OpenStreetMap
Made two(!) more trips to Hertford this weekend.
The first one was on Saturday when I did 25 miles approaching Hertford via Mangrove Lane and mapping pretty much everything south of the A414 before returning via the B1502 (during which descent I hit 30mph for the first time ;-)).
Having Monday off I took the train over to Hertford and did another 15 miles mapping the residential areas between the A414 and the A119 to the east of the town centre.
Filled the last remaining gap west of Cambridge and east of the A1198 with the parishes of Caldecote, Bourn, and Caxton, and also the little village of Longstowe on the way. A really bright, clear winter's day. Saw a kingfisher on the bridge in Caxton, just after recording Kingfisher Way.
Got a third GPS device in a short time (hopefully the last). Qstarz BT-Q1000 Logger. Log downloading over USB seems to work, kind of, using http://bt747.sourceforge.net
today, while broswing around the map I stumbled over a face smiling at me :-)
http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=35.76&lon=30.32&zoom=9&layers=0B00F000
... ist nicht schwer! Nachdem Diplomarbeit und Vorlieben auch in diesem Bereich liegen, musste ich ja auch dieses Projekt stoßen. Und nachdem Wikipedia schon bald 5 Jahre mein Begleiter ist, mach ich mal hier weiter. Fehlt nur noch der passende GPS-Logger, mal schauen was sich da machen lässt.
Jedenfalls gleich mal ein bißchen in Wien herumgepfuscht aber auch in der deutschen Heimat einige Fehler beseitigt, die Gegend meiner Ahnen scheint noch niemand befahren zu haben.
Well, it's beeb a while now and i've got myself a little kitted out, and been researching all sorts of stuff i know little about!
Here's the gps i'm using;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/BlueNEXT-Channel-Bluetooth-GPS-Receiver/dp/B000LU1VI4/ref=pd_bbs_4/203-2647220-1463132?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1194892179&sr=8-4
Seems ok so far, although given my nature of my involvement, i haven't done much mapping as yet.
So, i'm currently working out how to write a few things, namely;
-How to get a connection to the gps via bluetooth from the phone, so i can incorperate that sort of control into the app.
-Looking at the raw OSM data to try and get a simple representation of a v small part of a local area (storing the data on the phone having saved it via JOSM), even if that is just dots and line joined up! lol.
--> this will require developing a parser for it too
This is one to obtaining the data. The other being using the phone to download it, which i'd hope to have some form of implementation for by the end of the project.
I've aimed my project more at being a tool for further mapping for the moment, seeing the routing as a nice bonus if i can get it in there. Once i have the basic, display, show position etc i'll look more into that functionality.
Well, back to the research, coffee, food routine!
Don't get lost! ;-)
Da man ja nicht immer mit dem GPS-Empfäner rumlaufen möchte, habe ich mich alternativ nach anderen Quellen umgesehen: So habe ich auf Grundlage der Yahoo-Karten einige Wasserwege eingezeichnet. Kombiniert wurde dies mit etwas älteren Tracks, die (damals noch völlig zweckfrei - was man in seiner Freizeit so alles treibt...) bei Paddeltouren auf Ems und Werse entstanden sind.
Nach den eher schwierigen Messbedingungen im Münsteraner Stadtgebiet hab ich mir erst mal eine Auszeit auf dem Land gegönnt. In der Gegend südlich von Rheine habe ich diverse Tracks aufgezeichnet, die deutlich weniger gestört wurden. Da merkt man, wie locker Dörfer im Vergleich zur Stadt bebaut sind, Satelliten gibt's jederzeit noch und nöcher!
Angefangen habe ich mit der Vervollständigung "meines" Viertels in Münster zwischen Warendorfer Straße und Hafenstraße/Hansaring. In Innenstädten mit ihren zahlreichen Sonderregelungen bezüglich des Verkehrs lernt man den JOSM-Editor schnell in seiner ganzen Bandbreite zu nutzen. Blöd sind dagegen zumeist die GPS-Empfangsbedingungen in den engen Straßen, schnell bin ich deshalb dazu übergangen, Messungen an Kreuzungen vorzunehmen. Aber auch hier muss man manchmal recht lange stehen bleiben, bis man einen vernünftigen Empfang hat, was zahlreiche Passanten offenkundig seltsam finden. Irgendwann wird mal jemand die Polizei rufen... ;-)
Sunday November 11th I walked around the I.C.Frimu neighbourhood and mapped every little street that it's there.
On 8th of November I finished mapping the main roads of Galati.
Started survey of Boutonnet today. Doing the bit between Route de Mende and Pioch de Boutonnet
After I found the site I was instantly attracted by the idea. I'm planning to get myself an OpenMoko smartphone soon which will have a builtin GPS sensor. I expect OpenStreetMap to be a great companion for the device, for mapping and navigation.
Yesterday Sebastian Spaeth (spaetz), Christopher Schmidt (crschmidt) and I set up the new server that will host the tiles@home project to relieve the dev server.
It's a nice machine with lots of fast storage, so currently we're seeing a speedup of at least factor 2. The actual speed increase is difficult to see, because the currently running clients do not manage to keep the queue to any significant length, so if you have a tiles@home upload account, update your client to the newest revision and start rendering!
There are some small issues still, like there is no fall-through to the old dev tiles yet, but nothing that would hinder normal rendering, and we're working on those so they should disappear soon.
as Steve Coast would say:
Have fun :)
Today I started to create the city map of Rauma (West coast of Finland).
There is a lot to do since I am quite alone here...
I've spent a few hours busying myself with tracing the roads from the NPE in Pembrokeshire that I know are still pretty much the same. It's filled out nicely. St Bride's peninsular is pretty much complete, it's almost all rural there, and I've been working north from Haverfordwest towards Fishguard.
I haven't lived there for a few years now, but I've visited a few times since, and I hope that my memory is as good as I think it is. If anyone else is mapping the area, I hope I haven't done anything too wrong.
Out in Pembrokeshire, the New Popular Edition WMS server really needs to reproject properly, since you have to re-align the image in JOSM with the grid every few hundred metres, because of the skew between the OSGB and WGS84
Mjd, to add to what everyone has already said, you can note that the current set of Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 maps of the UK treat A-roads in exactly the way that morwen (and others) have said. If they've got green signs, then they appear as green on OS landranger maps. If they've got black and white signs, then they appear as red on the map. That's exactly the same as OpenStreetMap has it.
And besides, when you survey a road, you have to actually go and visit it - for the GPS track or for the road name or number. What can be simpler than looking whether the sign has a green or white background whilst you're collecting your GPS track??
Hoy he mapeado la autopista A8 E70
Having finished Ware I set off for Hertford along NCN61 this weekend, capturing the route from the A10 (where I left it when doing Ware) on to Hertford, through the town centre and out the far side on the Cole Green Way. As the Cole Green Way has already been done I stopped there and returned to Hertford.
Still having a few hours of daylight on my hands I surveyed the centre of Hertford, and the residential areas out towards the A10 between the Lea and the A119, as well as Folly Island.
A lot of Hertford has actually already been traced by somebody, but it's fairly roughly done and lots of streets don't have names so there is plenty more work to be done to complete it!
NCN61 should be complete from Rye House all the way round to somewhere west of Cole Green now anyway - there is then a gap before we pick it up again just east of St Albans. So the Welwyn Garden City/Hatfield stretch needs a survey.
