Yeah, whatever dude.

Junctions are more important than sidewalks (to learn).

Sounds like one of the more interesting mapping projects.

And remember, we are able to revert your edit if you get something horribly wrong.

If you like, make an edit and then ask someone (either on your diary or in irc or help.openstreetmap.org) to check it out for sanity.

That first url was supposed to be www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=whatever&lon=whatever

Sounds like a good project for a beginner programmer :)

All you’d have to do is get the town list from somewhere (I’m sure you could find a good one if you asked around US people) and build a tiny web app that looks up a random town and redirects the user to www.openstreetmap.org/edit? .

Might be able to do it in just javascript.

Might even be able to do it as a bookmarklet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet).

Yup, that’s what I assumed. Excellent.

Good work. Are the University planning on running a monitoring bot of some kind in case some bright spark decides to start messing around with e.g. the building reference IDs?

Jesus they’re really hiding around every corner for you, aren’t they?

Agreed with asciiphil.

Node sharing is very good for conjoined areas. The tools aren’t always great at dealing with them though.

Um, that’s not quite how OSM works. This is just a diary. Like a blog for notes. To add something to the map you’ve actually got to edit the map from the “edit” tab.

Oh hold on - is this all about you trying to justify doing bulk edits? Good luck with that.

Why yes it does.

Do you mean like osm.wiki/Android and osm.wiki/IOS ?

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Wow. Good amount of buildings there.

Do you know about the “orthogonalize” button in potlatch/josm? Allows you to snap everything to right angles quickly & easily.

Also josm has a useful set of features for doing buildings like “extrude”.

Looks like an interesting place to map.

You could try asking http://help.openstreetmap.org - lots of people with lots of answers on there.

The only way I can think is to write a script.

Looking good