Guys, it's fine to tag for the renderer, the problem is to not tag incorrectly just because you like the colours. See osm.wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer

Sounds like you need to add yourself to osm.wiki/Mapping_accidents !

As Richard says, please don't import data based on locations in Wikipedia. It's a pretty well known policy that these are not suitable for OSM.

Or you can do what many of the rest of us do - just draw it by hand! Fairly laborious but the end result is a gold-star quality road.

Hey there - some of us are working on connecting the Interstates across the whole US - properly fixing them up (making them dual carriageways, fixing junctions etc). There's a grid of connected cities at osm.wiki/TIGER_fixup/250_cities - maybe you'd be interested in working on more of them?

Good choice - that's my recommendation at http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/gps-recommendations !

In TIGER there was only one classification for link roads, and so they all ended up as motorway_link. If you look all around the USA you'll see them sprinkled around all over the place.

Flash isn't a requirement to use OSM - it's just one option, and for most people it's the easiest. I think the only technologies that are required are HTTP and XML, and beyond that you can take your pick of implementations. We've got flash (Potlatch), Java (JOSM), C (osm2go), C++/Qt (merkaator), perl (bulkuploader.pl).......

osm.wiki/Key:phone

Congratulations, well done on achieving this.

Yep, it's easy enough that I can do it!

Nice to see more work on cyclemap-related stuff in France!

You can also use the Yahoo! aerial imagery to help align the roads - make sure it's showing in Potlatch and check it out!

I'd definitely leave it in there, there's a whole state = proposed concept that can easily be extended to state = closed or whatever.

Good to hear that you're having fun - keep it up! There's plenty of stuff you can help out with.

For the conference, you can either make an application, or email Nick about it. You can see the full call for venues at http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=318

As for the other project idea - we're a pretty diffuse bunch of people, so I'm not sure who exactly you want to arrange this meeting with!

I'd say more accurately the ncn stuff is for marking signposted cycle networks, which is different from individual cycle paths (highway=cycleway)

That wasn't osm.org/?lat=51.551181&lon=-0.253165&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF by any chance was it? When I was transiting between cake sections I found something that sounds very much like what you describe - I carried on without going down it either!

Awesome

No, this statement is incorrect. Cycleways that are not part of the road (e.g. on a pavement, or completely separate) should either be tagged as highway=cycleway on a separate way, or cycleway=track on the same way that has the highway tag. The separate way(s) is generally preferred.

cycleway=lane is only for cycle lanes on roads that are separated from trafffic by a painted line (or similar).