So today I headed out to map the remainder of the tracks in Mill Wood. There are still a number of footpaths there unmapped - I've no idea if they are "official" or not, so I thought it best just to stick to the tracks for now.

Also I discovered a path from Penrice through to Oxwich Marsh, so I'll have to go back at some stage to add that one too.

The actual location of the road near Mill Wood still seems to be the subject of some conjecture, so each time I go down there I'll try to upload a new trace so that eventually it should be more obvious where it really is. Its a really nice place to go walking, so that I don't mind repeated visits. The one downside is the road though - today I met traffic coming the other way for the first time, not just one car either, but several convoys of cars so I think I won't try visiting again on a weekend in the Summer. I don't think my nerves can take it! :-)

I noticed that there are more bits of Reynoldston still to do as I headed home that way. Now that I have a track of that alternate route, I've been able to add the Police Station and correct where that road meets the main road, so that it comes out opposite the track from Mill Wood.

soll bitte die strassennamen eintragen.

und nicht alles in einem zeichnen, da das oft verschidene strassen sind

Took delivery of my cheapy bluetooth GPS from eBay this week. I'm using it with a Nokia 6120 phone, and the Nokia SportsTracker. Can't figure out how to do waypoints, so when I reach a major junction, I continue on one road for a few hundred metres, then do a u-turn and go back to the other road.

There's a huge hole between the N20 and the N24, and this week I've traced and mapped much of the R511, R512 and R513 going south out of Limerick, as well as some of the R roads heading East to West. I'm hoping to map all of the R roads and many of the tertiary roads in East Limerick and North Cork over the next few months, as my work takes me all over those areas. I'm also going to try and improve the streets in Limerick city where I live, although my GPS doesn't work so well when walking.

This stuff is pretty addictive!

Yesterday i _used_ the map for routing the first time. I went past a Shop i wanted to go to later and simply used Navit to "Set as Destination". Later i let navit (http://navit-project.org) bring me back where i want. While using i found more bugs in the map (streets not beeing connected but rather drawn near each other) and tons of "untagged" paths which were streets but navit wouldnt use them.

Flo

I've finally figured out how to get my NaviGPS BGT-31 working and saving data. It's great! I can get a decent signal while it's in my pocket or in the top pocket of my bag. That should make it easier to record lots and lots of tracks. I've ordered a 1GB membory card. Although the inbuilt memory can store 20,000 points, it'll only really store 8,100 points as a 'trace', that you can download. That's about 2 hours mapping.

Anyways after a bit of fiddlying to clean up the GPX trace in JOSM () I've uploaded my first trace (). :D Yay! I can see what's addictive about mapping!

I have been adding some detail to my local village and the ones nearby. Added some major roads that link the villages and added my favourite walk to the pub footpath. I just got hold of a Garmin 705, so I am now planning on doing more.

Well another weekend, another tracklog...

This time I've added some more roads in Carmarthenshire, and Dryslwyn Castle, plus the bridge over the Towy/Tywi. Need to get some more tracks to sort out the remainder of the National Botanic Garden of Wales junction of the A48, but there is just enough there already to make it recognisable at least.

Still lots of roads missing in this area, so I plan to take a slightly different route each time I visit in future to see how many I can fill in :-)

I now have gosmore running on my TGPS 375 with a map of Pretoria and Johannesburg. It's already quite pretty and will look even better with rotated text. Then I'll be able to easily verify the map as I go.

The TPGS 375 is an entry level SatNav device running WinCE 4.2 that should cost no more than R1,000 = Euro 100, if you can still find it in the stores.

Just a quick note, my NaviGPS BGT-31 arrived today from Storage Depot. I am suprised at how quickly it arrived. I've got some hacking a poking to do now. :) I'm looking forward to making a proper contribution to OpenStreetMaps, instead of just tracking aerial images.:)

Everything south of village centre is now completed to footpath level.

I've noticed this week that changes don't seem to be appearing in the osmarender layer. Looking at the server status pages it looks like there is a large backlog (30,000 requests). There are also some changes I made a few weeks ago which still aren't rendered at all at lower resolutions. Is it the case that we have reached the point where there are simply more people editing openstreetmap.org, but without a corresponding increase in the number of people willing to render tiles? If so, what can be done about it? Do we just need more people to volunteer their CPU time to keep up?

I noticed that Deelkar expressed some concerns about osmarender a few weeks ago, especially concerning the hardware requirements for rendering the more complicated tiles - these can take up to 12GB of RAM to render, which is more than most people have available. It seems that the osmarender infrastructure is creaking at the seams, I'm not one of the developers but wonder what (if anything) I can do to help. I find osmarender really useful as a preliminary check of my edits, it usually flags up a few issues that require tweaking before Mapnik renders those changes on a Wednesday.

Spent a pleasant day yesterday in Ireland. Drove from Shannon to Galway and back and picked up some alternative routes that hadn't been mapped yet. Also a few residential and other streets in Galway itself as well as generally tweaking roads in the area. A couple of observations from the trip, the rural roads in Ireland are as bumpy as hell and a lot more streets don’t have a name than I am used to. Galway seemed to have many small private housing estates where the name of the estate is the name of the road and the format of signage different in each case.

It is it. ;)

Two Mountainbiketoures around Berlin-Spandau

I went for a walk photographing street names, then I uploaded the GPS traces for my wife's running routes. When I started to edit the map it raised more questions than it answered, so I'll need to do some more fieldwork.

I noticed that the outline of Williamson Park is very approximate. I'll try to walk the boundary sometime. Also I noticed that the location of the canal where it passes underneath the A6 isn't right. This area needs to be re-worked.

Cycled around St Lucia tonight on my way home from work gathering street names. Most of the missing residential streets have now been named. Just a couple on the East and near Ironside left to do. Not bad considering I only planned on finishing the streets North of Sir Fred Schonell Drive.

Last weekend's mapping in Chelmer and Graceville has finally rendered. I also remembered the names of three streets and the primary school in Buderim (Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia) so they have been added, but it's an otherwise sparse area.

Got rather sunburned on Monday filling in a big group of villages on the far south-eastern corner of Cambridgeshire between Newmarket and Haverhill on the Suffolk border. Managed to crash my N810 and lots the tracks so I had to redo the first hour. Ho hum. However this trip means that the whole of the eastern side of South Cambs is now complete.

In South Cambridgeshire:
Weston Colville
Carlton (and Carlton Green)

In East Cambridgeshire:
Dullingham
Stetchworth
Woodditton (and Ditton Green & Little Ditton)
Westley Waterless
Burrough Green
Brinkley

And still remaining to do in this pocket of East Cambs:
Ashley
Cheveley (and Saxon Street & Broad Green)
Kirtling (and Kirtling Green)

My BGT-31 (new SIRF-III NaviGPS with Bluetooth) arrived yesterday from StorageDepot.

It look exactly like the BGT-11 but is far more able to get, on hold, signal. My tracks look pretty good and without, even when heading down narrow alleys and under dense tree cover.

Setting up was simply a case of inserting the SD card, turning it on and turning on logging (which I actually forgot to do).

Like the 'beta' firmware I have on my BGT-11, it is able to dump tracks from internal memory to SD card.

Thanks to 'pope' TomH the latest release of GPSBabel (1.3.5) includes support for the NaviGPS, both directly and from the dumped files. Simply use 'navilink' as the input format - but don't forget the -t flag to get the tracks off.

Getting the latest GPSBabel into Ubuntu Hardy was easy once I knew what I was doing; use 'alien' to convert the .rpm package to .deb. I also had to make a symbolic link in /usr/lib pointing libexpat.so.0 to libexpat.so.1 - presumably there's a better solution but it seems to work, which building from source didn't.

So my tracks were salvaged. Unfortunately my mapping was cut short when the point of a drawing pin (thumb tack for you Americans) pierced my front inner tube - the third puncture I've had to repair on that, second within a month.

Well I'm really overjoyed to have found this map and can't wait to get started. First place has to be where I work which is near the new New England Quarter in Brighton. My office isn't on the map at all so my diary entry is being posted from a blank space right now.

Does anyone have any advice for what GPS equipment I should buy? I'm kind of less interested in having it show me which way to go than having it be accurate at recording where I've been (if you see what I mean)

I'm going to have a look at some reviews and the wiki page but I'd be grateful if anyone has any definite no's to tell me about a particular model that they really love?

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Aloitin Pohjois-Järvenpään pyöräteiden kartoituksen. Samalla menee asuinalueiden kadut kanssa. Tulevan kesän aikana kartta tarkentunee pikkuteiden osalta ;)