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Posted by mcknut on 21 January 2008 in English.

Well, to catch up on two months of mapping... safe to say I got the bit south of Mather Avenue completed, though it didn't happen until the Sunday of the mapping party. Oh yes, and we had the Liverpool Mapping Party. That went really well, we were lucky to have quite a few experienced mappers present so we got loads done around the centre of Liverpool, but also stretching into Toxteth and Aigburth, and up to Everton.

Over the weekend I decided to finish off some bits that Grant (Firefishy) marked up after the mapping party. He'd added some roads coming off Garmoyle road in Wavertree, but hadn't added road names to them. I completed all the roads that came off Garmoyle road (including ones he hadn't mapped). Also a few more roads in the area. I then went a little further South and picked up some more roads around Greenbank. Unfortunately I missed another set of roads that Grant had mapped but not put names on North of Sefton Park but they should be easy enough to get when I'm passing sometime.

So, I've been looking at the map of Liverpool numerous times over the past few days and I've really been wondering how long can be left before all of Liverpool south of Edge Lane is finished. Granted there's a big chunk that needs mapping between Edge Lane and Picton Road, basically the whole of Wavertree needs mapping, and even when that's done, there's bits of Aigburth, Dingle, and even a little bit of Allerton that need doing. I can't help but thinking though that this all really shouldn't take too long. Unfortunately with the terrible weather we've been having I haven't been getting out mapping very much myself, similarly I don't think my Dad has been going out much either so that's definitely going to hold things up, but I'm really hoping that it won't be too long before we can say "South Liverpool is mapped". No way I'll put a timeframe on it though as I'll almost certainly get it wrong :-p

Location: Victoria Park, Old Swan, Liverpool, Liverpool City Region, England, L15 8JJ, United Kingdom
Posted by HaraldK on 20 January 2008 in English.

Unbelievable: I live here now for nearly two years and I thought I had explored every corner reachable by bike. But cycling around with the OSM map and with the goal to really cover everything shows how many way I just ignored until now because I thought it was a dead end or not very nice to cycle. The motivation to look around every corner is really quite different when out there with the GPS and tracking.-)

Location: Gerresheim, Stadtbezirk 7, Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, 40625, Germany

Moin,
Ich habe mich dazu entschieden, gemäß den OpenSource Regeln
"Release Early, Release Often " den Import von OpenGeoDB in OpenStreetMap an zu werden.
Er wurde heute um 18:16 Uhr gestartet und war um ca. 21:53 Uhr beendet.

Leider ist der Import von Relationen zum Teil fehlgeschalgen. Grund dafür ist vermutlich ein Bug im Zusammenspiel zwischen Josm und dem Import-Bot (oder ein Bug bei Josm). Ich habe mich deshalb dafür entschieden alle noch nicht hochgeladen Relationen aus dem Import zu entfernen und später zu ergänzen.

Bitte schaut Euch die daraus neu entstanden Orte an. Ich hoffe es ist nichts kapput gegangen, ansonsten bitte möglichst schnell melden, damit ich sehen kann, wie wir es wieder gerade biegen....

Kommentare (ich hoffe das es im Großen und Ganzen gefällt) dazu könnt Ihr auf die Webseite:

osm.wiki/index.php/User:OpenGeoDB

abegegeben.

Ich plane später weitere Abgleiche zwischen OpenGeoDB und OpenStreetmap, dazu muss aber erst das
Skript angepasst werden.

Gruß
Sven

OpenGeoDB Import is done

Hi,
Today from 17:16 UTC to 20:53 UTC OpenGeoDB was imported to OpenStreetMap.

Please have a look at the newly created data. I hope you enjoy the work. If there is corrupted data, please reporte soon. I have made a backup and hope that I could fix it.

There was a problem with a upload of some relations, so the relation part is not complete until now. I will fix it soon (=in the next month).

More Information about the import and comments can be found/added to the wiki-page:

osm.wiki/index.php/User:OpenGeoDB

I want to make more synchronisation between OpenGeoDB and OSM later.

Best Regards
Sven Anders

Posted by warwick on 19 January 2008 in English.

Nachdem ich hier bei openstreetmap.org schon länger angemeldet, aber nicht aktiv war, kommts jetzt doch endlich dazu! :)

DENN: Seit gestern hab ich ein Wintec WBT-201. Das musste ich natürlich sofort ausprobieren, die ersten Ergebnisse sind bereits in und um meine Heimatstadt Schwarzenbach an der Saale zu finden.

Insgesamt bin ich wirklich sehr zufrieden mit dem Teil, auch wenn ich noch recht wenig Erfahrung mit GPS hab.
Freu mich sehr darauf, in den nächsten Wochen und Monaten hier ein bisschen was beizutragen und die weißen Flecken auf der Karte etwas kleiner werden zu lassen :)

Freu mich auch über Kontakt zu anderen Mitstreitern hier in der Gegend (= Schwarzenbach/Saale bzw. auch Erlangen und Fürth, wo ich viel rumeier).

Bis denn
Johannes aka warwick

Location: Lamitzmühle, Schwingen, Schwarzenbach a.d.Saale, Landkreis Hof, Bavaria, 95126, Germany

Thursday: first mapping expedition for a while, but needed to get out of the house despite the poor weather.

There was a gap in the Duxford area along the A505 between Whittlesford and Fowlmere which encompasses the Imperial War Museum complex (not all of which is accessible), and a surprising amount of housing, some new, which is actually part of Duxford. Went a bit further west to capture the hamlet of Crishall Grange, Thriplow public waste recycling centre, and pet cemetery.

Then the weather cleared a bit so I headed south on my bike to Great Chesterford, which I've completed, and with a bit of time to spare for the train back, also did Little Chesterford.

Location: Great Chesterford, Uttlesford, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Posted by maning on 18 January 2008 in English.

The recent massive data loss around Metro Manila, Philippines has been reverted to previous state prior 20080116. Thanks to Ian's efforts for doing this.

Although I believe everything in OSM database can be reverted/recovered when this things happen, I do hope this incident, would highlight how easy it is to massively mess up any area (unintentional or not).

cheers,

maning

Location: Valencia, New Manila, 4th District, Quezon City, Eastern Manila District, Metro Manila, 1112, Philippines
Posted by RichardB on 17 January 2008 in English.

I think I can confidently say, I don't think I've missed a single road out of the main bit of Poynton in Cheshire, a fairly sizable village, although work remains on doing Higher Poynton and various connecting roads to other nearby places. My first area that I've managed to complete that doesn't have Yahoo! aerial imagery.

5 GPX files with a total of nearly 27,000 GPS points, nearly 7.5 hours of time gathering tracklogs, followed by a fair bit editing data.

I think I'll need to revisit to do several footpaths in the area and other features when it's a bit brighter in the evenings.

Location: Poynton-with-Worth, Poynton, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom
Posted by Brian Schimmel on 16 January 2008 in English.

There is a big number of possible combinations between hardware and software to help you mapping. Most people may have useful equipment without even knowing! You will see, it's not expensive to be a "pro mapper". I got all my GPS/Tracking/audio/photo equipment for a total of $120 on ebay. On top of this, it features a MP3 Player, radio, phone, internet browser, pocket lamp, alarm clock... :)

I've just compiled a list, which may also be used as a OSM shopping guide. It's located right here in the wiki. It definitely needs some spelling corrections, I'm not a native english speaker. When some of the chapters expand over time, it might be needed to exclude them into own articles, like this very exhaustive GPS Reviews list.

To make this complete, I'd like to point you to the list of tracking software in the wiki.

There are tons of other useful information in the wiki, have a closer look if you didn't already!