Congratulations!

I use my mobile phone - does yours have this feature? If not, there are some cheap MP3 players that offer recording. Don't know how suitable they would be as a dictaphone, but might be worth looking at.

Dave

for more info on right to roam, see http://www.lake-district.gov.uk/index/visiting/outdoors/walking_climbing/openaccess_and_crow.htm it seems it covers 55% of the national park but not all of it.

Glad to see someone adding more detail to Grasmere. Wasn't all that long ago I was up there myself doing bits and bobs in and around the place.

I think you made the right call not to map the parts where you cut across fields. It's not a path so there's no point marking it as one. I've been in a similar situation lots of times myself. The sheep tracks are a slightly harder call. If they are just sheep tracks and just peter out, I'd not map them. If they are narrow paths but go somewhere useful, perhaps map them as highway=path?

Yeah, I agree. Unless there is other data such as speed limits, road type, etc, that varies between segments, I don't think it is reasonable to expect people not to combine them. OSM data is going to get changed. It is not possible to preserve a link to the data source.

And even if it was possible, is it desirable? What if I decide a road is named incorrectly in the Geobase import, and correct it? Then someone imports a newer geobase dataset, and uncorrects my edit.

I think I agree with chilly that imports should be seen as a shortcut, and not something to use where existing data is already in OSM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Newton suggests the proper code for RAF Newton is EGXN. Looks like a simple typo.

I don't know what to think of these various dataset imports. On the one hand, it obviously helps make OSM more complete. On the other hand I have to admit, if the area I have mapped (my town and a nearby town) was overwritten with an import, I would be hugely hacked off, having spent the best part of two years mapping it. In my opinion, these imports shouldn't replace existing OSM data.

Cool, sounds promising :D

Thanks Harry

I understand the frustration - I used to have a faulty GPS that kept switching off, very annoying!

Sounds like a bit of a nightmare! Hope everyone managed to figure out what to do with the info they had collected afterwards!

Cool :) Always good to hear about new contributors, especially when they are well placed to map areas with poor coverage at the moment! :)

I've always found maps fascinating too. I can look at them for hours. :-$

Ooh, i hadn't spotted that new option. Will we be able to filter diary entries by language in future?

Funny how these things change, isn't it? You wonder how much it cost to re-sign it all, and to what benefit?

It might be the mapnik still updating, but it looks like there's still a section tagged as primary to the south.

I should add that my initial exasperated diary post was not a complaint at anyone who does Yahoo tracing - I do quite a lot myself. It's just important that people don't assume it's right and the existing mapping is wrong.

I'm sure it would be neater, but people weren't reading the annotations on the nodes of the junction. I'll clean it up eventually, but thought more unmissable "hint" would be useful effective the short term to discourage reversion.

Hi, you are right to be catious - you shouldn't upload these files unless you know what the source is. I couldn't find the right page on tctrail.ca but as it is a webpage with information about the Trans Canadian Trail, it's conceivable the GPX files are made by overlaying a map, rather than from a GPS. This would lead to licensed data polluting OSM. You should always make sure you know what the licence of any data is before uploading to OSM. If they are tracks recorded by other people, then with their permission I don't see any reason that they shouldn't be uploaded, if they can confirm the source.

Your own gps traces are great of course! :)

Can you point us to the source web page?

I'd be interested to hear other opinions.

I agree that an adaptive renderer is needed. The maps of most of Africa are pretty useless at the moment, and this is one of the areas that OSM can be of most use.

I had put an explanatory note on all the nodes the first time I mapped it correctly! Hence the rather silly writing all over it now!

I think the uncorrected nodes were an error in Potlatch when I reverted the ways. They need deleting.

Aha! Another potlatch hotkey that I knoew nothing about! Any chance of some more buttons on the interface, Richard, so that it doesn't take insider knowledge to do these things? :)

No, it doesn't look like any of those... what makes you ask?

I sympathise. The same kind of scum (in a different area) tried to steal the forks off my wife's bike from a railway station bike parking area, in full view of 4 CCTV camerasinstalled about 6 months before. Fortunately she had locked the bike in such a way that no substantial components were removable, but they nicked the headset spacers and top cap, just to spite her. The local police and the BTP seemed to be confused about who's responsibility it was, and claimed in the end that there was no footage from the cameras. What I think they meant is that they were too lazy to look at it. To be fair, the local police did come round to see if they could lift any prints off the bike, but they weren't able to. I was less impressed with BTP. :(

What was the outcome of the surveyor being questioned? Were they satisfied and did they then leave them alone, or was more along the lines of 28 days detention?