also.. way osm.org/browse/way/41789599/history was redacted?

I found that the freeways are missing sections, as well as onramps/offramps.

If you know for a fact that those driveways are named the way you say that they are named, ie. from a site visit or from free data, then change the names back with a ‘No, really, this is the name of the street’.

I think that a lot of edits on OSM are of the ‘my import is higher resolution that the other guy’s import’ or ‘my gps is better than your gps’

I think that OSM mapping is like driving a car.. 90% of the people think that they are doing it better than the average person.

The faster start up times of the Euro and Glonass systems are because of the message formatting of their GPS signals is different. Modern GPS’s store satellite almanac data in memory for a warm start (otherwise there will be a minute warmup time - they may wait for the 12.5 minute signal), but they typically have to obtain more precise satellite location data which is broadcast every 30 seconds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Communication

From a routing point of view, there is a left turn lane to turn onto the onramp.

I think they’re in the process of building up their map database.

did the gpx file have a lot of points? In the past, gpx traces with 10’s of thousands of points wouldn’t import. Where did the gpx file come from? Some applications create gpx files which are not compatible with OSM.

The renderer is a finite resource. It may take a few hours to be rendered.

Also, refresh your browser.

Sounds impressive. This is higher than the Peak to Peak Gondola at 436 meters above the valley floor. http://ww1.whistlerblackcomb.com/p2pg/experience/

You seem to have a negative attitude about the way other people do things based on the words you use.

If your tag improvement idea was so great, then you’d get buy in. If you meet apathy to your tagging scheme, then your scheme isn’t that great.

Adding swear words isn’t going to get your more buy in.

Is the block system a neighbourhood? How about place=neighbourhood place=* place=neighbourhood

Is QSC a location rather than a neighbourhood? Would tagging the place as ‘place=locality’ work?

Mapping before the 70’s was done with aerial imagery.

Airplanes also used radio beams from base stations to aid in keeping a straight path. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_beam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_navigation

Apparently, sextants were accurate to 200 meters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant

Yes, you implied that tracing satellite imagery was the main priority.

What frustrates me when mapping is when I map out a trail using an accurate gps, and backtrack so that there are multiple tracks to reduce noise, spending a couple of hours to find that someone has gone and traced from misplaced imagery, or imported low resolution tracks from CANVEC.

When you use a GPS with 10 foot accuracy, and go over a trail multiple times, and filter out the outliers, and average out tracks, you end up with a more precise location than Bing or Yahoo imagery will provide.

When I look at a path such as osm.org/edit?lat=35.320155&lon=33.34458&zoom=18 and look at the GPS tracks, I see what appears to be two pairs of repeatable gps tracks taken by a pedestrian or cyclist on the edge of the roadway, and the roadway is not centered between those two pairs of tracks.

This makes me think that you are tracing imagery which is not accurately placed.

There’s more to OSM than tracing satellite imagery which may not be calibrated to GPS tracks on the ground or may be out of date.

It seems that someone may have clicked the 'straighten' button.

If you edit a road with Potlatch 1, click on the advanced menu then select Way History.
Cristhian was the last person to edit this, so you may be able to revert to the previous version.

Here's a Bikeradar debate on this as well. http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=14559058
There is a no cycling-horse-pedestrian sign on there somewhere.

Well dcp, that is just laundering non open data to make it look like it's open.
To me, it's not different than looking at a google map and going 'oh, that's main street'.. then naming a traced out street on OSM as 'Main Street'.

I think the project would be better off if a bot deleted all the data, and normal users added streets from open sources.

The other question is a good one: will the non ODBL streets be deleted, or is this just speculation?

good work. cool browser thingy.

got your message. I think what you're describing is a kind of rural residential. I grew up on a large yard with a pony and dog and a large field. Part of it was a garden with peas and strawberries.

Maybe you're right, the Meadow tag would be a better fit.
landuse=meadow

info on farm tags. osm.wiki/Farm

in their license terms they say you cannot 'create derivative works from'....

oh well.