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What a great idea to have an open street map!
Took the first tracks near my home in Bristol the day before yesterday and they look good. I am using a slighltly modified Clarion MAP670 PND to log the tracks as this allows to export tracks in .gpx format.
This morning on my way to work I took some tracks of the Leigh Delamere Services eastbound on the M4 and West Swindon.

Fußweg = Fußgängerweg;Wanderweg (siehe letzen Beitrag letzter Satz)!

Abends war ich noch bei einem Freund in der Neustadt, folgende Straßen kann ich mit Sicherheit benennen:
Paulstraße
Förstereistraße ab Paulstraße bis Bischofsweg(bei OSM momentan noch Foerstereistrasse und dieser Abschnitt der Förstereistraße als Paulstraße benannt: ist definitiv falsch!),
Bischofsweg bis Alaunstraße,
Alaunstraße bis Louisenstraße.
Ab hier bin ich mir bis zur Güntzstraße nicht mehr sicher.

Bei OpenStreetMap ist meiner Meinung nach Sachsenallee und Sachsenplatz vertauscht, aber ich kann mich auch täuschen. Google Map würde mir recht geben.

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Von der Ackermannstraße bin ich natürlich auf den Zelleschen Weg abgebogen.

Straße
Am Burgwall
Hohles Tor
Hänichenweg
Hermann-Conradi-Straße
Urnenstraße
Dohnaer Straße
Erich-Kästner-Straße
Heinrich-Mann-Straße
Mühlenstraße
Langer Weg
Fußweg (beim Prohliser Bad)
Georg-Palitzsch-Straße
Prohliser Allee (bis Deutsche-Bank-Filliale, dann retour)
Georg-Palitzsch-Straße
Dohnaer Straße
Teplitzer Straße
Zellescher Weg
Wundtstraße
Weberplatz
Ackermannstraße
Dohnaer Straße

I think I have the hang of PotLatch editing. Added more interchanges around I-93 and Rt 4.

Responding to chilly's diary entry ...

As I read the Highway_tag_usage page in the Wiki at osm.wiki/index.php/Highway_tag_usage, highway=trunk doesn't mean a trunk road with the legal meaning of trunk road in the UK. The Wiki page says to use "highway=trunk" for "primary A road (green signs)" and to use "highway=primary" for "non-primary A road (black/white signs)", a bit counter-intuitive, but that convention does seem to have some advantages:

1. the renderers show "highway=trunk" in green and "highway=primary" in red, which matches the colour most paper maps in the UK use for primary routes and non-primary A roads, respectively, and

2. I'm not sure it is possible to determine trunk roads (in the legal sense) from any non-copyright sources. The original legislation is Crown copyright (perhaps it is out of copyright now), and the trunking and de-trunking orders that amend trunk road statuses are also Crown copyright.

Someone is changing primary roads to trunk roads in the area I've working on in East Yorkshire. The changes are tagged as anonymous, so I don't know who is changing the routes. The Highway Agency in the UK has a map and a list of trunk roads and there are very few. If we have a tag trunk and primary then surely we should label roads with the correct designation. At the present rate of change there will be no primary roads left.

Feel free to contact me if you disagree or if it's you that's making the changes.

Three days in Suffolk (driving and walking) and one day cycling in the Fens.

Though many of the roads making up NCN 11 (Ely-King's Lynn) were already in OSM, the route wasn't tagged as such. So I've now done that - one more for the cycle map, and neatly dovetailing with David Earl's excellent work in Ely. Much of NCN 11 south of Ely appears to have been done already, subject to Sustrans not having finished it yet!

I did want to double back to March and get some more of NCN 1 done, but unfortunately the B&B lady's rather bizarre ideas on times of collecting keys meant I had to be back in Ely sooner rather than later, so I had to be content with continuing through King's Lynn for a short while. Another time, maybe.

As for Suffolk, though I suspect many of our travels were duplicating existing OSM work (well, it's hard to get away from the A12), there should be a good few more roads to add - plus the village of Blythburgh, where we were staying (tiny village, huge church). We kept seeing NCN 1 signs hither and thither (plus NCN 51 from time to time), but didn't systematically survey any of it. Sadly the one footpath I really wanted to survey wasn't particularly passable - something to do with high tide...

Incidentally, for any other OSMers with a fondness for the National Cycle Network, Sustrans' excellent Connect2 project has got through to the final round of the Living Landmarks competition for a £50m grant. The final decision will be made by TV phone vote - so tell your friends!

Thought I'd investigate this diary thing...

This week I've been doing a few things OSM related. The first one was to try to organise a large printout of the current Liverpool coverage to use for planning the upcoming Liverpool Mapping Party. I used a dump of Liverpool data from Sunday (2007/10/21), tidied it up by removing some long straggling ways and converted it to SVG. I then loaded the SVG into Inkscape and played with it a bit before exporting a PNG. I sent these files off to my friend Thom Shannon who was going to get it printed out (on A0 paper!) Unfortunately as it turned out Thom's friend couldn't print out the dodgy Inkscape files so I had to do a new one yesterday using PDF. That has apparently worked and even gave me chance to include some changes I did on Monday and Tuesday :-)

Which leads onto the next thing, I've been trying to avoid mapping Allerton too much as I know there's at least one potential mapper there and I don't want to spoil his fun as he's more likely to get involved if he gets to map his own area. I'm struggling to find places close enough to my house to do within a lunch hour though so I decided to visit an area I'd already been but got a poor trace for. Marlcroft Drive which you should hopefully see on the map was, until recently, a straight line between Mersey Road and Riversdale Road. I cycled down it for the second time to get a better trace. Unfortunately I got another bad trace and had to go back a second time on Tuesday!.

On the way back from Marlcroft Drive, and on Tuesday I collected the last roads off Brodie Avenue (North West) and today I collected (hopefully) all the roads between Brodie Avenue and Mather Avenue (further North West). I'm going to aim to get the entire block between Mather Avenue, the river and Jericho Lane-Elmswood Road-Rose Lane now, should be able to do that in the next few days.

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I've been mapping more of the area between Carshalton and Sutton this week, and I'm now nearing completion of this block. I've left the area of highest population density to last, as it will take the longest.

Talking in IRC yesterday, it was revealed that there's been a changes method in the API for around 2 weeks now, un-announced. Someone from the tiles@home project quickly managed to use it to seed the tile request list every few hours.
It's really great to finish mapping at 1am, go to bed, wake up and see your changes in the morning, without having to manually request them :)

Meerplein toegevoegd :-)

Started working on Belington

This happens fairly often, there'll be a day when gpx uploads take 8-9hrs. Currently we're up to a 9hr lag on the oldest "pending" gpx trace. Of course, the wiki still has a nice green bar saying, "Up and running"

It's NOT. it always says green. That thing should be junked, or kept uptodate. Right now it's absolutely useless.

Starting to have fun thinking about alternate, unmapped ways to get to work, though my phone stopped mapping about 2 miles down the road.

Running back home, things seem to work better - 30 k of data on the phone to be mapped out. I have cleared up some of the roads around my home town, and I have been impressed with Potlatch, allowing to clean up some of the roads. A nice and quick complement to JOSM, which has also given me new faith in Java applications!

Could be interesting to have printed up some thin yellow jackets with "OpenStreetMap - Mapping in Progress" (or some variation thereof). It could get some more people interested in mapping, and immediately explain why you are stopping in the middle of the road to take photos!

Added more between R. de Meric/Roqueturiere/Ferran

Added ~10 new gps trace to Kauhajoki and edited them to roads.

Traveling Salesman
(http://travelingsales.sourceforge.net)
my routing and navigation -program
is getting better every day.

Finally with the first beta it contains
all the required features for some
first tests-drives. It did perform well.

The UI still needs some polish and
the driving-instructions are very basic
but it starts to fulfill it's purpose.