Some people do connect these footpaths to the road, I think it's wrong, you could add a note that the footpath ends, although you might also want to date it so that people know when it was last surveyed or checked.

Alternatively you could come up with a similar tag to dead end streets, eg noexit=yes... This might be a good question to pose to the tagging list...

@Vclaw while you can name each segment, it's better to use a relation that way mapnik or whatever rendering software you use can figure out how to best place name labels, rather than trying to cram labels for every segment...

How about storing and dealing with the rest of the world, not just a small part of it? A compressed copy of a XML copy the database is over 10G now.

There is software that can do this, like gosmore and navit, but you still have to preprocess the data into a format those apps like on the server.

BTC mapper can record GPS tracks as well.

Server side rendering occurs due to the amount of CPU power needed and HDD space to store the pre-processed data so it can be rendered.

As for multiple arms, you can group these using a relation.

Ideally you would be best finding another mapper close to you, because there is slight variations in mapping methodologies to help conform to local requirements, be that local local, state/territory local or even in the same country.

There is also country based mailing lists you can ask for help.

Failing that there is the newbies mailing list, the general talk list and so on.

I usually find I need to make 2 passes when doing GPS way tracking and then a 2nd pass to copy down street names, although it's a lot easier if the vector data already exists, or do you mean something completely different?

You could put a different relation for the different names and tag the source as to the source of the information etc.

Even if you could buy it from him, it doesn't sound like a source suitable for OSM since he probably doesn't have the rights to be selling it.

@Fairfield
> I can't make Bribie Island, but is there any pre-party desktop mapping that would be useful?

That was Monday night, there is another such party in the Grange in
about 2 months time...

> It's true the admin boundaries can get in the way, but they can also benefit from a bit of judicious tweaking here and there. The boundaries as derived from ABS are quite different from the gazetted boundaries, at least in my part of town, so I feel OK about doing so.

If you have access to gazetted boundaries, any chance of getting them
under cc-by ? :)

> Cases where the boundary lurches from side to side of the railway line, rather than down one side or the middle, crosses multiple land parcels, has roundabout humps that are quite a long way from the roundabout, or match up very poorly to river or coastline boundaries, look appalling, and to a lay person would undermine the perceived quality of the rest of the data.

Unless we can find an authoritative source of data we're stuck with
ABS boundaries, as for the zig-zagging they tend to straighten railway
lines, but do they shift the boundary when the railway line shifted?

Again without an authoritative source the ABS data is the best we have.

> Mind you, people put up with most appalling maps from Google Maps, so maybe I shouldn't be worrying.

I'm not saying we shouldn't fix boundaries up when we have a better
source of data, but until we have a better source of data there is no
point in trying to fix it.

Great work on getting Dutton Park up to such a terrific level of detail, are you planning to come help us out with Bribie Island for the next mapping party?

As for breaking the postcode/suburb boundaries, it's best to leave the admin boundaries alone unless you have a specific need to edit them, JOSM at least can now filter them from being editable or being seen altogether, and several of us are trying to make a concerted effort to split the boundaries from other ways that have been linked to them.

However all this will take time and in the mean time we patch stuff as it breaks...

@balrog-kun with the upcoming license change to ODBL it would be better to make sure the data is CC-by, not just CC-by-SA so it will survive the change over.

Why didn't you just use the slippymap plugin?

A couple of comments, you might want to make a relation of a relation in this case, use smaller relations to group sections of the trail and tag with the operator of that section, then add a super relation of all the smaller relations.

I wouldn't necessarily call that a good hiking map, it's the same base tiles with hiking trails highlighted, I'm currently planning to make a hiking style sheet that is similar to maps produced by the national parks and wildlife service and to render bush walking important things, and remove/reduce the focus/importance on things not import, also to add contour lines.

As for the label, you may need to add a ref=* or name=* tag, I doubt changing the case will have much effect.

You need to use OpenLayers to do this, the export function only exports map data.

@Pink Duck this is another reason for having the right tags, like source=*, set properly, that way you can make educated guesses about the quality of the data and how it should be handled.

Also I think you are over estimating the accuracy of boundary data, any surveys done are simply to mark on the ground what was on paper, since most boundaries mostly live on paper.

@Vclaw Do we really need another tag though, can't we just tag the area the same as the mid point?

Most likely your browser has cached the tile images, if you view the base image and ctrl+shift refresh it the name might appear, alternatively you can add /dirty to the end of the tile URL and the server will refresh the cached image on the server.

In general it should be no more than about 5 minutes after uploading changes before they will appear on the server.

I don't think it's that no one cares, I just don't think you went through the motions properly to achieve the outcome you were hoping for, I wrote this wiki page so I didn't have to keep typing up the same advice:

osm.wiki/Australian_Vandalism

It might be old but did ya really need to tell us about it 6 times?