There's lots of different types of "connecting" problems, so it's difficult to imagine what kind you're facing. Somewhere here in the potlatch primer are probably the answers you seek, but it can take a little patience to get the hang of editing when you're untangling and sorting out existing data. If you link to the map, in the area where you're stuck, we can give you some specific hints ...or fix it for you, although that's cheating :-)

The one or two tennis courts question is also discussed here

Yes it should always be leisure=pitch & sport=tennis. In fact "pitch" is the wrong word for tennis anyway, but it works out well to use the leisure=pitch tag, since this is then shared across many sports. Quite elegant I think. The tennis edit tracker is only looking for the sport=tennis tag, but if you find a tennis court that is missing the leisure=pitch tag, you should add it, and in fact it will pick up on that, since you're modifying an object which has the sport=tennis tag. ...although maybe I should only rank by 'create' operations.

I haven't really thought about grass, clay etc while mapping myself. Not sure how reliably we can tell that from aerial imagery. The good old Key:surface would probably be the best choice, in fact I've just added that on the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:sport=tennis page (see talk page)

Welcome ThadG. Yes you have a big job to do mapping Tokyo hey? And don't forget you're not allowed to copy from existing maps, but the bing imagery is pretty clear there.

At the OpenStreetMap conference we met some very keen mappers: Hiroshi Miura and Kinya Inoue. I'm sure they'd be happy to work with you.

Nice. cyclestreets has a little elevation profile feature (tucked away in the corner somewhere) which works for arbitrary routes, but I guess if you're going to cycle over a mountain then the elevation profile really matters!

I love the mouseover interactions with the profile chart<->map.

Hmmm yeah. I've noticed while doing motorway fixup in the U.S. (old TIGER fixup work), that waterways are more problematic when it comes to tunnels versus bridges for some reason. Maybe we're less likely to think of a waterway as being in a "tunnel", unless it's actually in a pipe.

This one near Finsbury Park might be thought of as a road tunnelling under the railway, but not really, because the tracks have separate metal bridges with daylight between.

Maybe we should try to expand the section Editing Standards and Conventions#Bridges

If we did as Skippern suggests, whether they're bots or human, they would not be intelligent enough to figure out how to put spam into the diaries or comments (it's not a forum). So his suggestion would work, or chop another 99% off the spam at least. BUT...

As with many anti-spam ideas, it comes with a downside. Occasionally we get new users registering and posting a diary entry or (more likely) a comment for legitimate reasons, without yet figuring out how to make map edits. It would be a little bit of a shame to disallow this just to solve a very little bit of a spam problem.

There really isn't much spam, but the frustrating thing is that when you *do* see spam as a normal OSM user, you're powerless to do anything about it, and this induces a kind of anxiety. So actually Sanderd17's suggestion is probably a good feature idea, just to give people a course of action. We have other development priorities though. If spam was really a problem (taking up too much sysadmin time) the developers (largely the same people) would do something about it.

Looking at the screenshots here it appears to be pointing at MapQuest tile server (at least by default) Anyway I've put a pre-emptive note of caution on the forum here

Thanks seav. Fixed.

Re bing coverage, i recently noticed the analyzer tool now gives a good whole globe overview:

http://www.team-blacksheep.com/ looks pretty cool. Can't find any details about their camera equipment though. Could add details to this wiki section

@JoshD Good suggestion. I've added a mention of it. Baltimore, Maryland#Data imports as well as rejigging that whole wiki page, to de-emphasise past event information, and invite new event organisers. That needs to happen on many wiki pages of course. Wish somebody who lives in the U.S. would do this stuff.

...is is way number 13494623

Yes I did wonder about confusion with the 'note' tag, but it's not the end of the world. In fact I would hope that an integrated note/bug/error reporting feature might eventually mean that people embed less mapping meta-data within tags.

I guess the guys talked about it on Saturday (I wasn't there) and decided to go with 'notes'. TomH has renamed things in the interface and various filenames (commit) so probably not really up for discussion any more, but you could ask him.

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?