Hi tylerchill, I'm wondering about the revised geometry of the Delancy/Pitt Street intersection. What imagery are you using for these changes?

FWIW, after a couple years of tweaking imagery alignment using several different GPS receivers, I've come to the conclusion that the best-aligned imagery in NYC is the "NYS Orthos Online" published by the state New York. It's usually the same actual photography as the ESRI imagery, but unfortunately at slightly lower resolution. Anyway, that's what these gardens were aligned to.

Howdy, I noticed you scootched Broadway a bit to the east... has the street been narrowed?

Hi Alyona and welcome to OSM!

This building was marked as having two addresses, 81 7th Avenue South and 22 Barrow Street. It looks like you removed those and you're trying to give it just one address, 18 Barrow Street. Is that correct?

Hi Hugoren Martinako, thanks for your work on the map. In the future it would be great to do these sorts of edits in smaller regions rather than spanning entire continents, because edits of this scope are difficult for software and other mappers to comprehend. Thanks, j

Hi Chuckles, haven't heard back. I've reverted some of the changes that I believe were in error, please reply if you'd like to discuss. J

16 minutes! On the ball, man!

My mistake, it looks like Bing has updated aerial imagery in this area with new tiles from 2019. Looks like the road is good, sorry to worry you!

Hi dinosaurjr, welcome to OSM!

I'm an active mapper in Brooklyn and I was the one who named this playground "Playground Three III". Admittedly this is a strange name but it is what was written on the official Parks Dept sign last I looked, and the general rule in OSM is to use officially signed names for points of interest on the map.

I added the more commonly used name "Third Street Playground" as an alternate name using the alt_name tag, so people searching for "Third Street Playground" should still be able to find it.

Has the sign on the playground changed?

Hi LennyPak, thanks for your revisions to the bike lanes. During this changeset you also moved this bike parking node node/2494254676 to the middle of Fulton Mall... I'm assuming that was a mistake?

Hi kevmath -- I don't believe the service road connection you made (between way/791609044 and way/5675018 ) exists anymore. It looks like it's blocked with a wall.

In most of NYC, the NYS Orthos Online aerial imagery is the best aligned and most up to date. The Mapbox Satellite imagery is also pretty recent, though poorly aligned. The Bing aerial imagery and Bing Streetside are generally several years old.

Hi Chuckles, welcome to OpenStreetMap! I'm reviewing this changeset as requested.

First off, I'd suggest in the future try to save your changes more often, so there are fewer updates to the map in a single changeset. This will make it easier for people looking at the changes to understand what's going on.

Also note that if a road is marked access=private, you don't need to explicitly add bicycle=private.

Two questions:
- Your change to the Greenpoint Ave bridge ( way/371929850 ) seems odd. There's a cycle lane visible on aerial imagery and the bridge tagged as cycleway=lane -- it can't be both cycleway=lane and bicycle=no. Has bicycle traffic really been restricted on this bridge?
- You deleted a lot of tracks at the end of JFK that are also clearly visible on aerial imagery. Have these tracks been destroyed?

Please let me know, and also feel free to get in touch if you have any other questions. Good luck and happy mapping, J

Hi sabok, thank you for your contributions.

In the future please try to break changesets like this -- which span a large geographic area containing several huge cities -- into separate changesets per local region. This will be easier for humans and quality control software to digest.

Happy mapping, j

Hi jordon -- Thanks for your continued interest in OSM in NYC.

I ask again that you please use the changeset comment box to describe what you're doing on the map, instead of putting in nonsense like "cool", "fun", "qwerty", and "12". OSM is a community project and informative changset comments are vital for letting the community know about the changes you're making. Otherwise it's hard to tell well-intentioned edits from vandalism.

Please contact me with any questions. J

Thanks for getting back to me. The general best practice with OSM is to tag things correctly, not to use incorrect tags to suit the needs of a particular piece of software. But maybe the OSM golf community has decided that's it's appropriate to tag clubhouses as office=yes? If so, it's not documented on the wiki ( leisure=golf_course ). The suggested tag there is golf=clubhouse.

I don't know much about golf, and I don't know what a spline is. But I have an inkling that the sand traps are probably near the end of the hole, not the start, so I think you've fixed the direction of the holes correctly.

What about the removal of the name "Dyker Beach Golf Course"? Is that intentional?

Hi jordan, welcome to OSM!

In this changeset, you've made some changes to the map that aren't based in reality -- namely, a Restoration Hardware shop the size of a whole city block over top of dozens of residential buildings. This is an error. I've already reverted this in changeset/83592268 so you don't need to try to fix it..

Please be aware that OSM is a *real* map of the *real* world, not a sandbox for experimenting. *PLEASE* do not save changes to the map that are not based in reality.

Also, please use the changeset comment box to describe what you're actually trying to do, so we can better understand when things go wrong.

Thanks, let me know if you have any question, j

You also seem to be tagging every building on the golf course as an office -- are all of these buildings really offices?

Hi preistizzle, welcome to OSM!

I noticed you removed the name from this golf course -- was that intentional? Based on https://www.dykerbeachgc.com it appears that "Dyker Beach Golf Course" is in fact the official name of the course.

Hi re812, thanks for your contributions here in Brooklyn. I have a couple of questions aout this changeset:
- You removed a residential building and replaced it with a park. Last I saw, that building is still there. Has it recently been demolished and replaced with a park?
- You added a courtyard between buildings and also tagged it as park. Probably it's one or the other?
- You assigned the address 277 Washington to both these parks. 277 Washington is a real address nearby, but does not apply to these things.

Let me know if you have any questions, happy to help.

J

Hi e pt -- can you describe your changes to the Kosciuszko Bridge? And in the future can you use a more descriptive changeset comment?

Thanks, jmapb