Now everything is OK again. It were 7 pages of GPX traces that weren’t procecced (not mine), maybe there was a problem with the first one.

In any case, my trace wasn’t big (just traced a new road they’re making) and made with an app I always use.

If you think Osmand is ancient, try Navit ;)

No, what makes you think Osmand is ancient? I’ve just started contributing bits of code (I believe 3 lines up to now :D) to Osmand because I think it’s a wonderful project. My father can use it (and he’s really not tech-savvy), and it’s techy enough for me.

For the moment, the team is busy with implementing a better UI (although I didn’t try their work yet) and someone is also working on listening to more calls (eg call Osmand from your contacts, or via a google maps link).

In Belgium, Waze is pretty worthless in total, since the biggest part (99%) of streets aren’t on Waze. While the quality of OSM is quite big in Belgium.

Is there some special feature you would like to see in Osmand? You can always ask it in the forums: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/osmand but it has to be an Osmand feature you ask for.

You can’t aks for a “traffic jam layer” (that would probably be the thing you want) when there isn’t one service providing such a layer. (Btw, Osmand is implementing such a layer for Russia via Yandex).

It looks like the German vibe went through Poland too, so it should be quite usable in Poland. Btw, it’s free to edit the map. If you see something wrong or a missing feature (even something trivial as a housenumber), you can zoom in to the right posistion and click “edit”.

If you have questions about how you can use the data for certain purposes (like for navigation on your smartphone), search the Wiki (the documentation link at the left of this page), or ask it here.

There is already a lot of software written for OSM, but don’t expect everything.

osm.wiki/Windows_Phone

You can take a look at the above, although I have to say that Windows isn’t such an attractive OS for OSM developers.

Btw, since we get maps by Bing (owned by MS), and Bing maps also has a OSM layer (although I have never seen it because I can’t run silverlight), so it is possible that the Bing maps app can use an OSM layer. But I don’t know this.

There were a few errors indeed. But nothing bad. I hope it’s fixed now.

Ok, I’ll investigate that relation. I’m downloading it now, so that takes a while (the Missouri isn’t a small river).

I’ll fix the relation in case it’s broken, and we’ll have to hope it will be fixed.

I don’t see what the problem is.

The river is rendered right? And I can’t find one of those straight lines you are talking about. Can you give an ID of one of them? Then we can investigate if there is a problem.

Btw, I must say your username is very similar to one of the OSM admins: osm.org/user/Firefishy

Bonjour, J’essayerai de répondre en français, mais ce n’est pas si facile pour moi.

On peut sans problèmes ajouter les tags concernant les camions. D’abord on a le tag général “hgv” pour camions de plus de 3.5t. osm.wiki/Key:hgv

Et les cartes sont ici: http://www.itoworld.com/map/160

Bien sur, ce n’est pas assez. Mais vous avez aussi les tags “maxweight”, “maxlength” et “maxwidth”. Mais je ne connais pas de cartes avec cette informations rendu.

Je doute que c’est possible de voir ces données en PC navigator (je ne connais pas la programme). Mais si tu veux, selon moi, c’est possible d’utiliser Navit pour ça (mais c’est un peu difficile a installer http://www.navit-project.org/).

Gnonthgol, can’t you use a bit of crowd-sourcing?

You can pick one specific problem that needs an algorithm, and post it on various social networks. It did already work for code in the Linux kernel: https://plus.google.com/u/0/102150693225130002912/posts/9gntjh57dXt

Ça deviens complètement addictif quant vous découvrez tous les projets dérivés de OSM. Comme le search: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Rue+du+Verger+125+Collonges&polygon=1&addressdetails=1

Richard, I have to disagree with you. Potlatch is a good beginner’s editor. But sometimes data can’t be edited with Potlatch. I’m thinking of relations of relations, and at some point, someone wanted to delete a huge way (overlapping several countries), and this wasn’t possible (or at least very difficult) via Potlatch too.

Although it has nothing to do with the case above. Some people using Potlatch may need to ask help for achieving difficult goals.

I thank you for providing Potlatch to us (I also used Potlatch at first, and couldn’t handle JOSM) but Potlatch is (as a beginner’s editor) not the solution to all OSM data problems. And it shouldn’t be either.

It’s updated now.

Normally (since the new servers), a few hours isn’t needed. But it can take 5 minutes though. Or in exceptional cases even more. The time also depends on the zoom level. Not every zoom is updated as often as the others.

But your problem was probably the browser cache indeed. If you refresh your browser, be sure to clear the cache (it depends on your browser how you do this).

It’s not that we can’t edit the data. But the data used doesn’t come from OSM but directly from NASA.

We don’t put altitude data in OSM because of certain problems with that.

First of all, it’s difficult to record. Even a good GPS can easily be 10m off in altitude. That is a big number. And you can’t walk everywhere with your GPS. So entire planes would be missing.

Secondly, all those lines would fill the database, and make it a real mess.

And lastly, it’s too easy to shift those lines around and cause inconsistency. Easier than with road data.

So that’s why OSM doesn’t include the altitude data in the main database (except for some important mountains, where we only note the height of the top). And therefore, the makers of those maps that want to use altitude (like Andy) need to get the data elsewhere.

If I look at the river, I see it’s aligned with the Bing images. So there’s also the possibility that the Bing images aren’t aligned correctly.

If you live near there, and it’s possible to follow the river while tracing, this would produce a GPX track, so we would know where the exact position is.

With only 2 sources (NASA and Bing), we can’t decide which one is wrong. We need at least a third one (and hopefully, it agrees with one of the two others).

If you aren’t able to do this, I think we should believe Bing.

Glad to hear that.

I just looked at your data, and it looks very good. I only found one mistake on this way: osm.org/browse/way/164748104

The tag “layer=5” is added.

The layer tag is only used to map things where one road is above the other. If the road is at ground level, it gets the tag layer=0. If it’s a tunnel, it gets negative values. And a bridge gets positive values. You can only have a layer=2 road when it’s already above a layer=1 road.

So layer=5 is pretty rare and is probably not the right tag. And in any way, not the entire way should be tagged with the layer tag. Only the part that is a bridge or tunnel.

See this wiki page for the official information: osm.wiki/Layer

I hope you were able to follow my explanation, and you are willing to apply the correct layer tag (probably just delete the tag, or if it’s a bridge, change the value to 1)

Euh, there is no Corse list, I meant the French mailing list.

You would probably best send this to the Corse list.

And maybe, if you want to discover active mappers, you can cheat a bit and edit your profile to set your home location to Corse. That way, you will see the “nearest mappers” from Corse.

Don’t forget to change it back afterwards though.

I assume you are referring to rendering an icon on the map?

This is not the right place to ask this, but I can help you with it.

First of all, it has to be a feature that’s tagged with some standard tags. The only thing I could find about onsen is this: osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Hot_bath_or_Onsen or maybe this: osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Hot_Spring

That doesn’t help me a lot further.

Could you tell me what kind of tagging is used for it? That tagging scheme should be documented in the wiki when it’s used a lot, or should go through a voting process when it isn’t used a lot yet.

The mapnik team will only consider rendering the icon when it has some good documented information about it.

Btw, I don’t get notifications when you reply, so please PM me.

Welcome to OSM.

Btw, I see you have changed some road types (from secondary to something else I believe). I don’t know the area (so I can’t judge what it should be), but if you doubt what road type you should select, it’s best to look at regional information for that: osm.wiki/WikiProject_Portugal

Have fun mapping (oh, and there is no doubt this will be the best project of it’s kind) ;)

En om de een of andere reden werd mijn enter niet gelezen. Wat ik dus bedoelde:

2 of meer vakken -> minstens tertiary

1 vak -> unclassified of residential