[OSM-newbies] Some "What's Going On" Questions

[Paul Johnson]

Kevin & Ruth Sheather wrote:

> Last night I was working on some streets that I have added from GPS tracks
> at Kingscliff NSW when a couple of unexplained things happened:
>
> 1.       In streets near the one I was dividing and tagging green dots
> suddenly appeared. They also appeared in some streets that were outside the
> boundaries of my screen. They wouldn't respond to clicking. I am not aware
> of anything that I did at the time to cause them. Are they the result of
> someone loading bulk information into OSM?

Are you downloading GPS data in JOSM?  If so, you're seeing the
results of someone having not anonymized their tracks, and the
points are being color coded according to speed or HDOP values
depending on your JOSM settings.

> 2.       When I went to save my changes I received a red message advising of
> a "server conflict"  and suggested saving again, but each time the message
> reappeared so I abandoned the changes and logged out.

Save early, save often!