The user can leave a comment on the change set, and most people seem to be describing what/where they did.
In JOSM it prompts you to add a comment. In Potlatch (the Edit tab editor), press C after making your changes.

My edits might give you an idea. @LivingWithDragons/edits

It will be very interesting to see how you get on with the motorbike. Bicycle is often the prefered method: faster than walking, easier to turn than a car. I guess motorbike will be similar but less personal energy required.

Perhaps you could mount the cam on the bike somewhere (around the handle bars?) so you look less silly, but then you can't aim it. It must be very unsafe to hold a small camera in your hand like I do on my bicycle (I can just about hold the handlebars too).

It's more like a battenberg cake than the tradditional round one.

I wonder if anyone will group some of the shops (either by a relation or the 'operator' tag?). A few weeks ago I discovered the electronics shop "Ask" is connected(linked stock computer system) to one further down Totenham Court Road and "MacDonald" on Oxford Street, once you know the similar signage makes it obvious. There is also about 4 Micro Anvika branches on TC Road.

The first Durham pub meetup id tomorrow night!

I've posted my account of the evening, and the excitment you misssed on our walk to the tube station after the pub.
http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2009/04/high-vis-authority-and-stealth-mapping

By the way, just past Richmond are a load of missing names around Whitton that I just noticed. If you don't get to it by July then I'll probably think about doing something as it's not far from me.

That means you have to collect house numbers for each side of every road in the estate!
I suppose you could say you'll leave that for someone else who might not have a GPS.

Does this mapping kit module do OSM?
I'm just setting up Drupal to move a site to it, I'll be looking for an OSM module in the next few months. I was expecting to have to do a lot of code writing myself.

I'm hoping to get a gap of the London LOOP between Kingston and Ewell in the next few days, before I go back to uni.
Maybe in the summer I'll check out the Thames Path.

http://www.livingwithdragons.com

Check out http://www.opencyclemap.org and at the bottom there is a link which will explain how to map cycle features on OSM.

My blog posts are too long for blog posts, let alone twits.

I got a handlebar mount for my Garmin eTrex Legend off Amazon, it's been so great in the last week I've had it.
Esppecially when I cycled a stretch of NCN65 on Thursday, still got to tag up what I did.

Always great reading your posts on the London meet ups.

I got my train tickets in the post today (for the sections I'm not cycling). Heading back Thursday next week, so will see anyone who's going to the geomob minibar event.

At a guess I'd say try searching on Thursday or Friday, it might be that it gets done after the typical weekly update.
I don't actually know if the geocoder is updated as frequent as every week though.

Cool, it's great to see any more of Newcastle mapped.
I'm down in Durham. http://www.livingwithdragons.com

Ciaran: To add the gpx trace is find (and tag it as road/cyclepath), but the trouble is tagging it as a sustran route. If there aren't signs then how do you know the route goes there?
To some extent we can join up the gaps (once we know where the route reappears), but I think sometimes OSMers might end up tagging the route the way we think it should go. Later Sustrans people may copy parts of OSM as they sign, and our route may become THE route. Wouldn't be too bad in some places.

I'm cycling route 65 from Middlesborough to York next week, so I'll hopefully get that whole empty section mapped. Might take me a while after to get it traced and tagged.
http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2009/02/cycling-home

This is actually a 'magic roundabout': osm.org/?lat=51.467876&lon=-0.423292&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF
There is an island in the middle which you can go round anti-clockwise. Surrounded by lots of mini-roundabouts which you can go round clockwise (you go half way round one to get into the anti-roundabout). If in doubt, you can go clockwise around the edge (technically going round a little bit of each minroundabout), but that would be a long way to take a right turn.

I'd attempt mapping it properly, but I need to survey how many miniroundabouts there are. It might involve taking a photograph, and I should probably be prepared to explain to authorities I'm not a plane-spotter but not a terrorist either (as this is at Heathrow Airport).

If you use JOSM: You can download an area (might have to do several zoomed areas to end up with a large amount of Cornwall). File, Save As (a .osm file). You can then open that file offline and bring in your gpx files as you make them. Once you have edited them offline, do another File, Save As. When your back home open up the .osm fiile in josm once more and click the upload button. It should deal with any conflicts that might come about if someone did some mapping during the time since you first downloaded/saved the osm file, you might have to manually notice some mistakes.

One holiday at a time, we will get Cornwall mapped!

Where abouts were you? I'm particuarly proud of the last time when I was staying in Porthleven and didn't care about hanging around with the family (so took the GPS for many walks):
osm.org/?lat=50.08534&lon=-5.31052&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF

I had started writing some Java code to read a folder of audio files and adjust a gpx file to include the link tag to the relevant audio file (with the interntion to then get it incorporated into JOSM).

I had some trouble writing the changes to the gpx file and ended up stopping at this stumble.
The driver I use to pull files from my dictaphone to linux, resets the file datestamps (although it cant read them), so this took away some motivation to persevere with the coding.

Wow, the Islington buildings map looks amazing.

I'm setting the plans for my Easter return to London ( http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2009/02/cycling-home ), and quite like the idea of making it back in time to join an OSM pub meet.
Is that more likely to be on Thursday 26th, rather than the Tuesday/Wednesday of that week?

If your editing offline, download the data every time you sit down (and upload before you go away). If your downloaded data is a day or more old then someone might have added some stuff in the same area and it is easier to have smaller amounts of merges/conflicts done by the server.