Hi jonlits. I've linked this diary post from [osm.wiki/Alaska the Alaska wiki page] because you've posted some useful info, but there should probably be some of this copied over to there.

I take it that's the Glasgow pub meet-up you're talking about.

How's that going? Any photos? Had any luck attracting new people? Have you got some of these leaflets off Andy?

heh! I didn't bother learning how to do it for a long time. Relatively recently I discovered that the JOSM 'multipolygon' menu option does everything for you if you select the outer way and the inner "island". Easy!

So I do use it now occasionally, but mostly these, like many relations, are fiddly bit of intricate complexity which we could do without.

Speaking of which, somebody should update the wiki on this topic: JOSM/Linux#Debian page. I wrote some vague stuff there. Is someone on top of the situation with the packaged version of JOSM these days?

Hi Merimeri. Welcome to OpenStreetMap!

'stop editing' ? If you mean when you've draw several points and you want to stop draw more points in a way. using Potlatch 2 on the website. The answer to that is: Double-click on the final point, or press enter.

If you have other quick questions you need to ask while editing, it can work well to say hello in the chat room and ask you question there.

Kachkaev: Aha. ok. I've created a MapCraft wiki page now with your historical notes.

OliverG: Yep. You can create a .osm file using JOSM and upload it. I haven't actually tried doing this yet, but that didn't stop me documenting it on the wiki page :-)

Please feel free to make corrections. Guess we'll want a RU:MapCraft page too.

Looks good Emmertex!

I'm not sure which errors and warnings you're referring to. What tool are you using to see errors?

Awesome comment Milliams. It just goes to show, the OpenStreetMap community will always go out of their way to help and give feedback.

Looks good. Keep up the hiking trail mapping. We like that!

You can probably drop a little detail from some of your trails data. I don't know if you're converting directly from GPS traces somehow, but you've got some weird kinks in your footpath. here for example (Not rendering yet, but do '+' and tick 'data' view)

There's other stuff we could add from aerial imagery here. You came to a viewpoint here which I can see is actually a big cliff, visible in bing imagery. So you could draw that in as a https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural=cliff way (or I could for that matter)

boundary of the landuse=forest is obviously not matching the actual boundary of the forest. It chould probably be shifted using bing, to loop around the visibly forested area. This data has been imported from some government source "NYDEC"? by RussNelson, so maybe represents some government designated area of forest (in which case it could perhaps remain in the current place with a different park boundary tag of some sort) That's a little confusing for new mappers. RussNelson will know more about it.

This looks really cool guys!

routing like this?. Yeah why not do a restriction relation. No left turn. I don't think we have a rule about there being a sign in place.

@alexz. bank tube station is probably the best one for multiple entrances! (think they're all already mapped now)

@Tom Chance. It's a shame OSM Mapper isn't permalinkable. The top 20 source tags look like this (fingers crossed this HTML works):

As well as failing to take account of source tags on changeset, you can see there's a lot of semi-colon value separators to deal with too. But yeah quite a lot messy capitalization and other typing variations.

@Steve Chilton. Interesting. Maybe they spent 5 years mapping 45 years bickering about which tags to input into their 19th century map database :-) The process of mapping contour lines sounds like fun. Contour line mapping party??

Which one? We have four events listed on Thursday: Augsburg, Berlin, Roma, and Innsbruck!

Is Cute Bar on the map? I see Peluqueria Tu Salon near the location you pointed at there, but no cute bar. Were you trying to work out how to add it??

funnily enough that's kind of my fault. It looks like he's using my old OpenLayers simple example. I will message him with a fix. ...although I'm not sure if how keen he is to receive visitors to this site anyway!

Yeah I don't know why Nominatim thinks Euston road is in Hertfordshire. Classifying it as both Bloomsbury and Somers Town is a bit OTT too.

Today I came acros a nice tool to show the position of hi-res bing coverage based on the header dates, and it turns out Scotland is indeed a weird stripy pattern: http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=56.64082844285546&lon=-3.569754909594176&zoom=6

Hi there. Good to see some hiking stuff getting added around there. I was just wondering if we have any other sources which might help you. I think the out of copyright 7th series maps haven't been scanned yet for that area, but you can see the area on OS StreetView (also available as a 'Background' setting if you're editing the area in Potlatch 2) That suggests it's spelt "Bullochreg".

There's quite a few other online routing services based on OpenStreetMap not just MapQuest.

Long distance routing can throw up some interesting data problems. The Dublin to Shanghai route makes me wonder if this road should connect. No decent bing imagery there unfortunately. We need someone to actually go from Dublin to Shanghai!

OSM routing in the U.S. often throws up TIGER fixup problems.

Wrong side of the planet, otherwise I'd be there! But speaking of campuses. Check out this nice OSM powered interactive campus map: http://maps.rdms.udel.edu/map/index.php Some inspiration for you!