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Posted by Sebastiaan on 2 January 2008 in English.

I set as a target to complete the northern part of the railway station area, as defined in the city's areas. Some minor paths still to go and some road names to fill in, but it looks already nice. Southern part also grew quite well.

Not bad for a 200.000 inhabitants city being blank 6 months ago..

Target for 2008: tidy up, check current area's and add 3 more area's to the map, starting in the east.

Location: Stationsbuurt Noord, Ghent, Gent, East Flanders, 9000, Belgium
Posted by I like cats on 1 January 2008 in English.

We drove up to Minehead on the north coast of Somerset, and started the South West Coast Path. This has been a project we have been wanting to do for a while, and now we have started, although we only walked out fro an hour and a half before having to turn back before getting caught in the dark.

There isn't much for Minehead on OSM so far, so my tracks will start to flesh it out a bit.

Posted by 80n on 1 January 2008 in English.

Virgin territory. I've laid down the first tracks in Panaji, Mapusa and the Fort Aguada areas.

The Fort Aguada peninsula is pretty complete. It's a large hill at the entrance to the Mandovi River. The whole peninsula was made into a defensive fort by the Portugese in 1610. I've tagged most of the fortifications except for one part which is in the grounds of a private home. These are visible on the Osmarender layer if you zoom in close enough.

It would be nice to get the coastlines uploaded as the whole area is currently flooded and coastlines would put a lot of the detail into a better perspective.

Location: Marquis Vaddo, Candolim, Sinquerim, Bardez, North Goa, Goa, 403515, India
Posted by I like cats on 31 December 2007 in English.

Went to visit some friends in Paignton yesterday and walked with them in the area around Stokeinteignhead. There are lots of small roads and footpaths there some of which are right in the tidal area of the river Teign, so mapping them puts them in the river.

The area between Paignton and Totnes could also do with some filling in, as can Paignton itself.

Today I did a small bike ride from Thorverton down to Stoke Canon and added some little side roads and tracks, as well as two named residential roads in Stoke Canon itself.

Posted by morwen on 31 December 2007 in English.

Did most of the missing bits of Leicester City Centre today, leaving only one or two minor cul-de-sacs to do within the inner ring-road. Also did the St Margaret's industrial estate between the ring-road and the river, and then the Tudor Road area.

My GPS reception was dreadful in the Duke Street area, so I've got the topology right but the positioning is going to be dreadful - a combination of quite tall buildings with narrow streets. This may warrant either proper surveying or someone with a better GPS re-doing it.

Location: Black Friars, Leicester, City of Leicester, England, LE3 5FH, United Kingdom

Sample tags is:
node id='-1' action='modify' visible='true' lat='6.305833' lon='125.291944'
tag k='is_in:country_code' v='ph'
tag k='is_in:state' v='Province of Sarangani'
tag k='place' v='town'
tag k='is_in:country' v='Philippines'
tag k='gns_classification' v='ADM2'
tag k='source' v='GNS'
tag k='name' v='Municipality of Malungon'
tag k='gns_uni' v='6720170'
node

Just uploaded to OSM +1500 city/town/municipality for the Philippines! The data came from geonet name server [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/] converted to an OSM file from a script by Mike Collinson (thanks Mike!). Uploaded using JOSM.

Sample tags is:









This will be my last upload for the year :). Can't wait to see it rendered by 2008!

Location: Dela Paz, Pasig Second District, Pasig, Eastern Manila District, Metro Manila, Philippines
Posted by Juha H on 31 December 2007 in English.

Tuli tänään käytyä Hyvinkäällä ja kun kyseisestä kaupungista ei ole kuin päätiet kartoitettu, niin otin mokkulan mukaan ja ajelin vähän pienempiä teitä talteen. Tällä hetkellä ei tosin aika riitä kartan piirtämiseen, mutta jos joku haluaa jeesata, niin se olisi hieno homma!

Varmaan talven aikana käyn useammankin kerran kyseisessä kaupungissa ja voin jatkossa ajella vähän eri reittejä talteen.

Posted by Ale_Zena_IT on 30 December 2007 in English.

Ad una decina di giorni dalla scoperta ed immediata registrazione al sito ho tracciato:

GENOVA: vie tra Marassi, San Fruttuoso, San Martino, Centro Storico (ma tracciare col GPS nei vicoli è quasi impossibile).
Molti POI (Point Of Interest) tra bancomat, distributori carburante, parcheggi.
Parecchi nomi di vie.

Chiavari: alcune strade principali e la strada verso Leivi.

Serravalle - Novi Ligure: parte della SS35bis ed alcune strade di Novi L.

Ale_Zena_IT

Posted by Mr_Israel on 30 December 2007 in English.

I looked yesterday on the Israeli Map and found out that there are not even all highways shown on the map.

So I started editing the map including the ways of gps logs of others.
I also changed the city Netanya to the right place.

Hope that I can get my GPS to log my driven ways to give more informations.

Location: Tel Asher, Sde Warburg, Drom HaSharon Regional Council, עיריית הוד השרוו -מחלקת הרווחה והשירותים החברתיים, Petah Tikva Subdistrict, Center District, 4465238, Israel
Posted by macAlba on 30 December 2007 in English.

Mapped another 20km east of Armidale along the Grafton Road, then down the Kempsey Road. Turned right off the Kempsey Road onto Raspberry Road, a State Forest road. Then right again down Halls Peak trail - a fire trail down to the Chandler River in Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. The latter is for four-wheel-drive vehicles (or walkers) *only*.

Location: Jeogla, Armidale Regional Council, New South Wales, 2350, Australia
Posted by zut on 29 December 2007 in English.

Nachdem ich schon den Tankumsee umrundet hatte, heute mal die echte Herausforderung: Leiferder Viehmoor und die Oker bei Meinersen. Da ist Intuition gefragt, und wenn jemand dahin kommt, kann er sehr gerne noch Meßwerte ergänzen. (Und mir einen Hinweis geben, wo genau der Cache Fischspaß sein soll).

Location: Ahnsen, Meinersen, Samtgemeinde Meinersen, Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, 38536, Germany
Posted by Brian Schimmel on 29 December 2007 in English.

I had some spare time, so I remembered I still had some GPX Trails from my last holliday on the island Mallorca. They fit very well with the data that's allready there, because by chance we drove exactly along those streets which were missing until now, so I could continue the dead ends that existed in the map.

Location: s'Illot-Cala Morlanda, Manacor, Llevant, Balearic Islands, 07687, Spain