I failed to save the coordinates for the previous entry. Here they are.

I've been mapping for a while south of Barcelona, using Yahoo imagery mostly, and some traces of mine where the imagery is outdated. I've also used GPS traces to correct the offset present in the ortophotographs.

In the last couple of days I've turned to the cadastre to find street names not in my inmediate vicinity. I gather this is most likely OK from the wiki and the mailing lists. If not it would be nice to have a tool that would allow me to mass edit specific tags to delete the names.

It's surprising how much a single person can do just by using potlatch. Looking forward for this project to gain popularity. Also looking forward to the day when I can use a routing application based on OSM, and better yet, being able to fix errors whenever I find them.

Cheers to you people for this wonderful project.
Juan.

So, heute habe ich nun einen neuen GPS-Bluetooth-Empfänger bekommen, zu dessen Bestellung ich mich neulich entschlossen habe. Nachdem ich in den vergangenen Wochen festgestellt habe, dass mit alter GPS-USB-Maus und Laptop ein ordentliches tracken nicht wirklich möglich ist, habe ich mir dieses Ding nun zugelegt, um günstig mit meinem Handy aufnehmen zu können.

Vorhin habe ich dann gleich meinen allerersten Trace hochgeladen, der allerdings noch nicht viel hermacht. Ist die obere Hälfte der Straße in der ich in Margetshöchheim wohne, einmal runter- und wieder hochgelaufen. Wenn ich in nächster Zeit - nach Semesterende - dann endlich mal dazu komme, mich ins Mapping von Margetshöchheim zu stürzen werde ich das aber denke ich nochmal "sauber" aufzeichnen :)

Import kommunaler Straßen von KomSIS nach OSM.

Siehe: osm.wiki/index.php/KomSIS

Since it is possible or even probable that Yahoo! is changing owners, I am now tracing stuff from their aerial photos that they allow us to derive maps from. Who knows what happens with that agreement in the future.

I concentrated on features that are hard to reach, like the banks of rivers (I traced the Neckar up to Remseck); or do not have a name, like tracks in vineyards.

Last weekend I decided that it would nice thing to have a little apple script which would download, configure and install Tiles@Home on my mac and possibly on any other apple machine out there waiting for OSM to eat up its CPU time. After installing Tiles@Home on Debian with virtually no problems at all I thought this might be a very easy thing to pull off... Well, after spending almost a whole day on downloading, compiling and installing thousands of little perl-scripts and native libs in order to get it running, believe it or not, I changed my mind. But hey, its working now :)

If you have alot of time and want to install T@H on your Mac too, take a look into the Wiki. I've made a *small* installation guide for OS X there. Its only 10 times as longs as all the others ;) osm.wiki/index.php/Tiles%40home/Install_Guide#Installation_instructions

Anybody out there having some firsthand experience on installing T@H on windows?

Slowly but surely the out-of-the-way lanes and back streets are being mapped. I'd say that the "top" two-thirds of Armidale is complete. The "bottom" third probably has about two or three hours work GPS surveying left to do - though I don't know when those few hours will happen.

osm.org/?lat=34.12821&lon=-117.25594&zoom=15&layers=B0FT

Potlatch 0.7 testing again. Edit background photo loading very slowly, but the streets loaded quickly. Waited several minutes and only one photo tile loaded, and not the one I need to tell if I need to straighten Pacific Ave between Perris Hill Park Rd and Garden Dr.

I'm all for mapping a large number of unmapped roads in my area with my GPSr but I'm still waiting for the one small stretch of about 1Km of road that I did as a trial last weeekend to appear on the main map. I'm probably missing out on something really fundemental - It's there on the Potlatch map as an extension to an existing road when I go back to it (for days now) but doesn't appear on the main browser map.

Until I see my small test work out, I'm not going to spend the many hours of effort that's required to translate GPS traces into meaningful map data unless I can see it's actually being accepted.

From my experience over the last couple of days, better information for beginners would be good too...

And some streets.

Added a very picturesque road from Medias to Voila and Baile Rodbav (DJ141, DJ105, DJ106)

I think I've done almost all roads and tracks that are within cycling range of my home. Still bits and pieces left to do, but the main part is done. From now on I'll be taking my GPS with me when I go somewhere and even take a detour, but all will be roads I can go on with my car, no small tracks anymore for me I guess...

Added part of DN1 from the start of DN7C (Transfagarasan) to Sambata de Jos

I inspected some lakes from http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhs/version1.5/shapefiles/gshhs_lake/ today but cannot recommend to use the data: not detailed enough.

Added DN24 Birlad - Vaslui - Iasi using GPS track logs, but it might need some tweaking in some parts.

Added the route from Galati ferry to Constanta through Dobrogea (the shortest route to get to the sea side from Galati)

Added the national road DN2B from Braila to Buzau. Used mostly the aerial view, so it might need some tweaking.

I started to add some blocks of flats around one neighborhood in Galati. Also I added some POI around the city.

This is a really great project and I really like the idea of free maps. So I give my best to map my hometown in the next few weeks even if my time is quite limited.

Received my GPS Unit from StorageDepot today, and am having to send the damn thing back as the thumb stick is knackered.