The solution to your problem is very simple. Just click on the "permanent link" link on the main map, and if you replace lat by mlat and lon by mlon, you have a marker on the center of the map (you just need to aim that center).

This is more an interface problem than a real coding problem, and I would suggest to not put time in the interface until there is a routing engine on the main page. The routing engine needs to work with the permalink and also needs to work with markers.

And the border is on OSM too: osm.org/browse/way/120917329

Wat about Navit (or the fork Zanavi) or OsmAnd?

Zanavi does everything offline: routing, searching, rendering ... from vector data. OsmAnd combines offline and online services. You can render maps from offline vector data or view maps from different tile sources. You can search addresses from the offline data or search with nominatim. You can place OSM bugs, upload POI... For the moment, you can only do routing on OsmAnd with some online routers (or from gpx), but they are working on an offline routing engine.

Zanavi has the advantage that it's completely configurable. If you edit the XML settings file, you can define your own rendering, which is handy if you want to map certain features.

I agree Mapdroyd is very clean and usefull, but there are FOSS apps that give more features than mapdroyd.

Je kan natuurlijk ook volledig je eigen kaarten maken (voor iedere weg je eigen stijl kiezen, routevoorkeuren geven ...) maar dit is niet aangeraden voor een beginner. osm.wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin#Directions:_Creating_your_map_from_OSM_data

Voor het geval je een voorgemaakte kaart wil, er zijn genoeg vrijwilligers bezig met zulke kaarten samen te stellen. Er zijn verschillende kaarten (verschillende stijlen en route opties) mogelijk. Dus moet je eerst een soort kaarten kiezen.

Om de voorgemaakte kaarten in MapSource te krijgen kan je een van de volgende bronnen gebruiken: osm.wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download

Op de wiki staat als je die kaarten kan installeren in Mapsource, als ze autorouteerbaar zijn en voor welk publiek ze zijn.

Zo is http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ vooral voor automobilisten, http://openmtbmap.org/ is dan weer specifiek voor mountainbikers (met heel speciaal, routering voor moutainbikers, dat wil zeggen dat modderwegen voorrang krijgen op grote wegen) en http://www.velomap.org/ voor gewone fietsers.

Als je enkel fietskaarten van de BeNeLux wil kan je ook eens kijken naar http://sites.google.com/site/openfietsmap/ .

Ik krijg geen meldingen als je antwoordt op mij, dus als je mij iets wil vragen, dan mag je mij gerust een bericht sturen.

Hi,

Welcome to OSM. I see you have already done two edits. About your second one: you said you aligned a road to the areal imagery, do watch out that the imagery can be a bit off too. If you only have to align one road, there is probably no problem. But if a complete map is shifted with a few meters when you compare it to the images, than the images are probably a bit wrong.

If you want to check, you could probably use uploaded GPX tracks. In potlatch 1 (hover over the "edit" button to get in it), you can see the tracks if you press 'G'. I never heavily worked with Potlatch 2, but I think it is possible too.

As for the rest, just have fun. You can put everything on OSM that has a location. Going from pubs to dustbins, from house numbers to bicycle routes... In Germany, they even started mapping individual trees ( osm.org/browse/node/664561978 ) but I don't think we want this German precision in the entire world ;-)

As a beginner, it's good to read the beginners Guide: osm.wiki/Beginners%27_guide
And the video tutorials found on that page.

You can look here for a list of globally standardised tags: osm.wiki/Map_Features and for national agreements, look here: osm.wiki/India

If you have questions, don't be afraid to ask them.

Happy mapping.

how it happened? probably not your fault. But it can happen that an editor loses it connection when uploading and tries again to send it. Sometimes the first try did succeed, so you get 2 exact same uploads.

Wow, just arrived and editing a route. That's one of the most difficult parts of OpenStreetMap.

Are you sure it is going well? The easiest things are adding points of interest and naming streets.

It really depends on where you're mapping. If the streets are already drawn, or you have good areal imagery, you don't need a GPS at all.

If you have no streets and no images, than you can't map without GPS.

Before Bing, I had to use my GPS to map. But now, I just draw everything on BING images before I start, than I print the map and go checking it out to give the names, POI, housenumbers ...

Some parts where you have to pass are not well developed (mainly North France). You can see an example of what I mean here:

osm.org/?lat=50.1504&lon=3.0046&zoom=13&layers=M

All grey parts are villages and the purple lines are boundaries of those villages. But neither the name, nor any streets are present.

So you will have to search your own route through there.

Still not gone? Come on, can SPAM be any clearer?

They are all restored, but they seem to have some holes (especially 8300) so if you can complete it, please do.

Ok, I followed this wiki page: osm.wiki/Undoing_Deletions

The undelete plugin seemed to crash, so I went with the manual method.

* Go to http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/[Relation id]/[version number before it was deleted]
* open the XML file in a text editor and change the version number of the relation so it is the same as the current (deleted) version on OSM
* add the key action="modify" to the relation XML node
* save the xml file, open it in josm and upload it to OSM.

I've undeleted relation 326688. If you can confirm that it worked, I will undelete the others.

It works also very well on Ubuntu 11.04 with ff4.0, but that's not the point.

Were you able to edit the map before? Can you use other flash content (like youtube videos)?

You can always use JOSM or Merkaartor, they are both great editors.

weird, only a day ago: osm.org/user/Mink/diary/14186

Welcome to openstreetmap. If you are willing to contribute (draw maps), you can watch these videos:
http://vimeo.com/24992100
http://vimeo.com/24984085
or read the beginners guide:
osm.wiki/Beginners%27_guide

1,2,3

When you go to here: osm.org/user/ThadG

you can go to your settings and set your location. This will show about 30 users of Openstreetmap in your area. Look when they did the last edit and see if there are active ones.

You can also look on the map and click "history". There are a lot of bots working but if you see an edit of a small area, that's probably a local editing. Check out his other edits to see if he's from the region.

Wonderful. Do you live near that area? there seems to be additional paths going through the smile.