Mapping the other 61% should be fun :)

Good question, not sure if they're to scale or not, but it wouldn't surprise me if they're not.

I suspect tracing should be fine too, just make sure it's all attributed. You could take a snapshot of the PDF, upload it to Map Warper (noting its source and copyright, maybe keeping it private) then rectify it based on the shape of the building.

Welcome to the community!

This user has also added a number of hotel entries to the map which look a little fishy.

Good strategy.. hopefully it brings in some more mappers to the project, people who may not have thought of contributing previously.

I notice you've added some things to the database (e.g. a 1950s postman and boring park) that don't look like they should be there... please stick to objects that exist in the real world when making changes.

Yep, you can use both osm:node and osm:way... e.g., http://www.flickr.com/photos/londondan/46551630/

Where does the pirate connection come from? :)

Just a quick note about naming those streets you've mapped... you shouldn't use a tourist map to gather the names as that's a copyrighted source.

It'd be great to see a video of this afterward, if the sessions are being recorded.

The last update I can find is from last month - http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-July/038643.html - noting that the index was being rebuilt, and would take another couple of weeks.

That's a beautiful little place, I was there some years ago.

Regarding the data you want to add that overlaps the coast, I would suggest to add it in and move the coast around it, trying to keep the shape as best as possible. Coastlines aren't very accurate in many places, so if you're getting pretty consistent GPS results, you should probably trust that over the coastline that was imported.

Many of the diary entries come up in Google search results too, so if someone is looking for certain things that have been written about on here, they should be able to find it that way.

(e.g. "www.openstreetmap.org/user/Dion%20Dock/diary/7440 - 4 hours ago")

I was able to fix this up in Potlatch in the end

I see the changeset was taken back out into a branch for now, but it would be good to see this improvement get in after it's had some tweaks.

In terms of RSS readers that support GeoRSS, I'm not sure, but services such as Google Maps will allow that feed to be overlaid on their maps as a quick reference, and also feed aggregators such as Drupal's FeedAPI will pull out the geodata and allow it to be stored using the Location module.

You could do something like that using Yahoo Pipes, filtering the GeoRSS feed of uploads by a bounding box, something like the following:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=tpc09KpO3hGjt2sP6ycw5g

Das ist toll. Gibt es auch die möglichkeit XML data (Straßennamen, ID, tags, etc.) zu bekommen?

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Brian Schimmel: I think I'd rather keep the nice iPod interface :)

rorym: the Notes app actually comes with the Touch now as well, so I was just using it as it comes out of the box.

It would be great to have an OSM app/webapp for the iPhone/iPod that at least allowed the viewing of maps, but imagine if you could feed back even just simple textual/PoI updates from the field that automatically got uploaded next time you were within reach of wifi.