I always find that when I get out on the bike for the first time in ages I think "why don't I do this more often?" but beforehand it always seems like too much effort! Hope you have a good ride!

How long till someone see a white sign and changes it back? :-s

Thanks, yes, I meant highway type, not ref. Will try to do it now...

Looks good :)

If you want to check your work, this link will be useful, though it will probably take a week or so to update (see dates on bottom left) to include your additions:

http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?db=osm_EU&zoom=16&lat=51.40134&lon=-0.72905&layers=B00T&ch30=1&ch40=1&ch50=1&ch60=1&ch70=1&ch90=1&ch100=1&ch110=1&ch120=1&ch130=1&ch150=1&ch160=1&ch170=1&ch180=1&ch191=1&ch192=1&ch193=1&ch194=1&ch201=1&ch202=1&ch203=1&ch204=1&ch210=1&ch220=1&ch231=1&ch232=1&ch270=1&ch281=1&ch282=1&ch283=1&ch284=1&show_ign=1&show_tmpign=1

ps: see: osm.org/user/daveemtb/diary/6399

There seems to be some confusion here about the difference between tracks and ways. Tracks are GPS data, stored in GPX files. ways are the data stored in the database that show up on the rendered maps.

Uploading traces for areas already mapped is helpful. Converting them to ways without checking that there aren't ways already there is unhelpful.

I too have had problems with tracers "correcting" my work. You need to contact the people who do that and suggest that they don't change things based only on tracing. Tracing new areas is helpful, but changing existing work based on very old photos is unhelpful.

hehe, glad I'm not the only one to have done this! I'd prefer it if there was something to click to say "re-use last comment" but the comment is blank by default.

Welcome!

A quick warning with the smartphone mount - beware of riding over bumps, it could damage your phone... I made a PDA become unreliable doing this... :( Hopefully your mount has some more shock absorbing built in :)

Will be interested to keep track of progress!

Good to see more of Newton Abbot springing up. (I mapped a bit of it when I was down there a while back.

When you're there next, can you check the road that runs past the station? (currently labelled queen street - osm.org/go/erd7UZgf8-) From memory I believe it changes name to Station Road outside the station, and it may change again at the A381 one way system to the south.

Thanks, I've added it, but I don't know how to calculate the number of roads!

There are lots of other towns (and even cities) in the UK that are done. Perhaps email the talk-gb list?

If I had a vomiting virus, I would think rest is a better idea than a 100km biek ride, but that's just me! :D

The problem with surveying an area four times and still not having a name for one road possibly suggests the road in question doesn't have a clearly marked name, or it is unclear where the change between two roadnames happens without studying house numbers. I have had this problem before.

Yes, this problem is agreed to be annoying. Hopefully someone, sometime, will figure out a neat way to select just the edits that contain information in the area you are viewing.

amm, I agree, WM is sorely neglected when it comes to use of OSM data such as routing applications. I think it's an OS used by a lot of tech-heads because of the shortcomings of Android devices produced after the last few years and the expense of the iphone.

I have played with Gosmore. The actual routing is very good, but the user interface would benefit from a lot of, er, development, IMHO.

If you're using Potlatch (the edit tab on the website,) click the node once to create it, then click it again to stop the editor trying to draw a line from it. When you've done this it will turn from a black square to a green circle. You may also be able to press enter on the keyboard to do this, I'm not sure.

Heh, fat chance! Flash drives don't even work, let alone being able to run exe files from them! Thanks for the suggestion though.

Grand, it now works :)

Strangely, though, the noname layer isn't working (shows up blank white) so I still have the same problem. Not sure what's causing that though.

Humph, http://openstreetbugs.org/ even try to work with MSIE 6, and suggests I contact my system admin to get my browser updated. I guess whoever wrote that never worked in a big organisation :(

Always great to hear of new contributors :)

If you're using a GPS that also does sat-nav (i'm guessing that's why your wife took it) then make sure that it doesn't record tracks that are "snapped" to the roads in the copyrighted dataset in its memory. Some do this, but it can sometimes be turned off in the options.