Not to worry. It's not exactly one of the more intuitive aspects of OpenStreetMap!

:) Thanks.

*deep breath*

OSM trunk does not mean UK-legislation trunk. Nor does it mean US-legislation trunk, or French-legislation trunk, or anything. It's. Just. A. Word.

If you tag the A10 in OSM as primary while it still has green signs, You're Doing It Wrong. And someone else will come along and correct you.

We have been over this a million times before. The settled will of the community is that green-signed roads are tagged with highway=trunk. Please try to read up on what the community thinks before threatening "the map is going to get a lot redder".

*fires up Potlatch*

Agreed absolutely with Circeus's first post - that's a really good description.

"the wikipedia people said to me that facts are not copyrightable"

The wikipedia people are not renowned for their understanding of the complexities of geodata law. ;)

If you zoom in, you'll see there's a weird messed-up junction where Gilman Drive crosses a primary_link road, with too many nodes. If you sort that out, you'll find the parallel way (P) works as it should.

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)