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Posted by mallok on 19 October 2007 in English.

Vor einiger Zeit hatte ich ein par Tage Urlaub. Habe wieder OSM mit Geocaching verbunden und einiges in der Gegend um OHZ aufnehmen können. Heute bearbeitet, d.h. in einige Tagen sollte sich hier etwas tun:
osm.org/?lat=53.22840582141092&lon=8.799119255690925&zoom=12&layers=B0T

Location: Wiste, Westerbeck, Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Landkreis Osterholz, Lower Saxony, 27711, Germany
Posted by frabcus on 17 October 2007 in English.

I registered to have a look at the edit page, as I couldn't see the Bus Station on the map - whereas the bus stop by the station has a bus symbol. The drummer street one has no symbol.

But it looks like it is something in the renderer.

I've never used the edit interface before and found it quite confusing. I think I maybe have moved stuff for real when I didn't mean to do anything. I'd assumed there'd be a save (to not press) or an undo button, but can't see one.

How do i see what I've done and undo it?

Location: Lynfield Court, Chesterton, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, England, CB4 1DP, United Kingdom
Posted by DavidJames on 17 October 2007 in English.

I've recorded tracks on my journey to and from work this week (logging the data using OziExplorer CE running on an IPAQ hx2490 with a Bluetooth connection to a BT-77 GPS receiver).

Last night I converted this from OziExplorer track format to GPX using GPSBabel, uploaded it into OSM and tried out JOSM.

I couldn't get josm_latest (downloaded that night, 16th October) to retrive any data from OSM (it gave an HTTP 403 error). I also had a josm_latest that I'd downloaded on 13th October and that worked.

Puzzled when I looked at what JOSM was displaying to see that there was a lot of mapping in my home town that I wasn't seeing on the slippy map. So, anyway, I added a short stretch of track that wasn't in the existing data and tagged it highway=residential.

This morning, it's on the map! Wonderful!

I've a suspicion that the other data I was seeing in JOSM isn't on the map because it hasn't got any useful highway= tagging.

Next step is to try adding tags to some of the existing data that doesn't display on the map to see if that makes it display.

Posted by dankarran on 17 October 2007 in English.

Over the past few days I had to travel to somewhere I rarely go, so I took a bit of time to do some mapping there at the same time. I got back to my computer to find that actually most of that had already been mapped by somebody else. It's a great feeling when you see that happen as it just helps emphasis how the project is really accelerating in its coverage.

Luckily there were other bits I'd noted down that I could add to that area, so all was not wasted, plus it gives you a chance to verify that existing work. Now if only we had a way of giving thumbs up to data that had been verified by another user...

Location: Böblingen (Kernstadt), Böblingen, Landkreis Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Posted by KarlP on 17 October 2007 in English.

I'd not done any real driving for a while, just a few tracks here and there on errands, but a missed connection visiting a sister tonight sent me off mapping some on/off ramps, and part of a new area. Still massive parts of Breiðholt to be covered, and I'm really not planning on ever doing it myself, but perhaps from time to time :) Southern Selás tonight, the northern part will get filled in next time I go to Árbærslaug I guess. And finally, I drove Naustin, downtown, though the gps reception there is pretty craptastic. That let me add a few more pubs to, though I've not seen any of them get rendered yet :)

Posted by RaSchu on 16 October 2007 in English.

Habe heute ein paar Tracks aus vergangenen Urlauben in den französischen Alpen und im Trentino hochgeladen, ein paar Korrekturen in anderer Leute Arbeit vorgenommen (Straßen mit mehr Stützstellen versehen, um bessere Kurvenanpassungen zu erhalten), sowie die Landstraße von Herdwangen nach Aach-Linz gezeichnet.

Demnächst will ich mein eigenes Dörfchen (gehört mir aber nicht) mit dem Rad abfahren und somit vermessen.

Location: Herdwangen, Herdwangen-Schönach, Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Pfullendorf, Landkreis Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, 88634, Germany
Posted by Esben Damgaard on 16 October 2007 in English.

So, I got my Neo1973 and boy is it beautiful! It still doesn't work properly as a phone, but I can wait for that to come.

I've got the GPS to work, and I'm already mapping some of Odense. It is really fulfilling to see your work appear on the OSM page :)

Fortunately there's now a second person in Odense mapping the city. The city is growing on the map. Yey :)

Esben

Location: Folkebo, Hunderup, Odense, Odense Municipality, 5230, Denmark
Posted by NicRoets on 15 October 2007 in English.

It looks like the current version of JOSM is modeless. It is a step in the right direction (more user friendly) because most text editors (like the one I'm typing right now) are modeless.

The problem is that unwilling users are be bullied into using something that "should still be considered an alpha release".

The good news about API0.5 is that it simplifies things by getting rid of segments. The bad news about it is that referential integrity w.r.t. relationships may cause endless frustrations for newbies who may not know how to delete ways created in error. And some of the ways have become part of the 'multipolygon' relationship during the conversion to API0.5, so this is already a real problem.

Posted by TomH on 15 October 2007 in English.

After mapping Ware from the southern edge as far as the A119 last weekend this weekend I went back and after cycling 26 miles completed most of the western part of Ware - everything to the west of the A1170 bar a small piece at the extreme north end of the town.

As a side effect NCN61 should be marked all the way from where it leaves NCN1 somewhere (it's not entirely clear exactly where) near Hoddesdon north as far as where it goes under the A10 between Ware and Hertford.

Location: Ware, East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Posted by GercoKees on 15 October 2007 in English.

Hi,
Last weekend i cycled more than 60 km through South-Holland. Due to reconstruction works on the Kaagbrug by Rijkswaterstaat i had to cycle a few extra kilometers but that was not a real problem, because i had beautiful weather overhere. Besides, my wife and me are very busy tracking all the smaller ways in our home-village. Once we are ready with that, we will proceed with the cyclingways in the neighborhood. It is realy fun doing this together. The tracking always takes a few hours, but i am busy with the computer only for a few (ten or twenty) minutes. So the balance is very good....!!!

Location: Buitenkaag, Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, Netherlands