... and the area around it.

-knottytom

Gaiganz, Ermreus, Regensberg and Rangen.

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Lots of new streets, Sportinsel, cementaries, Wiesent, footways,
railway and tracks.

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Winter is over. Tracks start to get dry. Time
to tag them...

-knottytom

I tried to map some of the footpaths in Vleuterweide today using Trackr! (www.trackr.nl, www.trackr.eu) on my mobile phone. While this is generally fine when mapping roads by car, it seems this is not accurate enough (and with enough track points) for small scale footpaths in urban area's. I will need to walk the same track agiain, but now with my Garmin GPSMAP 60C. Oh well...

* All tram lines and tram stops.
* All of the touristic gnome statues.
* Cycle ways and footpaths.
* Some roads around Stary Miasto. Bounds would be approx ulicy Długa, Legnicka, Poznańska, Nowy Świat.
* Any bus stop that I see.

My aim is to make the map useful for non-drivers.

I was wondering who is actively mapping nearby. There are quite a few roads and features laid down in Wrocław.

Here is a script for zsh that finds out. Just copy and paste into your terminal:

OSM_DATA=$(date +wrocław-%Y%m%d.osm)
WROC_BBOX="17.003574,51.090046,17.074814,51.124536"

wget osm.org/api/0.5/map\?bbox=$WROC_BBOX -O $OSM_DATA

# IFS variable must be set to a newline character.
# This is why the quoted string continues over the line.
IFS="
"

for person in $(grep user= $OSM_DATA | sed 's/.*user="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/g' | sort -u)
do
echo $person "\t" `grep user= $OSM_DATA | grep $person | wc -l`
done

And the results for today are:

Adrian Siemieniak 68
Bart Vanhauwaert 8
Jan Górski 2282
luk vanhauwaert 34
Marc Schütz 1
pavel 33
Slawek Janukowicz 620
xjr 4

Put in a pre-order for a Genie GT-31 a week ago. Seems like Locosys have slipped a week on shipping the units. They are due to arrive on 13th of May. Tiels from StorageDepot has been very helpful with my order. I can't wait to get cracking on OSM. It's also only about a month before I'm due to leave for Bike Tour 2008, so I don't have much time. Can't wait!!!

Jetzt hat doch tatsächlich jemand beim Vervollständigen der B311 in Mengen, das Teilstück zwischen Krauchenwies und Mengen gelöscht.
Mit Podlatch kann man das alte Teilstück nicht zurückholen. Geht das mit JOSM? Muß ich wohl doch das Teil endlich installieren und mir das Manual reinziehen.

Cycled NCN_20 over the weekend. The GPS is still playing up and I missed some big chunks, but fortunately they were all on bits already mapped. I think the route is now complete except for through Brighton and through Crawley, where the signs are very poor and non-existent, respectively! :(

I just noticed I copmleted the northern half of my home village today. Ok, I got all streets, there are still some plenty POIs missing. And southern half is half-mapped ;)

Not bad, for just one week. Not bad, for that there was just one street (and that even was wrong*) here before I started...

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*) I wonder how someone managed to tag 5km of L598 as B535.

Two comments from an hour-and-a-half's mapping this balmy May evening:

"'Scuse me! 'Scuse me!" - angelic little cherub.
"Hello?" - me.
"He" (pointing to second angelic little cherub) "says my ass is really fat. Is it?"
"Errrrrrr"

(On railway phone) "Oh, hi, yeah, this is the duty crossing keeper at Clay Mills. Hi. We've had a suicidal male reported. No, I've not seen him anywhere. I've got two police trapped the other side of the crossing. No, no sign of him. It was his family phoned up, said he might be heading this way. Ok, well I reckon we just lift the restriction."

Ah, Burton. There's nowhere like it. Apart from perhaps a big steaming pile of shit next to a river somewhere.

Rupesin sit sahailemaan Hämptonin pyöräteitä kun tuossa tuli käytyä Voudissa yhdellä. Kai näistä pitäsi pitää jotain kirjaa, mitä on fillaroitu ja mitä ei. Ehkä kaupunginosa kerrallaan pyöräteiden etsintä voisi myös palkita.

Lienee turhaa, mutta tulin käyttäneeksi surface -tagia myös pyöräteihin, koska niitäkin näyttää vielä olevan päällystämättöminä.

After a 64km bike ride at the weekend, trying to find somewhere new near my home to map, the sum total of my efforts is about 2km of fresh tracks, and a few new points of interest. I think that next time, I shall have to plan my route to try to take in some more white space on the openstreetmap maps, and try to aim for streets that are mapped (due to the aerial imagery), but not named yet.

It was also the first long ride out with a Nokia N95 doing the logging. The phone is good enough, but the battery life isn't enough for a 3.5 hour session of tracklogs, continuous music playing, and lots of geotagged photos. I have got a Freeloader solar charger, which managed to keep enough juice flowing when the phone battery was running low. It would be interesting to note how much longer the Nokia battery lasts when not playing MP3s. I'll have a few more long runs before the London to Brighton ride.

Looking at the tracklogs from the Nokia (the phone was just in my pocket), I can easily see when I reached to get it out of my pocket, because the fix wobbles around lots. According to the documentation with the phone, it gets it's best fix with the phone slider open; so maybe I need to work out some sort of handlebar mount. Getting nice clean tracklogs is less important where the areas are already mostly mapped, and you're just taking geotagged photos; so it's probably not that important for the London to Brighton run, the main route of which got mapped last year.

Last week I uploaded my 500,000th GPX point made with my Garmin eTrex Vista HCx, which I've had since Christmas, the half-millionth point somewhere near Nottingham on a recent trip there. I've so far found it a very good GPS unit; usually gets a very good signal - the tracks I get look to be very close together if I have to go over the same road on another visit. The mass-storage mode makes it very easy to upload the tracks to OSM, and I've had no problems with the OSM on Garmin maps.

Having the GPS has enabled me to map the area outside the Manchester Yahoo imagery, and now, most of the rural areas of North and East Cheshire are approaching completeness, at least in terms of the road network. There are countless footpaths and bridleways to do - and then Macclesfield has hardly been touched yet, so that'll be a goal over the next couple of months.

I've started doing Congleton, which, until a couple of days ago just had the main A-roads.

Going next weekend to Grindelwald. osm.org/?lat=46.6244&lon=8.0552&zoom=13&layers=0BFT
Pretty much to do there.

During the past few weeks, I have updated the coast line along the Swedish west coast, from Amundön (just south of Gothenburg) to Ölmanäs (on the east side of the Onsala peninsula). It looks quite a lot better now. I have updated some of the islands as well, but there is still quite a few of them to improve.

Went for a walk around local footpaths and mapped them. This is my first contribution in about 7 months. Took me a while to get back into using Josm.

I recently bought an additional GPS unit : an I-blue 747 which would serve when I'm not in a running mood (or mode).
But ther is another reason for this : I want to be able to go online live tracking on some occasions :)

i pass every day there, and so...