This is very good news:
http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2007/10/26/osm-cycle-map-goes-international

This weekend i tried to correct the Bennebroekerweg and the Motorwaylinks near Roelofarendsveen. I discovered that i did not have enough gps points and traces to complete the work, so i have to go back later (wich is not a problem).

Finally met (online) with someone from my, I admit, little country. Now let's see if two can roll things out faster than one.

Also noticed that what I wanted to do, namely writing a routing application for mobile phones, is already underway. Now I'm in doubt whether to give up the idea and just keep mapping or to join one of the projects. I'm seriously thinking about a joined forces operation, but don't consider myself even close to an expert, so I might frustrate people.

One general remark, and I think this should be further discussed on the wiki, is that we seem to be very good at wasting resources (ourselves). I see more than 5 routing applications (and the list misses GPSmid). It might be time to consolidate efforts? On the other hand, diversity gives choice and competition, thus a benefit for the customer.. if any of the choices did the job it's supposed to do.

In case that you're working on such an application: do not consider this ungrounded criticism. I saw a lot of good stuff, that would together make a very nice application. Only it's distributed over 3 or 4 different ones. Consider this a call for cooperation amongst developers.

I'll have a closer look in the coming weeks. Expect an update. Comments welcome of course.

added some POIs in Hochstetten (cemetary, church, school, shops). couldn't continue to map Liedolsheim because of a bike break-down... :-(

added some natural:wood and lakes around Haguenau using the new high-resolution Yahoo sat images. The wood areas are still quite tentative, i will work over them soon

Пробую добавлять ветки метро. Почему-то не видны станции:( У москвичей видны:(

Today I added to roads in the Wedemark. As I can see at the Informationfreeway server some other people are also mapping the Wedemark.

Heute in der c't vom OSM-Projekt gelesen, die Kinder mit den Fahrrädern und GPS ausgestattet durch die Straßen des Neubaugebietes geschickt.

So this weekend I went back to Ware again and after another 25 miles or so on the bike I believe it is pretty much complete...

Yesterday we did some more cycling around the Angmering park estate. The land is used for (small scale) commercial forestry, so there a few tracks and even tarmacced roads with no public right of way. We tracked the Monarch's way (bridleway and footpath) up to Arundel.

Added :
Khartoum - Kosti Highway
Kosti - Sinnar Highway
Sinnar - Medani Highway
Khartoum North - Atbara
A number of small villages on the river nile

How will this look?

Well, I've just about completed these twin villages, except for a few footpaths to be filled in as the winter draws on and the tree cover goes down (can't get a decent GPS signal under them yet).

Having problems deciding when to call a road "residential" and when to switch to "tertiary". Not helped by the map rendering the two types quite differently which makes the resulting roads rather ugly.

The chief recreation in Kidlington appears to be turning the NCN signs round. Which is fair enough, I guess - there's not much else to do in Kidlington. But it does mean that it's kinda hard to find your way through on NCN 51.

Sustrans should use more stickers, they're harder to turn round.

Anyway, we surveyed the western end of NCN 51 today: it was already on OSM as far as the edge of Kidlington (though using an older road route rather than the current, rather enjoyable cross-country path), so we continued from there into the terminus in Oxford, also taking the opportunity to cycle the new link from Tackley railway station. The rural bits were smashing, North Oxford was suitably posh, and about the only sub-par bit was the pavement path along the A4260.

Got the A0 printout yesterday, unfortunately it's quite zoomed out - Liverpool being quite a big city - so it's hard to see detail, and I think the text did come out white, but I still really like it. I'm sure it'll come in handy for planning the mapping party too.

So after saying yesterday that I was going to continue doing the blog South West of Mather Avenue I ended up doing some more of Allerton today. Decided that I would pop down to Allerton road for lunch and realised that I'd missed some roads off Storrsdale road so I went down that way, I then continued across Rose lane onto Bridge road and followed the train line up to Penny Lane. Nice enough cycle, not too far out of my way, and picked up a few more roads. I'll probably go out in the car tomorrow and do a bit more of my intended area, probably more towards Jericho lane.

Traced the entirety of the England/Scotland border from NPE this evening (and uploaded it). This hasn't changed one bit, as far as I know, since the 1950s - and indeed much later than that - and the path rarely intersects with already-existing stuff, so the traced accuracy should be reasonably good.

Branching off it, I have a bit of the Cumbria/Northumberland border, but couldn't find the Scottish Borders/Dumfries and Galloway border (well, on NPE it would be the Roxburghshire/Dumfriesshire border).

We were discussing on IRC earlier about how, now that we have borders coming into the database, to render different types of borders at different lowzooms and different weights. If we do this by keyword, (parishnumber defined by Map_features, so my England/Scotland border would have border_weight=1, whilst border_weight would also be used for the borders between US states and German Länder; border_weight=10 would be used for English parishes and French communes? Perhaps there is a more elegant solution, but if so I'm not seeing it. (could relations help?)

All week I was longing for some mapping, which I planned to do today.

After one month of OSM I've become suprisingly quick in mapping whole villages and so I decided that there was enough time to do all the footways in my chosen area as well. The roads were all done and I thought I knew the area quite well. But after entering the footways within on block (which I had surrounded twice) I got rapidly lost, weren't able to distinguish the ways and fled. What a shame!

Now I've uploaded all the ways and will come back later with a printout and some bread crumbs :-)

I also noticed that the temperatures have fallen rapidly these days and holding a pen without gloves is no fun at all.

BTW: The modeless JOSM is great. Now the aftermath takes only a fraction of the surveying time.

I thought it was about time I made a diary entry having started mapping back in April. My mapping is done with a Garmin Venture Cx mostly by bicycle, though also by foot and occasionally car. Most of my mapping has focussed on North west London / Hertfordshire borders with occasional excursions in the Midlands and North West Scotland. I have noticed a recent increase in the use of Yahoo imagery for mapping which led me to find the positive statements made about its use on the Wiki. I have therefore started to add some features using this imagery including parks and car parks. I entered the source for each of these features as 'Yahoo_imagery' though I am not certain that this is the correct procedure?

I've uploaded some GPS tracks from my Edge 305 following some local bridleways. I plan to map more once I've got the hang of editing!

Gibt es eigentlich igrendwo mal eine Anleitung, wie man machen muss, um seine Tracks bei OSM reinzubekommen?
Damit ich eine Anleitung, die auch das beschreibt, was wirklich da ist und nicht "Du musst auf den Button xxx klicken" - nur, dass es den Button gar nicht gibt und die Funktion in der Menüleiste auch nicht zu finden ist.

Eigentlich ist OSM ein Projekt, was ich jahrelang gesucht habe.
Nun habe ich es gefunden und kapiere, dass ich nichts kapiere und nach dem lesen der Doku noch viel weniger kapiere, weil ich Dinge tun soll, die gar nicht da sind.

And a preview option. No, I'm not volunteering to code either.

Godai2 - you can do formatting using standard HTML. Like this. (In fact, if you want your posting to show up properly on the RSS, it's best to put paragraph tags in, too.)

chilly - DavidJames is right. OSM trunk = UK primary A (green signs); OSM primary = UK non-primary A (black and white signs). Not immediately obvious, it's true, but then it's meant to be an international tagging system rather than just a UK one. The Highways Agency tend to call their roads "strategic" rather than "trunk" these days, anyway...