Today I filled some known holes I had left the other day between my home and Knittkuhl along the sailing plane landing strip. Also I think I have Knittkuhl complete now. Finally I tracked three more streets off Bergische Landstraße. Strange place to live. The houses look very expensive and well taken care of, but they are a so close to the primary road that I cannot imagine sitting in the garden in summer --- except you like motor sports and feel fine with the constant noise of cars:-(

Towards the end, it got dark and I learned that a cheap digicam has more and more problems to picture our street signs. They are usually on a pole up 2.5 meters high, so you cannot get really close and the flash of the digicam is useless outside. But this will improve daily now anyway towards summer:-)

Vielä tämän vuoden voimassa oleva kunnanraja on viimein piirtynyt kartalle. Sain sen käyttööni Hämeenlinnan mittaustoimiston kautta.

Olin sitten tagittanut hieman väärin ja raja ei kartalle kovasta yrityksestä huolimatta piirtynyt. Onneksi eräs englantilainen kaveri huomasi että boundary=administrative tagissa administrativen perässä oli ylimääräinen välilyönti.

Sellaista se copy&paste joskus aiheuttaa :)

Fixed with Potlatch.

Today I went to the bicycle shop, albeit by car, in Unterbach. At least now there is a minimal roundtrip available for Unterbach. This trip also allowed me to completely connect Dreherstraße in Gerresheim.

Вече картата на София прилича на нещо което може да се ползва :)

Центъра е почти готов, остават няколко улици да се наименоват и посочат еднопосочните.

Дружба 1 е като цяло също готова, западните блокове не са нанесени.

И като цяло се забелязва нарастващ интерес към проекта, което е хубаво.

Приятно мапиране на всички.

Had a nice 5 day holiday in the Grampian Ranges last week and as well as getting several hikes in the area I also managed to get a few hundred kilometers of track data as well. I've just finished adding most of the roads in to OSM this evening and once I get back online with ADSL I'll upload the 25mb of gpx track logs I'd collected. I might use LandSat satellite photos to trace some of the lakes over the next few weeks when I'm getting bored.

1/2 mile to 12 cm.

Practice mode. Potlatch shift-click to add node. Quail Ct needs corrections. Most of the streets in this area need corrections.

Measurement reference for map with no scale: at zoom 15 1/2 mile = 12 cm on my monitor.

Since a few weeks I am actively mapping, and since then I seach for the optimal mapping effectivity. But it's not always easy...

In the beginning, I used mobile trail explorer, which has nice features, but completely stops recording when minimized.

My next try was GPS Track. It has nearly no features, but does record when minimized. As I told in my earlyer post there was some disappointment when I realized that it did not record timestamps, so I could not use it to geotag photos.

I now got a modified version of that software from User Sebastiaan which includes time. It does what it says, it records time along with the position. Thanks again for that!

But anyway, mapping by bike and photographing in these dark winter times does not fit together. To make a sharp photo, I have to stop completely, take a photo, and start again. Anyway, photos may get blurry and unusable. It just seems to be the wrong aproach.

So I tried to switch from photo- to audio-tagging. My phone (SE V600i) does not allow me to start a Java App while doing voice recording - but funnly it lets FIRST start the Java App, minimize it, and then start the voice record. I may record up to three hours nonstop, which should be enough for most days :)

Another problem just popped in: The data from GPS Track is very inaccurate when it is minimized (this is true for the original version as well as for the modified).

So I gave another try to Trek Buddy which I deleted from my phone because I didn't get it to work back than. Now I managed somehow, and it seems as if this might be the perfect choice: It has most of the features known from Mobile Trail Explorer, records perfectly even when minimized, and can save GPX as well as the raw NMEA data.

Finally, I can start riding throug the cities and talking to myself all the time!

(Just a test here: If html-hyperlinks work, what about italic, bold and

headings

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just back from a three-hours-night-cycling tour throug cologe.
First Ossendorf, later Vogelsang (translated: Birds-Voices or similar).
Some parts of Ossendorf already went throu the local media as beeing a ghetto, today i have been there, and yes, its pretty strage there. Too many 4-level-flats
packed too close together. And its going to e packed even further, construction is in progress.
osm.org/?lat=50.97232&lon=6.88459&zoom=16&layers=0BFT

There are two parts of Vogelsang, "Steinkauzweg" in the north, with 4-layer-flats, not too far from Ossendorf and the remaining - more posh part.
A huge uniform area. Long one-way-streets and dead-end-streets.
Yes, and everyone in this area at the end of a dead-end-stret has got motion-detector triggered lamps. One positive aspect: no nasty barking dogs.
osm.org/?lat=50.95843&lon=6.88416&zoom=15&layers=0BFT
Tracks and Map comming soon.

There were brights stars tonight and its getting warm.
Maybe i im wrong, but i renember some frogs making some noise at the dead end of some muddy cycle way. Spring is comming.

Oh, a stupid beginners question:
if there is a branch of one street, how do i map this?
Is it better to leave the side-arms un-labled or should i make it like this here "Erlenweg":
osm.org/?lat=50.96721&lon=6.89578&zoom=17&layers=0BFT

Wow! I draw some much thing!

I am learning... might help out more.

Hallo zusammen,
die Gegend um Ossendorf/Nippes ist bisher ziemlich spärlich kartografiert.
Dem werde ich mit Fahrrad und freundlicherweise vom Kollegen geliehenen GPS-Tracker abhelfen. Erster Test-Track im regnerischen Köln kam gestern, weitere Tracks der Gegend werden in den kommenden Tagen folgen.

Werden Schulen eigentlich auch in den Karten verzeichnet?
Und als was trage ich einen Knast in der Karte ein, aus der Not raus habe ich "Tourist Attraction" genommen.

Took a short cross country trip for our annual run/swim in Lorne Victoria, so fo course took the GPS with us, despite doing the journey numerous times before.

I just love ignoring it's directions!

found where Navman hides it's logs & in which format they are so Ive converted them via GPS Babel and I've been having fun updating the maps. Colac, Ballarat and our Sunday journey to St Arnaud allowed for lots of tracks to be added to the Victorian countryside.

I'm noticing a lot of the streets i've added ion Warrnambool havent appeared on the maps as yet... i guess not many people view my little town!?

I've also noticed that i've made a few mistakes there.... multiple/duplicated ways etc.... so i'm in the processs of tidying that data. And generating new roads...taking random turns on my journeys... nothing too systematic right now.

Quite enjoying the mapping...so while i'm enthusiastic...ill be as productive as i can be..it's sure not to last!

I spent an hour driving around the streets in the Sweetbrier Lane area of Heavitree on monday. None of the roads there were mapped. The large cemetery and Heavitree Park also need mapping - maybe I'll do that on the weekend, walking through each of them.

This evening I drove around some of the estates in Beacon Heath. There are a lot of footpaths joining the roads together, so it will require a revisit.

Added two ways missing in the Rheinwiesen despite someone else doing a lot around this area. Also completed Leostraße, which had a strang gap right in the middle.

Did some mapping on zettersfeld.

There's been a gap in the Teddington area for quite some time. The strip to the east of Bushy Park as far as the Thames was conspicuously incomplete.

Last Sunday the weather was really nice (for January) and so I made a 50Km cycle trip to fill in this area. All of Teddington to the south of the High Street is now complete. It also fully connects my area to the mapping that was done the other side of the river in Kingston as part of the first Fill The Gap mapping party.

So now there is a complete swathe of mapping from central London out to the M25 at Byfleet. A bit of infilling in the Surbiton / New Malden area to the south and Hanworth / Twickenham to the north would complete the whole section between the M3 and A3 right out to the M25.

So, I added road to my village Perovo from E-18 and connected Vyborg to E-18 by A-124. And draw some part of river Perovka.

Just for a laugh, I have opened my passing_places proposal to comments. Have fun.