[OSM-newbies] about tagging

[Richard Welty]

  On 7/23/10 8:28 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Ishtiaque Ahmed<ishtiaque at csebuet.org>  wrote:
>> I am a new mapper.
>>
>> In OSM, today I put some POIs in the edit mode and saved them. When I went
>> to view mode, I got some of my newly put points but not all. Does it take
>> time to show those all on the view mode? Or am I making any mistake here ?
>>
>> -Ishtiaque
> Dear Ishtiaque,
>
> Welcome to OpenStreetMap.
>
> There are a couple of reasons why your points of interest might not appear.
>
> First, it might take longer for the maps to update.  Updates on the
> mapnik layer can be as fast as a few minutes, but sometimes hours or
> days, depending on server load and zoom level.
yes, and i've seen cases where i entered a bunch of POIs and a mapnik
update occurred partway through, so the earlier ones showed up and
the later ones didn't appear until mapnik made another pass through.

you need to learn to expect a probable time lag and not worry about it.
go back to the edit view to confirm that the missing POIs are really there.

richard