OpenStreetMap
I just noticed I copmleted the northern half of my home village today. Ok, I got all streets, there are still some plenty POIs missing. And southern half is half-mapped ;)
Not bad, for just one week. Not bad, for that there was just one street (and that even was wrong*) here before I started...
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*) I wonder how someone managed to tag 5km of L598 as B535.
Could someone have a quick look over Sandhausen? It's far from finished, but now would be a good time to stop me from mapping b***s***... ;)
TIA!
I found openstreetmap yesterday, someone referenced it in a news comment on heise.de. I planned to have a look at it, learn a little bit about it's technology (and user interface---that's part of my job). I never intented to participate. Ok, maybe a minor fix here or there, same as I do once every couple of months when I visit wikipedia.
Then I found a very big hole where my home village should be. Ok, that alone would mybe not have done it, but the data quality of the streets around it is just horrible. So I looked around for my old GPS...
It took a while, but finaly I found it. I put fresh batteries in, and after about 4 hours on the rooftop it had a fix (not a joke!). And do I need to add, that a "Magellan GPS 300" has no logging or PC connectivity at all? Ok, back to the boxes with old stuff, somewhere should be a Palm. Found it, a nice Tungsten T, but where's the Cradle? Another hour later I found it, too, and also the power supply.Now, let's have a look, some kind of sync software? Yeah, of cause it only runs on PowerPC and has not been updated for 4 yours. Luckily the Windows version runs in Parallels, although it takes about 8 sync runs until it completes.
In the meantime, 9:30 am had passed, so I could go to the nearest electronics store. Yeah, the have satnavs. Plenty of them. And also some 600€ handheld GPSs. But I want a Bluetooth GPS. Ok, let's shorten it_ after I circled the shop 2 times, I found them. Below knee height on the side of the display case. Great selection of three different modells: BT, BT+RDS and USB. I took the simple BT one, 89€ sounded fair (surprinsingly cheap, I had expected to pay twice as much). Now I own a nice "NAVILOCK BT-348"---what, btw, is more or less exacly what I knew about it before opening the ver neutral box.