Suburbs Giralang & McKellar in Canberra mapped

On the next sunday we have the first micro mapping parti in Milano.
The party will be an attempt to map a very small part of the city.
A 2 hours ride to cover the entire area and to produce a detailed section of the map.
The editing part of the party will be a personal@home task.
Further info (italian ony) at

osm.wiki/index.php/Milano/Micro_Mapping_Party

This weekend we had a Mapping Party in Perugia (Umbria, Italy). 10 people were mapping in the middle-age town and we encountered problems with the sat signal becouse of narrow streets with tall buildings.
At the end whe managed to produce a nice map (still incomplete).
A big thank to the pople from MindSolution s.r.l who hosted the party.

Went to London Hack Day last Saturday. Twas good. Hacked a bit on MediaWiki extensions.

I have a new profile mugshot photo (Steve's hacking), but where does it show up? On a diary post?

OK I think I can declare Cottenham essentially finished, covering all roads and footpaths in the village. Of course the minute I post this I will discover a whole raft of points of interest that should be on the map.

To enhance trace precisions on a garmin
etrex venture go to the main menu, select
traks, then select the first menu item
on top-right corner of the display (the contextual
menu) and you'll find configuration options
for tracks. The default was likely 'auto' for
the precision, changing to time-based (2 seconds)
made the traces much better (and huge..)

Today I was amazed to find out how many tracks there are in the Grafenberger Wald. The warm weather attracted a lot of walkers, so cycling was a bit difficult. But I think I mapped nearly all tracks that run on top of the hill. In the end I was too lazy to follow all of the up/down tracks, so there are a few tracks missing in the west belly of the forest. Should be easy to do on another weekend.

Yesterday, Steve Chilton, Tom Higgy and I met up for a quick mapping blast around Worcester - one of the few cities in England to have very little OSM coverage.

I tackled the area west of the river, where I'd previously done an afternoon's mapping. It's now mostly complete save for the St John's and Rushwick areas. (Steve worked on the Barbourne area and Tom on the Diglis area, I think.)

And Steve managed to find a table under an out-of-copyright map in the Plough!

Still lots to do in the city, and I'll certainly return to finish off the west side at least, but it's now in a much healthier state than it was before the weekend.

Taking advantage of the extraordinarily warm weather this weekend, i started the first mapping tour by bike to add some small streets around Liedolsheim and Dettenheim (North of Karlsruhe) and continued with Rußheim.

Completed Newmarket today, with a couple of hour's surveying, and then just checking up on a few outstanding questions from previous visits. Newmarket is about 15,000 people, and it took about 14 hours of surveying time, over four sessions, not counting travel time, so that's pretty much par. Editing is taking me longer these days, maybe I'm putting in more detail. Did my second continuous audio and used the new JOSM facilities to play the results back - worked very effectively.

Apart from the odd tiny cul-de-sac on the outskirts of the town, Prestbury is mapped!

Wieder ein Dorf im Grundsatz erfaßt: Calberlah ist mehr oder weniger fertig. Was fehlt, sind natürlich all die "kleinen" Verbesserungen wie Bushaltestellen, Post, Apotheke usw. usf.

Strassen dort sind fertig.

-knottytom

Bin mit den Strassen in diesem Ort durch.

Gruesse,
knottytom

A few days ago, I failed as an OSMer.
I mean, what's our only ;-) purpose in life? To provide our fellow citizens with map data so they can find their destinations.
I was biking in my neighbour town Bernhausen to fill in some missing street names. It was already dark and getting colder, but hey, that shouldn't keep anybody from mapping. ;-)
I was standing on the side of the street with my bike, writing down some street names, when a car pulled beside me. I could tell from the license plate that they were not from the region.
They asked me where a certain street was. And I couldn't tell them! I could tell them that it was not in this part of the town, but that didn't help much. When they said that a certain school was nearby, I could give them instructions how to get there, though.
So maybe I only failed half. ;-)
No need to say that the street they were asking for is now in OSM. :-)

I've been mapping for a while roads around Sevilla. I've been tracing yahoo and using the references in http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/obraspublicasytransportes/www/jsp/estatica.jsp?pma=8&ct=1&e=carreteras/red_autonomica_carreteras/red_autonomica_carreteras.html and http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/obraspublicasytransportes/www/jsp/estatica.jsp?pma=8&ct=1&pmsa=0&e=carreteras/red_autonomica_carreteras/../red_provincial_carreteras/red_provincial_carreteras.html to name the roads. Roads are classified using the criteria in the Spanish Mapping features.

Having bought a Nokia N810, which makes it easy to add waymarks, I revisited using continuous sound tracks in JOSM this week, meaning I don't have to have wires draped across my handlebars, nor keep pressing the pause button. Ideally I'll use a bluetooth mic and record on the N810 in future, but the sound quality isn't good enough that way yet.

So, I've reimplemented the rudimentary audio support in JOSM to thread the audio player, supply the usual controls, synchronise with waypoints and allow for a sampled set of waypoints when you can't create them explicitly, and to have a play head which follows your track in JOSM in real time. It makes audio mapping much easier both while surveying and while entering data.

Two further trips to Newmarket on 6th and 15th February completed firstly the industrial and residential areas of Studlands Park and the area east of Exning Road over to the river valley carrying NCN51, and then the village of Exning. Not only were the existing roads there woefully incomplete, but what was there was significantly wrong as well: wrong names and deviant tracks. Corrected now.

Secondly, completed the rather more sparse area of east and north east Newmarket: the large number of stables and studs mean that residential development is not very dense along Ely Road (A142) and Bury Road (the old A11 road). Moving round to the south-east, however, density increased again on the rising ground behind the town.

Battery on my Nokia N8109 ran out on both trips after 4 hours 10 minutes. Biked home after the first session via NCN51 all the way - it's a long way round and I got back exhausted. Second trip I did bus both ways, and the timing was perfect. However it does leave an area called Crockfords Park south of the railway and the old town south of the High Street still outstanding. One more trip will probably complete the town.

I'm gearing up for some hopefully serious mapping.

I've configured my Asus EeePC to use an USB bluetooth dongle, and connected a GPS receiver to it. I have set up gpsbabel to record and convert my tracks and I will be driving around the city mapping the streets as much as I can in the next few months.

Early today I uploaded my first "test" trace which is just a stationary GPS track received by sticking out the GPS receiver through my office's window. I will be making my first true drive later today.

I'm also looking forward to getting more acquainted with JOSM.

From a few days worth of mapping, I've made a number of minor updates to the map, mainly centering around new features, the odd new road, and a couple of minor realignments (mainly of roads I've submitted).

However, I was able to travel on a new stretch of the A1 Northbound around Grantham, which is part of the major roadworks to replace many roundabouts with proper junctions. I wasn't able to survey the new slip roads, nor the new bridge, but I've re-routed the A1 Northbound to reflect the new path of the road. At the time of travel, the southbound A1 still goes to the roundabout, although that will soon change.

Most of the other roundabouts on the Peterborough to Blyth stretch of the A1 are still in place right now, but it will be interesting to watch as the map gets updated.