Don’t let the blues get you ! Breath, walk, cycle, let someone take the lead for a change, map something completely different for a while… Sooner or later you’ll come back refreshed - better than burning out !

“Planners require OSM projects”

What does that mean ? From whom do they require that ?

Isn’t a “report button” the obvious solution ? It requires moderators to act on the reports, but that is till faster and overall less work than the alternatives.

Than would be amenity=money_transfer : osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Money_transfer

Le tout c’est de ne pas aller trop loin, pour laisser aux mappeurs du quartier le soin de compléter eux-même.

Pourquoi ne pas, au contraire, aller aussi loin que possible avec les facilités de l’imagerie orbitale - afin que les contributeurs locaux puissent aller encore plus loin dans l’ajout des détails qu’eux seuls peuvent relever sur le terrain ?

If you are in a hurry, you may want to acquire level 3A orbital orthophography from a provider such as RapidEye: http://www.rapideye.com

No need for Google Translate either… Welcome here !

Next step, http://fieldpapers.org ? Having some background map to jot your notes on + referencing to have them positioned automatically in JOSM seems like the natural upgrade to your clipboard-based method… You may spend less time counting houses to figure out which house the numbers apply to.

If you can read French, there was recently a discussion about that on talk-fr : http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/region-de-Kidal-au-nord-du-Mali-td5746516.html#a5746885 - there are certainly more, but I recalled this one.

Of course, tagging the “zone” as an area means that navigation tools will need to be area-aware - or that the Openstreetmap extract they use will require post-processing to tag any way within the area.

It is a “zone”… So why doesn’t any of the proposed modeling scheme in osm.wiki/London_Congestion_Charge represent it as such, using an area ? Wouldn’t that be simpler than tagging ways ?

Let’s say it is an Openstreetmap blog for those who don’t have an Openstreetmap blog…

If you want a snappy editing environment, use JOSM : http://josm.openstreetmap.de - may be a bit overwhelming in the beginning, but you get used to it you won’t want anything else… I have been using it for three years and I’m still from time to time finding tricks to speed up my mapping.

Yesterday I was despairing over a place where there are seemingly more contributors feeding that proprietary monster precious data that they will never be able to use as they see fit… So I’m glad to see that at least some of them are coming to the free world !

Even when marking tiles as dirty, coastline rendering is a special case due to the huge size of the natural=coastline ways : coastlines are created using shapefiles generated from the natural=coastline ways by the Coastline Error Checker - that does not happen as often as normal Mapnik rendering, so the coastline’s rendering might remain out of date for a long time while the rendering of other objects has already been updated.

No amount of automated processing will get rid of the scribble effect, but a simple manual edit will solve the problem : just cut the trace at the arrival point and delete the whole heap of spaghetti. Same with all the places where the GPS bearer has halted and produced a small heap of spaghetti. I usually do that sort of processing with Viking, but JOSM is fine too.

As for the segment with lost signal : delete it and split the way in two parts.

Good idea - better coordinate than do that on my own. I’ll think about it - that’s a plan for later this year.

I’m specifically interested in Arua - in Uganda too (osm.org/go/wjK7iywV-). I have friends there and I would love to do the armchair mapping and then see if they are interested in contributing names and POI. I’m tempted to buy a tile of decent imagery as an humanitarian gesture : http://tsms.terraserver.com/?img_key=E5B54A39-7C35-4058-A799-1B8EEECC6E64 - this 3500x3500 pixels georeferenced JPEG would cost $145… But I’m not sure it would do much good to map just the town and not have imagery even good enough for the regional road network.

Did you buy the Digitalglobe Geoeye imagery for Gulu ? I would love to have it for Arua - it is in great need of armchair mapping !

Does your username have anything to do with your server’s physical shape being a cube ?

Try the talk-fr mailing list, you’ll have better luck there.