Ah germans.

(p.s. congratulations!)

The second thousand comes quickly.

You never had an eTrex, did you?

Remember, Tomasz, that a lot of things (most things that aren’t to do with actually editing maps) on osm.org are essentially a “demo”. If “employers need changes”, they are free to implement themselves and make them part of their services. OSM itself doesn’t have (and almost certainly never will have) the capacity to be a true google-maps-alike.

If an “employer” finds e.g. the default mapnik style to be inhibiting them, it’s probably a sign that they’ve been piggybacking on the (nonprofit) OSM infrastructure for providing their services for too long.

Interesting thing is that it is actually topologically correct.

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Ok that is very impressive.

Nice hat martijn.

Definitely a great conference.

That’s a good idea - I might add that tile option when I get round to it.

That is http://www.gpsies.com

You can of course do that sort of thing using openstreetmap as a base map, but that’s not what OSM is really designed for.

Edits you make to the map are global, visible to & affecting everybody, and as such we tend to only map actual real physical things, and not just things that are only relevant to us personally.

You might get better luck using tools such as gpsies.com’s track creator, which uses openstreetmap.

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(and just when I was starting to get license debate withdrawal)

It’s not a good approach to start your post with the title invoking the whole “non-share-alike is more open” thing, which is easily disprovable. Share-alike rules are there to ensure things remain free.

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Yeah, I’ve had ideas similar to this ( osm.wiki/User:Robert#IRC ) which have been generally well received, but of course nothing’s happened because, as with everything, it needs someone to implement it (and I’m busy implementing other crazy things).

Another (slightly more far fetched) possibility would be integrating with something like https://togetherjs.com/ to enable us to offer actual hands-on assistance to users.

I’m working on something along those lines: osm.wiki/That_Shouldnt_Be_Possible

Though it’s not really designed for “batch mode” as the results do have to be analyzed slightly to see what’s wrong.

I’m hoping to expand its coverage to more countries soon.

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