Congratulations!

osm.wiki/Editor_usage_stats shows that Potlatch still has a big bunch of users, which is a testament to its quality. Thank you for your work on it.

You too! Happy mapping!

Ahh, no they can’t, you’re right.

Thank you once again for your interesting diaries. It seems that in every city built along an old road, you can still recognise the orientation of the long gone road in the city’s grid.

Have you looked at Leaflet instead of <table> to create simple web maps?

Ah, this might be a good half solution for the US Department of State Humanitarian Information Unit imagery too!

Welcome! Keep mapping until it doesn’t fit in a diary entry :)

That was a very interesting analysis. Thank you.

I actually find your debugging posts quite terrifying - it explains why the JOSM developers are such a small group!

Do you get an exception if you run it outside of Eclipse? :)

Would any old maps help explain why that street was built? The lower left corner looks like there was something there before.

Is it safe to wave back on a Brompton? :)

James’s advice is good - a good tightening of every bolt and nut on a new bike after a month or two is usually necessary, and the bike shops will usually include that first service in the bike price.

One of the challenges is very basic: finding them and reaching them. I’m using Pascal’s local changes feeds, and sending messages manually. What about you?

Ah, I’ll just put the Richard Fairhurst badge on and get onto my flashy canal boat!

More seriously, only one user still uses P2 around here because it fits nicely into his workflow. He is extremely active, but hasn’t created many relations. I don’t mind fixing the occasional one.

What I’m reading between the lines of their response is that some areas aren’t covered by hydrants and would therefore make good arson targets.

These people might know! http://www.papplewickpumpingstation.co.uk/contact_info.htm

A lot of the institutional knowledge and archives would probably have become lost in the privatisation, but it could always be worth asking.

Donated! Congratulations @mikelmaron and thank you very much! It’s very noble of you to ask for the reward to be donated.

Now if we could get @mentions working… :)

I have nothing constructive to add, but wanted to tell you that I enjoy your field reports. Thanks!

Thank you for the clarification, Simon!

It sounds like we’ll get the best of both worlds in this case then - everyone can get the best available map, and OSM gets validation and resolution of differences between official and OSM data for free.

I’m certain that you can’t launder ODbL data to become public domain data. If there were a way, it would certainly go against the spirit of OSM. The point of the share-alike clause, to many people, was to stop the Google and TomToms of the world from getting OSM data without sharing back.

I’m not sure how NYC understands the ODbL and gets errors reported. If the error reporting happens before the data layers are mixed, there is of course no problem. If there is a point where mappers can report mistakes in the data they have found without comparing the official data with OSM, it’s great. If there is a systematic automatic diff with OSM, and all output is investigated, it’s still a significant extract from the database.

There’s nothing that stops a government from maintaining two databases concurrently, or from only releasing ODbL data.