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OSM in Doha

I guess using Arabic language in the name tag might help a bit with getting locals interested in joining the project. Regardless of what language is used for the name tag, please always add name:en with the English name AND name:ar with the Arabic name, so maps can be rendered in both languages.
If you like, you are very welcome to help with the wiki pages in Arabic; there is a lot to be done here, e.g. the Map Features are only partially translated so far.

doing imaginary cities

I suggest not to create imaginary cities in the main OSM database; users here might find some unfriendly words like "vandalism" for it. What you can do is to setup your own osm database server and use the osm software to create imaginary cities in your own database; information on how to setup your own environment could be found on the wiki. In "our" osm database we try to build a map of what is really there, with the goal of having the best possible map eventually.

Cupcake Recipes

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Hello

spam, how nice.
Dear Arifsha, what do you think the rel="nofollow" in the link to your website does? You have to look at the html source, as you certainly know. Easy answer: It does prevent search engines from following the link and therefore this link does NOT increase your page rank. Executive summary: Spamming this blog is just a waste of your and our time, and besides it's pretty annoying. So, go away, thanks.

Hotels en Vliegtickets

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Map Appreciation

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The at shop

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مصر - السعودية

مرحبّا

O Brasil já tem cartão pre-pago visa lider power bonus

Dear Paolo,

in the context of this blog we use "spam" for an "Unsolicited Commercial Blog entry". I'm sure it's wonderful that your customers can get bonus for their visa payments and cheap mobile phone tariffs, but that has nothing at all to do with Open Streetmap and does not belong here, so I take the liberty to call it spam.
By the way: on looking closely you might have noticed that the links in blog entries have a rel="nofollow" attribute. This means that search engines don't follow these links and don't count them in your page rank. In other words: Spamming this blog is completely useless and just wastes your and our time.

Have a nice Day

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No existe camino que guie al exito, solo caminantes con el valor para Alcanzarlo

I read just enough spanish to understand that your post talks about methods to reach desired (selling) results and has nothing at all to do with Open Streetmap. And it contains a link to your commercial website, which also has nothing to do with mapping. So why do you think it's not spam?

Portugal

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No existe camino que guie al exito, solo caminantes con el valor para Alcanzarlo

looks like spam to me

Sonderzeichen in JOSM verwenden

Text "einfügen" funktioniert in JOSM nur an sehr wenigen Stellen; am ehesten in den Namenseingabefeldern aus den preset-Dialogen. Du selektierst Deine Strasse, wirfst den name-Key weg, klickst dann oben auf den passenden Strassentyp in den Vorlagen und jetzt kannst Du (manchmal) im Eingabefeld für den Namen etwas einfügen.

Cinema Star

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Six Sigma Training

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freedesktop.org Geolocalization. No citation for OSM. Why?

As I read it, GeoClue is not about maps but about location, i.e. they don't give you information what is around a specific location but instead focus on finding out where you actually are. And one of their providers is Nominatim, which uses the OSM database AFAIK to relate addresses to locations and vice versa.

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Osmarender rendering issue

coast lines have a special rendering modul; they use an extra dataset to define if a given tile is entirely sea, entirely land or mixed. Looks like that might be defined wrong in your area. Te best thing to do is ask at the t@h mailinglist -> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome