GPSBabel 1.3.5 was released a few days ago, and for those of you using the popular NaviGPS units I am pleased to be able to say that the new release of GPSBabel includes native support for the NaviGPS.

This includes both direct access to stored tracks, routes and waypoints via the USB cable as well as the ability to decode waypoints and tracks copied to the SD card if you are using a recent release of the NaviGPS firmware that supports that.

The code has been tested with my GT-11 unit but should work with the BGT-11 as well, and will hopefully work with the new GT-31 and BGT-31 units when they arrive - please let me know if you manage to test with one of those.

The name for the new driver is "navilink", so to recover waypoints over the USB cable on linux you would do something like:

gpsbabel -w -f navilink -i /dev/ttyUSB0 -F gpx -o waypoints.gpx

Any problems, give me a shout...

As a first experiment how this works, I have started to map part of the area where I live. The first session basically adds the Stadtbachstrasse and some access roads with a few features nearby.

Such a fine afternoon I thought I'd continue with some cycle training in preparation for the London to Brighton Bike Ride next month. 43km later and I have Handsworth Wood (B20) mapped. Nice area and some interest when I cam across a young couple blatantly having sex in one of the parks.

english below

Ich bin heute mal durch meinen Block in Bochum gelaufen und habe POI und fehlende Straßen eingefügt.

I took a walk around my living area in Bochum, Germany and added POI and missing Streets.

Barton Mills - did village green area and footpaths around Grange Farm.

Fordham - added last missing through road. No cul-de-sacs, estate roads or footpaths have been done in this village. This brings Fordham to a consistent level of detail in which to leave it.

Added missing road SW of Tuddenham. The inter-village road network is now complete to the west of Tuddenham and Herringswell as far as Fordham, Isleham and West Row. That brings the area to a consistent level of detail in which to leave it.

I may grow the area at that level of information if I am going in that direction but I will be concentrating on finishing Barton Mills and then moving into Mildenhall. Barton Mills will take 3 more walks so that will probably be finished this week.

I also went to Shrewsbury. I've just finished tagging up all of my route.

I went North, and did the roads bounded by the new A5124 link road in the North, the A5112/A5191 in the east, and the A528 in the west.

I started from the outside and worked my way in. I didn't quite get into the centre of Shrewsbury, but what I've done is, I believe, complete in terms of the road network.

I had lunch by the river in lovely weather whilst watching some racing at the Shrewsbury Regatta, before it was back on the road again to get a few more roads before time caught up with me, and I had to be on my way to Congleton.

It was nice to meet a couple of other OSMers. Thanks to Higgy for organising the event.

Found two more tracks and connecting footways between Knittkuhl and Ratingen. As usual I keep being amazed what you find going out mappging.

Arriving in Ratingen, I could not help as to map a few residential streets there, although this is not really my area. But the center of Ratingen is a nice place, and it is about time it gets mapped.

Driving to Weil de Stadt I recorded the major road of the Wächtersber. And 3 smaller residentioal roads

Spent a good part of the weekend in Shrewsbury, but not principally as a mapping event (albeit that Tom Higgy was running one there on Saturday anyway). Introduced someone new to the process so I hope we will see another user doing some edits as he finds the time. The weather really was excellent for mapping on the bike, especially being able to drop into the pub afterwards - although I found that SteveC had got there and mapped that sometime before! or sitting by the River Severn watching a rowing regatta. Mixing mapping with socialising and regular activity has a lot going for it :-)

I have finished correcting the "braided" streets listed on the Tiger fixup page.

I've been looking for more to fix, and I haven't found many. I found a handful more in the greater Bay Area, mosly in Oakland. None in Portland. A few duplicated streets in Tacoma, but no actual braided ones anywhere around Tacoma and Seattle.

I'm going to broaden my search across the US, but I'm wondering if the underlying issue was peculiar to the San Francisco area. Since the TIGER data is an amalgam of other sources, it could be that the topology leading to the braiding phenomenon only occurred in some source data from that area. Interesting.

During february I have added together with Adrian some streets in Bochnia. Yesterday I have added few remaining traces. BTW a little bit of validation problems has been corrected in Wrocław.

Did a trip around the outer circle bike trail in Melbourne. Nice but it crosses a lot of streets and at some points there is no trail and the signs telling you how to get to the next section are non existant.

Well know most of it is in osm, so mkgmap it and load it up onto your garmin gps.

Finished the east end of the village down to footpath level. Did not add the footpath from the R. Lark to the A1101 beyond the Cut Off Channel. The stinging nettle defeated me.

I've added some streets of my home town and I've created an entry for my home town in the wiki.

He actualizado el wiki de Colombia con informacion general del proyecyto, tambien esta disponible la lista de correo de Talk-co

In English below

Tenía pendientes de procesar las salidas de la autopista A6 en dirección Coruña y al llegar a la zona de Medina he visto que la mayoría de carreteras de esa zona, y que conozco bien, no están trazadas y ni siquiera disponen de trazas gpx. Afortunadamente con el Landstat y gracias a que la zona de Campos es bien plana ha sido fácil añadir algunas.
La sorpresa ha sido al llegar a Valladolid ya que la cobertura de Yahoo ha mejorado llegando incluso a los 200m así que estoy aprovechando para trazar bastantes cosas de allí.

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I had a lot of tracks to process, including the highway junctions in the A6 towards Coruña, but when i have arrived to the Medina zone i have discovered that the main roads in that zone are no traced and even they have no gpx traces. Fortunately, the Landstat and the plain orography in Campos zone have made easy to add some of them.
The surprise arrived near Valladolid, the Yahoo resolution is real good, even 200m so im tracing a lot of things there because its well known for me.

As this is the first weekend for months when the weather has been decent and I haven't had other things today I took advantage of the sun to do a 25 mile run on the bike and pike up another slice of central Cheshunt yesterday.

All the data should be in now, completing Cheshunt to the east of the A10 down as far as College Road/Windmill Lane.

I Guess there's no delete/edit button... Sorry for the spam ;)

I got a bit carried away today - I had intended to map a short section of road in Pantlasau and then go up near Clydach to fill in some missing roads and names. But I ended up finding an interesting looking footpath and curiosity got the better of me; so I spent the afternoon investigating that path and some tracks leading off it.

In the end I found myself at the *enormous* 275KV Swansea North electricity substation. And it was pretty loud too - you can hear the 50Hz buzz from the transformers a good couple of kilometres away from it. On the way back home I discovered a rather useful footpath crossing some fields to the North of the housing estate, so I can make use of that when I *actually* go up to Clydach to fix up these roads. :)

Nach nur ca. einer Woche ist der Groß-Umstädter Ortsteil Raibach mit allen Straßen in OSM eingepflegt. Darüber hinaus sind jetzt auch die Landesstraßen nach Klein-Umstadt bis Mömlingen (Dorndiel Hauptsraße) und bis nach Breuberg OT-Hainstadt eingepflegt.

... jetzt nur noch bis Mitwoch zum rendern warten und Raibach ist für alle verfügbar.

Wer hat Lust (evt. zusammen mir) die anderen Groß-Umstädter Ortsteile einzupflegen ?