Hi Boopington,

Thanks for your edits! Just wanted to point out a correction :-) The segments, one of which was labeled Streets Run Branch, segments that you connected to each other were two separate railroads, although one starts on the map near where the other one ends. The Streets Run Branch was part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's lines in the area, while the other railroad was a streetcar/trolley on private (aka off-road) right-of-way, and merged into Mifflin Road at its northern end. They did not connect to each other, as far as I know, and were two different gauges (standard gauge aka 4'8.5" for Streets Run Branch, and 5'2.5" for the streetcar/trolley line).

Thank you for your edits and your care of the map! :-)

Hi @colgza, thank you so much for the response! :-)

By the way, I have surveyed these steps before, but that was a few years ago. Are these steps still usable, or are they now in a deteriorated state?

Hi,

These steps are public -- see https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/city-steps

Also, are you sure they are disused? Although the houses at the bottom seem abandoned, these steps can still provide a useful connection from the Junction Hollow valley and Oakland, and vice versa.

The reasons I make relations for ridges are as follows :-)

- For longer ridges which are discontinuous (separated by valley(s), for example) and marked by multiple ways, but share one name, and are considered part of the same ridge (and, when there is one, share a Wikipedia page), this enables the information on that ridge to be centered in one place.
- Occasionally, it can help show that multiple distinct ridges in one region which have the same name, are indeed different ridges, not to be confused with their like-named neighbor.
- I think some people add relations to objects so that they can have a more stable ID number, which can be referenced elsewhere (although the OSM wiki recommends adding the reference in OSM itself instead).

Even in the case where one, or many, of these reasons do not apply, I create a relation where information on the ridge can be entered, since in the future the way may be split or its neighbor may get a new name, etc.

No, i haven't field checked it. Will probably revert this and people can get better info. There was not very much data in the press release about PennDOT highways as compared to Turnpike highways.

I don't remember; I must have saw it, and just remebered when mapping it a little while afterwards that it was closed off; I did not map this from photographs, but from memory and articles like http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourmurrysville/yourmurrysvillemore/3953202-74/road-branthoover-close for example. So it is can be that this part is open, as far as I know.

reverted in changeset/33873759

(Checked http://www.freeportbridge.com/maps.html to verify)

Did a survey of some of the area a couple months ago. Modified the rest based on bing though, so probably most of it should be reverted.

Thank you :-)

It seems you set the width on Ohio River Trail in this changeset to 0. Is this an error, or does the trail not exist in real life yet, or is the trail actually infinitely narrow? :-)

Hi, this changeset somehow made Washington's Landing (way/156594761) into some streets which are somehow floating on water :-) The island itself is not shown any more.

Is this a rendering error, or a mismatch of the old to the new tagging system?

Blvd of Allies: sounds vaguely familiar; did not remember though. secondary sounds ok -- I was debating with myself whether it warrants being a primary.

Braddock: ok; sounds good to me. I know when the Sq Hill Tunnel was closed, they used north of the Parkway as an alternate route, and it generally gets a good bit of traffic, etc., therefore I primarilized it.

Fifth: made it primary there mainly because it is a "buddy" road to Forbes while passing through the university area, it is not really until after the Birmingham Brg that it becomes a lot smaller, but i suppose stopping at Blvd of Allies ramp makes sense , especially given that traffic-splitting thing by Robinson Street intersection (which shows priority there).

Ohara: was really unsure where to stop it; i guess stopping at Bigelow makes some sense. i think it is in shadyside where it (as Bayard) especially warrants secondary status, thats why i secondarized any of it in the 1st place.

Centre: yes, wanted to do that in the same commit all the way to town, along with Herron at least until the Bigelow intersection; figured I would leave it to be done another time though. can do it now though.

Murray: I suppose that makes sense; it is akin to Wightman north of Forbes, however there is no traffic light where it ends at Wilkins (as opposed to where Wightman meets Wilkins). But I suppose it could still be a tertiary at least to Northumberland, and even to its end (bikers use it a good bit, since it's one of the few flat roads in the area going in that general alignment).

Changing these right now :-)

Forget the above message, just found this :-)

changeset/21527289

Thanks!

Thank you for your edit. I think there may be a problem with some of the changes you made in this changeset in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the USA.. On Shady Avenue (267178665 and 54286661) you changed "5 short tons" to "5 t". However, the two are not equivalent; "5 t" is 5,000 kilograms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne), but "5 short tons" is 10,000 pounds. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton#Units_of_mass.2Fweight)

Therefore, per (maxweight=*#Imperial_unit_conversion), "<number> short tons" is not valid, however, "5 t" is not a correct conversion :-)

So the short tons have to be converted to tons, since they are not equivalent.

(It is true that 5 short tons is 4.535 metric tons, and therefore "5 short tons" rounds to "5 t"; however, this is a big (~250 kg) difference.)

Recently (as in last week or so) I have been adding the `lanes` count at least for the direction with the `turn:lanes`. However sometimes I don't remember or know the total lanecount, so I leave `lanes` empty and only fill out the directional `lanes:`.

Thanks for the heads-up! changed it.