Traced some more gpx files in Brantford, something isnt right with my GPS though, some streets are too close together (Albion and Pearl). Also, traced another route between Brantford and Ancaster (Jerseyville Road) quite a fun drive in the winding roads.

Fied up the roads in Ancaster I was missing, still not all of the subdivisions are in though, seems like a new one pops up all the time. Drove out to Sulphur Springs and Mineral Springs Road, ignored all the compaining my car did, again fun with the winding dirt roads. These ones could have been traced off the Aerial but due to tree density, connecting the dots would have taken quite the imagination. Just easier with the gpx.

I spent a couple of hours getting it all working, then I took it with me when I went to the supermarket, and I'm just about to upload the trace.

If you're interested, the device is a BlueNEXT BN-800GR bluetooth gps, and I'm using it with JOSM on my Asus EeePc running EeeXubuntu

I have added trackes from Ogre, Adazhi and Podnieki, Latvija. Basic editing applied. First time from me.

Today I continue tracing Vladivostok. Walk some streets at center, then ride by bus. Make photos but can't yet load them in JOSM. :-(

City needs more people to trace, I post information message about OSM at mapdv.ru

Also found very detailed trace for Vladivostok, converted from proprietary source. Ask user, who uploaded it, to delete trace.

I've been tracing Yahoo! imagery in Potlatch for a while now, and have really gotten the hang of Potlatch. I'd like to get into JOSM, but find the interface has a bit of a learning curve (just like Potlatch). It might be my connection, but I find I have to keep pressing the "data wasn't updated" warning icon in Potlatch, and it gets very annoying. I don't have a GPS yet, so it's tracing all the way.

I have successfully setup JOSM and downloaded an area. Also worked out how to get Yahoo! imagery through Firefox.
The problem is, I can't seem to get JOSM to remember the background Y! image between sessions. This is annoying since I do little bits at a time, and would prefer to come back and continue editing without needed to download the Y! images again...

Got bored and added Sir Allan McNab school up on the mountain and a few surrounding roads.

I've spent several hours this afternoon and this evening getting to know JOSM. Most of the effort went into tracing routes and areas from Yahoo Aerial images in the Riberac and Bourg-des-Maisons areas of Perigord, France (24320). Also made a few changes to the map for Risinghurst (which has much better images). I still can't get my head around the interface for Potlatch though.

The bluetooth gps unit I bought on ebay should be arriving tomorrow, so watch this space. I'll certainly be taking it with me when I go to France in two weeks time.

Kartlegging er gøy,
spesielt når det er gratis

Over the last week I've been following the route of the cycleway known as the National Byway. Most of the route is easy to follow, but a few places have had their signs twisted or changed. I've tagged the route from the Humber bridge to Sproatley as part of the Byway relation so I hope this route will appear on the cyclemap eventually.

Several smaller roads around Castlebar, the N26 from Ballina to Foxford, the R310 from Ballina to Castlebar, the roads from Balla and Bohola to Kiltimagh and from Kiltimagh to Kilkelly and Knock... all pretty much done.

I'm tracing in the Westport and Ballina railway lines from the overhead imagery, but it's hard to get them accurate. I might have to get a train to Dublin sometime, and I'll bring the GPS.

More streets and local roads as I travel them...

Vielleicht kennt jemand von Euch diese Papier Rollenspiele, man hat ein Buch
mit ganz vielen Seiten und dann ist dort eine Situation beschrieben ala: "Der
Drache greift dich an", und mehrere Möglichkeiten zu regagieren: Wenn du
fliehen willst lese auf Seite 24, Wenn du ihn ein Schlaflied singen willst
auf Seite 130 und wenn du kämpfen willst gehe zu Seite 93.
(vgl. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spielbuch)

Ich hab in der letzten Zeit etwas Zeit damit verbracht in Hamburg bei Behörden
nach Daten für OSM zu fragen, und komme mir etwas in das Medium versetzt vor,
nur das man statt Seitenzahlen Telefonnummer bekommt, die man mal probieren
kann (Begegungen mit Guten Feen und bösen Drachen erlebt man dort allerdings
auch :-))

Trotzdem hatte ich Erfolg: Das in Hamburg-Neugraben geplante Neubaugebiet NF65
ist jetzt schon in OSM drinn (mit Straßennamen) dabei sind die Straßen noch
nicht mal offiziell gewidmet, das Gebietsverzeichnis dürfen wir für OSM
benutzen ( http://svenanders.openstreetmap.de/hamburg-stat/ )

Zur Nachahmung also wirklich empfohlen!!!

Gruß
Sven

Can't upload the first GPS trail! For some reason, GPS trails on OSM need time data for every point. Able to get the second trail from the Active log. Mapped that, doesn't seem to hard... See how it goes. There are a few rods around our area missing, will trundle around with the GPS and upload them.

The last few months spent a lot of time into mapping the western parts of Hamburg, Germany by bike and foot. Now the map is in a state where most streets and ways are present.

And since I feel like a proud daddy for this region I want to "maintain" it. I want to be able to track any changes, I want to be able to see who did what when. I want to be able to discuss, compare, revert.

Searching through the wiki (painful these days, couldn't someone make a browsable static copy of the pages it until the performance issues are solved? I'd volunteer to host it.) I could not find any way to do this. But maybe there is?

The local newspaper "Uusi Rauma" reported about me and my contribution to OSM. Because I mapped a big part of Rauma (Finnish westcoast), and I did it from the scratch, and I did it quite alone.

See http://www.ur.fi/epaper/766380857359663/ page 9.

Wife has a serious Geocaching dependency but when she is not using the gps60 ive started taking local tracks of Rothwell still a bit unclear on tags but i will try to find a better help file. Also need to figure out how to cut a road where it changes name!

RobD

Being an avid Openstreetmap fan and having a Openmoko Neo phone I needed some software to get OSM onto the phone. The result is [http://tangogps.org tangoGPS]. It runs on my Laptop (Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora), on the phone and reportedly on the eeePC too.

Quite practical for mapping is that you can start and stop logging tracks from the UI. If someone wants to check it out, I'll be happy for any feedback. On the website there are two articles how to track and how to geotag your digicam photos.

Decided I'd do stuff off The Mount on my way home today. It's pretty flat all the way with some gentle up and downs until it gets to about 200 yards from Frankwell where it's a good downhill. Leaving the road is a different story but it wasn't too bad.

I decided I'd take every road on the left, although I did a couple of cul-de-sacs anyway.

Once in town I headed up Claremont Bank, which was quite steep and recently made 2 way. Then a few little bits of that before I joined the Victoria Avenue (NCN81) in the Quarry Park.

Right, to tag up...

Today I mapped my first part of Horkheim. It works! I am very exited!

I've been spending some time fixing up bits of the Gower coastline by tracing the (rather fuzzy) yahoo photos. For the most part, leaving the existing natural=coastline way where it is (which should be roughly the high tide line... ish) and filling in each beach as two areas - one inside the coastline and one outside the coastline with a water=tidal tag. I've been using surface=sand/rocky/etc. to describe the type of ground.

At the moment they are also tagged with natural=beach but I favour deprecating this tag since it is rather ambiguous and the surface tag should give enough information about how to render it.

I've drawn the tidal bits of beach down to the water line shown in the yahoo photos, which seems to be a lowish tide for most of the area. But Swansea Bay seems to be photographed at high tide, so this will be harder (I'm not wading through that knee-deep mud at low tide with a GPS! :)

I walked round the lanes near Kensworth this morning, stopping off at Yogi Patel's newsagent (which I shall mark on the map) to get my Telegraph. The Garmin Forerunner 305 I use for my running seems to work very well, collecting a trackpoint every few seconds.