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Hamstreet Wood

Looks good, though it makes all the other woods north of the railway look rather blank!

waypoints.ph now using openstreetmap

I can see why - the Google Maps coverage seems to be terrible and almost incomplete!

What a cool site

Welcome! Looks like Brighton is pretty well mapped already, but if you feel like a trip down the coast, Seaford is looking distinctly blank! Most of Seaford is covered by the good quality Yahoo imagery, so you can start by tracing it. You'll have to visit it to get street names and clarify certain things.

Anyway, just an idea! Have fun!

Huntingdon, central and Godmanchester (Cambridgeshire)

It's perhaps best known (to me at least) as the location of Huntington Life Sciences, which all the animal protesters have been campaigning against for years... Sounds like a lovely place!

Windsor Great Park

Well, that's good news :)

Rusper and Faygate Hike

That's a pretty long walk to do in an evening!

Windsor Great Park

I meant zoom level 13. 14 is too large too, but on level 13 is quite ridiculous, it's larger than any of the surrounding towns.

First tries in Heslach

Richard, there's many confusing aspects of the editor:

- Took me a while to realise you can click the icon next to the drop down to switch the type of things in the list (car/bike/on foot etc)
- The node names etc are confusing. This is the main issue. The editor could provide some help for each type. You could be able to search for 'bicycle' and see the options and use one of them. Perhaps even some buttons which let you use the last few you'd use for fast access.
- You can't subtly adjust a node's position, it locks on to the place it was before. There might be a keyboard key to modify that (like in Photoshop), but I've not found that.
- I'd seriously consider making a simplified mode where the values to fill in are prescribed, with easy help saying what to do with them. Guide the user through the process and don't try to allow everything possible to be done. Allow an advanced mode for that...
- Things like one-way streets are not obvious. It's not obvious how to mark a route as for foot and cycles for example. Sure you can search through the wiki for it, but the editor should make that obvious. One way streets could show arrows on them, as the direction arrow can be meaningless on a crescent-shaped street.
- Adding a point on a way can be done using key combinations, but from the UI it isn't obvious. At least not to me. Having a photoshop-style palette might help, with a 'add point to way' cursor etc.
- Maybe I'm really stupid, but I can't tell how you undo something. Can you?

There's probably more points I've got. I think Potlatch is pretty good, but it's still not intuitive.

Ed