I am spending way too much time on this! After some encouragement by other OSM contributors, I started to verify the map data of the area I live/work in. While doing so, it occured to me that there must be some way to map/tag something like an underpass to make the renderer draw it correctly. To my surprise, I did not find much on this topic in my favorite wiki pages (Map features and Proposed features) and a quick search revealed only some old email discussion (see http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2006-January/002215.html). I guess I somehow have to find out if the elevated tag mentioned there is really the way to go or if there is some other way to map multiple road levels.

Ich mappe in Gießen und Umgebung. Derzeit plane ich mit Tracker24 ein Mappertreffen für OSM'ler und Interessierte aus der Region Wetzlar/Marburg/Gießen/Gladenbach/Friedberg. Das Treffen findet am 26. Juni 2008 in Gießen statt. Ihr seid herzlich eingeladen. Mehr Informationen findet Ihr hier:


Mappertreffen in Gießen

My 1st trace: Traced the major part of Kelmis's streets today with my GPS-PDA hooked on my motocycle.

Hi folks,

Just uploaded my first track, edited the data but how do I save the changes?
Which Icon has to be clicked?

Any help appreciated. Thanks for a great initiative!

Greetings,
emailchecker

Hi,

wenn ich eine neue Straße (über JOSM) kartiere, erhält die dann in der View-Ansicht von OSM meinen Benutzernamen als Copyright-Eintrag.

Soweit so gut. Allerdings erhält auch die Straße, an die ich meine Straße angebunden habe (und die jemand anderer kartiert hat), meinen Benutzernamen als Copyright-Eintrag.

Wie kann ich das denn verhindern?

In meiner unmittelbaren Wohnumgebung habe ich jetzt alles kartografiert.
Seit einiger Zeit fahre ich nun mit Fahrrad und Motorrad und einem GPS Gerät meine Lieblingsstrecken ab und lade die Tracks hoch. Danach modelliere ich fehlende Strassen in OSM.
Ich freue mich schon darauf, dass man in OSM irgendwann Routenplanung für Motorrad- oder Fahrradtouren machen kann und sich die Route dann auf das Handgerät laden kann.
Es gibt eine interessante Anwendung als Freeware: den Routeconverter
http://www.routeconverter.de/index_de.html
der kann optional schon die OSM Mapnik Karte als Hintergrund laden und man kann so eine Art Routenplanung damit auch schon machen. Allerdings muss man die Punkte selbst setzen.

Viele Grüße
Keep on mapping ;-)
forestgreen
aus München

I've learned a lot in the last week. I've become interested (obsessed?) with cleaning up the lowzoom levels. It appears that the addition of the captionless layer is a relatively recent change, and therefore most of it is missing. The main "tile" layer has been around a while, but as tiles in the lowzoom layers are rebuilt, they are pulling in a lot of garbage from the missing areas in the captionless layer. I understand that this will fix itself over time, but at the way things look, that could be years. It needs a boost.

The primary problem with the lowzoom builds is that when a tile is missing, the server returns a tile with "unknown type" on it. This is a good thing for the server to do when it has no other information, but in this extended transition period it makes for ugly maps.

The component tiles are in the z12 build request queue, but there are probably hundreds of thousands of them in there (just guessing). In the mean time, almost anything is better than the unknown tiles. I have started copying some land tiles from the main tile layer into the captionless layer, to fill in as a stop-gap. Yes, they will have little captions scrunched down, but it really is better than nothing. As long as the tiles are still in the request queue, they will get properly fixed later. I think it makes a good interim solution.

The problem is that there are sooooo many tiles. The total possible tiles in 17 zoom levels is 68 billion. Most of those are sea, which won't need anything smaller than z12 and rarely below z8. Even without that, there are about 3 million land tiles at z12, and I think about 10000 at z8. That's a lot of tiles to update. Fortunately most of Greenland and Siberia don't need anything more than blank land.

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Hi all I tried to insert the street I am living in (Belgium) but what I did yesterday evening is not visible in the view mode. However I can see the streets in the Edit mode.

Any tips, suggestions

BR thoms

I used my bike on this hot day to map the cyckling path between Sønderborg and Ulkebøl. The Later town is not in OSM yet, the arae looks like a part of Sønderborg.

Durch einen Bericht in der Welt bin ich auf dieses Projekt aufmerksam geworden und ich fand es sofort interessant.

Ich werde wohl mit meiner Heimatstadt anfangen, weil es dort noch so gut wie garnichts gibt.

Today, I've learned, there's an mapping app for the open-source cellphone OpenMoko Freerunner, using the OSM data: http://www.tangogps.org/gps/cat/News

It's able to fetch missing map data in the background. They've a Youtube video, too: http://www.tangogps.org/gps/articles/5-Video.html#extended.

The software also runs on the EEE PC.

I can't wait getting my Freerunner... ;-)

Albany Creek, Bridgman Downs, and Carseldine have some more roads added.

On a cycling trip Karlsruhe - Bretten - Maulbronn (Abbey, UNESCO - World Heritage Site) - Königsbach - Karlsruhe some more cycleways have been found and mapped. It was a nice 90km journey with some friends (and therefore little possibility to map more than the road and a very few things around). We had everything between sun and heavy rain and also a lot of deep mud on one highway=track, tracktype=grade1 road. The bicycles have still to be cleaned... :-(

Just did most of the residential roads in Parkinson.

Nach über 16 Stunden ist - trotz Anforderung über informationfreeway.org - Hasperde im Osmarender immer noch nicht neu gerendert.

Ein kurzer Kontrollblick in Potlatch: Wo zum Henker sind meine Straßen geblieben? Ich hatte sie gestern hochgeladen und JOSM zeigte keine Fehler an. Aber: Auch in der Historie sind keine Straßen zu finden - also muss beim Upload was schiefgegangen sein.

Mift! Also heute Abend noch mal, ich hoffe, ich habe mir die Ortschaft abgespeichert, nicht dass ich nochmal zeichnen muss...

Added/fixed a bunch of roads in Cleveland.

Filled in a bunch of residential roads at Calamvale.

Did some roads at Inala.

Just finished adding most of the residential streets to the suburbs of Mount Ommaney, Westlake, Riverhills, Jamboree Heights, Sumner, and Middle Park.

I use a Garmin device. While tracing streets and paths, I usually mark specific points (crossroads, ...) as waypoints. When I'm home again, I use Garmim Mapsource to transfer my recordings to GPX files and upload them to OSM. But now, Waypoints are eliminated in the Potlatch display. I only see my tracks in Potlatch, while my waypoints won't show up in Potlatch. Why is this? I need my waypoints in order to assign street names correctly, etc...