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SOTM2013 group photo counts 214 people

@LivingWithDragons or 81% of the people who agreed to be in the published list of people registered for the conference.

Inadvertant translation?

TomH: that would also explain why the languages kept changing for the same diary entry!

Housemapping is a madness

do houses there also have names? like osm.org/go/eu6HrlgR8--

Blank cheque

pretty sure it's not standard text - even the worst consumer EULAs don't have blank-cheque clauses (I know - I keep copies of every one I agree to at work)

Ferry line in the mountains?

a story everyone should read before they're tempted to correct 'obviously wrong' features without visiting!

80n had one where a roundabout was missing just one segment. he went there and found that it was indeed a roundabout that was missing one segment!

Lamp posts (tagging question)

great idea - I know several homes where the "best" description of how to get there is "N'th lamppost on the (left|right)" - saves someone having to count house numbers as they're driving down a long road looking for your house.

Lamp posts (tagging question)

Surely lit applies to the thing being illuminated (the road) rather than to the light-source? I seem to remember this discussion coming up on the lighthouse page (does lit=yes mean the lighthouse is illuminated with floodlights, or that it is illuminating the distant horizon)

expressive changesets

write a story, one word at a time, in your changeset history ;)

Crop circles near Errol, Perthshire

they are sometimes used as navigation features by pilots (since they're unique, and clearly visible from the air)

tourism=attraction? ;)

OSM features

http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/StaticMap/