My focus now is to translate as much as possible, but yes, I would need to do rounds of updating also, but that will come later.

Yeah, that is also an option.
I usually use google/reader for my feeds, gives me a good opertunity to organize them and allows me to catch up after being offline for a while. It is necessary since I travel the entire planet, as well as often work from locations with slow or limited internet access

It is probably easier (and more readable) to get extracts from surveylance cameras in the visinity of the accident, thna a sattelite image. Most sattelite images are of type 1-2 meters per pixle, and therefor unusable for extracting specific information, also exposure times are often long, so a moving vehicle might only appear as a line if at all.

Off the shelf GPS units tend to be more stable on the possition (better accuracy) when moving at constant speeds, so a bicycle trip to map roads is probably much better than to walk. Also averaging several tracks helps a lot. But be aware of urban canyons!

Bem vindo ao OSM, Brasil precicar sou ajuda

An example for us all, Google have been much better at advertising GMM, which lacks coverage, both in area and tags, so enlightening people about the better alternative in a friendly manner is probably both good for relations with other projects, recruiting more mappers, and not to mention allowing for more products to use our map.
I will for sure try to do something similar of I ever end up at a GMM information camp.

I had a tendency of ending up in emacs, since pico and nano insisted on breaking the lines where I didn't want it to.

Yeah I know all the bacronyms for emacs and lisp.

Since I have seen nothing about how to do formating, I did a wild chance on using standard HTML tags. Back in the "old" days I used to hand craft entire web sites....

Bookmarked, will download and test before next import takes place. Finalizing Vitoria import now.

This improvement looks good, both visually and technically. Hope that the RoR part is just as slick so we can have this up and running soon. It will be a great benefit for us who are trying to maintain large areas.

The problem with marine tagging is that two sites (freitonne and OSeaM) uses different tagging schematics. There are a proposal though to unify the tagging schemes for marine tags. I think the OSeaM crew have a special editor at hand for editing marine features, though I am not sure of the status of this editor. There are also a set of precompiled presets you can activate in JOSM that allows for some marine mapping.

I have mainly put #REDIRECT [[Key:key_name]] on tags I feel are explained in the key page, in that case it will find the same page no matter how it is set up. Though some keys such as source should be hardcoded to point directly to the key, no matter what value is put inside.

Must have been like walking into a freezer, returning to cold London from your Brazillian Christmas Holiday

Are you editing in Potlatch, than you should think of another editor. JOSM and merkaartor have the adventage that you can save the changefile to your computer (before you upload), and if it uploads with error, or if it doesn't register in the API for some strange external reasons, than you can try to upload it again a little later.

goldfndr: That entirely depends on the value of the keys, IMO all common values should have a page, if not other at least a redirect to a common description of several values. Many keys can describe the common values, such as key:wood kan describe tag:wood=mixed, tag:wood=deciduous and tag:wood=coniferous, but each of the tags should redirect to where you can find the descriptions. JOSM already have a function to link to the wiki for help on the preset keys, maybe a future version loads the pages from a wiki cache? Maybe other editors also have or are getting similar features?

I saw the layer information, I think I can make a script to do a building import, and some other features, but the roads I need to separate into a sort of data-layer and trace by hand in JOSM, working on various solutions. Did you see my mail regarding the split.pl?

A plead for translation, and half is done within a few hours :D Maybe we can manage to get the number of stubs down as well?

HannesHH, I didn't ask for the german translation of the words, you obviously didn't read my post or didn't understand it. All the pages you are mentioning are in German, a language I do not understand. In order to be able to translate the above pages to Portuguese I need them in English or Norwegian, your call.

I support the idea of emergency_service= tags, that opens for the highway services that exists along some of the highways in Brazil, where a duty mechanic and a towtruck is present also. Could be good to have these on the map as that is places you can stop by if you have some mechanical trouble with your vehicle (not that they will not fix it if spare parts are needed, but can easily help you get dirt out of a fuel filter, tighten bolts, etc.)

Colin have a point as br is the language Breton, while BR is Brazil, but as we probably have no Breton embassies than this can probably be done either by make the test ignore case, bot to change all to uppercase, or let the test force all to uppercase. All of these will have same result.