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For anyone who's subscribed to this but didn't see my other thread, AapoRantalainen has put the fixed verion of OSM2Go into extras-devel, which is very kind of him. I took it out on the recent OSMLondon mapping party and it works fine, even if I found some of the presets a bit annoying to use. Which caused me to do some digging and discover you can customise the presets to suit yourself by editing /opt/osm2go/presets.xml

To do this, I used TxPad as root, having backed up the original file (even though it's easy to redownload from garage or github, it's easier to recopy back from the same directory!). That is to say, with rootsh and TxPad installed, I typed

Code:
root
cp /opt/osm2go/presets.xml /opt/osm2go/presets.xml.old
txpad /opt/osm2go/presets.xml
I like to keep cycle data up to date, so my first move was to move the bicycle presets to the top of the list by cutting the bicycle group (everything from
Code:
<group name="Bicycle" icon="presets/bike.png">
to
Code:
</group> <!-- Bicycle -->
) and pasting it in at the begining of the file (after
Code:
<annotations>
).

I then amended the bicycle_parking item, adding things I use regularly:
Code:
<combo key="covered" text="Covered" values="yes,no" default="no" delete_if_empty="true" />
            <combo key="bicycle_parking" text="Type of parking" values="stand,bollard,wheel_loops,informal,shed,building,tree,ground_slots,anchors" default="" delete_if_empty="true" />
My next trick will be to make an address/contacts group near the top of the list, as scrolling all the way down to the buildings group each time you want to put an address on an element is a pain.

(Incidentally, I accidentally discovered TxPad uses the proximity sensor to toggle onscreen controls. That's pretty cool.)
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