Patches welcome.

You could use Potlatch's revert function to put it back.

Great stuff. The last cycle map I made went awol when we moved to the new dev server and I've not had chance to regenerate/upload it yet. You could maybe ask for an account on the dev server if you'd like to host a regularly-updated version!

In Potlatch, just extend the street (i.e. click on the end-point to draw), then double-click on the point on the other street where you want it to end.

Or if you really don't know what is going on here:

Go to the '+' in the top right and turn the misleading, erroneous Maplint layer off. :)

Nope, it's not the wiki account, it's the main account.

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http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/rails_port/public/potlatch/beep.mp3

I'd rather have 93% of data under a usable licence, than 100% of it under an unusable one. I'm voting 'yes' too.

Incidentally, could you remove the obviously fake entries from the poll? I'm thinking "Adolf", "Sadam", "Pol Pot", "IchgrüßemeineMama" etc. which all appeared one after each other in quick succession and were almost certainly postings by a single person.

"It is a fact that the process is a gun on our heads"

Er, it's not a fact, it's a metaphor.

Avid Manifold users are well known for being, shall we say, a little unbalanced. Look through the archives at spatiallyadjusted.com for more.

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OpenStreetMap is not the place to advertise your hotels. Please delete these entries.

Also, this diary is just a blog. It isn't in the database. So you're not even advertising in the right place.

It's on the list to fix but not a very high priority, to be honest!

It never actually creates two keys the same. If you click away and then reselect, you'll see only one of them is there.

The blue-signed routes in Cambridge form a coherent local cycling network and were intended to do so. So yes, absolutely, they should be tagged with lcn tags and therefore show up in OpenCycleMap. I've done a couple of little bits in the past (up near Hertford Street and also Garret Hostel Lane) and would be delighted if someone were to do the rest.

The drag-and-drop symbols are just the start. You can tag almost anything you like with OSM.

To do this, create a new point by double-clicking on the map. It'll appear as a green circle. Then add "tags" using the '+' button at the bottom right, and typing. For example, fuel might be 'amenity' (left-hand box) 'fuel' (right-hand box).

You can find out more using the Help button at the bottom left of Potlatch, the online editor.

But you simply can't tell that. OSM is too big for one person to know exactly what maps are out there using the data. I've been involved with the project for five years now and wouldn't even begin to think I could list what's parsed and what isn't - every day something new is announced that surprises me.

And that's a trend that's only increasing. Take a look at http://www.geowiki.com/halcyon/ - fully customisable map rendering using CSS. There are other similar projects, like Cartagen (http://www.cartagen.org/). How do you know that, just because a particular tag isn't selected as part of (say) the cartographic choices made by the default Mapnik layer, or the calculation choices made by CloudMade's routing engine, that someone else isn't doing something really cool with the data? How do you know someone hasn't got a really excellent MapCSS rendering running in an obscure corner of the web, using tags you've never heard of?

An example. In your previous post you said, for example, "the only people of which the tracks=* information is useful to is people like Network Rail or the TOCs". Completely wrong. Our local railway (the 'Cotswold Line', Oxford-Worcester) has extensive single-track sections. If I want to have an informed view of when my train is going to turn up (well, other than "late"), it is enormously useful to know where the single-track sections are. Armed with the knowledge that Wolvercote-Ascott is single-track, and that the live departure board has just shown that a down train has left Hanborough, I know that the up train I'm waiting for isn't going to reach Charlbury for 15 minutes, despite the fact it was meant to be here two minutes ago.

If you remove the tracks=* tag because you don't understand that, I call that vandalism.

(And contrary to your jibe about "personally, I don't think they'll be using OSM any time soon", again, you couldn't be more wrong. The feedback I get about my railway map at http://www.systemeD.net/atlas/ is that it's extensively used in the rail industry; I've received mail from ORR people, NR, TOCs, FOCs, you name it. As it happens it's not based on OSM data, but that's solely for copyright reasons, not for reasons of data quality.)

OSM isn't tidy. It isn't neat. It isn't corraled into a restricted set of features. Stop trying to second-guess what it'll be used for. It never works.

This is way too cryptic a posting. What in particular are you referring to?

Replied at YACF. :)