<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I think that’s a mistake. In this area it’s probably the standard 100-foot buffer adjacent to the river that might qualify for a polygon (IMHO). I see something like that there, perhaps the person simply copied that over when creating the proposed housing development?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Andy</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jul 13, 2019, at 9:23 AM, Alan & Ruth Bragg <<a href="mailto:alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com" class="">alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Please take a look at this screenshot of typical reservoir_watershed polygons (red lines)<br class=""><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/rWWb22Syq5k3RPWh7" class="">https://photos.app.goo.gl/rWWb22Syq5k3RPWh7</a><br class="">What I see is a proposed housing development and plot plans.<br class=""><br class="">2,732 of all 2,740 landuse=reservoir_watershed polygons are in MA.<br class=""> There is one OSM wiki for the tag but it says nothing. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q17545<br class="">There is no system to maintain or validate the data. <br class="">Access to the land is unknown. <br class="">There is no way to identify the boundaries on the ground.<br class="">It's a spaghetti mess of lines making it hard to distinguish and map real objects. <br class="">Makes OSM less friendly for new users.<br class="">The imported data doesn't match current MassGIS L3 overlay in most cases.<br class="">There is no rendering that displays the data.<br class=""> All this data, and much more is available from MassGIS on the OLIVER site.http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/map_ol/oliver.php<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Talk-us-massachusetts mailing list<br class="">Talk-us-massachusetts@openstreetmap.org<br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us-massachusetts<br class=""></blockquote></span></font><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>