I too got the Dakota 20 a few months back, any tips on using it for OSM work? Haven't done much GPS trace work in OSM yet...

+1 for OSMtracker (on v0.10). Has a few issues on HTC Touch HD, but otherwise very good.
Waypoint addition & ability to view (& download) OSM tiles is fantastic...

Hi Louise, as Fairfield mentioned, it would be impossible to GPS map the boundries, there are plenty of parks without a designated fence the whole way round. If you wanted to walk it, you would have to refer to a copyrighted map :(
I remember some mention on the Australian OSM mailing list that the laws introducing a new national park has coordinates for the boundary in the legislation, but if that is true, I am unsure how comprehensive it is (marine parks are usually easy to define, the Alpine National Park - not so much :P ).

Ideally the government 2.0 initiative looking to make data more accessible will include data on park boundaries...

I'm personally in the "mark boundaries at actual locations" camp. I believe some routing programs allow for the non-joined nodes. I think of it as data accuracy, just because roads (areas) are modelled as ways, doesn't mean other features have to loose accuracy. Also, let's say someone comes along and asks "what is the total area of local parks & reserves in my local council?" -> it will be wrong if we share nodes.

Nice work eplatypus, I've been out that way recently, and it looks like you are doing a thorough job :-)
When you are comfortable with your mapping, it's a good idea to add the source annotation to roads, POI's etc. If using Yahoo imagery to trace (like me) in Potlatch, hit Shift+S to add source=yahoo. Also if you are going around and noting down the street names, use source:name=survey (or photograph, notepad, local knowledge, dictaphone etc.) See osm.wiki/Key:source

You can't use maps.live.com as a source or even just to look at while you're editing the map. See osm.wiki/Copyright
I piece of tainted data puts OSM at risk...

We thought about using Wikipedia for place position information, but since the lat/lon might of been obtained from Google Maps, we couldn't because of copyright issues.

WFM!!
All layers, including maplint for Melbourne areas I haven't viewed recently (not in my cache) work fine

Is the license for the PDF map compatible with OSM? Obviously if not, it can't be used to add street names etc. See osm.wiki/Copyright for more info. If there is any doubt, check with the Legal mailing list.

Hi awesm,
It's a tough call, but I would of thought the loc_name tag would be more appropriate...

Be careful about the street names, due to copyright from the municipal map. Hopefully it is public domain, or compatible with OSM, otherwise you will have to go out and note down all the street names from street signs like I have to!!
Usually it's best to ask on the Legal talk mailing list to see if it's ok to use.

Hate to mention it, but is the "official MROSD map" copyright compatible with OSM? Most official maps in my area are copyright, and can't be used in OSM :-(

Rhubarb,
Macleod / Yallambie?? That's a bit far from Essendon on bike!!! Though I do have some friends out that way, but usually drive A to B & back. I feel for you on those hilly sections, we don't have much to complain about out this way. I've ridden Templestowe Road to back home once from Croydon, I think I hit 80kmh down own of those hills!!

RRover,
I did some research, and I'm pretty certain it's tainted. GA maps are free as in beer but not free as in speech, they do have copyright restrictions. This has been discussed before:
Geoscience Australia Administrative Boundary data
Geoscience Australia 1:250K data
Geoscience Data
Deleting some GNB names..
and finally
[OSM-talk] OSDM data source
A few people respond "yeah, I think it's ok", but in that last listed thread, Andy Allan suggests the specific copyright license GA has for the data should be discussed on the legal-talk mailing list (it doesn't seem to have been brought up there). Then Ian Sergeant suggests the "requirement for tracking derivatives and changes to the terms and conditions of the agreement" is incompatible with OSM & it's CC-SA. Ironically, even other CC-SA data maybe incompatible with OSM (depends on what the attribution requirements are).

Shonky's copyright notice looks bad for OSM http://shonkylogic.net/shonkymaps/copyright.txt
Remember, all data is copyrighted by default (and therefore unusable for OSM), unless it's "proven" to be ok.

Hopefully all data added to OSM has source/source:name=Geoscience Australia or GA or Shonky so people can fix.
I'd recommend deleting the added data, or bringing it up on the legal-talk mailing list, so people who deal with this stuff can provide an answer.

AFAIK, you can't use Geonames data in OSM. Geonames get data from anywhere it can, and doesn't meet the OSM license requirements. See osm.wiki/index.php/Geonames

As always for new data sources, if it's not mentioned that is ok to use on the wiki, bring it up on the legal mailing list to verify it's fine to use.

RRover,
Yahoo & OSM made an agreement that OSM could use Yahoo images to create copyright-free traces, the normal derivative clause in copyright work is waived. So using Yahoo! sat images is ok (OSM is only allowed to use it through Yahoo's API), but using something like Google is not (because, by default, everything is copyright unless granted a derivative license, and in the OSM case, needs to match their CC-by-SA or public domain license). Lots of headaches for the folks on the talk-legal mailing list.

BTW, not sure what Oziexplorer is (though I've heard of it), but I imagine it's copyrighted, therefore tainting OSM's database. I would replace the shoreline by tracing using the Landsat aerial photos & use source=landsat instead of source=yahoo (the Yahoo! background in Potlatch shows public domain Landsat at low zoom levels, which won't make it highly detailed, but it will need to be GPS surveyed eventually anyway).

The fire permit travel is gonna help a lot, I've always thought that stuff will be the last "unknown" in OSM. Imagine the day when everything in the Alpine National Park is OSM mapped!!!

BTW, the new HTML 5 draft spec is planning on using for truly empty field. Though I think some kind of "namespaced" solution would be better than {}. Hopefully can find something a bit more generic than :absent

osm.wiki/index.php/Potlatch/Keyboard_shortcuts History section says you can press U to show deleted ways (after opening Potlatch on the area concerned). I think you have to click on a lock symbol or something to undelete it.

StefanM: Yep, that was pretty much my concern. Some systems key off the email address instead of a primary ID key.
TomH: About to send a message to you...

The Maplint overlay on the map shows roads without names as an orange highlight, with tiny writing (eg. residential-without-name). Might mean you don't have to add note=FIXME or similiar everywhere. Not sure what Maplint shows for non-tagged ways or highway=road (the new "I don't know the classification of this road" way). If away from a web browser & internet, I think the validator plugin for JOSM shows the same warning...