Alex this and a couple of others i’ve mapped render. osm.org/#map=19/52.32893/-0.20735

I enjoy your entries Alex see this https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/46513/tag-for-flood-relief-holes

Opps. they do render if they are tagged correctly see osm.org/#map=16/52.2599/-0.1946

I mapped a group of wind turbines using a system of waypoints that were on projected lines from pairs of aligned turbines which was fairly accurate when checked against a commercial map. I used this method as i couldn’t get nearer than 1.5 km to most of them. But the only turbine that gets rendered is the node of the centre of the wind farm, which isn’t a turbine. I’m a little annoyed as 123m high landmarks, should, i think, be rendered.

Thanks, I printed out your instructions and on the next rainy day i’ll try them out. I like the pre-built routable osm on garmin maps i have installed on my Garmin Oregon 450. I can get suggested hiking routes which give me estimated time of arrivals and distances using suitable tracks and paths, for a bike it picks cycle routes, and for a car it obeys turn restrictions ( if we have mapped them correctly). I would like to change the rendering a little, so the background is mainly white and walking rights of way render green. The paths will then be a familiar colour and should have better contrast. These modifications, will I am hoping, print out clearly without using a lot of ink. I intend to use Garmin Basecamp for route plotting and printing. The standard renderings on the main page don’t really work for me, fine dotted red footpaths on brown rendered farmland is not clear unless I zoom in, zoomed out screen grabs aren’t clear at all. Happy Mapping, and walking.

You may have seen this www.rowmaps.com . Barry Cornelius as approached County Councils for for rights of way traces under the freedom of information act, with about 50% success. Huntingdon, my base, is in Cambridgeshire and along with Northamptonshire another area that i enjoy walking in, have both decided to withhold the data. I have been uploading traces for a few years now and then mapping the footpaths i have walked. I have mapped some new estates without bing, initially as building sites polygons, new sites can be hard to find so i like to map them to help everyone, then by using gps and a sketch pad i’ll do sketch road plan then ask a the sales site office for the street names so i can plot them out and name them. I enjoy reading the diary items thanks for yours.

Walking may be too slow for some but walking with a notebook, a camera and a gps is the best. Bing in some areas is excellent but it is impossible to tell if some paths and roads are actually connected. does that walk way join two roads? is the road a cul de sac or not? While you are doing that you will get some fresh air and exercise, meet some lovely people and see some interesting things. Arm chair mapping is ok but only after you have been on the ground. You will also have a GPX trace that can be used to check Bing alignment. Happy Mapping.

If you want to cycle Cambridge you could park here, it free, at the moment. http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cyclists-verdict-Cambridge-s-CyclePoint-UK-s/story-28739011-detail/story.html?

I’m sure you know that openstreetmap use minus values of lat and long for West of zero (Greenwich Meridian) and South of the Equator. On my Garmin menu: Where to: Coordinates then format= h ddd.ddd not ddd mmm.mmm or ddd mmm sss. then enter minus lats as South Negative- longitudes as West. I like the fact you are using cheap but good old kit. If i see old stuff for sale i do a quick bit of internet research including finding the makers PDF. i recently started using a five year old laptop that was e2000 when new and then had a 3 year makers guarantee, which gives some indication of build quality. Happy mapping and recycling.

Here is the link http://pinns.co.uk/osm/

If the map is routable but searching does not work, i do this on my nuvi 1310T. It will navigate to a lat lon, you may have to set your Nuvi to DD.ddd instead of DMS, you can then use the openstreetmap map page for searching, the centre co ords of the map in shown in the URL, put that into your Nuvi, I hope that helps. I have been looking at the pinns website that explains how typ files change the look of Garmin maps.

What Garmin device are you using? if i have a similar model i’ll see if i can get it to work. I thought that that function was for turns when following a plotted route but maybe it is suitable for other uses.

It is hard to remember mapping with just GPX traces. Bing was, and is, the most useful tool in the box, but keep uploading traces so we can all check alignment, we should also consider that images may be a few years old so survey as well. I say a big thanks to Steve Coast and to Microsoft Bing for what was a massive step forward for openstreetmap.

Thanks Escada I have read and enjoyed some of your other diary entries and I have just looked and see that you have written many before, I will look at them when the weather is less suitable for walking and mapping. Thanks

Although it sounds like a good idea I don’t think it is. Much better to upload your trace and use that together with the other available traces to get the best average to align Bing and use that to draw your road. I my experience traces have lots of small zig zags and other faults that are best left out. Even without Bing then I’d still draw the roads with human input. This is what we did before Ariel became available, it’s hard to imagine now! happy mapping.

related @andy%20mackey/diary

I wrote a similar diary entry and also asked a question in the forum. I wrote a few emails and after quite a while I received a positive reply and they added an OSM attribution to the map.see https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/30167/osm-map-used-without-any-copyright-notice

Shared nodes can be difficult to edit later see this Q and A https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/5352/should-the-edges-of-landuse-or-boundary-areas-share-points-with-streets-that-form-their-borders

I am sorry to here of your loss. Mike, like me, may not have met any other mappers. Over the years I have been contributing I have had a few messages of help, advice and sometimes why have you done it like that? but I don’t know them. I have had two close encounters. I attended an open talk in a Cambridge university building about climate and co2 and some students were selling Fredrick Ramms OSM book, so i guess they may have been mappers but foolishly didn’t ask. and I wish I’d brought the book!, and also near Cambridge while on a walk a Rambler friend said an acquaintance of hers in the Cambs Cycling group and a cycle map maker, who’s good work I had noticed, and who had queried one of my mapping errors. had been in the pub that lunch time. So good luck with your search. I am sure your Dad enjoyed his mapping as much as I do and I see he made quite a lot of contributions, they will be an additional memorial to him.

I posted a question on using the environment agency river levels web site sometime ago. By adding the elevations of car parks and riverside paths and for passable roads they could be assessed by monitoring the level from the Environment Agency . It may only work in flatter areas. see https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/18032/ways-and-water-levels-in-gb