Hi there, thanks for being such a great OSM contributor! Remember, if a footway is parallel with and next to a street, it's probably a sidewalk and the road should be tagged with sidewalk=separate.
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Thanks! Yeah I picked a slightly more recent changeset to comment on as I was going thru various local editors and their contributions.

Please avoid making edits that span half the world whenever possible. Thanks!

Hi Jrpear! As part of my Sonoma County Building/Address Import, I'm updating some building shapes based on county data. Since you created many of the buildings in this area, I wanted to check with you before uploading those changes. You can preview them in JOSM by opening the sample-1007.osm file here:

https://github.com/zyphlar/sonoma-import/tree/latest_data/reference

Hi Nianticgarbage! As part of my Sonoma County Building/Address Import, I'm updating some building shapes based on county data. Since you created many of the buildings in this area, I wanted to check with you before uploading those changes. You can preview them in JOSM by opening the sample-1007.osm file here:

https://github.com/zyphlar/sonoma-import/tree/latest_data/reference

Hi TaniyaS! As part of my Sonoma County Building/Address Import, I'm updating some building shapes based on county data. Since you created many of the buildings in this area, I wanted to check with you before uploading those changes. You can preview them in JOSM by opening the sample-1007.osm file here:

https://github.com/zyphlar/sonoma-import/tree/latest_data/reference

*the mall to the South, SR Plaza

Hiya! It was an interesting concept but ultimately I think data consumers aren't really ready for it: even if it were super relevant (like if a certain floor of a parking garage were critical information, such as when each floor is connected to different businesses in a mall or you need to be on a certain floor in order to drive to another area) your GPS app will likely be unable to tell how high up you are, and likely be unable to distinguish which loop you're on, and have poor satellite reception, so simply tagging either the ground or topmost level is probably the best way to go for the near future.

Main exception I can imagine to that would be situations like the mall to the West where you really want to map the fact that some parking garage ways are bridges over a larger road, but again it's hard to think of a time when a routing engine would actually send you that way intentionally and correctly.

Hi there, thanks for your contribution! FYI the Source tag belongs on your changeset, not the map item (fencing academy) itself. Otherwise looks good and thanks again!

Please keep your changesets confined to a reasonable geographical area. When you edit a medical office in Vancouver and a bar in the Bahamas, it looks like you edited the entire continental United States, thousands of people get notified of your change, and our tools start to choke when anyone tries to review what you did.

Heya! It's a good idea to mark the historic tag on the thing which is historic, not necessarily the address POI floating above it. If they all refer to the same thing, like a single historical building, you could merge the address tags into the building and add the historical tag to the building as well. Then we get rich data about not only where this historical object is but what sort of historical thing it is!
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Feel free to combine multiple edits into one changeset as long as they're in a sane geographical area. And you're doing well enough you probably don't need to request review for every change, maybe just ones you're real unsure of. Good work!
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Looking good! This data is actually useful for the county, someone approached me awhile ago about mapping all backyard water sources like pools and tanks, for fire trucks to reference during wildfires.
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Looks good to me! When you get into footpaths that run alongside a road like a sidewalk, look into the sidewalk tagging page on the Wiki. There's a number of design choices you can make but I often like to cut to the chase and just add the sidewalk tag to most roads instead of separately mapping them... until you get into dense urban areas like courthouse square where it's more walkable and complex.

Either way, if you do draw footpaths separately, just make sure they connect back to something else routable like a road so they're usable by walking directions.
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Thanks for adding this road! I already changed it from a residential to a service road since it seemed these roads wouldn't have names and the buildings would all take the address of the main road up front, but if that's wrong please do correct me.
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Thanks for requesting review of this parking lot contribution! It looks perfect to me, the only way you could improve it is by adding the type, usually a "surface" lot as opposed to a garage, and surface, usually asphalt. If you're feeling really generous you can add how many spaces there are, whether it's open to the public, and whether it costs money or not. But there's nothing wrong with how it is!
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Thanks for contributing this road and requesting review! FYI residential roads are roads that have names and are generally flush with the rest of the road grid. I updated this road to be a service road because it seems to just be the path cars take through the parking lot and the houses behind it all take the address of the main road. Check the Wiki for road tagging especially in parking lots, it can be confusing at first.
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Oops I also forgot, you added a park and set its street name as "santero way" but we don't have a nearby street named that and we capitalize street names. Could you edit the park street tag and check where Santero Way actually is and update the map? I assume it's the newly constructed street that goes through this development? Thanks again!
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Hi Goatku, thanks for your great contributions and for joining Sonoma County Openstreetmap!

Thank you for tagging these generic buildings as carports, and even going so far as to note their capacity. The only issue with this changeset is that the addresses put on the carports were duplicates of each other. It wasn't clear if any building on this property would actually get the address 771 without a unit number, so I just removed the address tags. (Sorry I didn't realize you'd added them, you caught this just in between us importing the buildings and me reviewing them so I didn't realize it wasn't our import mistake!)

Anyway, as long as address tags aren't duplicated it looks like you're doing a great job. Thanks again.
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Looks great, and as before the address most properly belongs to the church, not the parking lot. We just completed a countywide address import, so >90% of all addresses should already exist. Because of where we got the data from, inside SR City limits addresses will usually be points floating on their own, and outside they will often be attached to a building. Regardless, there should always be one object for each unique address, and it's a judgment call whether you make that a point or copy it over to the whole building or both. A house or civic building for example probably doesn't need a separate address point floating around, whereas a strip mall should probably have each unit tagged with its own POI.

Anyway, that's a long winded way of saying welcome again to Sonoma County OSM and the only improvement here would be removing the address on things whose address is already tagged elsewhere.
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