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Schlechtes Wetter, Probleme beim einspielen der GPX-Files

Posted by Chris_T4 on 8 June 2008 in English.

Das derzeit regnerische Wetter hält mich doch etwas auf. Bin gestern nur ein paar km weit gekommen, ehe ein Gewitter mich zum Umkehren gezwungen hat.
Hab mich nach dem Gewitter dann nochmal zu Fuß aufgemacht, um den Ort Warth ein wenig abzugehen.
Inzwischen hab ich immer wieder Probleme mit dem Einspielen der GPX-Files zum Server. Anscheinend mag dieser das "ß" nicht in der Beschreibung. Nachdem ich Strasse mit "ss" geschrieben habe, hats dann funktioniert.

gps track import failure?

Posted by smash on 7 June 2008 in English.

wtf?
failed to import. Here's the error:

Mysql::Error: Unknown column 'gps_points.id' in 'field list': SELECT `gps_points`.id FROM `gps_points` WHERE (gpx_id = 122994) LIMIT 1

this is pretty odd because:
- just a few seconds ago there were plenty of people "pending" and now everyone is gone
- same setup, but suprinsingly this time the import fails
- sql error? shouldnt that be like "doh, your gpx file is fucked up, try again" and not like "aiiiieeeee! what the fuck is this gps_points.id thingie you ask me about?"

anyone knows anything? :)

Upper Kennett and Stour valleys, Suffolk

Posted by davidearl on 7 June 2008 in English.

Friday last week was one of the longest mapping days I'd done - folding bike on the bus to Newmarket, then along the upper reaches of the Suffolk river Kennett and down the Stour, mapping the following villages on the western edge of Suffolk bordering on the Eastern edge of Cambridgeshire I completed in the previous two weeks. Then bus back from Haverhill. Over 90km on the bike, but a beautiful day to be out and some delightful villages en route.

So, added 10 villages (ok, pretty small ones on the whole) and several hamlets:
- Moulton (ancient pack horse bridge)
- Gazeley
- Dalham (did they have to put the church on its own at the top of a 1km dead-end climb!)
- Lidgate (lovely duck pond!)
- Cowlinge (and its satellites: Hobbles Green, Mill Green and Lambfair Green)
- Great Bradley
- Little Bradley
- Great Thurlow
- Little Thurlow
- Great Wratting (though turned out to be mostly done - but added the huge factory and Stour river bridge)
(the tiny Little Wratting was completely done already, only the name of the church to add).

Location: Little Bradley, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

My Traces for the world :)

Posted by smash on 7 June 2008 in English.

After some playin around and checking how to use my eTrex H the best, i decided to make my tracklogs public (except for one which had a nice "teleport" jump of about 5 km or so :)). So there are Tracklogs of Münster and surrounding, Unna, Dortmund and the whole way between Unna and the Moehnesee (a lake near Soest).

Hope this will help accuracy of other people mappings :)

Location: Delecke, Möhnesee, Kreis Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Vacations in the moutains / Allgäu

Posted by colonia on 7 June 2008 in English.

Went to the Allgäu / Fischen area for paragliding a week ago,
due to bad weather there was a lot of time to do OSM traking.
Unfortunately there is no way to upload data to the project.
The public (pay) computer in the public building allows me to
write this text, but it does not even allow me to upload GPX-records,
and not even thinking about uploading edited OSM data.
I will do this at the end of next week.

Messy situation with street refs in Germany

Posted by corrados on 7 June 2008 in English.

Since April 2008, the German road tagging page
osm.wiki/index.php/De:Germany_roads_tagging
was changed in the way that the refs shall contain spaces now, e.g. A7 shall be written as A 7 now. This might be the correct official notation but it is not consistent with the refs in other countries and also not consistent with the main OSM tagging page (this will, e.g., confuse a newbie badly).

The problem is now that some people try hard to modify existing highways to include the spaces in the refs. Since highways are usually not consisting of just one segment (because of bridges, tunnels, etc.), one has to exchange the ref of all the segments. What I see now is that most segments of a highway were changed but some are not. I see that in some regions there are more spaces, in others are no at all. My opinion to this is that we should not use spaces because this is the way it is done in other countries and this will keep a consistent OSM map.

Recently, somebody has done this "random correction of refs in highway segments" in the area where I did most of the existing mapping. As a consequence, the refs in this area look now very ugly which I do not like at all.

My personal consequence out of this is that I will not tag any new highway I create with a "ref" tag anymore...

Anarchy and OSM

Posted by SuborbitalPigeon on 6 June 2008 in English.

I have noticed that there are a lot of people joining OSM just now. Larger numbers are always a good thing, but I do wonder at this time whether the anarchistic model will suffice in the future.

Not only could there be vandalism like Wikipedia's, but the "tag how you wish" approach could prove to be confusing and wasteful.

I'd say that the next 6 months will be absolutely critical for OSM. The work ongoing in changesets and suchlike for the 0.6 API is a step in the right direction.

I welcome opinions on the future direction of OSM.

Lessons learned...

Posted by Pixel83 on 6 June 2008 in English.

- self-drawn schematic paper maps are impractical when you lose the overwiew over the area
- voice records might be my way to go in the future although they might attract looks...
- Near your home it may be an option to do the mapping work in a two-pass process: Tracking first, street names and other details afterwards (using the already osmarendered map to take notes)

So: Much work done today, even more remains to be done...