My view - start rebuilding the Mapnik database more often (ideally daily). Then there will be little need for Tiles@home, which is clearly terribly inefficient. Mapnik is much more efficient - after all it all runs on one server. Of course, if someone can figure out how to greatly reduce T@H's CPU and RAM consumption, go ahead...

Personally, I think that we should just use Mapnik and get rid of tiles@home. Mapnik is much, much more efficient than tiles@home and if we make Mapnik to update its database more frequently (like daily) then tiles@home will become redundant.

You could try pushing Google to provide satellite photos to us. They are, after all, giving OSM $18000 worth of free labour through Summer of Code. Other than that, I guess you will just have to buy a GPS.

Microsoft dropped their bid for Yahoo, so don't worry about what M$ will do to OSM.

osm.wiki/index.php/TIGER_fixup

Not too hard is it?

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You can always try complaining to town council (though that might not actually do anything)