Give things up to a week to settle down in your favorite renderer or data extract. osm.wiki/Map_Features also should give you some idea what features most renderers are aware of.

Potlatch's presets are pretty limited; JOSM is where it's at if you want a pretty complete set of tagging presets.

Which begs the question, do we really need this? The OSM community is already needlessly spread out and fractionalized by #osm, twitter, a zillion mailing lists, a useless web forum and wiki talk pages.

I noticed a lot of ways near those crescents are hooped around. Are those actually cul-de-sacs or mini-roundabouts? Both could be described in a single node, such as highway=turning_circle or highway=mini_roundabout respectively.

You are aware JOSM works on the Mac, right? It's Java, Java works everywhere. As far as the Yahoo WMS thing goes, there's something about that over on the wiki; though you should seriously consider finding a REAL WMS provider in your part of the world, since the Yahoo to WMS hack is wonky and unreliable at best.

I also send people who aren't familiar with editing and don't have the time to learn there.

Just to be clear: Wikipedia is the name of one specific wiki, but is not all wikis.

Your photos must have EXIF tags, IIRC...

When did Firefox change it's name to Internet Exporer?

Consider using JOSM; it's less prone to losing your work if you or the server unexpectedly go offline.

Right click on your GPX track layer, click Import Audio.

http://bicyclesafe.com/

Please don't drive a bike or trike on the sidewalk, you make yourself invisible to motorists turning at intersections and entering or leaving driveways, not to mention you put yourself at conflict with pedestrian traffic: The overwhelming majority of all bicycle wrecks could be prevented by not driving on the sidewalk.

All states consider bicycles as slow moving vehicles and provides legal provisions for safe operation on roads open to cyclists, rendering the practice of driving a bicycle on the sidewalk unnecessary, and many cities prohibit driving a bicycle on the sidewalk entirely (if not city-wide, within the downtown core).

Much safer methods for mapping routes that are relatively difficult or dangerous by bicycle, but do have sidewalks are better mapped by foot or car and should probably be tagged bicycle=destination to prevent routing algorithms from considering the way as anything more than a way of last resort for cyclists.

@amillar: The goal isn't to be free of stupid people, I know that's not possible. I'm just trying to rid myself of the dumbest, most self-centered and selfish on this planet.

I'm not looking for a blind wholesale replace, but rather something that I can look at and make sure that it's the proper thing to replace, first. I'm not asking for anything that isn't already done with every other search/replace feature on the planet.

JOSM does have a search function, but it's not a replace function. With a dataset even as small as Salem, that doesn't solve the problem when we're talking 1100 ways that have abbreviations needing replacement.

I'm not saying you should actively seek out and map driveways. I don't think anybody is here to make that claim. But why actively seek and destroy?

Why not leave 'em in as tracks and label them access=private?

Permissive is about the closest you can get...though I'm not sure I really trust wandering around any part of the world that catches on fire just because someone breathed on it wrong like the Angeles National Forest.

I'm also wondering what significance the ANF has to people outside LA (other than the constant hope that one of those fires burns the entire city down)...seems odd I throw good tax money to keep those idiots alive by having ANF under federal instead of state jurisdiction.

It's not unheard of. Seattle and Portland both have buildings that later had viaducts run over them. Portland International Airport is unique in that Airport Way actually runs directly through the main terminal building!

I know what you mean. I made the stupid move of travelling to Vancouver, BC for the purposes of inebriation and mapping the city from a tourist's propsective, and neglected to bring a coat. The weather? -5 to +5°C the entire time. I froze my nards off and ended up only mapping about 1100 kilometers of railroad instead.

This might be something that could be more useful for some areas than others. It would be interesting if an OpenWeatherService could integrate data from public sources required to diseminate this information without obligation (such as weather.gov), and supplement this information with data from third-party weather stations. This would be useful as some states, such as Oregon, have supplemental weather stations of particular interest to travellers (since most if not all of ODOTs weather stations are located on light posts or sign bridges located on highway medians or on the shoulder of the right of way (whichever is likely to give the most representative reading and is physically possible).

I'm interested to see where this goes.