Re 2012 - perhaps lots of press coverage about the licence change? Maybe we ought to do that more often :)

It’s also worth mentioning which Garmin device - some can display images, some only vector maps (see for example https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/27269/is-there-a-simple-way-to-create-a-garmin-custom-map-kmz-type-from-osm-data and the links from it for info about non-vector data).

The help site has lots of Garmin questions - it’s worth searching there with one of:

https://help.openstreetmap.org/search/?q=garmin+image&Submit=search&t=question

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=garmin+site%3Ahelp.openstreetmap.org&tbs=li:1

So did you do that last changeset hopping on one leg?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_%28cricket%29

:-)

Interesting - do you have any plans to look at what impact sending a message (or not sending a message) might have?

Last year I had a look at the effect on mapper retention of the new mapper messages sent in Poland:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/welcomewg/2013-March/000022.html

(and see links from there for two other months’ analysis). Essentially, it didn’t find a measurable difference in retention - but didn’t look at edit quality or any other possible effects.

Also you might find this previous study interesting:

http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2013/_extendedAbstract/401_proceeding.pdf

Cheers,

Andy

I wonder if that photograph would make a suitable “Image of the Week”?

osm.wiki/Featured_image_proposals

(it would need to be released under an open licence though as per that link)

Have you contacted the mapper concerned?

In cases such as this I’d normally suggest the dev API to them (if they’re testing stuff) or opengeofiction.net (if they’re just creating a fantasy map, which looks to be the case here).

Note that they’ve also modified the border of Egypt to exclude this as an enclave:

osm.org/way/308413685

It seems odd to thank someone for running an organisation that I’ve never actually joined, but - thank you!

Whilst OSMF might be “a tiny speck somewhere off centre” it’s often the public face of OSM. Like a drunken uncle at a family party, when they start behaving oddly, it gets noticed. Your OSMF chairmanship brought a dose of much-needed sanity to the board and the organisation; it’ll be sorely missed.

@Yorvik Prestigitator yes, it was a new user the last twice it happened, but on the most recent occasion it was found and fixed within ~6 hours so I don’t think that was more than a temporary annoyance.

You said above “Since few weeks, flood waters have subsided and the media frenzy have moved somewhere else.”. The second of those statements is true to an extent, but the first isn’t necessarily so.

According to a BBC TV news report yesterday, flooding in the levels has dropped around 0.5m, and the reporter was still able to do the usual piece to camera with acres of water in the background.

So yes, there is a discussion to be had about when and how transient events are mapped, and how long an event has to be to be considered “not transient”, but don’t assume that because the media have moved on that the events over. People in the Philippines are still getting back on their feet after last November, there’s still a civil war in Syria, etc.

So (assuming that Donington doesn't run out of cash before next year) does someone need to book a track day to get a GPS trace of the new layout?

Thanks - I've been meaning to sort out the 5 Pits Trail for ages!