The South West of England doesn't seem to attract many mappers. Much of the editing has been from out of copyright maps and tourists. ie: not very comprehensive or detailed.

Anyway, there actually aren't more mappers in the UK than Germany. And Cornwall almost certainly has no Yahoo imagery available (it's very patchy outside of the London area).

Or if your OS doesn't allow caps-lock for that purpose then D (for Dim apparently) also works.

importing the OS data is pointless -- they just give the location of the centre of each postcode, and it's trivial to merge it.

In terms of finding them etc, best thing is to apply them to the buildings and addresses they actually are for. That's the most useful in the long term. To look for them in an area already mapped use JOSM and search for addr:postcode. You'll possibly also find prefixes on streets with postal_code -- but these are less useful now.

Umm.. you can probably use Adobe's Open Source Flex SDK -- unsurprisingly it supports AS3 directly, and it's licensed under the MPL (which I assume meets your requirements of no adobe licenses).

That's what we're using for Potlatch 2.

Harry... we didn't have any roads back then, and we only just got Yahoo.. there was no way I was stopping for postboxes :-)

mapnik renders boundary=national_park too. For instance you can see the New Forest here in the UK: osm.org/go/eui8AK

HannesHH: because it's not there. Therefore /anyone/ is 100% within their rights to delete it without question. The only issue here is making sure it doesn't happen again, and that that user hasn't done anything else (but we know that thanks to changeset history).

It had been there 2 days already, there was no good reason to keep it around.

wow. those guys have good public transport.

Surely this is easy to work with without relations? You can figure it all out from the topology.

A river is a bunch of connected ways, and tributaries are rivers that flow into that.

It's not wholly unheard of for local authorities to have their own aerial imagery to trace from. ie: osm.org/?lat=51.35283&lon=-0.5998&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF

I mean.. what the hell is so wrong with the key "notes" that it needs "correcting" to "note"?!

I'd suggest just reverting the buggery out of xybot and banning it's controller from OSM forever more. I don't mind what it's doing so much as the way it is going about it (although some of the translations are very dodgy). It's completely unacceptable to be making sweeping changes like this without carefully discussing them and getting the community on-side first.

I don't know how you're /supposed/ to find these things... but http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/2511 implies that "setting osm-server.atomic-upload=false" should make JOSM go back to old style uploads as of 1578.

osm.org/user/Kishore/edits

click on "more" next to each change set to see which objects were altered.