Welcome to OpenStreetMap, John! :-)

To find active mappers in your local area the two tools listed at “Nearby users” in the wiki will help you. Following are the links to both tools, already centred on the location you made an edit at:

• http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc?layers=B00FTFFFFT&lat=54.1302&lon=-4.5417&zoom=11 edit centre over the last 6 months
• http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/?lat=54.1302&lon=-4.5417&zoom=11&layers=B&age=31 edits in the last month

Not really many active… Note that those users are not necessarily living in the edited area.

You can start here: Beginner’s guide or http://learnosm.org/ We also have a help centre (collecting questions useful to more than one person) and the shorter FAQ.

If you need help and cannot find out otherwise, just ask someone who “runs” by - e.g. those who comment here.

A tip at your first edit: should get tags what it is. Would chalet fit? You can select it in the editor Potlatch2 on the left side → accomodation or you can use the Advanced mode to type the tag manually? The building outline could be added as separate object. It can be traced from the aerial imagery background supplied in Potlatch2 - the OSM data editor which you used.

Just play a bit with the editor, if you accidentally break something it can be restored. Start slowly, but just try it.

Thanks for your help at OSM!

Hmm, why do you copy the wiki page text to your diary?!

@tyr_asd: wow :-)

Thank you for those images! They are now featured on our wiki main page this week.

Thanks! Looks like a to be featured image to me.

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very cool. Welcome to OSM!

@chtfn: yes, if you can and want to - draw it as an area. I don’t know if you “should” use capacity=1 in that case, but at least you can. If you use it, I guess there will be some applications (which use OSM data) which will show that there is a parking space with capacity 1 because these applications may not read the sub-value :disabled. Well, their fault? I don’t know. Good question, next question. ;-) According to the definition text on the wiki page I think you should use capacity and capacity:disabled. However, it may be meant for larger parking spaces where usually there will be more general (non-disabled) parking places … Forum, mailing lists or talk page on the wiki could be a better place for such a discussion. Oh, there is already a discussion about this: Talk:Tag:amenity%3Dparking#Count_disabled_spaces_in_capacity.3F! Have a look there.

@Adam Martin: Great that you found and joined OSM, welcome! :-)

@”Should “Capacity” include or exclude the number in “Capacity:disabled”?” See capacity=* “Including all special lots, e.g. parking spaces for disabled drivers”

Points do abstract more than an area if you use them for realworld objects which are in fact an area. However areas are harder to draw (accuracy?!). I think a point is really fine for a single space.

Hi BladeTC, can you point to an example in our data/on the map? What should that be?

Welcome to OSM! Great that you want to help to improve our map data! :-)

Thank you for this nice-to-read re-view!

Joe, what should be the relation of tagging buildings with “lower back pain”? And why the website link? Can you help me to understand?

Danke schön für den Niederschrieb, interessant! Zu “anderer Renderer”, du meinst vielleicht diesen: Tiles@home (bzw. osmarenderer). Danke für deine Arbeit und weiterhin viel Spaß!

nein, so direkt ist OSM nicht gedacht. Du kannst aber OSM-basierte Karten auf dein Navi laden, oder auch Routen basierend auf OSM-Karten planen und auf dein Navi laden (beides über externe Dienste).

Viel Spaß bei OSM!

Danke schön, interessant!

try http://ra.osmsurround.org - seems to be quite similar (I never saw osmrm before). However, http://osmrm.openstreetmap.de/relation.jsp?id=2368687 works for me.

Hehe, still a nice entry! Btw: Displayed not only on our blogs page but also via RSS virtually everywhere where it is wanted. E.g. in my RSS reader, where I saw it. :-)