Progress continues naming streets in the city centre. Also identifying
the occasional street which had been missed to date.

Now we really belong to the rest of the country. Major highways in the area are nearly complete and quite a few small towns too.
Cycle work today to get some more traces in another area of town.

Since last tiles@home update there are Problems with Unicode rendering.
See:
Beijing:
http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=39.75820846018085&lon=116.57961649164565&zoom=9&layers=B000F000

Or in Laos:
http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=14.804513021757694&lon=106.78805367103163&zoom=9&layers=B000F000

I also tried to load the coastline data for South East Asia with JOSM - but no success.

Today I moved back over to East Belfast and noticed that the area between Ladas Drive and Castlereagh Road was looking very empty. So I added Orangefield Crescent and the streets off it, as well as the Alexander/Alanbrook Road. This reminds me of a Second Form Geography field trip when we had go round this area mapping out the streets and listing the various factories etc located there.

Further down towards the city centre I also added Nettlefield Primary School which I'd somehow missed when drawing all those streets a while back.

Thanks Morwen, RichardB. I'm still seeing roads rendered without casings and on top of nearby primary roads, which isn't great. I guess the casings will be sorted once people update rendering clients.

I'm quite glad to have pretty much finished that section now (using main roads to split areas into manageable bits). I think I'll start heading West/South, where I don't have to cycle as far to find dragons.

Today I took care of the E40, E314 and the N25 in the neighbourhood of greater Leuven. I've been rectifying it with help of the Yahoo! imagery, adding an extra lane to the E40 going to Brussels, that is there for a few years already now.

Thanks to Potlatch and the courtesy of Yahoo! I've been able to do a lot of work. For entering the gpx's I use JOSM and I like it. When there is Yahoo! imagery I like to make a second pass with Potlatch to make it all fit.

The last few weeks I found a new way to map: by bus. The advantage is your hands are free and you're out of the cold and the rain. The disadvantage: often it goes too fast. Most of the street signs are too far away or in the wrong angle to be readable. Anyway, I'm exploring relations to put the bus routes on OSM as well.

Usually I take the bus till the end point and then I map a few streets there until a bus goes back. Hopefully I won't get stuck one day/night, when no buses happen to go back anymore...

Anyway, I'm glad I found this project. Now I only need to be careful not to waste too much time with it. It's pretty addictive.

Saturday, warmed up for a bout of Christmas shopping by mapping a gap in national cycle route 23 through the centre of Basingstoke -- and then adding (a first draft) of some of Basingstoke's pedestrianised shopping areas.

The two large villages of Over and Willingham are on the outer edge of South Cambridgeshire, biunded by the River Ouse to the north. Over was partly done, but turned out not very well. There were several incorrect street names and there was a lot less done than I had thought from looking at the map. So I completed Over, and then did the rather larger village of Willingham, which had only the two through roads already present. The hamlet of Overcote is around the corner from Over on a long dead end road out to the river, where NPE marks a now long-gone ferry to the Pike & Eel pub on the other bank.

This is the first time I've encounteed any hostility mapping. I had a nasty man in maroon overalls threaten to set his dogs on me for having the presumption to come down his road, Mere Way in Willingham. And Willingham is completely swamped with cars - there's an unbeliveable amount of traffic for such a small village.

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Ive tracked some streets in Murska Sobota: Slomškova,Kocljeva, Lendavska, Cvetkova ulica. Corected track on Cankarjeva ulica and Ulica Juša Kramarja.

Whilst tidying up North Belfast, I also added the streets below Belfast Castle, and the road up to the castle itself. I'm not sure how best to tag the castle though. I've gone for historic=castle for now, but that doesn't quite seem to fit, as it's an active functional venue, rather than a 'historic' castle (like, say, Carrickfergus). Suggestions welcome.

This afternoon I filled in a lot of streets off the Ballysillan Road. Then I followed the Upper Cavehill Road up over the mountain, and the Hydepark Road round to Mallusk. Only the beginning of the Mallusk Road was mapped, so I extended it the whole way out to Templepatrick.

should be sorted now :)

I've also in the last couple of days added rendering for highway=pedestrian,area=yes (so plazas work); railway=abandoned,bridge=yes.

i'm going for canal locks next (that is ways with lock=yes, rather than the waterway=lock_gate proposal which is rather hard to implement). i know that the little arrows point against the flow, but should the way generally point downstream or upstream?

I've tidied up the M3->M2 stretch a little more. This is a hugely complex area with lots of roads meeting and splitting; flyovers, underpasses, and bridges; and railway lines thrown in for good measure. It's far from perfect yet, but I cleaned up a few of the more obvious mistakes, like the bridge extending too far, and the start of the M2 at the end of the Westlink being completely missing.

This morning I finished off the work I've been doing over the last few days around the Whitewell area. The Whitewell Road, Floral Road, Serpentine Road, along with most of the streets off them should all be filled in down to Gray's Lane. My memory of the area isn't good enough to fill in all the street names: I'll leave that for someone else to do.

I added lots more of the coast road from Whitehead up through Larne to near Ballycastle yesterday, thanks to the GPS which go way beyond the Yahoo imagery.

The new Yahoo hi-res imagery for Belfast also let me tidy up quite a few incomplete ways that were previous under cloud cover in East Belfast, and were difficult to make out on the previous imagery around Stranmillis.

The University Area around the Lisburn Road is still covered however, and there are no GPS traces for most of it. Hopefully someone will upload some, as I won't be back in Belfast for a few months.

Suurin osa Hätilää on nyt piirrelty kohdilleen. Tuli myös huomattua että Merkaartor on suhteellisen pätevä ohjelma siirtäessä gps-trackeja kartalle teiksi.

Pitää kuitenkin muistaa, että "osumatarkkuus" yhteen suuntaan ajetulla tiellä ei ole ihan paras mahdollinen. Korjaan teitä sitten ehkä myöhemmin :)

Today im tracking the main road from Turnišče to Murska Sobota.
Plus ive tracked the higway from Murska Sobota to Lipovci.
Edited today with road and street names.

23 Nov some streets to the East of March, paths along the Nene, route to Wimblington and Doddington

30 Nov some streets in northeast March, and droves north to Guyhirn to Thorney Toll.