Thanks for the comments guys. I'm not as knowledgeable as I would like to be when it comes to mobile apps and all the different options available. Seems like OsmAnd is something I should have a bit more of a play with (I installed it but didn't try it really) I've never heard of "Zanavi" (stub created). Now that I have a placr.co.uk iPhone and iPad to play with, I can try out some of these swanky iOS apps more too, but I don't have a proper data plan set up on those either.

nice! It seems the Ukraine has a lot of tram systems. I don't think we have that many cities with trams in the UK.

My ruby script chews on every changeset as it comes in, so it can filter by tags or operation type, or user, or bounding box (kind of... although it will only see coordinates for nodes unless it has a way->node lookup) But with any kind of filter it's not very efficient when you consider the proportion which edits matching the filter. I guess for bbox filter it would be smarter to try to hook it into OWL instead

I've been seeking out tennis courts in the U.S. (using bing) In the process I've been amazed that every school in the U.S. has four or five baseball pitches. I hadn't realised how completely baseball obsessed they are. Also surprised that most large schools have a full size running track. All these things are very distinctive and easy to add to the map

yes. Definitely hoping to reuse the edit tracking code, and tabular display code. Easy enough to switch it to a different tag. It's also easy enough to leave the whole system running indefinitely, but I reckon it's more fun to shut it down at the end of the week (in a 3 hours time)

...or did you mean my exciting tennis commentary? :-)

Hold down shift while clicking to add a node in the middle of a way.

See Editing an existing way

A lot of mobile apps will display maps only if you have an internet connection (either 3G or wifi) The phone knows where it is, but it still needs to fetch map information over the internet. But there are many different map apps to choose from. Some *do* offer a capability to store map data off-board. Not sure which blackberry app is the best at that.

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.