I guess this means they'll be adding some footways to their actual maps too. Can't believe they'd throw enough manpower at the problem to achieve a decent level of coverage though.

There's a JOSM/Plugins list on the wiki, but even better there's a page about this GPS unit. You should definitely document your plugin there : osm.wiki/Columbus_V-900

Good tip. I always forget about the 'use thin lines at all levels' Potlatch option. I normally use JOSM though. Let me know if there's anything unclear about the JOSM Wmsplugin installation instructions. It is a bit fiddly. I'd like to make sure the description of installation steps is as clear as possible.

Good to meet you week. Come along to the next meet-up in Kilburn!

Ah yes. Bar Story. So are you free for a mapping party on Tuesday 19th if I arrange it there?

randomjunk: yeah where is that documented? I vaguely remember a mention of it somewhere.

Tom Chance: You live there? got a pub recommendation? Yeah Landuse is a bit of a funny problem. We need a coherent strategy for drawing landuse in somewhere like London, plus deciding how this fits with building outlines. I guess a lot of it can be done quite quickly from Yahoo and vague local knowledge if we only decide what the plan is. I listed these issues on the Central London wiki page

yeah that aswell :-)

You're arguing points which have been argued many times before. That's OK. Various people will debate the ins and outs of copyright law with you quite happily, and you can state your interpretations (interpretations which may or may not be correct / stand up in a court of law) but none of that really matters because...

That's not the way we build maps for OpenStreetMap. We do not use any copyrighted sources of information no matter how indirectly. We don't trace over them. We don't take measurements or pinpoint coordinates on them. We don't use them to find missing mapping progress. We don't even look at them whilst working on our maps.

Anyone who does these things is damaging the integrity of our open licensed data. Anyone who states publicly that they do these things, and that other might follow their example, is doing even more damage.

It's fine to have discussions about copyright law, and how it applies to our mapping techniques. This might even yield some new data sources or techniques that in the end we all agree we can use. Reading signs in google street view might end up being an example of that (although is this discussion still just based on a casual remark from Ed Parsons on twitter?) but for the time being this all just discussion. Please don't put into practice, or make statements about it being fine to do so.

Not entirely sure what you're saying, but it seem's like a good Spanish summary

"tomar datos y....... despues unas cervecitas".

Get some data... later some beers.

Exactly!

"Hyper Hyper"? Erm. In a manner of speaking yes. Although I have been more hyper hyper on previous meet-ups

See also Known problems and this mailing list about relations

This is a known problem

There are a few issues around relations. Some relation tagging bugs were fixed on the API side late last night, but Potlatch still has problems displaying them.

Xapi runs one an separate external server and consumes osmosis diffs to synch it's database. 80n set this up using some freaky closed-source 'high-performance schemaless database'.

I could have shown it on this diagram, but then there's lots of things I could have shown on this diagram (I could should show the tile Postgres DB and osm2pgsql script as separate little boxes inside the tile server. I could show t@h clients connecting to the server. etc)

Correction. bigmap does include a 'Perl' link to download title stitching code, it just doesn't stitch tiles while you're using the interface itself. I just created the english wiki page : Bigmap

yes. we need to look at GetMap. Is it in SVN somewhere?

There's also a perl script somewhere which TomH created to powers the Export tab for generating Mapnik images (see export tab logic)

'bigmap.cgi' is a red herring. Although the interface is interesting, it's not actually stitching the tiles into a single image!

Hmmm. Keep thinking it's April already. Must be the weather. Let me fix that

Which week d'you mean exactly? My rough plan was Tuesday 17th March and Thursday 26th March, that's either side of (but not *too* close to) the API rollover weekend.

Then after, for the week before Easter weekend, I was thinking maybe Tuesday 7th April. Wed 8th there's a North Surrey meet-up.

I was intrigued to know what a pudding creek trestle looked like, so went hunting on flickr:

cc-nc-by-sa Glisglis on flickr

You're right of course. If it seemed like I was complaining about stuff being missing, that wasn't my intention. Shaun was telling me you live South of Liverpool, hence the spectacular progress on that side of the city!

I also spent new year in a place called Hellsby, nearby to the South of the Mersey. Quite a rural place. I was amazed to find there was bugger all mapping left to do there!

If you have suspicions about a particular user's contributions, follow the instructions here: FAQ#I think someone's been entering copyrighted data - how do we deal with that?

It does need to be dealt with carefully. We don't want to start making accusations willy nilly, but on the other hand (and this was the point Steve was making the other night) we need to take action swiftly to remove offending data in cases where it is clear-cut.

Well no we were actually a bit rubbish at figuring it out. Turned out the lat/lon was Earls court exhibition centre. There's an old wiki page called Tshirt competition. We should hold an actual competition some time, and do a print run of lots of them. Mind you I guess the SOTM T-shirt will be next on the agenda.

StRehm the Ulm map is looking pretty awesome.

Steve, the random pub meet-up after Liverpool Street will probably be North-East-ish I reckon. Need to decide still.