That's a little besides the point. I approached this reasonably, he took it completely sideways. Normally I wouldn't go publish emails, but again, this was an extreme circumstance. Nobody should treat other people the way Mr. Baldwin treated me with an amicable conversation. If you can deal with an unmitigated asshole any better, join the clergy: They need more good people.

I don't think professional PR does any better job. Go ask Yahoo how their freedom of information lawsuit is going.

I offered to help, he flew off the handle. I'm not sure it's unethical to let the world know about highly unstable people.

Really, I provided constructive criticism. If that's the way Mr. Baldwin is going to roll with it, then really, the public ought to know what kind of monster he really is. But, if he's gonna demonstrate that he's got a touch of the bipolar disorder, then that needs to be public for the safety of the rest of us (particularly his neighbors).

I disagree. If this is how this person interacts with the general public, he deserves to burn for it.

It's Black Rock City, NV. The birthplace of the online virtual world Second Life and about as close to SL as you're going to get in real life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man

Tag the bollard points as bollards, and tag the bollards and the way they protect with their daytime restrictions, with hour_on and hour_off (and similar tags) as appropriate. The wiki leads the way!

Wait, are you sure you're not getting Potlatch and JOSM backwards? Potlatch has very, very few visual cues compared to JOSM, which at times, is visual overload.

Might want to put it on OpenStreetBugs if you do not have enough info to fix it yourself.

Another update, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_69_in_Kentucky#Federal_Legislation_Designating_Parkways_as_I-69 appears to suggest that it is indeed a proposed extension of I69 if you dig into the sources. The ref that is given in Wikipedia does not match the legislation cited.

I would remove the ref= tags from the underlying way and create a relation for the proposed extensions as "state=proposed" on the relations. Note that the existing I69 relations and the relations for the proposed extensions cannot be the same, yet. Once the extensions become official, signed parts of I69, then the proposed members can be moved to the I69 relations.

Zooming out farther, it appears "I-X69" is an "extension" of I69. If it's signed as I69, I'd join it as part of that relation, but this might be a "paper interstate," that is, an Interstate that only exists in US DOT documents for funding purposes. Another example of a paper interstate would be the "IA1" through "IA4" which are not signed as Interstates, and in most cases are actually broad gravel roads (and not motorways)! As such, you'll only see trailblazers for these four Interstate highways on Wikipedia; the signage you would see along these routes are mostly for the Alaska state highway system.

Three Interstates exist in Puerto Rico as well, though these are all signed as Puerto Rican Autopistas.

Be sure to mark this on OpenStreetBugs, too, if you don't have enough information to make the edit yourself. I don't know the region myself, but as far as I'm aware, the only letters in Interstate designations are I35W and I35E.

However, I am aware of some truly rural, desert-roasted guidance in Eastern Oregon that still refers to "I80N" instead of "I84". In an effort to remain consistency with the rest of the world map, it's best to avoid hyphens and spaces in references.

Looking around that area, I also see numbered county and state roads listed as names... these should probably be refs of some sort instead of names, with county roads being tertiary by default.

What is I-X69? Shouldn't this be I69 and some modifier instead?

Definitely start with the most obvious features first, like the primary, secondary and tertiary grids and well-known landmarks. Then start down the residential stuff. Then go for addresses, postboxes, smaller landmarks, etc.

Are you using Tilecache for that or something else? Also, I'm leaving Salem next month for Portland, and I'm honestly not sure I'd return save to see folks I know down here or to go sit in on a session at the capitol now and then. Kind of sucks everyone in this city's divorced with kids, working three jobs and doesn't have time for you...

Did you ask Google if you could make a derivative work of their map data? If not, please stop pirating Google's map; you're probably doing more harm than good.

Changes are applied immediately, but it can take a few hours to a couple weeks for edits to make it to all the various renderings and teardowns of the map data.

Must...not...make...deposed Nigerian cartographer...joke...

GPS uses UTC, which doesn't deal with obsolete concepts such as daylight savings time at all.

Convince Google to do the right thing and close Mapmaker.

I'm wondering if the Terrain layer could use the OpenCycleMap render since it has very good elevation data and being able to see bike routes within the google maps view would be handy in many cities.