So today I went back to Mill Wood to try and resolve how all the various tracks join up. According to my GPS I should be withing 10ft or so of reality when the sky is clear of trees, and between 20 and 30ft out in case of tree cover.

On that basis my mapping of the car park area and the surrounding tracks/paths should be pretty good, but it still looks a bit confusing around there. I think at least one more visit will be required to finally solve the mystery.

I have heavily edited that area, including things I added last time and also one path rollercow added. They now join up in the way that things appear on the ground, even if the actual location might be a bit iffy.

I'll try to take another track on the road at some point, preferably on foot since in a car the steep sides of the road at various points makes the signal rather poor I'd imagine.

I've added St. Andrew at Penrice and I need to go back again there to add some more tracks and things over that side as well. Still plenty more tracks to explore down in Mill Wood too. They are well sign posted which makes a change.

Added many of the principle footpaths. Most of it I could do from local knowledge and the aerial pictures but it will need another visit to finish it off.

As the weather continued to be very nice, the last part of mapping my direct neighborhood could go one. Most of the streets could be done by bicycle but a few footpaths where on the way as well.

Looks like the next mapping project brings me into the forests nearby...

Added forrest areas in the triangle
* Gunzendorf
* Weigelshofen
* Unterstürmig

-knottytom

Added:
* Roebersdorf
* Herrnsdorf
* Lonnershof
* Schluesselau
* Jungenhofen
* Schnaid

... and streets there.

-knottytom

Added some tracks in the forrest (starting in Pautzfeld) and areas
in Neuses.

-knottytom

When it's also a one-way street.

In reality, Popes Drive is a one-way street, but it has two exits.

So ein schönes Wetter an Pfingsten und so wenig vom Donauradweg im OSM! Samstag-Montag, 240km von der Brigachquelle bei Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald über Villingen, Donaueschingen, Tuttlingen, Sigmaringen bis nach Ulm geradelt mit meinem Legend HCx und so viel aufgezeichnet, wie es nur ging.

Da ich aber in einer Gruppe war und wegen des Tempos konnte nicht immer anhalten um Wegpunkte zu bezeichnen, habe ich mich hauptsächlich um Übergänge zwischen Residential und anderen Straßen gekümmert, so wie um Brücken. Da es bisher in diesem Gebiet echt wenig eingezeichnet wurde, habe ich einfach alles, was keine Residential/Secondary/Tertiary einfach als Cycleway markiert, obwohl es auch ein Track von verschiedener Qualität gewesen sein konnte. Also bei Gelegenheit bitte korrigieren. Habe auch paar wichtige Punkte für Radfahrer markiert, also Gaststätte, Trinkwasserbrunnen, usw.

Noch eine Frage - habe schon bisschen nachgesucht, wie ich eine Relation (?) für den Donauradweg machen kann. Was empfiehlt ihr mir? Es waren aber nicht nur spezielle Cycleways, sondern auch landwirtschaftliche Tracks, Waldwege, Residential, oder sogar kurze Teile von Secondary/Tertiary. Also insgesamt paar Hunderte Abschnitte von allen möglichen Highways, die zusammen den Donauradweg darstellen.

I'm testing the new version of gosmore with it's powerful search functionality. It tries to built an index of all the meaningful tags in the planet, like 'fuel'.

The problem is that there is so much stuff that it meaningless to the average user : The majority of it is TIGER ids which is easy to suppress. But there still a lot of nodes with class=node tags and osm.wiki/Tag:time=... tags and osm.wiki/Tag:ele=... tags and and and.

There are even a few ways that refer to nodes that no longer exist. (e.g. node/80169)

Ich würde meine "wahllos" beim Geocaching aufgezeichneten Tracks gern sinnvoll bereinigen.
Beispiel:
@-ad-/traces/109532

Sinnvoll wäre es als allererstes, alle Vektoren/Sprünge größer 200m herauszuwerfen. Das scheinen kilometerlange Sprünge zu sein, die entstehen, wenn der GPSr aus- und wieder eingeschaltet wurde.

Wenn jemand eine Idee hat, wie man das halbwegs sinnvoll scripten kann: Ich mache es sofort!

here are my points where I think that Potlatch is not intuitive and
could be improved:

- in general, most functionality that is available should not only work with keyboard commands, but with icons: In this way, you know what possibilities you have. At least one should list somewhere which keyboard shortcuts are available in the current context and what action they will perform.

- when Potlatch loads data, it is not clear weather it is already finished
(and there are so many streets missing in this area), or if it is still loading
something. An icon should indicate that Potlatch is currently loading and not yet finished with rendering the map.

-this is especially true when you hit the history button (H)

- GPS-Tracks shall have a label and one should be able to switch them on and off individually.

- there should be a history of the edits one made in the current session. I found that it was very easy to accidentally add some point to the map and then loose it in the chaos of lines and dots. I want to look into the history and find these wrong-edits.

It was a nice weekend! We took the train from Interlaken to Grindelwald. Unfortunately, my Venture CX didn't like all the tunnels that much, so I just have some parts of the rail track and just some train stations along. In Grindelwald we walk a bit and finally drove by car back to Interlaken.

So, this time, I could start to connect Grindelwald to Interlaken and I've colored a bit the white area there, with no names of roads and most train stations, though. But time will come and I'm back there! :-)

Added missing footpaths and adjusted things a bit. Ramsden Square and Gainsborough Close.

Added principle paths and lakes to the Science Park.

Tidied up the Business Park and added many missing service roads.

A lot more could be done to the Science Park. I don't intend to do all the car parks but I will add the remaining principle pedestrian routes. Not many more of those.

Licensing of mapping data in various jurisdictions is not easy. To make sure that I know exactly what license my contributions are under, and in support of the widest possible use of Openstreetmap data, I feel this is the best solution:

To the extent possible under law, I waive all copyright, moral rights, database rights, and any other rights that might be asserted over my contributions to Openstreetmap.

After the initial effort yesterday, the next street was ready to be mapped today.

Also tried out JOSM. I am not sure yet whether to use potlatch or JOSM for editing. Both have advantages. Lets see on which editor the learning curve pays out better.

I decided that Friday's jaunt to Nuthurst and Soutwater hadn't been enough exercise, so I went off on another hike yesterday [I had the day off because it was my birthday] and also do some caches in the Bewbush/Ifield area of Crawley; taking in the old mill ruins and pond at Bewbush, Ifield mill and pond and the 13th century church at Ifield were also visited.

From there I went on to Lambs Green; no I didn't get chance to stop at the pub there [or on any of the routes], before making my way back to Horsham via yet more unmapped paths; 15 miles in all.

Many people I said hello to durimg the day mentioned that it was unusually warm for May; more like July, they said. Certainly, it was very warm. Even at 08:00 yesterday it was warmer than I normally prefer for walking.

I saw loads of wildlife; rabbits, deer, herons, geese, ducks, yet more swallows had arrived and were wheeling and swooping in the sky whilst feeding on flying insects. I also picked up an unwanted hitch-hiker on this walk; a tick!

In all the years I have been walking/rambling and even as a child in the countryside of the Isle of Wight I had never been bitten by one before. Luckily I spotted it quite quickly and managed to remove it before it had gorged itself on my blood!

I decided to go out on Friday evening for a hike and geocache, so I headed out from north Horsham towards Nuthurst [as there is a cache there] via several footpaths and bridleways that weren't yet mapped.

Nice walk, although it was rather warm. I then proceeded towards Southwater to map yet more paths as well as find several caches once I finally got to Southwater, and walked past the reservoir there and the church which was very busy; some function was happening at the time.

Then back home to Horsham via yet more paths not yet mapped, I even managed to map the end of Compton's Lane in Horsham which had been incomplete for a very long time. I covered 16 miles on foot in all.

I saw loads of wildlife; rabbits, geese, ducks as well as the more common local bird-life which abounds in Sussex.

Added a few well known streets in Altlandsberg

I've had my trusty Garmin eTrex Legend for nearly 6 years now but its really only in the last year that I have seen its true benefits in terms of displaying maps and the benefits to me of having maps on it. I did have some official Garmin maps on the unit for a while but each time I travelled to a new location it was too expensive to get coverage, so for a lot of the time it was displaying only traces over the useless Garmin basmap. With Steve Ratcliff's mkgmap I can create maps easily for anywhere in the world based on the OSM data. I find that even though coverage in many places is patchy its still worth having, partly because it shows what is not mapped yet (so that you can divert to new routes to pick them up) but also because in reality I can still get from A to B, just that the route might not be the one I would take if I had a more complete version of the map.
Downloading the current OSM map data for the wider West Midlands I find I'm now downloading a 200+MB file from Osmxapi which takes quite some time (hours), perhaps I'll need to consider using the planet file soon. For now, the end result is a 6MB image file for the Garmin which is close to the limit for the 8MB of storage that the old Legend has available for maps. Upload to the Legend is also very slow over the Serial connection, which means that the total process from starting the OSM data download to heading out with current mapping is up to 4 hours. A bit long really. I can improve the process by upgrading to the latest eTrex Legend Hcx, which I guess I'm going to have to do sooner rather than later.

Added the footpath around this little body of water, including the bridges and access road to the private house that lies in the middle of this beautiful area.