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I found OSM Inspector via this blogpost; We have started using the same tiles as in Potlach in our application using an OsmSharp tile layer. After doing a small update to allow the tiles to be transparently overlayed on top of our regular mapnik layer, the errors detected by OSM Inspector show up in the application we are building.

A few errors/bugs in osm have already been fixed!

Thanks GEOFABRIK! It would be even nicer if I could convince the company here to sponsor a view!

Along each point in the route the range of the vehicle is recalculated and the points that can be reached are shown using the little black points. A convex hull alorithm is used to display the area polygons. This can be updated to show a more realistic area.

Update: The demo project generating these images/movie can be found here:

http://osmsharp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/osmsharp/trunk/Demos/RangeApp/

Recently i have been following the OSM community very close and reading remarks and comments on all kinds of websites and mailinglists. This is a huge community and there are many, many suggestions and projects that try to improve the map.

This past week I introducted OSM to the employees at the company I work for. I explained how to edit the map and what we will be using it for. One major question keeps popping up:

- How do I use the map for routing?

I have to tell them and explain to them you can go to another website:

http://open.mapquest.com/

(I know there are others but they don't generate routing instructions or have other important features missing)

This one step too far; the maps are different, the renderings that is. The website is different. It's difficult to make people understand this is also an OpenStreetMap-powered website.
 
Routing on osm.org

I think it's important to keep in mind that not all of us are IT-specialists, internet goeroes or just young and have grown-up using the internet.

This is a plea to implement routing on the osm.org homepage as soon as possible. It will allow users to update the map and test routing. I realize however that (most) online routers use a huge pre-processing step to index the data and calculate routes up-front. This will make it difficult to let a user update the map and then immidiately test the routing.
 
Maybe there is a way around this? I think this would be a huge step and would take the OSM project and the maps to a new level. I'm also willing to help on this and collaborate with anyone working on this.