CC-BY-SA works fine for data. Maps can be copyrighted as so many commercial mapmakers proved over the years.

I understand your concern, but I respectfully disagree.

In this city (Huntsville, Alabama), we have very few sidewalks that can get you anywhere, which is why I started to map them. They are definitely not present on most roads. It's difficult, but possible, to walk East to West, but danged near impossible to walk from North to South here.

And you can't really cross the street here at any point. You'll be run over by inattentive motorists on their cell phones texting. I mark the zebra ways where to cross.

I've looked over all the pros and cons in the old forums and saw the contention between several ways of doing things for mapping besides motorists. I saw that, for my city, the pros far outweigh the cons of having pedestrian routes marked on the map. I started out trying to do them as relations, but they never worked right as there is ofeten grass betweent he sidewalks and roadway, which is why I do them as their own single tracks from my GPS traces.

We will have a great sidewalk-then nothing for miles, then another sidewalk. As part of making my city more Bicycle and pedestrian friendly, I am adding the sidewalks and have already added all the bicycle routes. Pedestrians need maps just as much as vehicles do.

As for the routing, I don't know what to do about that, but I do know a visible sidewalk on the OpenStreetMap helps pedestrians a lot.

I apologize if this irritates you, but I feel am being helpful in volunteering my time to map the sidewalks for my city (which was far to motor-centric for too long) to make it more pedestrian friendly for the future.

Definitely spam. That was my freaking entry.

Thank you for cleaning up my work after me and creating the new relation. I have no idea how I hijacked a relation. It was unintentional.

Good luck. I've added a lot to Huntsville, Alabama's bike network since March. Relations was the hardest thing for me to understand, since most of our routes are shared lanes.

OSMTracker has been very reliable for me on my Droid. I don't know why yours didn't save.

OSMTracker has been very reliable for me on my Droid. I don't know why yours didn't save.

@JohnSmith, thanks for your reply. If I ever have time I will email you with a request. As I said, I really hoped someone else had done this already.

@Eriks Zelenka, thanks for that link. It's a great map for Europe, but what I add won't show up on it like it does the other one.

Thanks to both of you, that helped a lot.

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Someone apparently fixed the roundabout I tried to add, so yay for them.

"At first I thought lcn stood for "London Cycle Network" so I wasn't sure about using that for the bike paths here in the US."

Heh. I had the same thought.

Thank you, don't know hwy I kept missing that when I looked at it before.

Thank you both for your help!

While all the information you provided in your comment, FK270673, is available in the wiki documentation, it's not as clear as you made it. If that could be in the beginner's wiki as you wrote it would have helped me in the beginning.

"I was able to delete the ways that are converted GPX tracks"

This is what I could not figure out how to do. Thank you for dong that, but how would I do that if I needed to (hopefully not) in the future?

Not hot in the South yet, but it (with humidity) will be here soon. It's been very nice mild Spring weather the past few weeks.

mapInE3, thank you for the video links. I like using Potlatch, but will look into JOSM when I have more time.

Agreed. Please stop asking. I've already participated.

OSMtracker. It don't know how well it will work offline.
This diary entry has links to more about it:
osm.org/user/jonfre/diary/10242

It's an incredible app and has gotten me to start uploading cycle routes here in Huntsville, Alabama.

It's an incredible app and has gotten me to start uploading cycle routes here in Huntsville, Alabama.

I don't know how to do that with a gpx file. I can cut the point separating them out now, but I can't seem to get rid of the extra bit.

I upload my files and just use the OSM online map.