Got my account on OSM and have to learn how to contribute my tracks to the project.

A typical problem in Germany: is there a " " in the street name?
I found this "Hammer Straße", which is "Hammerstraße" in OSM.
Both are valid words, but with different meaning.
Hammer Straße is a name in favour of the city "Hamm", Hammerstraße is a name in favour of the tool hammer. Even Google or Viamichelin mix this up, but the street signs show "Hammer Straße".

I discovered OSM a few days ago and decided to start contributing on my own. For now I am concentrating on the place I live, Cambridge, MA, USA. I am surprised how good the street coverage already is - apparently mostly imported from public sources. I am mainly adding some amenities such as shops, cafe's, and other features, and add some detail such as data on bike lanes. Furthermore, I am fixing up a few obvious errors.

I've just added a whole load more lakes in southern Peru from the aerial photography. The more I search, the more lakes I find.....I've gradually been working north, but I reached a point where my wrist was aching so much from repeated mouse clicks that I had to stop. There are many hours more work to be done here, even to reach the same latitude as Lima. It's a fascinating landscape and occasionally I come across a settlement, but usually I have no clue what it's called so it becomes an anonymous town, for the time being.

Ich habe odgps mit WM verwendet, ich muss wohl doch auf eine Auflösung von einer Sekunde setzen...

Add the name of "Steinstrasse" in Lippstadt, Germany

So, werde zuerst mal versuchen, die Innenstadt von Frechen fertig zu mappen. Nehme mir erst mal das Gebiet nördlich des Freiheitsrings vor.

hab dann im 4. anlauf mal die kleine radrunde aus der stadtmitte nach heessen und zurück quer durch die lippeauen getrackt. wird beizeiten dann auch getagged...

First i thought it´s difficult, but after some reading, i managed to pimp my niffty TOMTOM One V2 in a pretty good working device for maping. Ok, maybe it´s not the sweetest place on earth, where i´m starting, but i call it home.

The white spot on the OSM made me open an account and be part of it. :-)

Yesterday we completed hiking the length of the Yurrebilla Trail capturing a gps track as we went. 54kms of goodness. For the first time ever my gps trail upload and processing at osm was almost instant.

It's all mapped now. If you want to have a look, namefinder pulls it up quickly:

http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/namefinder/?find=Yurrebilla

The last section is only visible in osmarender. Comments for improvements welcome, I'm pretty new to this.

Michael

I use this "twiglet" for putting on websites.

I seem to be trying to organise a weekend meetup in the Oxford (UK) area. Anyone out there interested?

Right now the plans are not much more than "Find a pub → with wifi → ... → profit!", but I'm sure we can come up with something better than that, perhaps make it a mini mapping session. If nothing else, it'll be nice to put faces to the IRC/wiki nicks.

The Jericho Tavern has been mentioned, and is supposed to be quite a nice place these days. 5th or the 19th of July, perhaps?

I am new here and i must say "wow", sounds like a revolution is going on and I can be part of it! Can someone who reads this, please check the Roads i just submitted around my area? How do add a Kinderspielplatz (childrenplayground)? I think a might spend some Money on a GPS Tracker, anyone a advise? Do I have to spent a lot of money?

Well, after a fair old break in my mapping, i've added a few more roads round Crowborough (East Sussex).
Added in the B2188 from over Ashdown Forest, all the way down to Groombridge, plus a couple of roads in the St John's area of Crowborough.
As I was driving and don't have any cunning voice recording setup I had to rely on my memory for the road names. I think I got most of them, but i'm not too sure on the names of bits of the B2188 over towards Groombridge. I'll have to recheck them next time i'm down.

All major streets within Suva City boundaries are now finished.

A few still need their names verified, and there is a need to add some more footways (particularly in Raiwaqa).

What remains now is to:

- ensure the Suva Coastline is as true as possible
- trace all waterways, streams, rivers and bays
- verify all bridges have been tagged
- assign proper boundaries to the city and it's localities
- map and tag all schools, places of worship and petrol stations
- properly tag landuse within the city boundaries

... and then on to Lami. The thought of mapping Nasinu gives me a headache right now :)

Vor 2 Tagen um den Baggersee mit meinem Navi gelaufen.
Track hochgeladen und morgen
bearbeite ich Ihn...

Damit wäre der Weg um den Baggersse auch da :-)

/Glacier

I had a family meeting in Boxtel today and decided to take the train to 's-Hertogenbosch. Riding my bicycle from there to the meeting along national cycleroute nr. 7 and the regional cycle node network. So later this week there will appear some red and blue lines on the next part of the cyclemap:

http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/?zoom=12&lat=6736043.40554&lon=594736.63982&layers=B00

Bike ride out to do more of Bury Green, Churchgate and start Flamstead End. All stuff round Rosedale Way and Peakes Way to do still. Area south of Andrews Lane took ages due to having stubby roads, houses with no roads, plus footpaths and alleyways linking everything. Yahoo is no good for correctly entering this mixed stuff. New technique for naming country roads that have no sign visible. Note market garden firm (loads round here) that has web address and look up where they think they are based (worked for Barrow Lane). After seeing the rough end of town it was nice to end up doing some of the heritage stuff opposite St Marys Church. Nice bit off off-roading through Theobalds and Whitewebbs to finish. Over 4 hours out, of which about two and a half mapping, and editing done in under 2 hours.

Dear Diary,

this is my first (no second) Day at OSM, the first day I read about OSM at spiegel onlin (www.spiegel.de), and now I try to upload my first track.

Slowly adding to the map of the Tring area. The triangle is now complete, and just added some of the footpaths around Tring Reservoirs.