Hm, that's weird - it shouldn't be putting those extra points in. Will investigate.

Not the default Mapnik layer, no (I don't know about other renders). But by and large you should tag reality, and either wait for the renderer to catch up, or do your own rendering - which is getting much easier. Footpath/track tagging, as you've probably noticed, is perhaps the most controversial bit of OSM tagging!

Ugh - bad luck. Still, knowing about OSM is rapidly becoming a marketable skill, albeit a very niche one...

Anna and I are doing NCN81 west from Shrewsbury this weekend, but it still needs someone to head east!

highway=track, designation=public_footpath

...the quietest places under the sun.

wieland - I've just put the source in svn and written instructions at osm.wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Cycle_map . So hopefully someone will create one for Germany!

Interesting. Think I'd rather not have to undergo the pain of Qt on this Mac though!

chillly: yes! Pete: great stuff - hope it works well for you. I've just spent an afternoon cycling with it and it seemed plenty clear. Don't think I agreed with the eTrex's routing more than a couple of times, though...

It's a bug in JOSM, now fixed I believe (and the offending versions blocked).

Oh, and the answer to "I wonder how many potential mappers are lost due to various miscellanious unfriendly (mis)features in the editors & website" is lots, obviously, but also "patches welcome".

Yeah, I noticed the big black blobs thing yesterday and will do a patch today - sorry about that. It's basically something I didn't fix properly after changing the default scale to 17 from 14 when you edit a GPX. FWIW zooming in then out again fixes it.

Looks good! More of Route 54 to the north next time, maybe?

I'm relieved to see that they've fixed the silly situation of Derby having two Route 66s (the other one out to Breadsall is now National Route 672, I think). Must go and tackle some of Route 67 up the Erewash Canal some time...

We're very happy with our Ridgeback hybrids (both Velocity, but the model range might have changed since we bought them).

If you want specific features adding, just ask. I don't keep up with Map Features (life's too short). :)

Richard (Potlatch developer)

And the comment appearing twice is because there's a 500 when I submitted... hey ho.

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ . Best to discuss on the dev@ mailing list first.

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ . Best to discuss on the dev@ mailing list first.

Alphanumeric tags are very common in maxspeed, anyhow. It's the convention in the UK to tag as (say) maxspeed=30mph.

You can split a way in Potlatch by selecting the node and pressing X (or clicking the scissors) - did you know that?

I think someone changed the JavaScript on osm.org and introduced a bug, which stopped the JavaScript from running and therefore from loading Potlatch. It's fixed now.