OpenStreetMap
Français :
J'ai enfin fini par écrire l'article sur OSM sur le site de adella.org. À l'origine je mappais un peu uniquement pour écrire cet article, puis je me suis pris au jeu. L'article est fait, et moi je suis encore là ;-).
English:
Finally I wrote the small paper about OSM on adella.org site. I went here initialy to do it, but I do lot of map stuff before write it.
From next April the administrative county of Cheshire (UK) will be split in two. With the mapping I did yesterday in Winsford, one of the halves, Cheshire West and Chester, now has all its public roads mapped and named. Of course there will still be some omissions and mistakes but the systematic approach should keep these fairly few. There is still scope for more mapping detail, especially on areas done two years ago, but applications like Nestoria (http://openstreetmap.nestoria.co.uk/) could cover the area with confidence.
The area is mixed urban and rural with a population of 328,000 and an area of 917 km2. (This is about the same density as England as a whole. I'll try to get round to doing the statistics as described in osm.wiki/index.php/Completeness_Metrics)
Cheshire East is not quite so complete but is progressing fast, and there is plenty to do in neighbouring North Wales, Wirral and Runcorn.
Building outlines from aerial pics. (select the osmarender layer)
Still can't find a good PD sketch-map of what all the building names are. Anyone who works there want to help?
Purchased new GPS (Garmin eTrex Legend HCx) last Wednesday. The accuracy is quite good - usually about 5m after obtaining a good fix with WAAS on (it's off by default). Have been using it in conjunction with Yahoo photos to map parts of Toronto - it's much faster to use it plus a voice recorder than it was to use pencil and paper and it allows me to map areas that are difficult to make out on the sat photo. Haven't mapped any areas with no sat photos - yet - but undoubtably I will find some new subdivisions soon enough.
Last weekend I surveyed and mapped the dual carriageway section of the N4 just before Sligo, the Donegal bypass, some local roads around Glencolumbcille, much of the N56, some R roads around Errigal, R and local roads around Inishowen, and the road from Ballymena to Enniskillen via Cookstown and Omagh.
Since then I've added some detail of local roads around Westport, the R332 from Tuam to Kilmaine, the road from Belcarra via Ballyglass to Hollymount and on to the R332, some of the industrial area around Parkmore and Ballybrit in Galway, and the Monivea road as far as the N63. I also completed the N63 to where it meets the N17.
Today I've added some of the local roads between Balla and the N5, and (I think) all the housing estates in Balla.
Day out in Wallingford with the family, who are visiting Oxford this week. I've improved the map of the town's mediaeval centre a bit - hope I've got the one-way system right - and found some unmapped tracts of land on the way there and back.
- Previously unmapped restricted byway between Drayton St Leonard and Chiselhampton. highway=byway sounds quaint. Renders oddly in Osmarender.
- Two new villages: Newington and Warborough.
- Innumerable churches and pubs.
- Connected the River Thame using OAM and NPE data. Not sure about the direction of flow though.
Hmm - it's been quite a while since I last wrote a diary entry. Things have moved on. The city centre (of Swansea) is done as far as I can tell. I've updated more of the "metro" bus lanes as they appear. I've had reason to divert slightly around the Mayhill area of town and have *finally* mapped it, despite the city council's best efforts to block all the through-routes with barricades.
OSM beats all the other maps that I've compared with on correctness of street-connectivity in that area now. However, I'd appreciate efforts by people who live a bit closer to nail down more of the street names. There are a lot of missing name-signs on the streets of Mayhill.
So, I finishes work and starts cycling home. I actually didn't intend to do a lot of mapping, but I saw one of the cul-de-sacs roads I know has some sort of foot/cycleway at the other end. I was only interested in it today as a potential shortcut, so didn't map the maze.
So I eventually finds me way out and heads on towards home. Then some girl I can't remember ever meeting says "Hi, Tom." Seriously, no clue.
Anyhow, then I decides to follow the road to the Shrewsbury School boathouse and path beyond intending to cross the Kingsland Toll bridge and head across town. On reaching the path up to the bridge I changed my mind, intending to take the English Bridge to get across the river and follow the NCN81, my usual route.
Reached the end of the path, here's some roads. I follow said roads in Belle Vue area doing ~3 miles up and down hills and various paths.
Now back home to tag it all up. Apparently I took the route as described until I reached the boathouse, where I flew across the river, over Frankwell and the town centre several times before heading over the houses towards home.
I can't wait for my BGT-31 to arrive...
Today i started editing my livingstreet, imported my first GPSTrace and edited som data from that trace. For the job i used josm.
Here are some before and after shots of a few things that I have cleaned up recently:
Stockertown: Before - After | Deleted nonexistant roads, cleaned up railroad tracks.
Easton Area: Before - After | Connected new imported data to existing ways for cleaner appearance.
And, of course... I had to mix things up a bit by going out-of-area.
Garden State Parkway: Before - After | Self-exclamatory. The "before" picture is ridiculous.
Finally finished tracing over my GPX of the Rochdale Canal and adding all the locks and bridges - 50 of each - between Sowerby Bridge and Littleborough.
Ok, I'm used to see a difference from the Mapnik map to the Osmarender map, since my changes usually appear at first in Osmarender (the day after or so).
This week I see it the opposite way: my changes from last weekend near Triberg, Germany (osm.org/?lat=48.1289&lon=8.2464&zoom=13&layers=B0FT) are not visible in Osmarender, but they are visible by now in Mapnik through the weekly update. Strange...
Nobody seems to want to render this lost space ;-)
-lots of streets and POI's added ...clear the white area!
..take a look
Ir tas potlatch kazko nepadaro revert :(
Jau kelis sykius bandau, bet vis tiek reparevertina.
Kas galit/mokat - parevertinkit plyz.
Ir sorris labai uz tokia nesamone....
Yesterday arrived my GPS receiver, an Acer v200 Travel Companion, which I bought through eBay. On the evening, I read the manual and walked around some streets near my place, logging my track.
Today, I found out that in order to convert my trace (saved in a .dat file) to GPX format I had to use the very latest version of GPSBabel (1.3.5, released just three days ago -- wow! I've been lucky). It's not in Debian yet, but it compiled without any hassle :-)
First opening of JOSM was somewhat frustrating, but PerroVerd was very helpful, explaining me the basics. In no time I was creating objects and labelling them. Just a while ago, I submitted my first upload.
Not a lot of chance to map new areas this weekend, but I did mange to grab track logs of my journey from Swansea to Witney and back, as well as a trip to Kingston Bagpuize which has resulted in one new road (Rectory Lane) being added, but there is more of it that I didn't manage to get a track log for, so someone else will have to finish that off.
Yesterday evening I wondered through Gelli Hir Wood with the aid of the official (so far as I can tell) map from the Welsh Wildlife web site. It seems that its not very accurate though as some of the paths seem to have moved since it was produced. There are still several more to investigate, so I'll go back again at some point and finish that off.
I also took a look around Mill Wood and found various interesting items to map there as well. Again I need to go back at a later date and map the remaining paths of which there seem to be a number.
Some new ways and tracks.
-knottytom
Added:
*) Bebenburgstrasse
*) Nell-Breuning-Strasse
*) Von-Hirschberg-Strasse
*) Martinskirche (and ways around)
*) Am Schiessanger
-knottytom
Went for a longish bike ride today and on the way took in the village of Little Thetford, just west of the River Cam between Cambridge and Ely. Though only small, it is significantly the only settlement along the A10 not mapped until now between the two cities, which means we now have complete mapping all the way from Saffron Walden in the south to Littleport in the north (a distance of some 65km) and from Melbourn and Papworth in the west to Newmarket in the east (some 45km, though it narrows down a lot at the northern end).
On the other side of the river, after following the already mapped NCN11 from Ely to Wicken, added the fen drove road between Wicken and Swaffham Prior via the little village of Upware also completes a nice big section - I had already plotted this road approximately from NPE (and it wasn't far off), but I had no detail for Upware itself - not least the Five Miles From Anywhere pub on the riverbank where a pint of Guiness went down a treat on this beautifully warm and sunny day.
Found deleted Roundabouts in the Area i was mapping exclusively for the last weeks. After i put them in again i found more bogus edits tonight. Foot/Cycle/Waterways which are definitly not there. Footways without any connection although i know there is one etc.
The user seems to just map from memory and using potlatch. He is not really carful doing edits and i already tidied up a bit by deleting points and ways without any tags and connections etc.
Now i'd like to contact that user but there seem to not be any standard way to map a username to an e-mail address
