The diffs are at http://planet.openstreetmap.org/redaction-period/ as explained on http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/04/api-read-write-returns/ . The full planet is still at the same place as usual.

It is working!!! Problem details, please?

* There's no way a license change could have got 100% approval. All things considered, I think the ODBL/CT did pretty well at being accepted.
* at this stage, decliners and undecided are pretty much equivalent for remapping purpose.
* If I'd feel punished by anyone, it would be by the non-agreers rather than by the OSMF. Remapping is a pain, but a necessary one.
* If remapping feels too boring, by all means do "normal" mapping instead. Mapping is still essentially a hoby for most people, so we'd much rather have you enjoy contributing in the forsteeable future than leave because you performed boring task out of "duty".

For that kind of calculation, load the exported data into postgres (many tutorials available on wiki for that) and run an sql query on it. For example, this one calculates total road length in the french city of Montpellier :

SELECT w.tags->'highway' as highway, count(*) as nb, sum(st_length(st_transform(st_intersection(w.linestring, poly),2154)))/1000 as km FROM (select ST_GeometryN(st_polygonize(w.linestring),1) as poly from relations r JOIN relation_members m ON (r.id=m.relation_id) JOIN ways w ON (w.id=m.member_id AND m.member_type='W') where r.tags ? 'ref:INSEE' AND r.tags->'ref:INSEE'='34172' GROUP BY r.id) AS v JOIN ways w ON (w.tags ? 'highway' AND ST_Intersects(poly, w.linestring)) group by w.tags->'highway' order by km desc;

It would obviously be simpler if you don't care about selecting just a part of your extract. Just don't ask *me* to detail the query to you, I only witnessed it in an IRC chat :p Look for postgis ans osmosis tutorials, and ask your question in help.osm.org instead of your diary.

I've never witnessed that. It sounds tempting but... what about the common case of a building containing multiple POIs ? I wouldn't like to have to deal with "smart" software in those cases.

Hum... Je ne passe pas beaucoup de temps sur les parties francophones d'OSM, mais instinctivement j'aurais traduit ca par "segment", qui n'est pas dans le doodle.

It's working hard but it doesn't seem overloaded just yet :

http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/yevaud.openstreetmap/index.html
osm.wiki/Servers

The wiki (osm.wiki/Lanes) only mentions creating multiple ways if there is a separation, so I'd go with lanes=4. There's also tags for unevenly-distributed lanes, bus/cycle/foot lanes, etc.

PS: try http://help.osm.org/ instead of the diary for such questions.

That'd be Bing's "global ortho" project, and yes, it rocks :) We have our hands full up here in Ireland/Europe "digesting" the new imagery into OSM data.

http://mars.jrc.ec.europa.eu/mars/content/download/2440/12571/file/Nov_2011_Bing_Maps.pdf
http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2011/06/27/bing-maps-unveils-exclusive-high-res-imagery-with-global-ortho-project.aspx

As all data entry is voluntered work, there is no standard "submiting process". Try the mailing list to talk about the data you want to import. Note that not all data is suitable for OSM, and that a business listing import will have to work with existing data and conventions.

Maybe someone on the list will be interested in importing your data set for you; otherwise you will have to do this yourself, but help is available on the mailing list, wiki, and help.osm.org (user diaries are not a great place to ask for actual help).

You seem to misunderstand the idea behind the "override" feature. It is meant to flag the rare cases of users who haven't accepted the CT, but whose edits will be dealt with in a special way. Sometimes, this is the case only for some of that user's edits. This is really a case-by-case override (there are only a handfull of cases so far), when a user cannot/will not simply accept the CT, but is some compromise is possible.

Manually replacing those edits would be a waste of time, so making sure that they are not flagged by the QHS is a good thing. You may think it's pointlessly complicating things, but it's just the technical tool helping us to deal with a complicated legal situation.

Without going into the "tracks VS imagery precision" debate, I don't see how you would implement this technically:
* You can't just "own" a way an disalow modifications by another mapper... And weight-averaging positions of multiple edits wont work either (what about added/deleted nodes ?). Remember there is no "commit approval" process.
* What if the local mapper _is_ wrong ? He used a smartphone GPS in a narrow lane with high buildings ?
* What is a mapper's "base" anyway ? I live in Ireland 80% of the time, and in France the other 20%. I map at work, at home, and on holidays.

Concerning your original problem, I think the best you can do is to put details in the "source" tag. If you've gps-traced a road with a good device multiple times over the course of a few days, say so in the source tag. Bing mappers sould set "source=Bing" anyway, so they should see the previous value and think twice before editing.

Another thing you can do is to upload your traces. A lot of mappers will download traces too when they download the OSM data. It's especially usefull when there are many traces for a road, because it reduces errors. Good armchair mappers are carefull to calibrate the imagery offset using these tracks (or any other hints) before editing.

osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Charging_station

But "amenity=fuel fuel:electricity=yes" works as well and is currently more widespread (see taginfo).

Yuck, how on Earth did they come up with such a definition ? Anyway, I don't know much but I'd say your best bet is to get an Illinois extract and run some sql in the db. First select all objects whose tags match a "facility, area, or land..." and put those in a table. Then run another select to retrive all objects within a quarter-mile of the first list. Good luck :)

Fabi2: Works for me. When your internet connection and/or the tile server is under high load, it's not unusual that some tile requests get lost, whichever browser you are using.

kolen: Didn't look up the setting of all curent browsers, but they rarely limit themselves to 2 connections nowadays. "2 connections" is an old RFC recomendation which is rarely optimal with curent hard/software.

"creating your own map" is a FAQ with many many answers in the documentation, depending on what you want to do and what your ressources are. For a straightforward "show a few specific POI on the map" like your example seems to be, try osm.wiki/Openlayers .

I do not think that natural=* should be translated anymore than, say, highway=*. "oak", "pine" etc are standardized values (as hinted by the fact that they are all-lowercase) so that we can have automated tools that work with them (for example displaying them differently on the rendered map, or building statistics).

If you want to display the name in your language, you're probably better off changing the tool that displays the map data rather than changing the map data itself.

I may be annoying to standardize on English... But for better or worse, that's the world we live in :p

PS: help.openstreetmap.org is better than the diary for such questions.

If only these stats counted users who have made edits. It's a much lower but much more interesting figure.

Above comment is only for the rendered tiles. For the underlying data, it's normaly once a week but they've been having technical difficulties for a while : http://support.cloudmade.com/forums/general/posts/2681/show

You'll soon also be exploring the less-traveled area just because they aren't maped yet *"come on, it's only a 2-hours detour"). And keep the map in your head at all times (even more so than usual), honing your orienteering skills. Have fun ! But don't forget to keep enjoying the scenery :)