Richard is an American too, he's just a really really nice one so they made him go and live in Canada.

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Watch out for OCOSMD!

Good work. Before long you will have the addiction/bug and be changing your route to work in order to map more stuff.

and it's not supported in the UK. If you used OSM data you would have enough data.

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I'm jealous you got to do some fresh mapping in London while I wasn't there.

Do you think you will have all the shops once everyone finishes their edits?

You can only copy printed/town maps if you have permission from the copyright owner to use it for OpenStreetMap. Even if they don't have a copyright note on them to say who owns it, they are still copyrighted. Although there is some legal-uncertainty/confusion about maps, there are some test cases and the majority of OpenStreetMap prefer to play it safe by not copying them without permission.

The same with aerial imagery, but we have permission from the kind people from Microsoft Bing to copy their aerial imagery (not maps or side photos). I expect the copyright owner/photographer (yourself) will give you permission to use those.

You are very right to give it a try. I think most mappers will be kind and send a friendly message if they see an error. I briefly looked at some of your edits, and they seem good.

(From England) I went to a wedding in Tubingen/Reutlingen earlier this summer. Wonderful place and I had great fun. I didn't turn my GPS on much though, thinking Germany was fully mapped. When I continue working through my backlog of GPS tracks/photos, I too will see if there is anything I can map there.

The JOSM editor is very good for seeing where photos were taken, if you also had a GPS turned on at the same time. osm.wiki/JOSM

I hope you enjoy improving OpenStreetMap.

There is another tool that might be useful, see the last comment at http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2009/06/my-postbox-obsession#comment-13785

Members are the parts(ways/roads) that make up a relation, and you can specify what type of member it will be. The JOSM validator thinks that members should have a type specificed(the type/role box not be empty for each one), which is perhaps logical. But for bus routes there are no member types, just standard members.
So what do you do? Just click ignore, that's what I do.

An example of a relation that shouldn't have empty members is street(address) relations. osm.wiki/Relations/Proposed/Street#Tags You can see in the list of members, you want to specific if it is of the house or street type. If you uploaded a street relation and some members didn't have a type/role, then the validator should rightly stop/question you.

I think I am right on this whole comment anyway.

The raw XML data can be quite hard to work with (unless you are a programmer). It is easier to follow the links provided by wieland. From those pages you can just download files ready made for Garmin devices.

The tags in OpenStreetMap aren't fixed, you are welcome to make up and use your own in order to map a feature. It is then up to everyone who uses the data (all the programs and map designs) to decide if they will make use of the tags you use. You can help this by documenting tags you use on the wiki, and it will also help if other people use the same tags as you. So first search for the feature in the wiki, and you might find it is already being tagged in a certain way.

For the School of Music take a look at osm.wiki/Talk:Tag:amenity%3Dschool
I would suggest amenity=school with school:studies=music, entry=fee. The name might also help clarify what it is (e.g. Toy Town School of Music).

Sorry I don't know any Spanish, but thanks for providing a translation in English so I can help you.

It's good to move the bus stop, and keep all the tags (but delete NAPTAN:verified=no) so it can be spotted when/if a fresher Naptan import is made. It's known the bus stops aren't so accurate. Even if the bus stop is in the right place, it's good to remove the verified tag so we know it's right.

You may also wish to add the tag shelter=yes (if you are somewhat protected from the wind/rain) and bench=yes (if you can sit down there).

Also check the wiki for bus route relations. osm.wiki/Bus_routes You can add the bus stops, and the appropriate stretch of road alongside. Route relations are used in a number of places, my favourite being http://opencyclemap.org/?lat=52.18986&lon=-2.22062&zoom=14&layers=0B

This tool helps you find bus stops that still need checking. http://mappa-mercia.org/novam/

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That order makes sense to me, as you can use the GPS traces to 'trace' over them with map features (e.g. roads).
If you just want to see your GPS trace over the map, but not edit the map, then there are other services. Such as the ones listed at osm.wiki/Track_drawing_websites
There is one that will display GPS traces uploaded to OSM (so you don't have to reupload it) but I've forgotten what the address is for that one.

If you do want to edit, but with the layers in different orders. You can do that with JOSM. osm.wiki/Josm

Personally (I can't speak for the greater OSM community) I'd consider it polite if you said who the company was. This is out of a friendly interest to know what 'large mapping' companies are interested in OSM and what they are doing with us.

We can have amazing detail now, but detail != precision != accuracy.
Also precision isn't great if people edit the detail too realign it to aerial imagery.

It is really rugged. The handle bar mount can snap, but call garmin and they'll send a replacement for free (gravitystorm has a blog post on doing that).
I was cycling along some stony footpath waiting for a replacement, so my Legend was on the mount but not 'clicked' in. The GPS went flying and I thought it was done, but it's got just a little scratch on the plastic (I think a cunning lip around the screen protects that somewhat).

Oh wow, I started with a Dell axim so many years ago. I then got a Garmin Legend HCx so I have a hand free (actually one hand now holds a camera, and the other is made free because I hang the Garmin GPS round my neck, but I digress...).

This is a great write up by gravitystorm(of opencyclemap.org fame) of what I would recommend and why. http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/gps-recommendations/

There are some districts that are low OSM coverage in the comparison. Please don't just go and map these though, I'm planning mapping events in some of them (probably late summer). My aim is to map them with ground survey AND stir up some new users locally. That will encourage mapping of other features (e.g. footpaths POIs, and house numbers) and to continue updating the map as the world changes next door to them.

At osm.org on the top right of the map is a blue button with a plus. That opens a menu for you to select other tiles. The data option is helpful as you can then click an object and look at the full information.

Several people in the community make specialised styles of the map. But it takes quite a bit of computing power to create the images, and also to host them. As such it is not appropriate or possible to have all of them on the osm.org website.

http://openpistemap.org is probably what your looking for.