Hi there ive just signed up to OSM, I'll be updating maps in the UK, but can someone tell me how to do this

Thanks

There's an extensive article on OSM and the new http:/www.openrouteservice.org/ at http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,555174,00.html .

On another note, I'm just back from visiting Linux Tag in Berlin osm.wiki/index.php/OSM_at_Linuxtag_2008 -- I will unfortunately miss Frederik's talk, but I'm looking forward to pizza tonight.

After walking with my GPS and editting the OSM my changes were not directly visible. But indeed after the following Wednesday the OSM map was updated.
Incredible how easy this is done.
Wow. I feel like getting Oosterheem (neighborhood in Zoetermeer the Netherlands) on the map.

Now I need a working NavIT and I'm off with FREE, up2date maps, navigation.

Keep up the good work.

Ronald

New Garmin Legend HCx arrived yesterday so took it for a test ride this afternoon. Loaded it with the latest mkgmap and set it up to log at 1 sec intervals to the micro SD card. All sweet and easy to set up and a lot easier to download via USB than the old serial connection. A few changes in the layout to my old B&W version but I'll soon get the hang of those.

Headed over to Birchfield/Handsworth area (B20) and completed another section before cycling back via Erdington. 40km in all. Very nice trace from the new unit. Easier to see where I stopped at post boxes and for bus stops as it leaves a few more points than the old unit did. Accuracy definately a bit better, mainly because the EGNOS lock is clearly better than on the old unit. Had two heart stopping moments, the first when a bloke opened his car door onto me, just managed to swerve, and the other when the new GPS rattled off its mount and hit the asphalt. Luckily no real damage, just a light scuff. The supplied receiver mount seems to fit a bit more loosely onto the handlebar mount than the old unit did, may have to rubberise it a bit to stop it rattling and annoying me. Looks like the only reason it bounced off the mount was that I did not have it fully home so that it was locked in place.

So bin jetzt auch neu dabei, hab schon erste Versuche unternommen. Mußte auch schon feststellen, das Neustadt nicht so genau ist. Da werde ich doch mal die Tage etwas durch die City wandern.

This "place" is often forgotten by expensive maps. Here it is! In addition it is also wrongly spelled, I believe the correct spelling is "Etienne Jarrousse" (as mentioned in , he was a "maire" (mayor) of the town in the past.

Best,

BrunoD

Whoa!

I never thought GPS devices are SOOO inaccurate! The first walk was a bit of a failure, we decided with my Lady to go out for a little walk and map the forrest footways. The GPS tracklog jumps here and there, 15 meters not a measure. Luckily enough i had two devices recording simultaneously so i was able to reconstruct at least some of the data by averaging.

And i have to say, JOSM sucks a bit less than i first expected, it has some neat functions, but still needs some serious work. What a pity i don't do Java...

I wanted so badly to see my first submission in the live data that i followed the directions in the wiki for requesting a re-render for either map renderer, but with no luck. Neither would rerender anything, Mapnik even laughed at my face with one tile finally rerendered but still with old data contents. What a disappointment. There should be a power tower in the map!

Didcot is really starting to look mostly finished, I now have the right side Jubilee Way to do, having now finished the southern side of the town.

Ces dernières semaines ont été consacrées aux pistes et liens cyclables de Montréal et les alentours.

Andy Allan a ajouté Montréal à sa carte cyclable.
http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/?zoom=11&lat=5701544.88894&lon=-8191162.79817&layers=B00

J'utilise les tags suivants :

ncn=yes : route verte/sentier transcanadien
rcn=yes : liens qui relient les municipalités
lcn=yes : liens locaux

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english: I entered and mapped cycleway in Montreal and surroudings in the last weeks.

Andy Allan added Montréal to his cycle maps
http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/?zoom=11&lat=5701544.88894&lon=-8191162.79817&layers=B00

I'm using the following tags:

ncn=yes : route verte/sentier transcanadien
rcn=yes : links between municipalities
lcn=yes : local links

The Brixton Mapping Evening was good fun. Unfortunately my camera batteries were dead (forgot to recharge after my long mapping session at the weekend) so I had to revert to old paper methods. This was a reminder of how much quicker photo mapping is compared with writing down street names.

My slice of the cake was also quite awkward in terms of pedestrian navigability. Funny dead-end layouts of fences, gates, and buildings meant I had double back on myself many times, in situations where I would normally expect some short-cuts. This got me pondering how we can represent such restrictions on a map. Pedestrian routing. hmmm. I think we're long way off, but maybe one day.

Good pub session afterwards too. Met a guy called Steve who demonstrated a mobile app he's been working on. Shows OSM maps, and allows map annotation. Apparently you can download an earlier version at trackmyjourney.co.uk. ...and another guy Alex who is lawyer, or at least worked with law in some sense. Would be good if we can persuade him to get more involved.

The next mini London mapping evening is in Stratford.

I went on a bike ride last weekend to map some more cycle routes in Berlin. Route RR8 to Hoppegarten is now mapped apart from a hole in the middle: I lost the route a couple of times. Check on the new cycle map layer (very nice!). On the way back, I was hoping to follow RR7 from Ahrensfelde, but that has not been signed yet, as it seems.

I'm wondering whether it actually makes sense to create the routes as the administration sees them. RR7 and RR8 are "radial routes", which lead from the centre (Schloßplatz) to different points on the perimeter of Berlin. But for a large distance (about 5 to 10 km, I'd guess), they're the same. Having each as its own route relation would mean a lot of extra work to maintain the duplicate part. The other things is that the routes aren't marked as separate routes: The signs just mention various destinations, but no route number. The refs and the distinction between radial and tangential routes is merely administrative.

Supposing you've made it outside Berlin (after some 30 km), it gets really quite nice for biking...

Finished the Kentucky River up to its confluence with the Ohio. I only did starting at Clay's Ferry, but I think I'll let someone else finish upstream. Went ahead and traced the Ohio from the confluence up to Cincinnati where someone else already mapped some of it. With that done, I think I'll trace east from the confluence towards Louisville.

Well, first bit of real mapping done today. Updated my estate from the NPE-based map to one based on GPS tracks. Only took about 40 mins to walk the 2km or so of road. Probably spent almost as long moving things on the map! :)

I've started running Tiles At Home on my Centos 5 Linux machine. The instructions on the wiki are pretty much up-to-date and correct.

I was a little disappointed to find out that I'm not the bottleneck. Or rather, that there are plenty of TAH clients, and the bottleneck is in the server processing. Most of my renders in the last few days have had to wait 5 or 10 minutes to upload.

So I figured I should try something more challenging, like the lowzoom rendering. This is the widest view of the areas, between zoom level 1 and 11. I'm concentrating on 8 through 11 right now. I did some digging around the mailing list archives, and it took me a little time to realize that the wiki instructions were actually up-to-date, and that I do need to run both tilesGen.pl and lowzoom_composite.pl for the whole process. Now that I have that figured out, I'm updating some lowzoom areas in my region. There are some blank blocks along the Oregon coast that I am fixing now. The only frustrating part is waiting on the server for uploading and processing. Patience, young Skywalker.

The other interesting thing I found is some big chunks of empty "land" in the middle of the water. You can see this in the Strait of Georgia, the body of water between Vancouver Island and the Canadian mainland. It appears that these are artifacts of the blank tile handling optimization, where the tile type at zoom level 12 did not get set correctly. I'll guess it is because it is inside the country boundary and so did not get treated as ocean. I found that I can construct 69-byte sea tile files and upload them. I just got my first results out of the server and it is working to fix it. It should not be too hard to clean that up.

Ein schlampiger Kollege - und ich durfte heute Abend dienstlich nach Bretten. Also Diedelsheim mal richtig an das Straßennetz angeschlossen und Dürrenbüchig komplett kartographiert.

Nově dokončené tratě: 124, 160
Dříve dokončené tratě: 130, 132

Being in the area and having an hour to spare today I thought I would fill in some of the un-named streets to west of Cheshunt. Filled in some in Goffs Oak and the new housing development around Gladding Rd Open space, then some more down towards Churchgate. Found loads of residential roads not mapped so will have to make another couple of trips out there with GPS. Many stumpy little cul-de-sacs and roads with branches with same name as the straight bit. Best names - Dig Dag Hill and Bread and Cheese Lane. I also like finding roads that have same name as major roads elsewhere. Cromwell Road, Cheshunt is a dingy little road with no more than 20 houses, compared to the other one in hip Chelsea, London. Can also tag the previously surveyed new roundabout on Lt Ellis Way (for new St Marys School being built) as it is now open.

Today after work, i'm planning the first mapping trip, i'll walk through Sidliste Dablice in Praha and fill in the street names. Maybe even some streets are missing, it looks somewhat strange, but i havent walked through there so thoroughly yet. We'll see. But definitely there is a powerline segment missing.

Bojasova seems to be mislabeled, there are two of them nearby. I'll check it out.

Also i'll probably try out JOSM, that might take a lot of time...

Hi,

I was wondering if the export format is convertable to shapefile to use in Arcview?

Thanks,
shums

Hello there,

I am working with the GIS software ArcView/ArcGIS and I have a lot of POI taken by myself (e.g. S-bahnen, U-Bahnen und Strassenbahn-Haltestellen). These points are saved as a Shape-File (shp). I would like to upload them to OpenStreetMap. Can anybody help?

Thanks, friesede