All of this pretty much depends on the ‘OWL’ technology and there’s a lot of progress being made on integrating this into the main site.

Excellent. Have you seen OpenStreetPad?

I clicked on the website you mentioned but it appears to be full of horse porn. Is there a mistake?

Ha! There seem to be a few Potlatches out there…

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Welcome back!

Definitely value. Use a GPS tracking app, then upload your tracks to openstreetmap.org. Then use an OpenStreetMap editor to trace over the tracks and draw in any roads or trails that are missing.

Superb.

A query from an interested journalist - what maps were the University using before? Let me know and I’ll feed back.

Joakim is right. Send a message to [email protected].

And don’t open accounts that you don’t want to keep open. ;)

Nice work!

@ca_hoot: I’d say as a first step, look at TileMill. At present it’s the easiest Mapnik-based solution for playing around with stylesheets, and it uses a CSS-based language which is easier to get to grips with than the complex old Mapnik XML format.

Something that would be hugely useful would be to start to reverse-engineer the current Mapnik stylesheet into TileMill’s CartoCSS. As I understand it a one-to-one mapping isn’t possible (CartoCSS doesn’t do quite everything), but there may be things that we can lose in the cause of making the stylesheet more maintainable. If you had the time to work on this, that’d be the first big step towards moving the stylesheet on for the future.

@ca_hoot: Sure. But that’s not going to happen unless someone actually makes the change. As ever in OSM, there’s lots of people saying “I would like this” and precious few actually doing it. Personally I’d love to get more involved with the default cartography, but sadly P2 et al take up all of my the time.

So… how about it? If you think it could be done better, set up a Mapnik instance and start playing with the stylesheets. Build something. It won’t improve unless someone makes the effort!

Switch to ‘MapQuest Open’ using the layer switcher in the top right and all your motorist-centric needs will be satisfied. :)

Reminds me I should get round to finishing the P2 equivalent… https://github.com/systemed/potlatch2/tree/tracer

@Pieren: did you not read my reply to you at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2012-August/011226.html ? In that when you say “nothing has been done to fix this”… I actually fixed it?

Still waiting for you to forward the Cadastre details. Which is closer to 6 years than 6 months. No hurry, mind.

No, it certainly doesn’t do that. You can read the source if you want to check.

@John Dalton: my reading of ACL of 2010 is that there is no effect on the contractual part of the ODbL. For example, it is hard to disagree that the contract is “reasonably necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the party who would be advantaged by the term”.

The IceTV case absolutely strengthens the case for ODbL’s contractual pillar as it provides further evidence that copyright alone is unlikely to provide protection for collections of factual geodata in Australia.

“remove only the attributes from the non-agreer and leave the rest intact”

That’s exactly what the bot does.

Interesting report - thanks! Bit of a stretch before Fosse2 gets to Exeter but this should at least connect Newark and Leicester.

@Sanderd17 (sorry, only just spotted this): You can indeed edit relations of relations with Potlatch 2. You might be thinking of Potlatch 1, but that was a long long time ago. :) You can also delete long ways - any failure in doing so will be an API problem, not a P2 problem.