My little talk went down very well. I may have inspired one or two people to get involved.

Many thanks to Mr Chilton for sending me some of his presentation material.

Started uploading results of a trip to Abruzzo. Strange to be working in an areas that's a total blank canvas, as well as finding so many issues that are different from the ones I have with mapping in London. Above all how to use the gps when the best accuracy I ever get is 40m (so overlapping several streets!)

Yay, another new Potlatch!

The big change is when you access Potlatch by clicking 'edit' next to a GPS trace. Potlatch will now import the GPS trace ready for you, so you don't have to keep clicking the GPS button to see it. (Of course, you can still click the button to see other traces - your original trace will continue to be displayed.)

The catch in this is that it will only work with traces that haven't been compressed (gzip, bz2, or whatever). So it won't work if you've uploaded it as a .gz; and it won't work for old traces, because they get gzipped anyway to save space. I'm thinking about how to fix that.

There'll be more funky GPS stuff in the future, but that's for another time.

The little change (but one I think might be quite popular :) ) is that I fixed the tabbing order on keys and values. Plus, hopefully, the disappearing-elastic-band-when-panning issue should be fixed.

It looks like I am doing a brief talk about OSM at the LUG tonight. We had some of the Bedford guys over last year, but it's time for a refresher.

I was going to say when/why it started, how to contribute and about the current status. Any suggestions on other things I should mention?

I haven't had time to plot out my traces from Israel yet. I still need to get presets working again in JOSM, but I'm not finding much information. I did ask in the IRC, but nobody responded. I would use the mailing list, but I'm not sure I have the time to get into that. I prefer forums for this sort of question as you can dip in when you need information.

OK, i've been a bit lazy w.r.t. mapping recently, but as I was down visiting the folks I thought i'd better do a bit more of Crowborough.
Not a huge amount, but i'm doing it on foot so I can get street names, post boxes, pubs etc down.

So, this time I walked Poundfield Road, plus all the 'Beeches' roads etc off Old Lane.

Someone startet mapping around Pregarten and already added a lot of data. I also uploaded the L576 on Saturday evening/Sunday morning and now that anonymous mapper added that one as well. I wonder who he/she is, we could arrange more easily.

I came up to Berlin this weekend for the Europe Photobloggers meetup. Before coming I checked on the OpenStreetMap coverage and was amazed at how complete it was. So much so that I didn't really have any way of helping out with the mapping whilst out and about taking photos. Ah well, it did give me more of a chance to take photos instead of making notes about every street we walked!

I can't wait for mobile mapping tools that'll give instant access to (OpenStreet)Maps of the areas around you so you can see what's missing when you're actually there and be able to add in extra bits where necessary :)

Just got final details for the Leeds Mapping Party, next weekend (15th and 16th September) Come along and help map the UK's 3rd largest city!*

Saturday:
9:45/10:00 - Starbucks Albion Street - upstairs, theres a room for us and space to spread out. Introductions, coffee, dividing out areas to map, the out mapping til
1pm - The Lounge, Merrion St. for lunch, beer, uploading, talks etc (Free internet and good food), the out for more mapping until
5pm - Beer at the Victoria Hotel Pub, Gt George Street.
7/8pm - Food somewhere! (curry?)

Sunday:
Leeds Metropolitan University have kindly lent us a room for the day. Thanks to Linda Broughton from New Technology Institute & Ben Dalton from Innovation North.
Its in the main university building on Woodhouse Lane, opposite the Dry Dock Pub (its a pub in a boat on a roundabout!). Room C515. Go through the main doors, walk down corridor, find signs for C Block, go up to 5th floor, and its room 15.

10:30 meet and greet, then head out
1pm meet back for lunch, uploadings, chat, then head out to map
4-5pm back for final time, and head off home.

Come along for both days, one day, or part of a day, all welcome! More details on the wiki page osm.wiki/index.php/Leeds_Mapping_Party

See you there!

Just come back from a holiday in Cyprus and wanted to gather some GPS tracks. A cursory look at the map before I went showed a rather patchy network of roads, so I was confident of expanding the coverage there.

Unfortunately, an inability to recharge my GPSSlim240 receiver and reliance on tour coaches for transport severely limited the opportunities to gather data. Although I haven't gone through all my tracks yet, it looks as though they basically echo info that's already in the database :(

Ahh well. There's always next year...

There is some work to be done in Suhl.
The city pretty much was nonexistent in OSM.

I am here for business a few days and
just uploaded some GPS-traces that need ways and street-names.
I will try to keep the gps with me in the city and capture
street-names when shopping later today but that will not cover much of
the city.

Since I started contributing to OSM a few weeks ago, I've been mapping in and around Stuttgart Zuffenhausen. Street drawing and tagging are mostly done (by using the Yahoo! photos), but naming is a bit behind, as is marking up oneway streets.

I also derive some pleasure from beating Google Maps in the details of the vineyard paths and the parks. :)

Next step is to get something like OSMTracker running on my PDA so that maxspeed zones etc. can be properly mapped. --Colin

It's nice to see huge amounts of more roads in Glasgow, although I am concerned about the accuracy of this new data.

* Please check that roads are indeed B roads before classing them as secondary.
* Please check the maplint map layer to see any errors (I see loads of unordered ways).
* Please enable the segment order numbers and segment direction arrows in JOSM.

Glasgow used to almost error-free (and road free), but with so many errors in the data, it's worse off.

Got all the framework roads in OK now, now some detail.

Yesterday and today did the eastern side of Bisley, lots of twiddly little streets in a typical modern(ish) UK private housing estate.

A planet extract of Africa is now available:

OSM Africa Planet:
http://code.firefishy.com/files/osm-planet/planet-latest-africa.osm.bz2

OSM Africa Garmin Map:
http://code.firefishy.com/files/garmin/osm-africa-latest.img

Hi all!

I just want to tell you, that I started tracing my hometown Herne, Germany, more precise the part of Eickel, Wanne and Röhlinghausen. It's lot of fun not just cycling along ... :-)

Greetz,
McBlaze (Matthias)

That email address should have read

my_username.lampo@gmail.com

Started with the open-source GPStrack (java, for mobile devices) and adapted it so that it will log enough data points for use in car. To use it you need a mobile device with java (and bluetooth) support.

If you want to obtain it, please drop me an email at .lampo@gmail.com

greetings,

Sebastiaan

I've had a couple of weeks gathering local traces and uploading them. Our village looks good, with a few amenities yet to plot. I'm spreading out into other villages. I'm surprised how long it takes on foot - I've thought of breaking out the old bike, but I'm not sure I could hack it!

The mapping of Central Ealing and Perivale are now progressing well.

Shouldn't be long now until it's completed.

Grant

Well, they're as major as it gets in Bisley. Done by car, interesting to see how variable the GPS fix gets when there are trees, but as I'm filling in (small) blank spaces it doesn't matter too much. One problem I find is how to decide when to stop; there's always another turning I haven't done...this will get easier once I get on my bike; the cost of thinking 'just another street' will get a lot higher.