I am continuing to fill in the Pennsylvania area, and also add footpaths around the Ludwell Valley Park, which is next to where I work in Pynes Hill. I have also found and corrected some errors in the central Exeter area.

Sent a message to Guy who has done a lot of Exeter. Hopefully we can co-ordinate our efforts to get Exeter completely mapped.

Slowly working on Gdańsk Oliwa i.e. northern part of the city. The main Grunwaldzka street with 3 lanes in each direction, two tram railways, bicycle path and whatnot will be tough. Some potlatch user filled most of it with one lane of unnamed primary road spanning from where it's known as Aleja Zwycięstwa up to the nearby city of Sopot. More than 10km-long single way in dense urban environment is too much.

Please, do divide your ways in manageable chunks.

My first try on my home in Kungsladugård, Gothenburg.
Added a small road, joined two roads and corrected the spelling of another. I don´t use GPS so I have to rely on the GPS-traces from other users and get some guidance of the aerial photos, they seem to coincide roughly with the GPS so I think I can trust it.

Just made a plugin for helping with user / authors.
http://geothings.net/osm/usertools.jar

plugin adds a new menu item to the top bar.
Select map data, show the author panel (alt-a), select a user from that panel.
Using the menu, click to open browser to open that user's profile page, for easy messaging, looking at traces etc
Using the menu, click to replace the map selection with all the selected user's map data.

todo:
Make it a right click menu for author table
Add a show user panel button
list all users in data

suggestions welcome.

source:
http://geothings.net/osm/usertools.tar.gz

This time I took my digicam along (I don't one a photo mobile:-). That makes it much easier to record street names. Just mark a waypoint and take a photo. The two are trivially synchronized by time.

If Josm would make the timestamps in the GPX file available for display, I would not even have to enter waypoints on the GPS device.

The question is, of course: why does the @!#$#@$ GPS device not have a camera, or an MP3-recorder, or both?-(

Anyway, the camera solution is not too bad.

I think I'm getting the hang of JOSM now. I've tidied up all my untagged roads and fixed up all the outstanding cross-overs. I think I'm beginning to understand where I should differentiate between highway=unclassified and =residential and =service.

Blaat

On Holiday in Brisbane. Mapping the places I visit. Not used to mapping where so much is already done by others. I am the only mapper in Hobart. "Bumped into" morb_au's work and had a chat as a result which was nice.

Uzzīmēts Upesciems, kā arī Ziemeļnieki, Padebeši u.c. sīkciemi tajā rajonā

Uzzīmēju Langstiņus pilnībā, izņemot Sakaru ielu - nevaru pagaidām saprast, kura no divām mašīnu nobrauktām sliedēm tā ir :)

Visas ielas cītīgi nobraukāju ar riteni- sanāca 17.3 km. Nav slikti priekš tāda maza ciemata.

Ein langer Spaziergang, um den restlichen Urlaub auszukosten, brachte mehr Informationen zu den Waldwegen nördlich von Winkel sowie dem westlichen Teil des Wittkopsweges ein. Die Aller ist auch etwas weniger kantig in dem Gebiet.

In Winkel sind ein paar Straßen südlich der Bahn dazugekommen, Ribbesbüttel hat auch ein wenig Kontur gewonnen.

So after three months of use, my NaviGPS GT-11 has stopped working shortly after Christmas. It seems the built-in battery is dead. I can't say I'm too happy with the product -- aside from the battery problem, GPS reception has also been less than convincing.

Even though it's too expensive, I'm considering getting a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx. Is it feasible to take an Etrex for a run?

Went around my home (Gerresheim center, B7, Rennbahnstraße, glider airfield, Knitkuhl, B7 and back) by bicycle with the new Garmin eTrex Legend HCx. A friend recommended this device despite cursing their proprietary software. It works anyway thanks to the people providing things like gpsbabel and mkmap. So, within a day I learned to use the GPS device, record tracks, upload tracks, edit maps with JOSM (needs further experience), download OSM files, use mkmap to produce garmin maps and upload them to the device.

All this works on Linux and seems to be easier even then setting up a printer directly hooked to the computer:-)

For JOSM I still need to find out a few bits: is it necessary for ways to share a point at a junction to enable real routing? What is the best way to deal with residential streets for which I don't remember the name (need to take a MP3 recorder along)? What is the best tagging for forest and field tracks that are well suited for cycling. This type of track is nearly unkown in England, so the UK biased tagging is not a perfect match.

Around Brisbane the Yahoo imagery cuts out around 152.90 E. Today I actually did some "old school" OSMming using the GPS directly - yep, getting out in the field.

Travels covered Samford Road / Mount Glorious Road (up to the range at Mount Nebo Road), which now has fairly high quality cartography (in particular the range climb west of the Goat Track).

Elsewhere I "fell off" the Brisway map west of Mount Samson village, so you'll *know* that I don't cheat (I haven't entered that in yet though, wait a few days...)!

Also up to Winn Road (which skirts the southern edge of the North Pine Dam reservoir). I met up with some of NealSchulz' work.

Hmmm, just got suggested by Google that this site might interest me. Google got it right, I think. First impressions are really good.

Today i submitted my first GPS trace.
I used a cheap USB-GPS-Mouse with GPSd to collect the trip.
My Laptop in the Backpack i walked the way home.
Converted the NMEA-dump to gpx and uploaded it.
While waiting till its accepted i wonder why so few people use tags for theyr uploads...

Traced Upper Lough Erne from Landsat (well, it's kind of middle Lough Erne).

Added Erneside shops, Asda, Tesco (you wait 20 years for a good supermarket then they build two at once, across the road from each other)

I will find my GPX tracks from the past and see what I can patch up.

Whilst in Enniskillen this Xmas I decided to do a bit more updating. I was pretty unhappy to find most of it's been deleted and reconstructed in a scrappy way based on random join-the-dots method.

Oh well, back to the drawing board. I have the A4 now mapped completely from the end of the M1 to Enniskillen island.

Time for some more fiddling.

I have now done some of Cottenham with Donald, a few tweaks in Ealing and a start on Great Gransden.

Obviously I'd like to see how the maps are rendered. There are various quirks in this area of course.

From the users' point of view OSM has a few obvious failings.

The search is horribly horribly slow. Why is this so ? Is somebody doing this or is there a position available ?

I have read somewhere that tiles that appear as "...more OSM coming soon" mean that a tile is being re-rendered.

What is wrong with displaying old tiles until their replacements are ready ?
If that cannot be done would it be wrong for the text to say "tile being rendered" instead ?

For user-facing layers displaying this text instead of a tile is wrong.

At the time of writing c.tile.openstreetmap.org is sick . In fact a typical tile requests produce the 3 byte text "nil" still with a Content-type of image/png so that's not right.

It looks like [abcd].tile.openstreetmap.org are the same machine and this seems to be a valid technique for making browsers request more in parallel (in the absence of pipelining) as they only do a few per hostname.

More generally I am interested in the policy for encouraging http cache-ability, while propagating updates when they are available at the same time as tracking the tiles of interest.

Neben einer Versuchsanstalt zur Einlagerung von Atommüll befindet sich auch die Ruine der größten mittelalterlichen Brug Norddeutschlands in der Asse südlich des Elms. Ein netter Geocache ist dort, und so waren ein paar Voraussetzungen erfüllt, um der Gegend einen Besuch abzustatten. Beim Kartieren fiel mir auf, daß die Gegend unglaublich spärlich kartiert ist. Wolfenbüttel als FH-Stadt hat kaum Straßen, und die Dörfer drumherum sind teilweise kaum angebunden. Die Straßenklassifikationen sind teilweise falsch. Ich habe ein wenig aufgeräumt, ein paar Straßen hinzugefügt.