Let's all vote for the coastal paths for a laugh, eh? ;)

There are lots of farm tracks and things with bridges over motorways which I'm sure haven't been mapped.

About misalignment - are you confident that it is the many other GPS tracks that are misaligned rather than yours, or have you checked aerial photos? If there's been a change in road layout recently, then you could be right, but I'd hesitate to move a motorway just because your track doesn't line up with 100 other tracks. GPS traces can occasionally be a long way out.

Sounds much like my experiences with JOSM - I too use it for most work, except for small edits, and when I want to use Yahoo, as it's too much of a pain getting the Yahoo WMS working on a mac if you aren't a propeller head! :( I think someone's made it easier for windows now by making a single file to download. :)

I'm finding that the Mapnik layer on the homepage is being very slow to update at the moment. The NoName layer on the homepage hasn't been updated since the API change to v0.6. I understand they are working through some technical issues. The Osmarender layer seems to be updating at it's usual speed.

It takes a while for changes to show up on the rendered maps, it will show up eventually. (It seems to be taking a little longer than normal at the moment, I'm not sure why.

PS, Paul, yep, the photos definitely have EXIF tags.

Thanks Paul, was a typo - fingers to used to typing wikipedia! Have fixed that now.

Guillaume, thanks, the problem is, I just don't know if I'm doing it right because the documentation doesn't cover the buttons and options properly :( I definitely had the timezone as zero. What units is the offset box in? is it hours or seconds?

Welcome to OSM! Yes, I think OSM is very valuable for this - at last freely available info on PROW.

Stick with it, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it in the end. There are still many hundreds of miles of PROW still to be mapped in the UK!

cunning! :) Most of us don't have the benefit of mountains!

(cloud, not could, obviously)

Yeah, that's why I had to filter them manually using JOSM - I was just meaning that some of us have a lot of files to work through.

What I was doing was removing the points around my house, place of work, etc. There's not necessarily a point cloud in any one file, but there are lots of useless points where the GPS is settling down, and put together they form a could that highlights "OSM contributor lives/works here" and pollutes the GPS database.

I have tried using GPS Babel, it seems you can only do what I want using the command line as the exclude option is not available in the GUI. I couldn't figure out what I needed to type to batch process hundreds of files. I think someone should write a tutorial on this on the wiki, or write a front end that makes it easy. Not all of us contributors are propeller heads! ;-)

If I could write code I'd do it myself, but my attempts in that direction have never got very far.

I think the point was that it would be good to discuss automated edits *before* not *after* doing them. It seems a fair argument to me.

ah - I hadn't figured out how Potlatch would handle sessions. I guess you're right - it's people making two seperate edits in different parts of the world within an hour. Maybe there needs to be some logic that says "this is too far away to be considered the same changeset" or something?

For comparison, see the section on Wikimedia Commons Photos at: osm.wiki/index.php/OpenStreetPhoto

I agree with this point of view, and if Wikimedia Commons geotagged photos are tainted, then GSV certainly is!

Oh, and on Google Street View, I agree that taking facts from photos would probably be ok, except for the fact that the photos are tied to copyright map data. You are refering to the location based upon this map data. You can only follow roads on these maps.

I thought OpenStreetBugs specifically states that you should not enter bugs based on licensed information?

It is best to avoid any grey areas on copyright IMHO. OSM is based on a conservative approach to this issue. There are many shortcuts that have been avoided so that we have data no-one can claim is infringing copyright, and to make sure the whole database stays pure. Look at the caution that was excercised before approving use of Yahoo photos: osm.wiki/Yahoo

I think we could do with another tag for unpofficial recommended routes, that would be highlighted in the cycle map in another colour.

What a bummer! Sorry to hear that. It's so frustrating when the technology lets you down :( I wonder if there's any way to recover other data from the card?

I sympathise. My nokia 6680 on Symbian used to crash quite a lot too. :( It seems that smartphones can never do anything "smart" reliably. Windows mobile isn't a huge improvement. :( I think my next phone is likely to be Android or iPhone. I may end up carrying two GPS logging devices. Better accuracy and backup. Good luck recovering stuff.

I use audio mapping (driving), photo (cycling, using my phone camera, I stop for each one, your solution sounds great) and typed notes (walking, using my TyTN II smartphone GPS)

Out of the two you are considering, I prefer camera. The problem depends on your language, but in English, it is hard to figure out the spelling sometimes from the sound (and I don't always realise when recording, if I do I spell it out.) The other problem is occasionally my recordings are affected by background noise etc. and I end up with one road in the middle of a thoroughly mapped area with no name, which is annoying.