Hello folks, I'm relatively new here, so please understand if I use the wrong term here or there. I have four questions that have arisen from my first few edits. 1. St. John (part of the US Virgin Islands) was pretty much untouched when I first found it. I mapped the main town and the numbered routes -- all five of them -- but the mapping is still pretty pathetic, probably only covering 30 or 40% of the island's roads. Searching this morning on data.gov, I found TIGER data for the island from 2008, the only time it's ever been published for the islands, and obviously it was not included in the import of 2005 data. So I converted the shapefiles to .osm this morning, and I'm in the process of cleaning that up now (it's "All Lines" only, so I have to remove the coastline and boundaries and such) and tagging it correctly. Now my question is, once I get the data tagged, how would I actually upload it to OSM? Preferably it would replace most if not all of the data already in place, as I did most of that from tracing over Yahoo! images and therefore it's not the most accurate data ever collected. 2. Still on St. John, what is a maximum length for a "ref" to be rendered under Mapnik? The secondary road "South Side Road" on the west side of the island (it might show up as primary on some zoom levels) should show up as "US:VI 104", and the secondary road "Highway 107" on the east-central part of the island should be "US:VI 107". Other three digit routes, such as "US:VI 206" or "US:VI 108" (both "residential" streets) do not have any problems showing up. Osmarender renders all "ref"s correctly regardless of length. 3. When viewing St. Croix with Mapnik, you can see the the NOAA coastline data is faulty. I fixed it about ten hours ago, but it still is not updated under Mapnik, while it updated after about 70 minutes with Osmarender. What gives? I thought both Mapnik and Osmarender were supposed to update within the hour? 4. Is there a special indication for roads with "surface=unpaved"? Thanks in advance for any responses.

Hello folks, I'm relatively new here, so please understand if I use the wrong term here or there. I have four questions that have arisen from my first few edits. 1. St. John (part of the US Virgin Islands) was pretty much untouched when I first found it. I mapped the main town and the numbered routes -- all five of them -- but the mapping is still pretty pathetic, probably only covering 30 or 40% of the island's roads. Searching this morning on data.gov, I found TIGER data for the island from 2008, the only time it's ever been published for the islands, and obviously it was not included in the import of 2005 data. So I converted the shapefiles to .osm this morning, and I'm in the process of cleaning that up now (it's "All Lines" only, so I have to remove the coastline and boundaries and such) and tagging it correctly. Now my question is, once I get the data tagged, how would I actually upload it to OSM? Preferably it would replace most if not all of the data already in place, as I did most of that from tracing over Yahoo! images and therefore it's not the most accurate data ever collected. 2. Still on St. John, what is a maximum length for a "ref" to be rendered under Mapnik? The secondary road "South Side Road" on the west side of the island (it might show up as primary on some zoom levels) should show up as "US:VI 104", and the secondary road "Highway 107" on the east-central part of the island should be "US:VI 107". Other three digit routes, such as "US:VI 206" or "US:VI 108" (both "residential" streets) do not have any problems showing up. Osmarender renders all "ref"s correctly regardless of length. 3. When viewing St. Croix with Mapnik, you can see the the NOAA coastline data is faulty. I fixed it about ten hours ago, but it still is not updated under Mapnik, while it updated after about 70 minutes with Osmarender. What gives? I thought both Mapnik and Osmarender were supposed to update within the hour? 4. Is there a special indication for roads with "surface=unpaved"? Thanks in advance for any responses.