I haven’t had the opportunity to try photo mapping yet. How do you georeference the photoes? Do you have a cell with gps, or a ted with a camera? Or do you combine a file of POIs on a gps with the timestamps on the pictures?

My town a bit bigger (70,000) so I have a bit of a different situation. In the suburbs I can trace the buildings before I go out and get the addresses but in the down town aeas, the rooves can be so interconnected that I can’t tell where one building ends and the next starts, making collecting building polys in the field a necessity.

I have an android tablet I haved used for mapping in the past, but I found it almost worthless without a data connection. It has probably been 1 year and a half since I experimented with that though, so the apps have very likely gotten more solid.

How do you take pictures on the cycle, just out of curiosity? I have cycling with the audio mapping before but the recoder doesn’t impede my movement. I found that the address density was too thick in my neck of the woods as well, so I had to bike at the same speed as a walk.

I completely forgot to mention that here! I discovered fieldpapers (and it’s predecessor - walking papers) right before I moved to the all paper approach.

It was great at first but where I live it rains a lot & is foggy and I was contantly having to deal with soggy & mangled paper. (That’s why I typically use the waterproof paper, I have a guy that donated me a box of the riteintherain paper so it doesn’t cost me anythign) As well, I’m a student and with the amount of addressing I do a week it was costing me a fortune to keep printing them out. The final reason is, I also use these surveys to get the roof polygons. So when I printed them out it would have a lot of roads, store pois, parks, trees, etc. But no building polys to put the address on. So I guess in short for my use case I found the cost of printing them out each time when they give me more information than my picture above does outweighed their usefullness.

I think that once I get all the building polys and the addresses in I will take a look at fieldpapers again as adding store poi’s will certainly be easier with the map!!

Thanks for responding & happy mapping ingalls

oops, I misread that, this does the other way round!

This might speed things up:

osm.wiki/Ogr2osm Use Pnorman’s Updated Version

It can deal with far larger datasets than JOSM can.