Could someone have a quick look over Sandhausen? It's far from finished, but now would be a good time to stop me from mapping b***s***... ;)

TIA!

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I need some help from experienced mappers, as I am currently feel unable to join rivers/rivers/coast line. I also having problems in rendering the islands in front of door steps. Naming is here (Vietnam) not THAT important. More seems to be getting the basic shapes and appearances right using one of the underlaying maps as assistance. Exact traces might be even impossible as many parts are are "No Go" area or generally inaccessable ( cliffs e.t.c.). Anyone is welcome to assist, especially those, who wait while their treir are beeing processed.

Regards
TAK

In other words, I cleared a track from my GPS without checking that I had copied it successfully to the PC. What I thought was a track file turns out to have waypoints in it...

Still, got a few more Westport streets and one carpark done.

I have just visited (and tagged) 6 points on the Black Allan line (The straight bit of the NSW Victoria border in Australia). By joining the dots up we now have a better approximation of a segment of a great circle that this border is supposed to be.

It also means that a bridge near Delegate (on Bonang Road) returns to its rightful place in NSW.

I hope that some intrepid OSM'ers will treck to the two endpoints of this line, since the current OSM co-ordinates seem to be about 200 metres SSW of the co-ordinates given by GeoScience Australia and Google Maps/Earth.

PS I then mapped the Bonang Road down to Orbost and I think that this may the twistyest road (of serious length) in Australia, maybe the world. You drive for weel over an hour and you are almost always turning the steering wheel.

It's been quite a few months since I managed to get most of my home town of Lochgelly mapped. It was a great feeling to have mapped almost the entire village! What was once just a spot on the map, is now a complete and comprehensive map of the streets, including post boxes, parking, shops, churches, schools and recycling depots.

There is a new housing estate that is now about half complete. Over the next week or two, I'm hoping to get out and map it. It will hopefully be yet another example of how OSM is "streets ahead" (no pun intended) of the commercial mapping products which can take years to add these new estates. I'm hoping that if I can map this new housing estate, the residents might start using OSM to direct people to their houses!! One can only hope!

Walked around it yesterdag with track! on my mobile phone activated. Nice walk by the way.

Currently modernising road layouts in southern New Jersey, should be finishing up and starting on the New York area as soon as that's done.

And someone needs to update the Orlando, Florida area. half the toll roads are missing.

Greasemonkey is a brilliant plugin for Mozilla Firefox which allows you to run JavaScript snippets on loading certain webpages.
Using Greasemonkey, it is possible to embed OSM into other websites.

Several months ago, I originally started to embed Ordnance Survey maps into geocaching.com, since there was a reasonable demand for this functionality.
In the most recent version (after working on the OL codebase a little), I added OSM to the available layers for the map widget in an attempt to spread OSM's reputation among geocachers. The good news is that two people have already commented that they're surprised by OSM's coverage, and have started mapping their own data!

I gradually intend to push OSM further up the layer list and hopefully make it the default layer in future versions.

Uploaded and traced many of the residential streets and housing estates of Westport. Unfortunately I didn't have an easy way to note names, so that's an exercise for another day.

I was quite surprised to see that my meanderings for the evening clocked up a total of 31km.

Just tracing some water features around what I guess must be the california aquaeduct. Wikipedia is quite a help in discovering the names of some things. Apparently we might have some government data source available for these, which would be better than tracing?

I found openstreetmap yesterday, someone referenced it in a news comment on heise.de. I planned to have a look at it, learn a little bit about it's technology (and user interface---that's part of my job). I never intented to participate. Ok, maybe a minor fix here or there, same as I do once every couple of months when I visit wikipedia.

Then I found a very big hole where my home village should be. Ok, that alone would mybe not have done it, but the data quality of the streets around it is just horrible. So I looked around for my old GPS...

It took a while, but finaly I found it. I put fresh batteries in, and after about 4 hours on the rooftop it had a fix (not a joke!). And do I need to add, that a "Magellan GPS 300" has no logging or PC connectivity at all? Ok, back to the boxes with old stuff, somewhere should be a Palm. Found it, a nice Tungsten T, but where's the Cradle? Another hour later I found it, too, and also the power supply.Now, let's have a look, some kind of sync software? Yeah, of cause it only runs on PowerPC and has not been updated for 4 yours. Luckily the Windows version runs in Parallels, although it takes about 8 sync runs until it completes.

In the meantime, 9:30 am had passed, so I could go to the nearest electronics store. Yeah, the have satnavs. Plenty of them. And also some 600€ handheld GPSs. But I want a Bluetooth GPS. Ok, let's shorten it_ after I circled the shop 2 times, I found them. Below knee height on the side of the display case. Great selection of three different modells: BT, BT+RDS and USB. I took the simple BT one, 89€ sounded fair (surprinsingly cheap, I had expected to pay twice as much). Now I own a nice "NAVILOCK BT-348"---what, btw, is more or less exacly what I knew about it before opening the ver neutral box.

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I add the streets of Bridel.

I add the streets of Hunsdorf

Erste Versuche beim Mapping. Ich fang dann mal mit Wiesbach an.
Bin für jede Kritik offen.
Jeder fängt mal klein an.

Went out for a 15 mile hike over the weekend, walked all around Balcombe via footpaths and bridleways and then went up to Cowdray forest and walked through to Tilgate Forest and park.

Lovely sunny day, so much so that I got sunburnt a bit. ;-)

Went to Mersea Island on Saturday and, using OSM on my Garmin, was surprised to find there was nothing mapped but the coastline. Not even the roads leading to it. Was able to fill in quite a few roads including the causeway onto the island and a couple of footpaths, and have use the aerial images to mark out a few bits of land use, Cudmore park and the village of West Mersea. I also used the aerial images to move the coastline in a few places where it was clearly wrong otherwise the roads and paths I was on would have been underwater!

Started adding my first roads in last night, after waiting a good 9 hours to upload my trace, then be told its invalid then convert it to the right format and reupload again (another 9 hours!)

anyways. I've started mapping the pencoed, heol y cyw, brynna area's (heol y cyw is practically complete apart from street names which i will collect over the next few weeks), and around 2/3 small streets which you are not allowed down. also theres a lot of water works in my area so many lanes I cannot drive down as they are closed for a few more weeks for maintance (and some are just so bad i'm avoiding till last)

even got some streets that no other major map provider has (yet, and since I live in wales will proberbly be another decade away unless they use this data!)

I must admit I get a great satisfaction from adding to the maps!

Glad to be part of this project ;)

I drove around Papendorp (near Utrecht) yesterday, and after the upload troubles I find that OSM tells me that the upload ws successful, but it is only showing up partially in the the Potlatch online editor. Guess I'll try and upload the track again, maybe in smaller subpieces, to see if that works. Bummer...

So this weekend I went a bit further afield. I've added Trapp and more of the roads which converge at Trapp. There is at least one missing though, so that needs adding later.

Also I've added the road which goes from Llanarthne to Paxton's Tower. It also goes past the Botanic Gardens before reaching the main road. I've left that little bit though as I need to gather more tracks before I complete that. So thats left for a future trip for now.

There is a second road from Llanarthne almost parallel to the one I added which is missing. To be honest though, there is so much missing in this area, that I guess its not too surprising really.

Also I added the concrete lumps at Oxwich and also the Pill Box which is hidden under the trees near the road. There are still a bunch of things missing here to such as the buildings on the beach and also the second set of toilets, the phone box at the cross-roads, the post box and probably more besides.

I've been mapping Waterloo by foot during the past couple of months (at a leisurely pace, mind you). I've only just managed to scratch the surface, mapping Uptown and the surrounding area. There is still plenty of work to be done! I won't be in Waterloo again until the Fall, so I am hoping others will start contributing this Summer. (I can't map this entire city by myself!)

I am in Guelph for the Summer and I'm hoping to have the downtown area mapped in the next month or so. There are no other active mappers presently in this city either, it appears, so again lots of work to be done. Activity in Canada seems to be slowly picking up though; hopefully in a few years this country will as active as those in Europe. :)