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In Firefox, create a bookmark with this location:

javascript:var%C2%A0s='%s'; url='http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/info.php?x=%s&y=%s&z=%s'; osm.wiki/Tag:t=''; qc=0; chunks=url.split('%s'); for(i=0; i');

and set the bookmark keyword to something like "tah". You can then go the location bar and enter "tah" followed by the x coordinate, y coordinate and zoom level of the Osmarender tile you're interested in. For example:

tah 1976 1327 12
sends you to
http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/info.php?x=1976&y=1327&z=12

Posted by Steve Hill on 21 April 2008 in English.

I've now mapped almost all the roads in the patch I have been working on, having done a stack more roads around the Ynstawe area. My Sunday afternoon stroll around the estate became unexpectedly long when I discovered the very pleasant footpath along the Clydach river and followed it all the way up to the Cwm Clydach nature reserve.

There are still quite a few little footpaths to do, but I probably won't do those at the moment - I think mapping the roads is a more productive use of time for now. However, I must walk along the Swansea Canal tow path at some point and map it. I've noticed that Google Maps gets it *completely* wrong, showing the canal joining the Clydach river - in reality the canal crosses the river as an aquaduct and continues a for few hundred metres South, whilst the river joins the Tawe just on the South-East side of the aquaduct.

I haven't quite worked out the best way to tag aquaducts though - setting waterway=aquaduct seems a bit silly since it doesn't let you specify the sort of waterway being carried (i.e. canal), so for now I have settled on bridge=yes instead.

Location: Clydach, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Posted by SuborbitalPigeon on 20 April 2008 in English.

Originally the A811 was in OSM as highway primary. I noticed that some signs on it were green, so I changed it to trunk. SpeedEvil confirmed its primary route status.

Today, I noticed a part of it was back as primary, so I sent a message to the last editor. I hadn't noticed the note tag expaining Transport Scotland no longer consider it as a primary route. Sorry about that.

Location: Gartocharn, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, G83 8RX, United Kingdom
Posted by POHB on 20 April 2008 in English.

Just got back from a week on the Rochdale Canal between Sowerby Bridge and Littleborough. Kept a GPS trace the whole way so I've been able to fill in missing sections. However, I also waymarked every bridge and lock that I went through and noted all the names and numbers, but these waypoints are not showing up in Potlach when I edit the GPX. Any ideas why? I though it might have been a lack of timestamps but I tried again to upload the GPX, having edited in timestamps for all the waypoints and it still isn't showing them. I'm sure I've got this to work before!

Posted by flschm on 20 April 2008 in English.

Nice weather today to continue mapping north of Karlsruhe - parts of Stutensee are still waiting to get completely mapped. So i started with the western part of Friedrichstal; this suburb should be almost complete now regarding the streets, POIs still need some work. Link to Track:
@flschm/traces/98452

Location: Friedrichstal, Stutensee, Landkreis Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

I just discovered that the Mac Mighty-Mouse can be configured to do the middle click in JOSM. JOSM needs the middle click to show way numbers. I can't find any other way to discover a way number in JOSM, but it is free software so I won't complain.

In the Mac OSX System Preferences keyboard & mouse panel, the Mighty Mouse scroll-ball can be changed to "Button 3". For me, this worked to get JOSM to display the middle-click info box.

Posted by oe7tkh on 20 April 2008 in English.

I used this sunny afternoon to mount a GPS receiver on my bicycle and started the first mapping attempts of Lustenau´s minor roads. There´s a lot of work to do, here and in the surroundings :)

... in german ...
Habe diesen sonnigen Nachmittag genutzt, das GPS aufs Rad montiert und die ersten Mappingversuche von Lustenau´s Nebenstraßen begonnen. Hier und in der Umgebung gibt es noch genug Arbeit :)

Posted by marinheiro on 20 April 2008 in English.

I've started a new job in Central London, so I'll be dropping mapping in the western parts of London Borough of Hounslow for a while and concentrating on the bits I cycle through on the way to work. That means the new Feltham town centre and the southern part of Bedfont are going to stay uncompleted for now, unless someone else wants to wants to take them on. Instead I'm now filling in the last blank part of Brentford and then going on to the bits of Chiswick which have been drawn from yahoo but not yet labelled and completed on the ground.

Posted by Tapio Kautto on 20 April 2008 in English.

I've mapped some streets and roads at my home village Villähde, as well as some streets and buildings in Lahti.

I know that the center of the town should be mapped first, but I couldn't resist myself adding some streets at western Lahti, because I've lived on that area before.

Mapping seems fun, this seems times a bit addictive, at least if you ask my wife ;)

Location: Central Lahti, Lahti, Lahti sub-region, Päijät-Häme, Mainland Finland, Finland
Posted by ianaf4you on 20 April 2008 in English.

Twice this weekend I cycled out to Ponsonby in Auckland and recorded street names. These I added to the map after tracing over the roads using JOSM and yahoo satellite images. I also put the ferry route in between Auckland and Gulf Harbour. Unfortunately I didn't have my GPS logger but the route was pretty simple so I think it is accurate enough.