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111470020

Nice work on getting R open. Are you familiar with the East Coast Greenway? I believe the new cycletrack carries it and I've updated the route but if you could doublecheck on the ground, that'd be awesome. I'm talking about the area around where S Capitol St SW has been realigned SW of the Nationals Park.

48050928

Awesome, thanks for you public service to the bicycling community! I should have said (in my original comment) that I didn't recognize these routes, not edits, sorry! I see them in the source you provided though and respect local knowledge over anything I could dig up anyhow.

My angle is trying to streamline the bicycle route network in the area and I'd wondered if any of these could possibly be moved on to the adjacent protected lanes in certain cases (like on Campus Drive.)

111843560

Hey there, There are some edits to bicycle infrastructure in this changeset that are non-standard and should be adjusted. I'm a huge cyclist and advocate, so I'm all about bike edits but it should follow the best practices outline in the wiki and elsewhere. PeopleForBikes has a great explainer for all this here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1isc9M9_c-QL4Oy8_MxAyogZ6ocs1F6PeEn_Y1p0WZp8/edit

The main issue here is that bike lanes that not physically separated should not be tagged as independent cycleway ways. The only time you should add a separate cycleway is for an off street path (like in a park) that is a cycleway, or a protected bicycle lane. Protected, in the US, tends to mean parked cars or bollards separating the lane. Otherwise, the cycleway tags are added directly to the roadway.

48050928

Hi there. What was the Bike Maryland source for these LCN adds around College Park? I am a Bike Maryland member and do not recognize these edits. The link given does not resolve to any particular source.

105553713

Hey there, this is super cool work! But by using the Bing imagery here everything is shifted a great deal. Would you considered moving things with the Maryland latest imagery instead? The Maryland imagery is adjusted for local distortion unlike Bing.

PS: User_5359, I think they moved those tags to the larger rock cut areas.

89113247

Hi there. While I agree that there is no safe place to walk along 355 here, the roadways is not prohibited to pedestrians, just merely unsafe. The foot=no tag should only be used if there is a sign prohibited pedestrians by law, such as on the entrance to an interstate. In this case, you could tag that there is no shoulder and no sidewalk, but not prohibit foot traffic.

112099357

This changeset has been reverted in full in changeset/112229801

You cannot simply delete everything in an area and say sorry. The address nodes deleted were imported with full community agreement, as were the parking lots surveyed. It is fine to update something if it is wrong, but not to delete everything en masse. This affects users of the data as whole streets had been removed.

29819061

Just a note on trunk updates. Trunk assumes bike and foot = no in some jurisdictions. When upping something to Trunk and if those non-car modes are allowed, update the access accordingly.

97263017

Sounds good. I have a tracking spreadsheet of all the cities and places in the state to track if they've been done. This work is helpful to that end. Let me know if you'd like a link to it.

97263017

Sparks, if you're updating these admin boundaries, would you mind updating the Source tag on ones you've already fixed? I add the same source tag to the boundary and the relation: Maryland Department of Planning 2019-08-02 via https://data.imap.maryland.gov/datasets/maryland-political-boundaries-municipal-boundaries

111698981

I can take a look, these census boundaries are often wonky.

105165335

Same rule applies for the natural surface trails at Woodbrook:

Hi there, in OSM a cycleway is generally a paved, urban path dedicated exclusively to bicycles. Natural surface trails like this should not be tagged as a cycleway, they should be tagged as a path. You can update bicycle (and foot) to yes or no according to signs on the ground. Occasionally you'll see a trail that does not allow bikes, so you'd add bicycle=no there. This is all detailed here: highway=cycleway

Also, be aware that for routing purposes, bicycle=yes is assumed for highway=path as is foot=yes. Cheers!

53278761

Hi there, in OSM a cycleway is generally a paved, urban path dedicated exclusively to bicycles. Natural surface trails like this should not be tagged as a cycleway, they should be tagged as a path. You can update bicycle (and foot) to yes or no according to signs on the ground. Occasionally you'll see a trail that does not allow bikes, so you'd add bicycle=no there. This is all detailed here: highway=cycleway

Also, be aware that for routing purposes, bicycle=yes is assumed for highway=path as is foot=yes. Cheers!

104061353

Looks like another throwaway account used to intentionally damage the map. With no response or activity in 5 months, I've rolled this one back changeset/111943578

One of the changes to a park indicates a high likelihood this is yet another "landuse mapper" that disagrees with American landuse standards.

99344563

Hey there! By local convention, people tend to add woods trails paths as highway=path, while a footway is thought of more as a sidewalk sort of thing. This is, of course, a subject of great debate but I wouldn't bother swapping the tag without really improving the data beyond that. I work for the landowner of these trails and we tag them as paths per our guidelines. There is a new Trails workgroup forming to look at standards like this for a national standard. Get involved here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdL3x0PtM8N0G2AzrRC7QcMCM5SWl70-5iPXwPJh0_8wH9djQ/viewform

108895521

Hey, if it is a legal boundary that is fine and pretty common when the boundary was added after something was already there. For the CDP boundaries they don't really matter and shouldn't really cut off homes. Ideally they'd be snapped to roads or streams.

104254150

And, if I updated it to trunk (I forget) apologies, no shade meant. I suggest you make it trunk up to Salisbury either way :)

104254150

What was the issue? It looks like you've updated it all to trunk, right? According to the (still work in progress) guideline, trunk should connect two regional cities of importance when an interstate freeway is not available. In this case I would extent the Trunk designation all the way up to Salisbury. The physical characteristics of the road don't matter, though the dualized part could be tagged as a motorroad=yes

111547232

Some years ago I did a cool run where I ran the length of Cabin John from Clara Barton up towards North Bethesda. That was so fun! Are there some other SVPs with a trail that runs up the spine?

111547232

Nice work here. The more tedious effort is merging them, which I am doing via JOSM as I can.