I've reverted the changes to place classification. A change this big requires a broader discussion with the mapping community in NYC.

changeset/169696928

I've reverted the changes to place classification. A change this big requires a broader discussion with the mapping community in NYC.

changeset/169696928

I've reverted the changes to place classification. A change this big requires a broader discussion with the mapping community in NYC.

changeset/169696928

I've reverted the changes to place classification. A change this big requires a broader discussion with the mapping community in NYC.

changeset/169696928

I've reverted the changes to place classification. A change this big requires a broader discussion with the mapping community in NYC.

changeset/169696928

I've reverted the changes to place classification. A change this big requires a broader discussion with the mapping community in NYC.

changeset/169696928

I've reverted the changes to place classification. A change this big requires a broader discussion with the mapping community in NYC.

changeset/169696928

I've reverted the changes to place classification. A change this big requires a broader discussion with the mapping community in NYC.

changeset/169696928

I've reverted the changes to place classification. A change this big requires a broader discussion with the mapping community in NYC.

changeset/169696928

I've reverted the changes to place classification. A change this big requires a broader discussion with the mapping community in NYC.

changeset/169696928

Hi X86355, and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

This appears to be a revert of changeset/157648697. When we revert others' mapping work, it's important to notify the original mapper via changeset comment. Otherwise, we end up with edit wars, and the reverted work may end up being reinstated.

Hi there! Happy to see a fellow Hoosier on here.

I see that a few roadways have had the cardinal directions in their names abbreviated. On OSM, we typically don't use abbreviations for this sort of thing, or else navigation apps might tell people to "turn right on East Nine Hundred Ess". Shouldn't they have kept the full spelling?

Hi, Clifford. I hadn't heard about this tag being deprecated. I had been using railway=facility for years, not for any real semantic purposes, but to discourage other mappers from using another invalid value of railway=*, in this case railway=station. A public_transport=stop_area relation should not have railway=station, especially if one of its members is already tagged that way.

In case it wasn't clear, the names that have been changed here are "E Navigation Street" and "W Navigation Street". These should remain unabbreviated.

Hi there 👋

I noticed that some streets were changed here so that the cardinal directions in the names are now abbreviated. On OSM, we generally avoid abbreviations in names (see [1]) - otherwise, text-to-speech engines wouldn't be able to distinguish between a cardinal direction and a literal letter (like "Avenue E"). Could you please return these to their unabbreviated forms?

[1] osm.wiki/Abbreviations

My bad, thanks for pointing it out. Reverted here: changeset/165441674

I only noticed this because railmap.gl was picking up on the different name, ignoring operator:wikidata. It doesn't matter to me which one, but IMO we should choose one name or the other and tag everything accordingly.

Hi there 👋

I saw that the operator was changed from "Conrail Shared Assets Operations" to "Consolidated Rail Corporation". Conrail has not existed under that name since 1999, and the remainder of its lines that weren't sold off to other companies are now part of CSAO, a joint subsidiary of NS and CSX. Shouldn't CSAO be the operator here?

Hi Whitney,

I saw that park-and-ride attributes were removed from the Fifth Ward / Denver Harbor Transit Center last year in this changeset [1], but re-added in this changeset. Houston METRO's website lists it as a park-and-ride [2], with a measly 24 uncovered spaces. It looks like this refers to the parking lot one block north of the bus station.

What is METRO's stance on this parking lot? Do they intend to have this bus station show up as a park-and-ride in their trip planner?

Clay

[1] changeset/143746621

[2] https://www.ridemetro.org/riding-metro/accessing-metro/by-car

Sorry for the confusion. I admit that the guidelines are unclear about solitary mappers working on behalf of an organization. As someone who falls into this category more or less, I'm not obligated to follow them, but I still feel like the guidelines are intended for people like me, so I follow them in good faith. In the interest of transparency, I would recommend you follow them as well, or at the very least, share some details in your account bio about who you're working for and why.

I've started a forum discussion about the ambiguity in the guidelines here:
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/organised-editing-guidelines-are-unclear-about-lone-organizational-mappers/125272