I was using potlatch. They should make it clearer that you can only work with endpoints of ways.

Turn restrictions are a block for me as well.
Do we have to split the ways at a node, so an intersection has 4 ways coming out of a node to add a turn restriction?
I clicked on a node, and tried the turn restriction button, but none of the ways were listed in the turn restriction... or am I just unlucky with 'clicking it wrong'?

OSM lets me have navigation on my phone or GPS without having to depend on a company to update their maps. (ie, Google and Garmin haven't mapped out the North Shore bike trails. osm.org/?lat=49.3650913238525&lon=-122.997093200684&zoom=13

I also accepted it. I also selected the 'I consider my work to be public domain' option.
I'm ok with anyone using my uploaded data, and it doesn't matter if it's Google or some big corporation "making money".
I prefer the greater freedom of a totally free license.

The benefit to me is that my mountain bike trail can be routable on anyone's system, which benefits me as a mountain biker, because now, I can say 'Lets ride the Seymour Valley Trail' and a more open license lets that path be on more systems.

I saw some funny checkerboard pattern stuff, then I clicked refresh, and the pattern went away..
I think it that the renderer does one tile at a time. so you were seeing some tiles updated, but not others.

It looks like the airport is being dug up to make a residential area.

"They should probably be downgraded from "aerodrome" to something else and not rendered at zoom level 10 like they are now"

Actually, the Aerodrome definition includes the lowest end of the airstrip scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodrome
I agree with the discussion in the talk page on airports that airport, airfield, and aerodrome need to be rendered differently.
osm.wiki/Talk:Airports

I sometimes use bikeroutetoaster.com to check routing.
sometimes I find a bridge with 2 one way lanes going the same direction and can fix it quickly.

What I don't understand is why my garmin unit doesn't like to route to a point on my local highway when using OSM maps when using a 2.8 gig map file. I suspect it may be from people using huge relations and the garmin might not like to calculate things over X kilometers in length. Or maybe it depends on who compiles the routable map (using a local 100 meg file worked ok).

Here's the location:
osm.org/?lat=49.3849396705627&layers=O&lon=-122.873604297638&zoom=15
Osmarender shows the water, but mapnik renders green thru the park.

I also wish I knew how to fix some of the water issues around Vancouver, ie, how opencycle map rendering eats rivers and islands in rivers. osm.org/?lat=49.1959190368652&layers=C&lon=-122.900104522705&zoom=13

added some roads, realigned some stuff to bing (just the very low res roads), added some rivers. hope that helps.

Not everyone has to be a power user. A lot of Wikipedia was done by people who only did 1 edit. You might find that the 'guy who has no edits' might have been uploading gps tracks instead, and that's a great contribution in itself.

If you do something like email the people in your neighbourhood, advise them on how to use potlatch2, or suggest they can contribute by uploading to http://walking-papers.org/ . Not everyone who signed up knew how to use the potlatch 1 editor, let alone the other editors.

Found an old Army Map Service map from 1963 at U. Texas.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/west_africa/txu-oclc-6595921-nd29-15-2nd-ed.jpg

interesting to see the history of this town, place names, leper colonies.
Would the AMS map be public domain?

Everyone sees the user diaries. It gets listed in the User Diaries tab.
When I first wrote my diary entry, I didn`t realize it was so public.

unless there's a bridge that someone forgot to tag as a bridge... local knowledge or good aerial imagery of an area helps.

This mapping project seems to be redefining the definition of road.
Some roads on the north side of town seem washed out, but it was a road sized gap between houses. In some spots it was clear there was a creek, (tagged a creek), in some spots it looked like a road with bad drainage (tagged as road)

Some roads are historical, in the remote ghost town sections where you can make out streets, but 80% of the buildings are gone. (tagged as residential roads)

Some areas have diagonal tracks running thru the ghost town areas (tagged as tracks)

Some tracks lead out into the desert. Usually I'd tag something like that as a track, but it's clear that they connect villages, so I tagged them as minor roads.

I've been tagging the very small roads in shanty towns as tracks or service roads depending on whether a person could drive a car thru there.

Then there are little villages outside of the main town which have hardly any roads or tracks going thru a cluster of buildings.

I'd suggest that the Geekcorps stitch some of these tiles together to make a printable map so people can make money selling maps to tourists.

> What's this boundary for?
Advanced view says it's a cliff.

also, your region has the same connectivity issues my region had. Imported roads not connected to non imported roads. IE, Dolphin road is unconnected to a pair of intersecting roads. It's one of those issues that makes the OSM gps map buggy for routing.

Satellite imagery isn't always perfectly aligned.

ditto on what the above people said, the imagery may be off.

or, the streets may be off. They may be imported from a tracing based off of low resolution aerial photos.
Also realize that those street act as a canyon to your GPS signal, and you may be measuring a reflected signal rather than a direct signal from the satellite.

Best to align your imagery and tracks to GPS tracks in a clear unobstructed area, such as an open road in a field. Avoid cliffs, canyons and urban canyons.

Because after I posted it, I saw that there were no entries in my Diary, so I thought that my entry was deleted.