I'm starting to upload traces taken from driving a goods van around Oklahoma and Arkansas. Using this to compare and contrast with aerial imagery will really help some pros on the road, since I'm sharing OSM with the other drivers at my company.

...anybody need a GIS tech?

osm.org/browse/changeset/7670923

All motorways in Oregon and Vancouver, WA have been explicitly tagged bicycle=yes or bicycle=no based on Oregon state law as published by ODOT (in Oregon) or local knowledge based on signage (to the best of my knowledge in Vancouver). The following locations in this area are tagged bicycle=no:

* I 5 from I 205 in Salmon Creek to OR 217 both ways.
* I 5 from South Medford to North Medford both ways.
* US 26 from the PGE Park exit to I 405 both ways.
* US 30 from 26th Avenue to I 405 both ways.
* I 84 from I 5 to 122nd Avenue eastbound.
* I 84 from Wood Village to I 5 westbound.
* I 205 from OR 43 to WA 14 both ways.
* I 405, entire length, both ways.

The rest of I 5 in Oregon (and the southbound approach to I 205 in Washington based on several "BICYCLES MUST USE I 205" sign on I 5) is posted bicycle=yes, as is the rest of I 84, I 82, and US 26. There are no freeway portions of US 30 that permit bicycles (as the only freeway portion of US 30 is the above mentioned section). WA 14 is tagged bicycle=yes due to lack of signage and having personally used that segment by bicycle without WSP getting involved, as was a small portion of WA 500. Motorway links connecting to segments closed to bicycles were also tagged bicycle=no, whereas links that connect to open sections were tagged bicycle=yes.

I also changed a couple sections that were improperly tagged as motorway to trunk based on local knowledge (part of US 97 and part of OR 22).

In addition to the source:url for that changeset, the actual OAR (Oregon Administrative Rule) is available at http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/BIKEPED/docs/freeway_ban.pdf

Mapdust in Oregon now only contains workable bugs, mostly in places requiring some TIGER cleanup.

osm.org/?lat=35.86&lon=-96.431&zoom=11&layers=M

I could be wrong...but I that just might be State Route 66 here...

I wonder how many people are keeping an eye on MapDust in the United States. The number of bugs has dramatically increased in the last few weeks, but it seems like I'm about the only person making any real progress (based on the number of bugs I can't reproduce or have resolved myself in the two states I'm following, relative to the number of open bugs). This is easily one of the best QA tools we have right now since we have human input (although a lot of human error) on what's getting reported.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/navigating-the-us-national-broadband-map.ars

The National Broadband Map shows where there's high speed internet coverage in the US. It uses OSM.

The remaining Missing streets, Roundabout issues, Missing speed infos, and Others on Mapdust in Oregon are ones I don't know how to fix or are going to take time to fix. I'll get to the other categories before long.

Got the vast majority of Mapdust bugs open in Oklahoma either resolved or closed as unreproducible over the weekend. There's still a few out there that are open, most of which have notes from the user at this point. The "missing streets" ones will be good for folks who have access to bing or other good imagery in their editor if someone else wants to help pitch in. The vast majority of open bugs left are in the Oklahoma City area.

...then who is the Encyclopedia Dramatica?

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=5829337&tt=s

Back in Tulsa and looking for work. While waiting for calls back, and some help from my roommate and USGS aerial photography, was able to get most of the cycleways that are a part of the INCOG LCN.

...who needs enemies?

http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/maps/archive/2010/08/02/bing-maps-adds-open-street-maps-layer.aspx

http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner/comment-page-1/

TriMet (the largest of the half-dozen Portland area transit agencies) is preparing to launch OpenTripPlanner. If you ride TriMet or pay property taxes in Metro, Oregon, this is your fare and tax dollars at work: Pat yourself on the back!

On my final night in Tulsa, I'm realizing that I need to move out here. I've discovered a lot about myself in the last six weeks mapping Tulsa and volunteering for the Byron T. Bear Foundation. I learned I'm Cherokee and am now working on getting Cherokee citizenship. The people here are friendly, and compared to Oregon, it's cheap to live and has low unemployment. Hopefully, I can return to Oklahoma soon for college. In the mean time, I'm going to miss this place.

Did quite a bit of map validation and squashed literally hundreds of errors TIGER imported. Oklahoma still needs a lot of help on the map, particularly with TIGER data, lakewalking the bajillion waterway nodes, filling in rivers, correcting turnpike attributes, and cleaning up after random one-off Potlatch novelty edits.

One issue that has come up that I can't quite figure out: How to tag boundaries of autonomous regions within a country? For example, most of the land "inside" Oklahoma is, for all intents and purposes, outside the US on Cherokee, Osage, Creek and various other Indian nation land. In such areas, federal and state authorities usually have no authority whatsoever (and if they do, it's generally minimal and under direct supervision of the tribal authorities). These regions issue their own license plates and passports, have their own governments and law, and are autonomous from the US and the state, and are generally recognized by NAFTA members as autonomous. How to tag?

For another project I'm working on (namely starting a detail map of Second Life), I'm curious if it's possible to get Google Map tiles as a WMS source, and if so, how?

Again, I won't be using this information for our map, but rather I'd like to improve upon the official Second Life maps so navigating by landmark doesn't absolutely depend on on-the-ground knowledge.

Is there not anything that can be done about these user-profile spammers? We have another one at @leatherwallet99

@Hotell%20Stockholm appears to be another spammer using the tactic of submitting something to digg and other link sharing sites directing to an OSM profile, which in turn has links to other pages. No edits, no diary entries.

An article that appeared today in the Mercury News.

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_14856802

"...the nonprofit community collaboration model behind OpenStreetMap, which shares all the cartographic data in its maps for free, is also changing the business of mapping, just as Wikipedia changed the business of reference."

@Forexaccount is clearly a spammer.

http://www.civicapps.org/about/data-policy

Is this compatible with our license?