Is it navigable by walking?
You could map it, and see if it's there next year.

I create extra nodes by drawing a second road, intersecting in the spots that I want to snip at. Then, i delete my temporary road. Then do the snipping in the newly created nodes.

Pressing the ESC button, deselects an entire way, and highlights the node you last clicked on... then you can press the delete button to delete the node you want to delete.

Just the coastline moved, according to that report. So the north shore stayed the same, and a the coastline in the earthquake affected area moved.

A lot of OSM coastlines weren't that accurate to begin with. The trick to accurate armchair mapping is having accurate ortho photos to trace from.. but the orthophotos may have been laid over top of the old streetmap. It would be a bit tricky to get a GPS trace from a shoreline cliff.
The best bet would bet to get orthophotos, and calibrate them to some reference gps tracks. ie, slowly use your GPS and walk in a circle which is quite visible from the ortho photos (ie, around a fountain)

There is an Disaster Mapping project on OSM, called HOT, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team osm.wiki/HOT

According to HOT, the Japan OSM Team is coordinating the mapping.
osm.wiki/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami

.. or change it to a pathway 'pedestrian street'.

I prefer potlatch 2.
When the new editor came out, I practiced on old logging roads, and tracks that didn't affect people's routing.

Nice!
Google перевод. Ницца!

Openstreetbugs - just shows you the bugs on the main page. I, in 'new user' mode wont see where they can add a note.

Mapdust looks good.
We could add a link in the bottom right of the OSM map page, or on a tab on top of the map, call it 'report a bug', and have it go to mapdust page.
http://www.mapdust.com/?zoom=8&lat=82.22987&lon=-60.10651&layers=000BT

I think the 18 of 20 people who have no edits in my area likely wanted to add something to the map, so it would be what they are looking for.

compdude, you don't have to be a 'new' user to accidentally drag a street. Sometimes you're panning while the streets are still loading, and if you blink while panning, it could happen easily.

It could happen to any of us.

It's just that the way history didn't show any edits to that road since april which made me think it was a hardware glitch.

Looking at the node history seems to clear things up. Sorry about the fuss.

osm.org/browse/node/1000000000
yay.

ROFL SPAM

Seems that someone has sent this to my inbox

"From SriShunyata
Subject You're a busy body
Date 3 March 2011 at 06:51
Even if you were correct I would tell you to MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS JERK"

Looks like the spammer is a 'Tough guy on the internet'.

OpenSPAMmap

osm.wiki/Traffic_signals
highway=traffic_signals

Potlatch 2 doesn't have an icon for everything. So, off to the advanced editor to add a highway=traffic_signals tag.
Myself, I tag one traffic light, and then use the repeat function (R) to copy the signal tag to more nodes.

There's a slight typo in these mountains.
The name shows up as 'natural=peak'

You may want your tags to be
natural=peak
name=崁頭山
name:en=Kantou Mt

Welcome to OpenStreetMap.
osm.wiki/Name
I hope that helps.

If you check keepright.ipax.at , there's a couple unconnected roads in the area.
http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?zoom=15&lat=51.63019&lon=-3.97862&layers=B00T&ch=0%2C50%2C191%2C195%2C196&show_ign=1&show_tmpign=1

Not sayin that that's their issue, but when you combine the accuracy of an iphone with unjoined roads.. you may have interesting routes.

When I see bug reports like this, I check a few streets in the area to see if there's unconnected roads, or likely turn restrictions.
It's probably an accuracy error with his iphone.

ps. looks like there's some footpaths west of the second 'this' link.

Technically, splitting a way up is valid. It's a rendering issue if you want the route numbers to show up in an aesthetic way.

another 'I'm researching OSM' thread. There's a lot of these.

You'll find the 'users' of the maps vary, and the map data get rendered differently by different people, so the skiers will use OpenPisteMap for skiing, cyclists would use OpenCycleMap. Mountain bikers don't have a custom map which rates the trail as 'beginner' 'intermediate' 'expert' like you get with ski hill sign trail entrances... so we get by with the cyclemap rendering.

OSM ends up as a consumer device replacement as well. It gets put into a Garmin GPS via a .IMG file and used by hikers, cyclists, and drivers.
In a way, it's up to Garmin how they route people based on the tags we create with OSM.
The cycling community makes use of the OSM data, through sites like BikeRouteToaster, and Bikemap.net

The people who use OSM for routing, have quality requirements of 'accurate enough to drive with', 'accurate street names', and 'accurately connected nodes', and 'accurately tagged roads' ... Ie, you shouldn't get routed the wrong way along a street.

There have already been some discussions on these forums where it's clear that OSM data isn't accurate enough for utilities.. ie, you won't get pipelines located accurately enough to dig based on OSM data alone.

In general, it's a map designed for humans to use, so knowing where a trail is on a mountain, accurate enough to find it with a gps, is good enough for that user.

Where OSM wins against competing maps, is where a road gets built near OSM mappers... my local bridges were accurately mapped long before Google or Bing had the data.
OSM wins where the government is inaccurate. OSM wins in poor countries like Mali and Haiti, where the government data wasn't that great to begin with.

I like the idea of Maccu Picchu and area being mapped. Perhaps people could make use of http://walking-papers.org/ to add local knowledge without having to use a GPS.

another edit to add... I just went and tried some edits in the Mediterranean, and did not see circle fit issues, but going back to BC, I see the issues again.

I think that what I'm doing is getting my mind stuck on one train of thought about it being a rounding issue. Perhaps the people for whom the circle editing works are doing their edits near the prime meridian, and the Pacific coasters are the only ones complaining about circle issues because we have coordinates like -122.something

osm.org/?lat=49.2788690328598&lon=-122.888292074203&zoom=17