I like the diary entries, and I have tried to share what I have learn by posting something here in the past. I think these diaries are good place to share what we have learnt, sadly it seems a bit under used. I’m a user of OSM Garmin Maps, walking mainly but driving as well. I have mainly contributed footpaths I have walked and GPXed to OSM. For the last few years I have used opentopomap, it has contours and looks good and is great for walking and is routable with a selectable choice, on my Oregon 650, of foot, bike or car. It works on nuvi 2599 LMT-D but I don’t have a walking choice with it. The old Nuvi 1310T does have a walking option, but without a powerbank I’ll only get one hour of use. Thank you APM for sharing what you have learned.

Hi Terry I’m sure you will enjoy exploring and mapping. I originally started recording footpaths with a garmin GPS in the early days of openstreetmap. I had joined the Ramblers and I liked the idea of free maps. I use opentopomap on my Garmins now, and have Ordnance Survey on a smart phone. Opentopomap is based upon OSM data with Satellite and Laser generated contour lines added. Recently I have been adding house numbers locally. If people look a little puzzled, I have board with the existing OSM printed out. I write the number on it. I’ll explain what I am doing, all bar one have been supportive and friendly. One Guy thought I was contravening his data protection law. I said if he was bothered I would not add his house number, that is on the door, so we have 13,14,15,a blank and 17, 18 in the street. It gives me exercise, conversations and knowledge of the area. Often number 13 is not used. I regularly walk the countryside with some pals or my local Hunts Ramblers Group who have great website with excellent web mapping, Google them. I guess I walk 25 miles a week now It was twice that when I first retired fifteen years ago. Enjoy your mapping and retirement. Andy.

Thanks GinaroZ very belatedly. I took your advice and they did show up. Newer Airiel images proved my surveying technique was pretty good. More recently I have noticed that taking pics of the ground with hedgerows, field edges and trees and other features can help fix a point when compared to older aerial images of the area.

Just remembered one and added it. osm.org/?mlat=52.26882&mlon=-0.35503#map=18/52.26882/-0.35503

I have seen a few stands on my hikes in the Cambs UK area. I realised One man could drag a full churn from a stand to his cart, truck or trailer but not from the ground, well some could until their backs were ruined. The Farm probably had two of pairs of hands to put it on the stand. Much easier than having to stop work to help the driver or him having to bring a mate to help.

Well Done do what you can where you can. Happy Mapping

Several years ago I used quite a lot of time drawing outlines after getting a help request from another mapper. I spend months on his small town. He was more precise than me. He redrew quite a lot of it and did a great job. If you want it to your standard do it your self. It is easier with good images and a big screen, and the right tools…..JOSM, plus GPXes the verity image position and surveys to check for changes and details. See his work osm.org/#map=15/52.2168/-0.0795 Happy Mapping

You seem to be using OSM for publicity are you are making a donation to OSM?

You seem to be using OSM for publicity are you are making a donation to OSM?

Leaving a note is OK. I look at the notes in areas that are close by or ones in areas that I may visit and hopefully can resolve. Give sensible notes with enough detail please.

Hi David I got involved with OSM while looking for low cost walking maps. OSM’s name was created to be found by accident by people look for Ordnance Survey Maps Great Britain’s Government funded maps, good but expensive. I agree roundabouts are not easy to pass on cycles or foot. On foot crossing the lane into the roundabout is ok but the traffic exiting the roundabout can’t be seen or predicted when crossing the exit lane.. I have seen pictures of roundabouts with an outer foot and cycle roundabout. They cover lots of land. Low speed, say 20kph, limits on roundabouts could be one answer. Could also work well for filtering on when cross traffic is held up by a fairly continuous flow in the cross direction. I wish you happy, and safe mapping. Andy

https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/45846/coordinates-when-editing-in-osm-using-id-editor

You can drag a stored waypoint or a file with several into the open iD window and you will see the waypoints. See this answer https://help.openstreetmap.org/answer_link/85172/

Uploading GPX traces will help. We can then check and drag the images into alignment before begin to map. With lots of GPXes we can hopefully get a good average for best accuracy.

Ask here https://help.openstreetmap.org/

I have not used JOSM very much. But on your jpeg it gives the angle of the way. If you noted the angle of the rail line you only have to add or subtract 90 degrees. I like you low tech solution of a set square on the screen. I was thinking of laying a sheet of paper over the screen and tracing map with a different coloured felt pens to create a simple walking map. Happy Mapping

I noticed a few ago that a parish boundary followed the route of boggy bit in the field that I remembered from 1952 .and realised the river line had probably been moved when they had constructed the lock. It is easier was easier to build the lock on dry land then divert the water through it. I noticed similar situation when the A14 road Cambs UK 2015 2021 was built. New bridges across the new A14 were built adjacent to the old roads together with the linking roads and over night the road was sent over the new bridge causing little or no delay. This old Roman road was once straight but now kinks a little. see osm.org/?mlat=52.2923&mlon=-0.1490#map=15/52.2923/-0.1490 I have mapped a lot of footpaths in the last almost ten years. When I walk the path again I’ll re-check against my GPX and Bing and maybe edit them. I can inspect the date of the mapping to see when if and when I edited before. I use the Potlatch editor to do this. I’m don’t know if older Satellite or Ariel are available. You could ask in the Help Forum. Happy Mapping Andy

Thanks Jedrzej , Yes we can, we can also see other interesting things, such at buildings, old and new, farm machinery, different crops and wildlife. .We can talk to other walkers get fresh air, vitamin D and exercise. Win win win win!

Thanks Bernard, I remember seeing an asphalt path and kerb that had been lifted locally by water burst, damage was quite surprising . Gas explosion/fire I don’t want to see.

I posted a question that points to your interesting question. see https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/82606/mapping-under-ground-or-earth-covered-building