I think it’s Java’s fault since I’ve heard someone else mention it happening on their Mac, and presumably not on their Windows box. I don’t recall seeing any errors appear in Terminal when this happens.

I should have mentioned that I was marking highways=track based on Bing! imagery; it’s hard to tell whether cars are OK or not.

I wouldn't necessarily believe a single GPS track is more accurate than the original data. Hike (or drive or ride) a loop a few times and look at the resulting data. In my experience, they are close but aerial imagery is better.

I don't know whether a super-relation would solve your problem or not; they seem to be a work in progress.

Why not upload shorter hikes too?

The only nodes I join are highway= nodes that are supposed to intersect (see http://keepright.ipax.at).

I really don't like having area nodes (like city limits) joined to other nodes (like highways). It's really hard to make a change to one without affecting the other. For example, the city limit follows a freeway that is later split into two one way tracks. Now moving either half of the freeway moves the city limit.

-Dion

Is that because you did the work or OSM is correct already?

Today Manhattan, KS, tomorrow the world.

The problem is roads which used to be tagged secondary, for example, SW 185th, SW Murray, SE Cesar E. Chavez, SW Stafford, E & W Burnside, are now tertiary. What happened to all of the primary roads?

@Vclaw: Yes! that's exactly what I need. Thanks.

I should have been more clear. Keepright has a JOSM and a Potlatch option for fixing errors. While my Mac has JOSM as a standalone bundle, choosing the JOSM option in Keepright does nothing, presumably because it's trying to launch the "JOSM in a browser" version...right?

@G3YAC: If you use the 'name' tag, you'll get a nice rendering in Openpistemap. Unfortunately, the other renderers will display the name with no route, which leads to this floating name in the forest.

The tagging makes sense as some of the pistes are roads in the summer. On Timberline, that would be parts of West Leg Road.

Your coordinates appear to be somewhere in Mongolia.

-Dion

@stephan75
That's what I get for not having auto-complete in my diary. :) Yes, turning_circle.

@ianlopez1115:

Have you seen the natural=tree tag? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree

Is there some clarification on the OSM wiki regarding Wikipedia locations? I'd really prefer not having to dig through mail list archives for answers.

thanks,
-Dion

Sorry, not to knock the other 49 states. :) I'm under the impression that the various regions tend to do things similarly based on what the local map looks like. It seems pretty difficult to get the entire state/country/world to agree on the same standards. Maybe that's another diary entry.

Thanks for the comments!

davetoo: You could add access=private. Is it really a race track if it doesn't have races on it?