Is that this one? : WikiProject France/Cadastre/Import semi-automatique des bâtiments

Unfortunately we're not bristling with server resources at placr, otherwise it would be a good thing for us to be helping to host (transport related) There's always dev.openstreetmap.org? Going beyond a low powered VM should be possible somehow. We'll have to see what we can sort out.

But anyway, keep up your experimentation! There's appetite for this stuff.

like "Routing" you mean? There are a few existing routing websites/services. See the Routing page.

Hiya. This is your OpenStreetMap diary. Use it to make quick notes about what mapping you're doing, or as a more wordy blog. But it's not the right place to ask this kind of question. There are better contact channels for this, such as help.openstreetmap.org

Yeah I was reading on your blog. I remember quite a few occasions like that. After every project I would think "If only I'd started a little earlier before the deadline on that" ...and never learned the lesson :-)

@Richard. Cool. I spotted another weird data thing yesterday. Potlatch didn't load some long ways. I took a screenshot I could send you.

@alexz I didn't mean that bit of data. Maybe "boundary" was the wrong word. I was meaning the odd shaped boundary of the hi-res aerial imagery that bing has decided to provide at that location.

@Andy Allan - linked that here

@amm Cool. I hadn't seen either of those links. Was that OSM inspector layer was added recently? I guess Nick Roet's routing demo thing should be linked from the 'Front Page Design' discussion along with other 'feature' ideas... such as OpenStreetBugs integration.

@nmixter - Alrighty then. I shall install those apps! My tracks wiki page certainly needs work

Yeah I saw your redesigned sidebar. It looks nice.

I can make some of the changes you're suggesting, but not others. That's because I can edit the wiki page here: osm.wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar which controls some of the sidebar, but not all of it.

Other changes ('This wiki page' and 'wiki toolbox split') are only possible by changing the MediaWiki skin. Although it's easy enough to rearrange links within the skin code, it can potentially make it more difficult to apply updates to the wiki software. That's just a possible downside. In practice it may be do-able. I'd have to ask firefishy to do it (he has server access)

Another problem is that these things can hint at consistency with the front page design, and that's a whole other thorny discussion. But let's take it one step at a time.

I like the idea of changing "Main Page" to "Wiki homepage". We'd want to actually rename the page too, and this is more of an undertaking. I've proposed this change, to set things in motion here: osm.wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Rename_this_page

ha! well spotted :-) (fixed)

The radio waves bounce off buildings, particularly reflective glass fronted buildings. Things like this will cause your location to jump, as the GPS unit corrects itself later on. The device will tend to extrapolate a little bit from your previous movements, so guessing which direction you're going and how fast, all based on a fuzzy picture it builds up from signal timings it receives as input.

That's GPS for you. Sometimes you have to mix in a bit of guesswork, dead reckoning. Don't be assuming that you GPS trace is more accurate than anyone elses, but by the same token, don't be afraid to edit and add OpenStreetMap data even if you're a little unsure of the accuracy.

It's a shame we don't have any helicopter pilots involved in other countries (like the UK) It would be a good way to get a bit of cheeky aerial photography, but there's not much point strapping any cameras to your chopper. In the U.S. we're well served by Yahoo! imagery :-)

Hey CaptainKirk. Glad you found out about OpenStreetMap. Foreflight? Not heard of that app.

So you've correctly entered a node tagged with https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:aeroway=helipad. There's no need to tag it with an icon file or anything. You can see it showing up on the osmarender layer.

It looks like the default Mapnik renderer is not showing an icon for helipad at the moment :-( another example helipad

Even so the data you contributed there was correct, and we welcome your contribution! It may also be that this Foreflight app will be able to use the data.

Oopse. Fixed. That's funny because I kept reminding myself "his surname is Acrewoods not Chance", but no! also was forgetting to link to your blog post

Wikipedia is like OpenStreetMap but with pointless details.

Ah.. hmmm

If you upload a zip, "It will then be treated as one big gpx file (that is, only one entry in your trace list is created)." ( osm.wiki/Upload#Compressed_files ) That might be a good thing, if all the GPX files are of the same journey and there's logical reason to tag them separately.

Gah! So much for my original idea :-)

Update. Gregory's elephant map now includes a textual list: http://www.livingwithdragons.com/elephants/list

yeah it's an interesting discussion. From the StreetView outlines I've seen though, I'd say tracing fuzzy yahoo outlines would achieve better results in the city centre. Around Fleet St for example, it's mostly solid orange. Yahoo tracing followed by taking a look on the ground to clear up any confusions, seems to work well for me, and is actually quite fun (compare what you saw from the sky, with what you see at streetlevel, and puzzle through how it matches up) Of course yahoo is nowhere near UK-wide, and in less dense areas StreetView might be better, but I've heard reports of some pretty glaring inacurracies in the StreetView buildings. Anyway ...we'll discuss it, yes!

Yeah there's some new building outline patches sprouting in Surrey now: http://twitter.com/Chobhamonian/status/14148838844

Empty threats... and deleting whole rivers.

AndresFuentes you seem to joining in with spreading FUD, and yet you've been registered with OSM for a grand total of 6 days. Can I just point out that people have been slavishly working puzzling over the intricacies of the license change, for the past two years now. At some point it stops being "raising reasonable objections" and is just rude.