Ja, die Daten sind unwiderruflich verloren. Sehr frustrierend für uns alle!!

What of those who actually use the OSM Data. They will have to revert to some other source for their maps until the OSM Data becomes useable again. Some may never return! It is actually up to the Sydneyians to get their act together and remap the whole area. To begin with, wouldn’t Bing imagery be useful to map the main arteries and then go out surveying to get the details?

Oops!!! Bitte OSM-Bug als erledigt markieren.

Ich habe o.a. Bereich mittels JOSM angesehen. 63% (566 nodes) sind von dir. Drei Errors sind vorhanden: 2 unbenannte Linien und 1 verdrehtes Land - Land nicht auf die linke Seite-

Alle drei habe ich mit ein OSM-Bug versehen zwecks Erleichterung bei der Sucherei. Unbenannte Linien können nur durch Local Knowledge ergänzt werden. Bitte erledigen. Verdrehtes Land aber kann jede ohne Ortskenntnisse ändern, habe ich aber nicht: Es ist besser wenn du das machen wurdest. Weiter so.

Willkommen bei OSM. Kann ich dir leider nicht helfen weil ich keine Ahnung von Dein Geräte/Software habe. Siehe zu das du ein User-Group beitreten kannst. Die sind immer hilfsbereit. PS Ich dachte ein 747 ist ein Flugzeug typ!

Thank-you for mentioning keep-right. It is a very useful tool. All contributers (both old and new) should check their work (and that of others) using keep-right and: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ OpenStreetMap-Inspector (OSMI) is another powerful tool which helps us to raise the quality of the OSM-Databank. Check it out, use it and don’t have any qualms about correcting other contributions: We are not competing against each other but giving up our time for the benefit of all! One word of warning, though; don’t change complex structures that you don’t technically understand or don’t have the local knowledge to correct: Contact the contributer in question (i.e. the one with the longest experience within the area in question and ask him/her to look at it. It usually works this way but you might get a rude answer back. Don’t worry, be happy, leave the problem for someone else to solve and move on. There is still a lot of work to do!

Don’t knock the armchair mapping too much. It depends on the imagery available. For an example of excellent up-date-imagery see BING for Portugal. It is from 2011 and extremely detailed. My GPSmap 60CSx is nowhere as accurate as Bing. Local knowledge is still essential for the POIs and of course the only way to tag properly is doing proper survey work. I caught one guy who declared paths as highway=unclassified in Portugal but he did not understand the error of his ways. That is not a pun! I only wish I had such imagery available for my home area. Here the Garmin still comes into its own!

I habe anhand von Bing o.a. Bereich angeschaut. Es ist gut, sehr gut.
Ich bin auch ein Alleingänger, hat auch vorteile. Es gibt genug zu tun for die nächste 100 Jahre.
Grüß David

In this context: A question to Andy Allen!
Is it true that if a user does not accept the ODBL and contributor terms then his/her data will be eliminated forever? I was not aware of this as I could not be bothered to follow the issue or debate on it.
If so, can I do the following:
Isolate the users in question (using the filter function in JOSM) within my area of interest: Change the data a little bit to give it my user-name and therewith keep the data for a few hundred years or am I not allowed to do this.
It seems like a simple solution. It just needs to publish somewhere!

I like the simplicity (i.e. readability) of the site. Please keep it that way!
And I like the idea and iniative.

Spam

You must state what display/tool you are using. There is a lot of them for different platforms.

Thank you all for the advice/information. Please clarify the following.
From now on the tracks and the associated waypoints will both be saved to the sd-card on a daily bassis. This assumes that I have set the wrap-around function to OFF and the TRACK-To-SD-CARD to ON.

Thank you all for the advice/information. Please clarify the following.
From now on the tracks and the associated waypoints will both be saved to the sd-card on a daily bassis. This assumes that I have set the wrap-around function to OFF and the TRACK-To-SD-CARD to ON.

Thank-you both for the advice. Just to make sure that I understand the system functionality please confirm the following:
The data (i.e. The 90% mentioned above) will not be transferred to the micro-SD but will remain in the RAM. From i.e. tomorrow all the new data will be stored directly to the micro-SD and the RAM will remain at 90% full. That means that my history will not be lost and any new data will be saved with the date as directly to the SD-Card.
Thankyou once again.

If you want someone to answer this question then you should be more explicit.
i.e. Why can I not load the map from ? to ?.

Some of us may have never heard of "cite". It would be nice to provide a link so the ignorant can get themselves informed.
Thank-you

Eliminating redundant nodes with a global application tool would help to alleviate the problem. I have just done a trial on five ways and with the help of the JOSM "Simplify Way" tool did the following analysis:
way 1 1977 reduced by 488 nodes
way 2 1920 reduced by 723 nodes
way 3 1210 reduced by 363 nodes
way 4 1155 reduced by 494 nodes
way 5 846 reduced by 407 nodes
Total 7108 reduced by 3632 nodes i.e. a reduction of approx. 51% of the nodes.
I am not saying that this will decrease traffic by 51% but it would do its little bit.

Since 2007 I have been using a Garmin GPX60Csx for tracking.
I bought an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy GT I 1900) 6 months ago.
I, too, compared the tracking capabilities of the two devices.
Conclusion:
The Galaxy is useless as a tracking device. It seems that Samsung added the GPS capabilities as an afterthought. To make it work the GPS, WLAN, and the Phone provider connection have to be on. Even so, in hilly areas tracking is on/off and when on, the tracks are up to 500 meters off the way I am on.
As a navigation device it is just as bad. When in my car, I rarely get a position and when I do it is sometimes miles off. Bare in mind that I am comparing the results with my Garmin which is correct to within 3 meters most of the time.
Just for the record, I try to use http://osmand.net/ and http://www.mapdroyd.com/ but, alas with little avail. Fortunately for me it is not a problem as I have my old faithful and reliable Garmin with http://osmmtbmap.org installed which I can highly recommend for mountain-bikers and hikers.

You must zoom right in to get the correct date.
e.g. it starts at 2004 but can be as recent as 2011 at the hihest zoom level