Last friday I was out again on my bike. As I discussed earlyer, I have finally found a way to record audio and GPS at the same time with my mobile phone.

Tonight I finished a JOSM modification which enables me to load audio into the map. While I'm hearing my own voice, I see a spot moving across the map, which is always exactly at the position in which I recorded the audio.

There's also a feature to play/pause and seek with a slider bar (which is not easy cheese in Java). It still has lot of bugs, I think I will submit the patches in a week or two after some more testing.

This way, I can include much information into the map which would be lost without audio. I got familiar with mentioning every post box, bus stop, street name, hotel and many other POIs.

But what's even cooler, when I now get across a crossing, I can easyly say "here's a crossing, road xyz to the left at 9 o'clock, a cycleway to the right at 2 o'clock, and the oneway street Abc ahead of me". While the GPS shows just a straigt line across the crossing, I can put road stubs in the right position and a not-too-wrong angle into the map. I don't even have to speed down!

If you look at this place in Wernigerode, it looks like a lot of maze driving and visiting some places three times. In fact, this data comes from a mostly linear drive trough.

Sadly I remember that there's a real live waiting for me... Can't wait to record new audio tracks!