TvdB - you are welcome to volunteer as a developer if you think you can do it better!

Roger - that's one of the best expressions of the "OSM philosophy" that I've ever seen.

highway=trunk: A road, green signs

highway=primary: A road, black and white signs

highway=secondary: B road

highway=tertiary: no road number, but a significant road for getting from place to place, usually with white lines

highway=unclassified: any other minor road except...

highway=residential: small residential road in town or village, used primarily by residents

Suggest you buy an eTrex Legend HCx then give a tenner to Osmf to salve your conscience!

You can never, ever copy anything, at all from Google Maps - or any other map, unless it's a very old one (typically at least 70 years) and out-of-copyright. If you've forgotten the name of the streets, take better notes!

Fixed as of 0.9b. (0.9b isn't committed yet, though, because trac's down.)

Think I've finally identified it, but until I fix it in the next day or two, you may be able to clear the problem by opening the options dialogue then closing it again.

The bit of National Cycle Network route 5 north of the railway in Didcot (Cow Lane, is it?) is the only missing bit between London and Birmingham... would be great if one of you could map that and add the NCN tags. :)

Francois - that's really great: have a lolcat. osm.wiki/index.php/Lolcat_of_awesomeness

I've committed a fix based on my best guess as to what could be causing the problem. Would appreciate further reports.

(Incidentally, it should go without saying that this issue doesn't show up on my system: it's not simply that "Potlatch doesn't react on pressing any keys anymore", I wouldn't have committed a new version if that was the case! Firefox 2 and Safari 3 on OS X, and IE6 on Windows XP under Parallels, all work fine for me.)

Please use trac to report issues, not the diary - I can't really keep track of what needs fixing if it's in 5000 different places!

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/898 is the relevant URL. If you add a comment there, please make sure to note what operating system and browser you're using.

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Great stuff - looking forward to seeing it on the cyclemap.

To be honest, I think it's impossible to create one editor with an interface that everyone will find intuitive. Map drawing is a new skill for most people, whereas Wikipedia, for example, benefits from the fact that everyone has already used a text editor or word processor. Having a variety of editors means that you're more likely to find one that works the way you want it.

Preset fields are already available - that's what the dropdown menu is.

I see what you mean about the position of the 'add tag' button, but that said, putting them on the L would result in a clutter of buttons with utterly different meaning. I suspect there's probably some other layout tricks we can use to make the difference more clear.

Thanks for the feedback!

On the keyboard commands, yes, absolutely. Though I would say too many UI designers see icons themselves as a panacea - a bunch of confusing-looking icons is not much more intuitive than keyboard shortcuts, so it needs thought. (Microsoft Office is probably the best example of slapping a load of crap in a toolbar and thinking it makes the program easy to use.)

Historically Potlatch has been fixed-size (700x600) and there hasn't actually been any room for extra icons - it's only in the last couple of months that it's grown with your browser window. This means that now we can start looking at adding icons where sensible.

(There's a list of keyboard shortcuts on the wiki, of course.)

With GPS tracks we're generally wary about exposing too much information - there are privacy concerns about knowing exactly who was where. So there may be some improvement that can happen here, but it probably won't be to the level you're asking for.

As of Potlatch 0.9 there is now a history-type "undo" feature - it's a new icon in the bottom left. It's not perfect as of yet but it should go some way towards what you're looking for.

Duly fixed! The A329 doesn't go through Wallingford anywhere - that's why there's a bypass.

Great stuff. The Thame flows downhill into the Thames... it's that whole gravity thing again. :)

/me tags it as boat=yes as far as Dorchester Bridge.

Unfortunately I think you've encountered an utter clown of a mapper.