"Please email richard bla bla... What the hack does that mean?!?"

It means what it says. Please e-mail me so I can have a look at identifiying and, if necessary, fixing the problem.

Well, the good news is that I've worked out how to call JS from AS in WinIE - I think...!

Well, the issue is that Potlatch (AS) needs to tell the browser (JS) whether (a) there are any unsaved changes and (b) whether a comment has been left. Every time it updates the status, there's a click - which gets really, really annoying when it happens at the start and end of every edit (as (a) implies). (b) could in theory be done on its own but I'd like to solve both at once as they're essentially the same issue.

A small note would require rejigging the screen display which takes it beyond the realms of "small", but I am thinking about it. :) Right now the priority is on fixing the remaining bugs in the API 0.6 support rather than nice-to-haves like this though, I'm afraid.

If someone can tell me (and has actually tried it and verified it works, not just Googled it) how to call JavaScript from ActionScript 1 _without_ Internet Explorer making a clicking noise, then I can make Potlatch prompt you for a comment on exit. But I can't really do it without figuring that out, and I don't have IE to test - or at least not a version that will click!

A little change for 0.6 in the database threw Potlatch. A fix has now been committed and should be live later this evening, hopefully. Sorry for the hassle.

What model is your GPS? Lots of mappers only use yellow Garmin eTrexes or similar.

The padlock is just by the way id - at the bottom left.

There's a million and one things I could say to that, but I'll just restrict myself to the one: Potlatch works with Gnash.

Brilliant stuff - all looks really good and precise. Will have to wean you off highway=path though. :)

We went out for a walk today and ticked off a couple of missing paths in the Leafield/Ramsden/Finstock area. I'm starting to think that West Oxfordshire might become footpath-complete before too long...

Heh - we drove through there yesterday on the way from Witney to Burford... funny to think there was probably someone mapping at the time.

Jon has been doing some work on more regular Mapnik updates.

The "Cambridge" one is interesting - Google appear to have a rogue batch of UK cities in the database. I've noticed it if you search Google Maps for Gloucester and Cirencester, too.

Do you have any 'saved' tracks on the Garmin?

They don't have timestamps. Saving tracks on a Garmin is very much to be avoided.

If only!

There's a divide in OSM between those who think that the wiki defines the tags to be used; and those who think that usage defines, and the wiki should chiefly document. I'm firmly in the latter camp (and, for what it's worth, so are most of "Those In Charge" - insofar as OSM has any such people!).

However, the former camp has some very keen wiki-gnomes who've hatched their own intricate voting system, procedures for "approving" and "deprecating", and so on. One brave soul recently tried to amend one of their more ridiculous schemes (a "smoothness" tag which could have the value "very_horrible" - I'm not kidding) and an entire wiki flamewar erupted.

Really we could do with a concerted attempt to sort all this out; but until then, as a humble editor author all I can do is pay some attention to the presets in Potlatch and try not to impose any daft tags, or relegate any sensible ones.

To say "abutters is deprecated" is another example of the wiki-gnomes acting in defiance of reality. There are over 40,000 abutters tags in Europe alone. I'm not planning to remove it from the Potlatch autocomplete any time soon.

That said, the abutters tag is meant to describe what abuts the road, and a street market is held on the road itself. So I doubt this is the right tag here.

I guess the other thing is that logging at 1pt/sec will propel you up the leaderboard. I rarely go that fine - there's not much point if you're cycling along a country road - and in fact my first few years' traces were done on an old yellow eTrex which only did the 'auto' logging anyway (just 1000 trackpoints, and more logging when you go round corners). Far too computationally expensive, of course, but I'd love to see a ranking based on distance covered...

It's already used in navigation for (pedal) cycles. You can't do that with Google Maps or indeed much else.

osm.org/edit?lat=54.9499&lon=-3.1944&zoom=14 shows it's there ok - is that not what you're seeing? It should hopefully show up on the map when it's rerendered this week, I'd think.

(Sorry, I should have said: Select one, then you can press 'H' for history...)

If you go to the area in question in Potlatch, and press 'U' for undelete, you'll see the deleted ways appear again.

You can then press 'H' for history, and a list of who edited it, when, will appear. From this you can find out who deleted it.

Let us know who or where and we can help more.

I thought it was in Birmingham in anticipation of you lot seceding?