Hi and welcome, too. We seem to be nearby.

It's great to get this in the map. I'd like to hear more about how you're going about it, too.

Another benefit of ground surveying (with or without GPS) is seeing that the cycle paths are really what they say they are. I don't think we should give credit for a yellow bicycle painted on a road, especially when it's on a "lane" used for car parking. Governments like us to think this counts towards their ("green", of course) bike path tally. No sane cyclist should feel safe with this arrangement.

Good luck!

Welcome! I'm glad someone's filling some of the nonames in West End I've noticed but never got to checking out. It's good you're being a little cautious - you'll certainly make mistakes, but soon learn from them and be more confident in no time. You'll also come to understand which types of mistakes or incompletenesses are less important.

Another no-brainer feature good for newbies is post boxes. It's all fun. Enjoy.

Hi - good to have you back in the fold. :~) There's quite a few other regular contributors too, now, so there must be a dozen or so around Brisbane now.

I traced a few paths in that nature reserve around Seventeen Mile Rocks / Sinnamon Park a couple of months back (Edenbrooke, it seems to be called). Sometimes I forget to do anything with my traces. If you are planning to cover this, let me know first and I'll map what I've done there. Will serve as a better foundation. I should do it anyway.

Thank you. I love reading about forgotten places like this and imagining life there. I hope an Ed7er takes up your offer.

If the bus stop points are accurate (or close enough), just put highway=bus_stop for the time being. That would be a great help. Someone can come along later and add metadata, but having that point will make their task easier (they won't even need the GPS) :~)

Everyone has their own scheme, BTW, for public transport metadata, so look around the wiki and cherrypick the tag keys you like. :~)

You can probably also use your accessibility features – Orca screen magnifier and the like. I suspect Compiz is more fun, though.

In any case, don't you just see a bunch of big pixels when you zoom?

Hope your pair-mapping expedition went well. Waiting for the diary entry. :~)

Nice cable! That expensive little requirement was the sting in the tail of my purchase. I'd like to see a direct USB connector if that's possible.

Late comment – you've probably been using this a lot by now. I just wanted to advise you that it will take some time before you work out the most effective way(s) to use the eTrex H. Expect to make methodological mistakes. Keep tweaking your process as you learn more about your device. You probably won't make mistakes in your mapping so much, you just might miss stuff or do things inefficiently. This can all be fixed, even if not by you.

Good luck!

@BlueMM: I was certainly vacillating there, but I think you're right and I've now changed it. Thanks.

oops - "@Circeus"

Thanks both. :~)

@chippy: I know about Osmarender and I've found at least one instance of where I've pointed to it in the past. The problem is it's still not as nice a rendering as Mapnik, and anyone reading a diary entry _after_ the next slippy map update would presumably prefer Mapnik. I have intentions to dive into Osmarender and help make it nicer, as I think SVG has a lot of advantages "going forward", as they say. I'm still trying to figure out why it's been written as a push stylesheet. ~:~| (more importantly, whether I can work with that or change it)

@Circus: I'll apply that tag and investigate whether the wiki mentions it. It should certainly be easier to find. Pretty sure I looked at the page on the "access" key.

A very pleasing find. Let's hope Canonical get the memo.

I am truly sorry and thanks for letting me know. I take back everything complimentary I said about the ABC. This is seriously lame. I believe the BBC engage in this sort of crudulence. I find it hard to buy the reason of "copyright", too. ABC News flash: the Web is global. You might try an Australian proxy if you can find one.

Quite often I'm embarrassed of my country. Sheesh.

Oh, yeah: "I'm only seeing what it's like - I won't get hooked." :~)

Yes, lanes=1 is good, and also need to indicate the direction of priority. I think I've used direction=1|-1, but might switch to priority=1|-1. Also, some of the longer bridges have points where vehicles can pull over, to effectively segment the bridge and make it easier for them to enter. This might all turn into a proper proposal if I don't stumble on something soon. Cheers.

That was pure hubris to expect I wouldn't screw a tag up somewhere. Could have been worse, I guess. {:~|

awesome?!

Errors now fixed :~)

On my way home, picked up two streetnames which I messed up in today's slightly embarrassing debut. Will fix ASAP. Here are the errata:

* Nicholson Street (-27.5287,153.02895) is actually Nicholls Street
* Glenelg Street (-27.52484,153.029221) is something like Glendale Grove - need to confirm outbound tomorrow.

Sorry.

Thanks for your comments. I did RTFM BTW but remembering when it counts is another matter. (I think that "live data" message actually confused me - noticed the Thursday bit eventually). In my browsers and in my head, I can only keep so many tabs open :~)

If Potlatch works in Gnash, I'm happy and surprised. The wiki warns to steer clear of it if you don't like Flash. Will also give Merkaator a bash, so to speak.

Anyway, I have a couple of errata to announce and rectify (refer next comment).