[OSM-newbies] Merkaartoor Download : Message 430 Forbidden

[Thomas Wood]

2009/5/5 Ernst Radema <Radema at xs4all.nl>:
> Hello all,
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> I try to download a map for a track in GPX-format I recorded ( with I-Trails
> and/or GPX on I-Phone ).
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> I find it pretty complicated to be honest. New in mapping, but not
> completely computer-illiterate (as a user, not a developer/programmer) even
> the simplest things do not work.
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> Following the manual (don’t aks me which one) I use the prescribed /
> available software. E.g.
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> Merkaartor
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> I open the track and see it on the dotted surface.
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> Than I want to see / download the map
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> I use the option [X] Current View and then hope that the map underlying the
> track will appear.
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> It returns the message:
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> Unexpected htp status code ( 403)
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> Server message is ‘Forbidden’
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> Is this an account/permission issue?
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> I thought I had everything for OSM and Wiki.
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> But maybe it’s not in the right place in the programme.
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> Anyone can help ?
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> Ernst

It does sound like you've put the wrong details into the app.
You should use the email address and password you used for the (main)
www.openstreetmap.org website, they're BOTH case sensitive.

> PS
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> I see and hear dat JOSM is the preferred mapping-application and have it
> installed –with the enlarged memory-option,
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> but –as it says in the manual- it’s more complicated and the output (map) is
> OVERWHELMING, so for a start I prefer something simpler.

Overwhelming? I personally find Merkaartor harder to use because it
tries to simplify things too much. Anyway, it's a matter of personal
preference, both are good to use (as well as the flash editor Potlatch
:)

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)