OSM is a place to map things the way they are in real life. It seems like you're setting every building (houses, restaurants etc) into offices? Your work on golf courses is welcome but please be careful not to undo the accurate work of other mappers surrounding the golf course.
If you tell me /why/ you are making them offices, I may be able to help you achieve your goals without being destructive.
It would be helpful if you responded to show that you've received this message.
Thank you.
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The first one I noticed was Scarborough, which exists in OSM but seems to be just the Oak Hill (central) part of town. I found a data source I trust (from the state) for boundary data, but I wasn't sure how best to proceed. I had questions like "should I delete the existing and start from scratch, or try to fix it" and "should the points along the boundary be shared with physical features or should I create all new points". Can you give me some quick background.
How did you spot the problem with Cape? What was your data source for the boundary?
How long did it take you to fix it?
Are you a local?
How did you fix it (the short version please)?

This conversation could maybe move to slack (my preference) if you use it (https://slack.openstreetmap.us/ #local-maine), or https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us-maine or OSM messages.

It looks like you may have been trying to add sidewalks? I see you made similar changes elsewhere. I don't think adding a highway_1 breaks anything but you might find this helpful: sidewalk=*
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This looks a little odd. What about this building (with businesses in it) is recreational_ground? For reference: landuse=recreation_ground
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Thanks for adding the Cape Boundary! I've found a bunch of Maine municipal boundaries which are wrong or missing but I don't feel confident fixing them. Would you consider collaborating on such an effort?
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Oh, I just found more of the same further north. I really should look at the whole thing before I comment at all.

Oh, same with way/11445996 and way/284176053
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I'm starting to pay attention to state roads now. You put "ref=15" on WAY: 11445969 and WAY: 11440222, I think we want "ref=ME 15"
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More detail: The shape of Way202713416 was changed which is boundary=national_park, which is an outer member of "Acadia National Park" Relation2176999. I was mistaken about Bar Harbor's municipal boundary, it wasn't changed in this changeset.
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Ouch, this one messed up a city boundary and a national park. I don't think I can fix this. If anyone else finds it, please take a stab at it.
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Hey Kent,

I watched your video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYa4ODgo-Bc where you demonstrate mapping golf courses in OSM and this is one of the changes you made in that video. It might be easier to view your change here: https://osmcha.org/changesets/82734831/
That's a 10 mile road that you changed into a golf cart path while advised others to do similar.

OSM is a public resource used for many things, including navigating of vehicles. Removing a road from the map has a serious impact to people in the real world.

Other mappers have been making similar changes (hard to tell if it is a result of your video or not).

Please Don't:
- Don't change roads into golf cart paths (A safer alternative is to add a new golf cart path along the side of the road)
- Don't label neighboring residential buildings as offices (make a house a house)

Could you please:
- Point me to the tool that consumes this data, so I can recommend changes to make those two practices unnecessary.
- Ask if you have questions (Either here, or there is a #golf channel in https://slack.openstreetmap.us/ which could benefit from your presence)
- Put a comment under your youtube video with those two "please don't" corrections

Thank you,
-Alex

Nice work with golf courses in OSM. I'm curious why all the buildings you add are marked with office=yes? They just look like houses to me.
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Note to self: next time, break up the changeset into smaller geographical areas. My apologies to anyone that comes across this.
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Please don't mark houses as offices. fixed in 85836979
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These are not offices
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These are houses, not offices.
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These are not offices, they are houses. If you tell me what you're trying to do, I might be able to help you achieve that without putting fake things on the map which will get undone.
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It looks like you're shifting everything south. I bet that the imagery you're using isn't aligned correctly. Please ask if you want help aligning your imagery.
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You marked all the houses as offices. I'm curious why? They are definitely not offices.
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Nice golf course! A few curiosities, I hope feedback is welcome. It looks like you've duplicated a road as a cart path (but it's definitely a road), maybe there is a way to say that golf carts go on this road? You've marked all the houses as offices (maybe you did some copy paste?). All the buildings are lumpy, there is a button to 'square' buildings'.

I've fixed much of this in changeset/85833287
Please ask if you have questions.
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