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Nice. It would be good to get some more icons for shop types, but it needs a look at what's being used.

Numbering houses

This may be why I always hope people ask what I'm doing, so then I can explain nicely and not be a creep. The jacket helps though, if they don't want to approach you they can look up OpenStreetMap on the web.

London building outlines homework assignment

If the last class is in the pub, is that where detention takes place?

Emory University edits

Your comments all sound good to me, keep up the work. Must be hard with names changing so much.

Westcountry mapping on holiday

Looks good, last year rather than interrupting the family's Cornish holiday I used mapping to take breaks away from them in the cottage. osm.org/go/erUP0hu9--

New Meet-up group for Vancouver Island

I arrive in Canada/Vancouver on Tuesday evening. I don't know how easy it is to get to Victoria, how long it takes, or wether I will be too busy with student enrolment/party events on Saturday. But hey, I'm an OSM-addict from it's birth country so I love going to meet ups.
If I don't make it then I plan to work on the UBC & Vancouver map and building up or supporting a community there.

What's the state of the GeoData import? Is that why Vancouver looks well mapped?

Gregory (LastGrape)
http://www.livingwithdragons.com

365 Days of OpenStreetMap: Day 2

Harry Wood will be pleased about this, he's sometimes a rollerblade/kayaking mapper.

Abandoned power line

Just think of it as fufilling the OpenStreetMap dream. People will be able to make maps from OSM historic data and see where the power line once ran.

Naming cycle routes

See the instructions here:
osm.wiki/Cycle_routes#Relations

Obvious Tags

I know the feeling when I get a few blurry photos or miss the target. Sometimes I see them on the camera then and think "bah, I'll remember that blurry photo today means..."

Kings Cross Mapping Party

I'll be back in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to regular meetups.

Lousy street names of the week

Escot Road's are apparently common around stores of Tesco.
I know of one: osm.org/?lat=51.41862&lon=-0.42667&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF

Thrilled about GPS

Hold right click on the area and drag.

pushchair=no

Is there some tag like maxwidth=
Although that would be for road veichles

Captain's log, Star Lane 2010.06...

Captin, did you get to ride* at the front of the carriage.
*Sorry, I mean 'drive'?

Bike recommendations

I ended up ordering from Evans Cycles because they had a nice Pinnacle(in-house brand I think) hybrid on special offer. They also delivered it free of charge prebuilt (I had to add the pedals myself) in a massive bicycle sized box (according to the college office it looked bigger than a bike).

NCN_65, tags, missing railway

I was wondering about cycling NCN 65 again to complete the section of Thirsk to York. Thanks for doing it for me.
North of that I found signs hard to follow.
http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2009/04/cycling-ncn-65-to-get-home

Sharpening the pen and limping a sheet of paper

I yes, speed cameras. I was pondering something similar to post boxes!

NCN 65

I want to get the Thirsk to York stretch that I ment to at Easter, but I'm not sure if I will get a chance to do so in the next year.

An Osmarender quirk

I understand that everything is layer 0 by default, including the park. So you perhaps need to make the park layer -5.

If you do something that could be considered unusal (think by a beginner, not seeing everything so they could see a part of the park with no junction), then add a note to the way to explain why the tagging is as you've done.