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Residential roads is for roads in city centers or village centers, so where there are a lot of houses next to the road.
Unclassified is for narrow roads but with less houses around it, maybe a farm once in a while.
Tertiary is for roads where you can easily cross each other: where you don't have to slow down or leave the road to cross each other.
for unpaved roads where speed is limited because of the surface: you should use the track value. You can show drivable it is by using the "tracktype" key.
For roads that are too narrow for cars, highway=path is used. That is if you can't choose between highway=footway or highway=cycleway.

@Vclaw:

When you use GPSies, you can show the map on a website with an iFrame. But the standard map is google maps. Is it also possible to define the cyclemap or openstreetmap as default?

I've seen that bikemap is the only other that can export to an iFrame, and there you can choose the default layer.

Excusez moi, mon français n'est pas très bon. Il-y-a 3 ans que j'ai parlé du français.

Je vois que tout va bien. Si vous avez des questions concernant OSM, n'hésitez pas à les poser.

Welcome to OpenStreetMap, where tests are sent around the world

Bievenue chez OpenStreetMap, ou les tests sont envoyées à tout le monde.

Please, don't use motorcar and motorcycle if you want to adopt it for all vehicles. See the access page for the classification: osm.wiki/Access#Land-based_transportation

So in your case, I guess it should be motor_vehicle=destination.

On the other hand, most people think that destination-only access implies that pedestrians and bikes are allowed because they don't travel large distances (except for some racers). I don't know if that's right, but I know that no policeman would stop a bicycle because he's in a access=destination street. So I believe that allowing bikes and pedestrians in access=destination areas is OK.

For me, I use bing for precision. Take this path: osm.org/browse/way/94237529

It's a small path between houses, so the gps has a very bad signal. My gps track jumped more than 10m to both sides of the path. If you look on Bing imagery without a GPS track, the path isn't even visible. But if you have both: a GPS track and Bing, you notice the two pairs of houses where there is just a little bit of space in between. So the path is there.

I also use bing to correct way layout. Bing is far more precise around here than a GPS can get. Maybe it will become better when Gallileo comes out in a few years.

It is only updated if the last update is older than xxx (depending on zoom level) and if someone looked at the tile.

This must be in on the main page (once it's stable). together with routing, it's just what I miss on the main page.

How to collect gps points depends on what GPS you have: is it a garmin, a smartphone, something else.

Contact me if you have questions. I don't think I will read this again.

Yes indeed, I never thought about Symbian. It should also be possible to port it to symbian. Nothing is more closed than apples iPhone, so if you can do it there, it should be do-able for symbian too.

The first thing can be done if there would be some preprocessor which applies is_in tags to all objects in boundaries before maptool parses it.

About the user interface: It takes a huge interface to define a map rendering schema or to define routing weights, so I think those things should stay in XML (maybe splitted in different XML files). Other settings (with lesser choice) could go to the GUI.

That's up to Microsoft's decision. MS buys photo's with different resolution of different areas.

If they see a lot of advertisers come from that area and a lot of visitors too, they might invest in better images.

relations are a quite advanced thing.

Maybe it works better for you to edit relations in Potlatch 1 or in JOSM.

just look at the wiki for the tagging schemas.

I guess every area has much more inactive members than active ones. I think OSM can deliver quality maps with 1 active user per village.

As for leading by example. I'm now a (quite active) OSM member for 9 months. And 2 months ago, a member that was already member for 12 months in a neighbour village started editing. That's without me sending a mail to him.

BTW: If I look at your editing area, I see that it's already quite well maped. When I started mapping, the street where I live wasn't on the map and about 100 people live in my street.

JOSM has a "repair" function.

It sometimes complains when I didn't shut it down the right way, but when I had a thing like you had, JOSM could find my data back (it has happened 2 times now).

Yep, it's the winter for the armchairs, I'm doing armchair mapping myself. Thanks to Bing, I've found areas that have pretty mutch no OSM data.

Als je een zoekfunctie wil voor de kaart, dan kan je waarschijnlijk nominatim gebruiken:

osm.wiki/Nominatim

http://weait.com/content/control-appearance-your-business-openstreetmap

Je kan dit artikel lezen om je eigen POI's te tonen op een OSM kaart. Als je het dynamischer wil kan je waarschijnlijk het tekstbestand vervangen door een php bestand die zijn informatie van een database haalt. Hoe je info aan een database moet toevoegen heb ik geen idee van. Waarschijnlijk kan je de gebruikers met javascript, als ze klikken op de kaart, doorverwijzen naar een php pagina met een text veldje. Maar ik heb geen tijd om het uit te zoeken.

Groeten,
Sander

It all depends on what area you are, I know an area where the images are only 1 year old, some other are more than 5 years old.

There is a tool for checking: http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/

But in my area, it's not correct. It says the images are taken between 1980 and 2007 while I know they can only be 1 year old. Maybe it's better in your area.