapping what you were trying to work on.

Happy Mapping,
ScantLeopard336

Are you familiar with NJDOT's Straight Line Diagrams for state maintained roads? They have speed limits and some other useful info. The speed limits on the SLD for Ridgedale Ave are wrong... but that's a different issue.

NJDOT also makes their own streetview for some of these roads too, which has pretty decent image quality. I'm pretty sure they're both open data that we're allowed to use, but don't quote me on that.

That's unfortunate, I heard the park was a cool hidden gem and was looking to visit it eventually. Though the heatmap shows the entrance is off Kanouse Place, so maybe it was just mapped incorrectly at some point.

Anyway, thanks for keeping an eye out for map errors around the area. There's still a lot of errors hiding, buildings to be mapped, and much more, so I appreciate whatever you can do to improve the area.

Hey there, and welcome to OSM! I was just wondering why you deleted the walking trails from Wrensch Park. According to the Strava Heatmap, there's some sort of trail through the park that is not visible from satellite.

Happy Mapping,
Scant

No, reverting an edit would count as a second edit and make a second large changeset, plus there's no reason to revert if your changes were improvements. We all made mistakes when starting out, so it's no big deal.

Thank you for your contributions, and happy mapping!

Welcome to OSM! The history tab shows all recent edits made to the map within view. Since you made edits on opposite sides of the world without saving in between, your changeset covers parts of North America, Central America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. In the future, mappers would appreciate if you save more frequently to break up the changesets into smaller areas, about the size of a few towns or smaller to start off with. Once you save, you can edit anywhere else without disturbing the global community.

Hey there, and welcome back to OSM!

Does the dirt road still exist running behind the locked gate? If so, I think it would be best to map that separately from Monroe Street as an unmaintained track road (highway=track). In that case, I'd also add the tag access=no to indicate that there's no public access on that road as well as add a node with barrier=gate to indicate where the locked gate is.

Best Regards,
ScantLeopard

I have read the wiki definition of leisure=park several times and am aware it differs from the western US definition of a park. With that said, several places that had the park tag removed like Riker Hill Art Park, the Essex County Environmental Center and Essex Golf Center within West Essex Park, and the central part of Becker Park I feel fall within the "human-sculpted landscape" requirement for the park tag. What is your recommendation to improve the tags for these?

@wireguy Thanks for the heads up on the lacrosse field. I didn't recognize them, so I kept the tag generic.

For mapping baseball fields, I typically follow the baseline and outfield fence when I can, which certainly looks weird for this field. Should I keep it along the fence, or shorten it to an arbitrary spot in the outfield?