Gestern hatte ich den Versuch unternommen, von Stuttgart-Sonnenberg via Dornhalde zum Bruderrain zu gelangen. Auf zwei Karten, die ich besitze ist dort eine Verbindung aufgezeichnet. Auch bei OSM ist die Dornhalde (von Benuter "vobs") durchgezeichnet.

Unternimmt man den Versuch, wird man gleich oben an der Ecke Laustrasse/Dornhalde mit einem Sackgassenschild konfrontiert, an dem explizit steht, dass es fuer Fussgaenger keinen Durchgang zum Bruderrain gibt. Und in der Tat: Die Strasse geht in einen Feldweg ueber, der in einer Sackgasse endet: Ringsum nur private, eingezaeunte Gaerten. Alles sieht "gewachsen" aus, als wuerde es nicht erst seit gestern keinen Durchgang mehr geben.

Wieso also ist der Durchgang gezeichnet, insbesondere auf OSM?

Habe heute zwei Traces per Fahrrad in Eickel erstellt.
Die RAW-Daten werden zwei Strecken verifizieren und
zwei neue Verbindungsstrassen zwischen Eickeler Bruch
und An der Burg einbringen...

a) Habe seit Tagen keine Karten-Updates mehr gesehen. Werden die Edits Korrektur gelesen, bevor sie in die offizielle OSM-Karte wandern, oder woran liegt es?

b) Ich kann meine Edits seit dem letzten Update im Edit-Modus sehen und ändern. Werden mir auch die Edits anderer Leute angezeigt? Wäre sinnvoll, um Doppelarbeit und Datenmüll zu vermeiden.

Da es bei uns in der Gegend wohl eher weniger Leute gibt, hab ich mal angefangen bissle was von 'hier' reinzustellen.

Heute habe ich das schöne Wetter genutzt und habe die Hamelner Ortsteile Welliehausen und Unsen von "vollständig weiß" auf "vollständig gemappt" gebracht.

Allerdings ist Osmarender etwas langsam, das Ergebnis erscheint noch immer nicht - es scheint heute viele Änderungen gegeben zu haben.

In Hasperde ist OSM nach dem Neurendern übrigens aktueller als Google Maps & Co., da die neue Straßenführung sowie das Industriegebiet (was bisher nur aus einer Straße mit vielen Feldern drum rum besteht) bereits gemappt sind.

Außerdem habe ich die Hamelner Altstadt wegemäßig komplettiert (nur noch der Weserradweg fehlt) und in Klein Berkel angefangen.

Could not help to get out in the nice weather and map this completely insignificant stream, called Pillebach. I don't have gumboots, but taking a point here and there and then connecting them, taking into account the conditions set by the surroundings, should have resulted in a pretty accurate map entry.

usw...???

Ich weiß immer nicht, wie ich sie nennen soll. Steht ja leider nirgends draufgeschrieben...

Was browsing eBay noticed that there are allot of neat multi functional GPS devices nowadays. I was wondering which one would be most recommended for carrying around when logging with a bulkier LCD display device is not desired. Also thought, would be a greatly ->cheaper<- way of capturing tracks during extreme activities. Activities such as mountain biking, dirt biking, quad riding or some other activity where a conventional costly LCD display model maybe be broken. Guess I'm just gonna have to buy one and and try it.

Hallo,

ich wohne im deutsch-belgischen Grenzgebiet und mappe mal hier mal da ... wie ist in Belgien die offizielle Einteilung zwischen Primary, Secondary und Tertiary Road? Da gibts ja nur N-Straßen ... mein Verdacht wäre: Primary Straßen sind ein und zweistellig, Secondary sind dreistellig ...
lie ich da richtig, und wenn ja, was ist dann Tertiary?

Brisbane Mappers,

I'm working on a hypothesis that there is a fairly consistent "landslip" in the high-resolution (zoom 17) Yahoo imagery in western Brisbane. If we can pin down the magnitude of the slip, we can then systematically apply a reverse correction whenever we map new areas from the imagery.

The hypothesis goes like this. If you look at the longitudes across western Brisbane, take the following values A, B1 and B2.

--- A --- ... --- B1 - B2 ---

Where
A = 152.866 E (west Redbank)
B1 = 152.965 E
B2 = 152.972 E (Inala, west Indooroopilly, Mitchelton, Strathpine)

West of A and east of B2, the imagery alignment seems fine (to within a handful of pixels, as compared to GPS trace logs).

Between A and B1 is the north-south "slip zone" of about one street width (fence to fence, maybe 20 metres) - i.e. the imagery is ~20m north of where it "should" be.

B1-B2 seems to be where the "fault line" lies - there seems to be a smooth graduation between the slip area to the west of B1 and the correct area to the east of B2.

I haven't worked out where the equivalent fault line area is through A, but we will probably find out where A1 and A2 is in due time.

More observations are of course desirable as I like to be proven right. (-:

Lat/Lon are of B1/B2 through Indooroopilly.

Did some roads around Riverhills, Darra, and Seventeen Mile Rocks.

All things going well, the "first light" GPS trace from my new i-gotU GT-100 GPS logger will be online shortly @ @morb_au/traces/123411. Here's the info page: http://www.ja-gps.com.au/i-gotu-live-travel-blog-master.html

The gizmo is a "matchbox" GPS puck which can run as either a connected USB NMEA terminal or a disconnected GPS logger (can store just over 16,000 trackpoints, i.e. 4.5 hours at 1 second intervals - and yes, the memory fills up before the charge runs out).

I haven't really seen GPS loggers at anywhere near AU$79 before, so it was a fairly compelling purchase for me. If it all pans out as promised, it also means I don't have to drag around a bulky GPS terminal "on the road" any more. Just this thing and a digital camera.

I took it for a test drive in Brisbane around three newly developed areas that you won't find on the Yahoo imagery: Waterline in Bulimba; the Morrisey St overpass (North-South Bypass / Clem Jones Tunnel Ipswich Road portal construction precinct); and the Horace St exit overpass (NSBT again, this time the Lutwyche Rd portal construction).

Lat/Lon is for Waterline.

Having been working on a council list of rubbish collection days (which should be a fairly complete list of street names), I've concluded that EN5 (Barnet) is now complete. The last few streets were surveyed just as the sun was setting last night. Openstreetmap now includes Elwood Close, which doesn't appear on any other map that I've found, and was found to be accessed through an alleyway underneath a building, and not at all obvious from aerial photography, or even street signs. I have a feeling that it's not even an council adopted street (lacking a standard street sign, or even a proper access from the road).

It was kind of fun doing the detective work, and asking people on the street where they think these streets might be, and finally crossing them off my list of streets to map.

Of course, there's always lots of micromapping to do, and keeping an eye on council street naming and numbering committee minutes to keep on top of the area.

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Il mio programma di ieri era di fare una gita... erm, un'ispezione alla strada per la Madonna della Guardia... ma quando sono arrivato su per giù a Sant'Olcese, la situazione metereologica mi ha fatto cambiare idea.
Ho inviato i dati a OpenStreetMap, comunque;

Alla fine, sono riuscito ad aggiungere i riferimenti ai tratti dell'SP80, SP43 e SP2 che ho percorso, ed ho aggiunto il nome del ponte Romeo Guglielmetti.
L'SP2 ha qualche centinaio di metri in più in direzione Casella, ora, ed ho adattato un po' il percorso ai dati forniti dal mio GPS logger.

Im Verlauf der letzten Woche habe ich ein Großteil der nord-östlichen Kernstadt von Lemgo gemappt. Dies ist der Bereich zwischen Rintelner Straße und Hamelner Straße. Wobei ich das Meiste gestern gemacht habe (südlich des Vogelsangs + Umgebung des Wilmersieks).
Dabei wurde ich doch glatt von einem Fußgänger im Vorbeigehen der Spionage bezichtigt... Ist das Abschreiben von Straßennamen neuerdings Spionage? :D
Leider war ich erst zu irritiert, um Aufklärungsarbeit zu leisten.

Next wednesday we're meeting to map South Bermondsey (South East area of London)

...but before that I'm about to head over to a London Wikipedia meet-up right now. I will probably talk about openstreetmap again with those guys, although I think they're getting sick of hearing about it!

Slowly filling in street names when I am out and about in Canning Town, London, E16. Where I live is a bit rough though, so it has taken longer than anticipated, since I can only map when I'm around, and not off at work, and because of the area, it's not always possible. Hence the fact I've not mapped Silvertown just south of Royal Victoria Dock in much detail yet.

More buildings to map in Royal Victoria Dock too, but the GPS signal between the high rise buildings is pretty variable for trying to survey the buildings (I'm using a Garmin GPS 60), so it might take a few more attempts.

Next, I need to start mapping bus stops in the Canning Town area too, and filling in a bit more detail around the ExCel Centre.

I just uploaded some gps traces.

They show details from:
Duesseldorf
Ratingen
Muehlheim
Essen

All done by bike.

I'm really missing a function to see my trace on the general map after I uploaded the trace.
That should be a click-link on the trace's page.

Another one is a view where I can see all unmapped (not edited on the map) traces. This will allow me to choose a new region to map = a region to go to for a walk/bicycle/car tour.