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Finished main roads in Souraïde and "Lac de Saint Pée sur Nivelle.
RN10 from Spanish Border to Bayonne
RD932 from Bayonne Maignon to Cambo
Main streets in Espelette and Ustaritz plus CD250 Ustaritz-Saint Pée sur NIvelle
Espelette to Dantcharia (Spanish border) on CD20
Will continue
Regards to all

Die Ölpipeline im FZK wird leider nicht erfasst. Ausserdem scheinen die Aussengrenzen des FZK nicht wirklich zu passen. Da muss man bei Gelgenheit wohl nochmal was anpassen.

Auf Osterurlaub Vorhelm und Tönnishäuschen "vollständig" erfasst. Vorhelm-Bahnhof wird noch eine Weile warten müssen.

That was nice. Yesterday, the exceptional good weather day in an Easter weekend with generally horrible weather, I used bicycle "routing" from my home to Kettwig and back for the first time. Kettwig is a surprisingly nice little town with old houses and narrow alleys. And the weather even permitted to have a coffee on a balkony overlooking the Ruhr.

It was no real routing, of course, because all I had was a list of waypoints. I got the waypoints through a site that offers exactly that: clicking waypoints on a google map.

Cycling along the waypoints stored on the GPS device is just great compared to fiddling with a paper map. Even in areas where OSM does not yet have any roads and tracks, it is easy to follow the waypoints route.

This site for getting the waypoints is a bit terrible to use, because the author also provides a probably nicer one for cash. The days before I toyed a bit with OpenLayers (openlayers.org) and with no prior knowledge to Javascript (albeit I am a hacker) I was able built my own simple site to display smoothly the more interesting map data described on http://www.gis3.nrw.de/DienstelisteInternet/ .

To bad I cannot demo the result online, because I am not sure about the copyright implications. What I read about this data, it seems to be ok to use it at home for private viewing. (I wonder if it would be ok to distribute the 10+ lines of Javascript?) This little app does not yet allow to click waypoints, but this should be no more difficult than integrating the maps, so I really want to get to that soon.

There have been some nice days to be out on the bike or walking.
I've completed the Summit Road from Gebbies pass to Mt Pleasant Rd, still have the section to Evans Pass to complete. also added to an incomplete section on the Old Tai Tapu road
I've also been adding some tracks as footways around the lake in Canterbury Park and the Quarry Trail which is in Kennedy's Bush reserve.

Started importing data from BSWM of Laguna, Philippines. Some nodes are already in the database, but ways aren't. If somebody is editing this region, please refrain for deleting the uploaded nodes. We hope to finish the import by the end of the week.

On snowy and cold Easter day, I thought I'd fill a few streets in Hull in. There was no-one about so it was quick and easy. When I compared the photos of street names at home I found two clear easter-eggs on other maps of the area. Seems appropriate somehow.

Even more lakes rendered now, this is looking better all the time. I actually think that my goal to map all of the lakes in the hires region is possible.

Just added a lot to Hafnarfjörður, Norðurbær. Also something in the center and sout. Couple of roads in Kópavogur, some in Garðabær and in Grafarholt where I live. Not to forget a few new roads in Grafarvogur as well.

I just uploaded my recent trip from Zagreb to Našice(Nasice) in Croatia. So, if you think you can help mapping these points - feel free to do it. Just go to my traces and edit. I don't think I'll have spare time to map all of my traces, so help me in mapping Croatia!

Did a lot of initial naming in the West of Strasshof

did the remaining naming in the north of Deutsch-Wagram

did a lot of naming around Groß-Enzersdorf, Eßling and Aspern

Visiting parents in Leicester for Easter. Weather is quite bad, so no cycle mapping (yet). On Thursday, we got the new alignment of Oxford Street around the Newark Magazine Gateway - the day it opened!

Today we drove around the villages of south-east Leicestershire, around Burton Overy and The Langtons, picking up various country roads. This area was pretty bare before.

I'm very glad to have seen other people being active in the Leicester area recently. Countesthorpe, Markfield, Wigston and Braunstone all seem to have had significant stuff added to them. Yay.

When I look at our map here in Germany, I see at lot of astonishing spots where a lot of detail is available. On the other hand, there are still many white spots.

So I tried to estimate how many contributing members our project needs in Germany to get a good 100% coverage in the foreseeable future.
Germany has a size of 357021 km^2 and about 82 million inhabitants (from baby to old people).
Now let's assume that somebody can map 20 km^2 i.e. an area of 4 by 5 km without dedicating all his spare time and the rest of his life to mapping. ;-) It may be less in big cities and more in rural areas with only small villages, so I think this evens out. (4 by 5 km sounds reasonable to me. I'm involved in a larger area, more like 8 by 10 km, but didn't and don't have to do everything there myself, luckily.)
This means we need about 18000 people mapping for OSM in Germany or 0,02% of the total population.
The OSM statistics for today say there are currently 28613 users in total.
I don't know, doesn't sound like too many people are needed, but can we reach enough who are both motivated to take the work of mapping AND can handle the technology, i.e. using some GPS capturing device, uploading to the PC, using the editors?
What do you think?

In order to cover the magnificent area around Portofino and his National Park I've started to map some roads and footway.
If you're in italy on april 13th and you like visit this enchanting park with astonishing viewpoint on the sea, please contact me or sent an e-mail to the italian OSM mailing list

To take a look on the park, this is the official site:
http://www.parcoportofino.it/parco.aspx?codice=0000000006

osm.org/?lat=44.3257&lon=9.1869&zoom=14&layers=B0FT

In vista del mapping party del 13 aprile al Monte di Portofino ho iniziato a mappare l'area circostante, in particolare Camogli e Santa Margherita Ligure, i punti di partenza per la visita del magnifico parco. L'estensione dei sentieri al suo interno raggiunge i 70km dai quali è possibile cogliere panorami mozzafiato in mezzo ad una flora rigogliosa e caratterizzata principalmente da macchia mediterranea e alberi plurisecolari.
Per chi fosse in zona e volesse partecipare al Mapping Party, il raduno è alle ore 9 nella piazzetta di San Rocco di Camogli ( 44,33668° N, 9,15810° E) pregandovi d'avvisare per poter organizzare al meglio in base ai partecipanti.

Questo è il sito ufficiale del parco:
http://www.parcoportofino.it/parco.aspx?codice=0000000006

Qui potete vedere l'attuale mappa del Parco
osm.org/?lat=44.3257&lon=9.1869&zoom=14&layers=B0FT

Did initial naming, a lot of work in the north of Deutsch-Wagram remains,
Lots of GPS data required, many map errors detected

did a lot of naming around Kagran