http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24603064-41/welch-commission-eugene-government-map.csp is the link. If they want to change it, might as well tag name=Eugene Beltline Road/Randy Papé Beltway; old_name=Belt Line Road; new_name=Randy Papé Beltway to solve that problem (or not)

It also works on IE7 as well (sort of)

You can't use data from Google maps here.

Try tourism=hotel, resort=yes. If it was close to the shore, I would have tagged it as natural=beach.

sorry for screwing up some of your edits. if need help, you can email me.

Caramoan is known by some people because of the French adaptation/version of Survivor.

If ia footway/path has a "no trespassing" sign, use access=private instead. access=no is used when the footway/path is barricaded (and no one can pass through that barricade).

you can use trac.openstreetmap.org, that *our* version of bugzilla, or something like that.

What else is new? The buildings have a different shade. Or have a different color altogether (from chocolate-ish brown to something close to a mixture of gray, brown and black).

it may not work at first, but once you press the refresh/reload button after doing that (adding the line for the /etc/hosts file), the map transforms - from the Google one to the OSM one. Sometimes, the layers (and transitioning) are a bit different from what you might expect. Other than that, good job.

I've welcomed a new mapper named "Pufferfish". Gave him some tips, and invited him to join the mailing list. It's a good start, that's for sure. Maybe we need to make a "survey" for our new mappers.

Regarding housenumbers, don't add name=My House or My Friend's house (unless it is an actual establishment, like a pub or a restaurant, or maybe a school). Some people are paranoid when it comes to their privacy.

well, who's FAIL is it?

Hi! Just made a few corrections in your place. I noticed that a good number of intersections weren't connected, so I corrected them. Airports are probably landuse=industrial (like the airport in Las Vegas, Nevada), and I corrected some ways. If it's a runway, it should be a way, not an area. If you want to tag some node, way or area like highway=something, the "highway" part should be on the first blank space, while "something" should be on the second blank space. If you need any help, just ask any experienced contributor, by sending them a message. To send a message, go an experienced user's page, then click on "send message".

@Dion Dock: I already applied natural=tree to at least two notable trees within a university (see osm.org/browse/node/489478574 and osm.org/browse/node/438057680 ; the latter tree is named as such due to a somewhat confirmed "urban legend" within the said university)

I've added over 200 housenumbers on my map (including my house) (see osm.org/?lat=14.077292&lon=121.323585&zoom=18&layers=B000FFF ), but nobody (so far) has found out where I lived through the map (except some close friends and relatives). It's safe to add housenumbers, for as long as you don't put name or note=X's house or whatever (except if a certain amenity - like a restaurant - has a housenumber). As a sign of a "continuing addiction", I've added some buildings in my city's downtown area.

@Zartbitter I use OpenStreetBugs, but it's on the appspot.com subdomain.

@nmixter this addiction (adding too much detail to OSM) is probably helpful, since (presumably) everyone will know where that amenity is.

@JohnSmith I'm not at that level (yet), but I've managed to tag two trees as tourism=attraction within a university's campus.

everyone else: I've added housenumbers (within my home city only), banks, fuel stations, footbridges, schools, at-grade foot crossings, emergency bays on a major highway (soon), surveillance cameras, some convenience stores, traffic signals, full names of certain streets, speed bumps, maxspeed, some stretches that are dual-carriageway, banks, restaurants, some buildings and landuse (probably guessed its area), dormitories (tagged as amenity=dormitory) and the list goes on.

Maybe the GT-31 had some contact with water (possibly through rain droplets, placing it near a wet spot), which was the reason why the GT-31 that I have was "frozen" just days after acquiring it. Is the display on your GPS stuck on "Sat Signal"?

Your edits in Trancas Beach is one proof that we will stop at nothing to improve data, and to make sure that (almost) nobody is lost or disoriented in alomst any area covered by OpenStreetMap, especialy if that certain place is known for its notable residents. What's next: amenities, buildings (houses) and their housenumbers?

Regarding navigation systems, it may be feasible, but they cannot afford it (I think). However, crime statistics (and hotspot) maps are more feasible, since they can just export the map, add their marks (boundaries and all), and publish and/or print it, without the copyright fuss (they can just add "from OpenStreetMap, under CC BY-SA 2.0"). Maybe OSM can improve their response time, even if they don't have a navigational system (or a GPS).