I have quite a few old traces in my Garmin from leaving it sitting on the dash as I do my normal business around the county, so I'm making a start on filling in the gaps in Mayo.

So far I have Westport's main streets, the N5 from Westport to Castlebar, a couple of the streets in Castlebar including the relief road, and several of the regional roads around Castlebar.

Coming up: more detail in Castlebar and Westport, roads to Ballina, and the N5 to Charlestown. Next week I should be able to complete the N5 to Longford.

I've just got home from work, which has taken me about 2.5 hours. Considering I live about 3 miles away, that's a really long time. Actually, my average speed was about 6 miles per hour because in that time I covered about 16 miles, probably ~6-8 of that is previously unmapped roads, and ~1 mile currently unmapped by Google.

I've also worked how a few existing roads join up, with some of the roads in between being easily done on my journey to work. Basically, it cuts off a mile of main road before I get onto NCN81, which takes me about 1/4 mile from work.

The battered fish fillets I bought from local shop are ridiculously expensive! £4.99 for 4, which turn out to be really tiny! Not impressed.

map map map! just starting mapping hamburg.
tomorrow i'll map berlin \o/

Continue mapping of Vladivostok: see vlmapper.blogspot.com (at russian).

So Cefn Bryn is not looking too bad now. Most major stuff is there bar a footpath which goes from the trig point near Arthur's Stone across to Oldwalls. There are a number of minor tracks still do to, and for those with webbed feet, a few streams too.

Mind you, Broad Pool was rather damp around the edges. The road isn't quite right as it passed broad pool. Not really enough points, but I've not moved it yet.

There are big blanks still in North Gower, so that might be a good place to look at next.

I've finally got the CartoType demo program for Windows Mobile 5 on-line: see www.cartotype.com for details. It's a 16MB download that contains the complete OSM map of the UK in compressed form.

It's not a polished app but shows that CartoType can render high-quality maps on demand on small devices.

Loveland, Ohio now features a bunch of subdivision points, thanks to this neighborhood map.

podedes saber máis de min en:
(more about me)

osm.wiki/index.php/User:Mcguire

Moved from Accra to Nairobi and will continue to map a bit from aerials

Сделал второй трек: Тихая и Чуркин.

I will run out of fresh lakes (in the western part of Sweden) to map in a few weeks, as most of them are mapped by now. Almost all of the ones left are partly covered by clouds, which makes them hard to map correctly. More/renewed Yahoo imagery would really help.

Вчера снял свой первый трек, сегодня обработал - пока что вчерне. Добавил несколько основных улиц, озеро.

Finished off first run over Anglesea based on the out of copyright map imagery.

Done most of the residential areas of Conah's Quay based on Yahoo imagery.

Quite a productive morning (after I eventually found the cafe!)... but then I lost half my notes, so had to retrace my steps in the afternoon. And by then it was time to go and catch the train home. Gah.

Still, for the benefit of anyone else sniffing around the same area, I've done the area I signed up for on the board (39), and a bit of the one to the south: the Rea Valley Drive estate, the Wychall Farm estate, the Fairway and the roads off it, and connected it back to the A441.

After some digging, it seems there is no documented way of tagging lifeboat stations and lifeboats. Tagwatch also didn't turn up anything especially obvious, so I've created a tagging proposal:

osm.wiki/index.php/Proposed_features/Lifeboat

I've tagged the Horton lifeboat station in accordance with this proposal. I may contact the RNLI to see if they will provide a copyright-free list of lifeboat stations and their locations (although I suspect they won't have the lat/lon for them all :( ).

Went for a drive in the Blue Mountains this morning - picked a random bush track at the end of a street and went for a walk. After a few km's of serene bush, I was pleasantly surprised to come across a decent sized dam - it's now a feature in OSM. I bet it's not shown on any other street map!

So to test out my new GPS I walked around Wimmerfield Crescent. Hopefully I magae to get it to join Wimmerfield Avenue correctly.... I discovered that there are a number of side roads off Wimmerfield Crescent which need mapping, but I didn't do those yet as today's primary task was just to prove that I could go right through the process from gathering track data to actually uploading it.

Anyway not a bad start it seems.

I took a little outing at lunch time with my GPS and rode the south end of the Portland Streetcar line, and the new aerial tram up to Pill Hill. Now they are in the map.

fsa

A lot of the time overhead photos from various sources aren't perfectly aligned, and may be off by 50–100m. Please make sure to align them by comparing features in the photo with actual GPS tracks in JOSM (or whatever you're using) before you trace rivers and buildings. :)