I have noticed that there are a lot of people joining OSM just now. Larger numbers are always a good thing, but I do wonder at this time whether the anarchistic model will suffice in the future.

Not only could there be vandalism like Wikipedia's, but the "tag how you wish" approach could prove to be confusing and wasteful.

I'd say that the next 6 months will be absolutely critical for OSM. The work ongoing in changesets and suchlike for the 0.6 API is a step in the right direction.

I welcome opinions on the future direction of OSM.

Originally the A811 was in OSM as highway primary. I noticed that some signs on it were green, so I changed it to trunk. SpeedEvil confirmed its primary route status.

Today, I noticed a part of it was back as primary, so I sent a message to the last editor. I hadn't noticed the note tag expaining Transport Scotland no longer consider it as a primary route. Sorry about that.

I think possibly the island names are a bit too obvious on the T@H layer.

Yesterday, I noticed a new sign on what I knew as Carseview Drive. It proclaimed the road was "Carse View Drive". I thought I may as well change it to the new name, but perhaps this wasn't such a good idea.

The new sign was placed high on a pole, you can guess why.

Whenever I hear of Armidale, I think of a small village on the Isle of Skye.

Just thought I'd mention it.

Looking at the region just north of the M8/M73 junction, I noticed a lot of ways that didn't connect to each other.

Just for a laugh, I have opened my passing_places proposal to comments. Have fun.

I noticed a lot of bad data in the Lochwinnoch region. Unconnected ways, nodes all over the place at ends of ways and using the same nodes twice in each way were all in evidence. They were all made with Potlatch.

All errors have been fixed now, but please be more careful in future.

Any name=fixme tags near Glasgow will be removed. I don't agree with adding incorrect data to make things to be done more obvious.

Good news on the green list, I've already used it to get the A811 fixed.

Playing with potlatch made me notice that Glasgow has Yahoo imagery. Nice.

AlisonW, see osm.wiki/index.php/Slippy_Map.

Just to clear up, in Scotland, a road may be maintained by central government but not be a highway=trunk road.

I always thought "trunk roads" connected major areas of industry/commerce/population.

There is a primary route to Mallaig, 'nuff said.

It's nice to see huge amounts of more roads in Glasgow, although I am concerned about the accuracy of this new data.

* Please check that roads are indeed B roads before classing them as secondary.
* Please check the maplint map layer to see any errors (I see loads of unordered ways).
* Please enable the segment order numbers and segment direction arrows in JOSM.

Glasgow used to almost error-free (and road free), but with so many errors in the data, it's worse off.

I did about half an hour's work on an area, then pressed the delete layer button. Woops.

Surely JOSM should warn about deleting layers with modifications done to it?

Lakewalker will be very useful for use in Scotland, even if sciuro has done almost all the lochs manually anyway.

I have added the major villages of the Outer Hebrides to OSM with their Gaelic names as their default.

The eTrex Vista HCx is out, very annoying since I got my eTrex Vista Cx a wee while ago. Damn.

Back from Melfort a bit earlier than expected, which means tweaking of the A82, A83 and A816 to add more nodes to them, as I don't think they are enough of them.

My goodness, I haven't done very much to OSM recently.

I fixed a wee bit of the Clyde (removed tags on nodes and segments).