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The govenment is making it hard for us

Well it's about the routing software ... some 'very clever' people just do what their GPS says ....

The first time I used a GPS (the purpose was to set ip up for a collegue) I was standing on the roof of a building in Brussels, after it found the satellites , I asked it to show me the way to the south train station ... It just said "go straight forward for 1km .... :)
Just do not trust the lady :)

footway vs. track

Track is an 'unpaved dirt way' see wiki for a picture ...

How to change incorrect city name

osm.wiki/Potlatch/Primer

osm.wiki/Potlatch/Primer#Editing_tags

Mapnik renders get faster and faster

I already did some changes in Potlach that was already rendered in Mapnik when I leaved Potlach !

DisneylandParis on GM/OSM

Well there is a node where there is a break in an almost straight line ...

But I think I confused myself with the mapsurfer hack that replacs streetmap in GM with OSM , it seems it now also replaces the data on top of the aerial pictures seamlessly ...it tricked myself ...

I'm feeling Goofy now :)

Case closed : it WAS OSM data :)

DisneylandParis on GM/OSM

Strange , I'll check again from home ...

DisneylandParis on GM/OSM

Well, data in OSM is based on French cadastre ... Google might have the same source ... but both seems to have the very same nodes ... seems odd ...

OSM and commercial opportunities

This :
Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

How to change Google Maps to OSM globally

Simple , efficient , Impressive :)

except that OSM is also displayed when choosing satellite or relief

How to mark non-existant roads....

What just not tagging what does not exist ....

Vote for the Data Liberation Front to tackle aerial imagery

Done :)

Mapping a horizontal crevasse

Well from what I understand , the buidings were build directly inside the caves, the caves did not build around the houses ....
You can also add a maxheight tag for routing purposes but it does not qualify as a tunnel in my mind.

Internationalization of OSM map web page, more feature requests

To search GPX's for a specifig tag , just edit the url in the adress bar !!

osm.org/traces/tag/SEARCHED_TAG

Edits by users in Iceland

I'm famous now :)

Tracking and problems along the way

It might just be a humidity problem .... so putting your GPS in a plastic bag ...

Day Two

If you mind about privacy : start and stop the GPS away from your home, or edit the traces to remove start and end ....
Besides privacy, it would also de-clutter the area around your home.

Fixing incorrect level crossings

Just deleted the common node, then cut the part of the railway that is on a bridge (from one way railway to three parts railway), add the bridge tag to that part ... done

GPS Traces searchable?

You can 'search' based on tags .... : click on one tag in the list on the left, thn replace the tag in the url and see if it returns something

I would like to ask

Coordinates are not very human friendly ...
When I use GMaps , I type the name of a city, place, street ...
But you can always alter the url with you coordinates (decimalize them first , then click on permalink and bookmark ...

Putting names on big rivers

For large rivers , there is a riverbank tag, used with a normal river tag associated with a name tag