The eTrex Vista HCx is out, very annoying since I got my eTrex Vista Cx a wee while ago. Damn.

Continued from Granton/Boswall to West systematically working through Royston towards West Pilton and the bad lands.

Kept meeting a Police van and I could see they were suspicious but in fact the only problem was the wasp strike on the way home.

Got it all wayed and tagged even if I have one very bleary eye.

Much safer to use Potluck and the aerial images though judging by the potholes someone has left in Ferry Road at Pilton it may not be a way to achieve quality. I will get round to fixing it in a day or two if no one does it before.

I think this stuff is nearly as adictive for me as Spider Solitaire is to my better half.

The date of the Edinburgh Mapping party has been set as 25 and 26 August 2007. Please see osm.wiki/index.php/Edinburgh/MappingParty/2007-Q3 for more information.

Got round to exploring the darker recesses of Barnton and putting the streets on the map. I really wonder how the people whose houses border the cycleway got leave to build on what was originally a road leaving it a bit tight for two bikes meeting!

Must get time to fix Silverknowes Golf Club which has annexed a number of football pitches and a Community Woodland.

In order to get the maximum amount of data from each journey, I am currently using three GPS's simultaneously.

I'm using:
1. My orginal Garmin Etrex Legend
2. Maemo-Mapper running on a Nokia N770 with a Cellink BTG-7000 bluetooth GPS
3. Sports-Tracker running on a Nokia N95

Depending on the journey I may use one or all of them.

Comparison of the results shows the Cellink and N95 producing near identical traces, whereas the much older Etrex tends to deviate by a good margin especially under trees.

I live near North Petherton and Work in Chard, So I have collected loads of gpx traces for the route to work. It has expanded my knowledge of the local area no end as I've deviated away from the main roads and into the lanes on either side.

I also make a point of recording other journeys around the area including trips to Taunton, Bridgewater, Minehead and Exmoor.

My plan is that traces outside my local area are uploaded as public immediately and local traces will be made public after I have created the ways.

I've started to acquire and tag administrative borders. In addition to the complete polygon for Rutland in the DB, which was already there, there is now a complete polygon for Leicestershire (traced from NPE), and also one for the London Borough of Hackney. Tower Hamlets isn't far off, either.

For the London Borough of Hackney, I actually went out onto the streets, starting at Finsbury Park, where I know it touches Islington and Haringey, and walked the entire border, without reference to existing maps, merely by looking at street signs and dustbins and parking meters. It should be pretty accurate, except in a few places where the situation on the ground was confusing. Maybe I could do a follow-up expedition, knocking on people's doors and asking them who they pay their council tax to.

Most of the Inner London borough boundaries should be possible to get this way. In less urban areas, we'll have to rely a lot more on inferences though.

I've not tagged these as areas, but as stretches of boundarie, with the tag boundary=administrative, and then left:district, right:district, left:county, right:county as appropriate. You can fetch out the entire polygon for Hackney by looking for all the segments with left:district=Hackney or right:district=Hackney.

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Oaks Estate streets are done.
50% of Bungendore streets are done.
Carlton Estate streets are done.
Some of Queanbeyan is done.

I will be focusing on the rest of Bungendore, Captains Flat and stepping up effort for Queanbeyan mapping over the next few weeks.

I'm still trying to figure out what the "right" way is to do this. I've mapped the 409, but I'm not sure how to do the ramps, so only the main highway exists.
I'm a bit confused by the current data, because most big streets in the core are labeled "secondary" while similar streets in the east end are labeled primary.
Have to do a bit more digging on this; to figure out one-way labels and how some of the other things should be labeled.

Hi there,

I'll be mapping areas around Bunbury Western Australia and the South East of Perth

Overnight on Thursday to Friday I cycled the full length of the Forth and Clyde canal from Glasgow to the Carron Sea Lock, then from there home in Edinburgh.

I have now mapped the rest of the Forth and Clyde canal, with the main part of the towpath. Now the locks, and access routes to the towpath need to added. I'll leave that for the locals to do.

http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2007/07/cycling-glasgow-to-edinburgh.html

Since I upgraded my Kubuntu 6.10 to the Kubuntu 7.04 I can't manage to get gpsdrive to track.
I don't understand anything.
I tried to upgrade gpsd 2.33 to 2.34 : it doesn't help.
I played with all parameters of gpsd and gpsdrive and I just don't know what more to try.

That sucks !!!

Took a look at the road to SQ and Dalmeny from A90 to see how the cycle route was tagged. Found it wasn't so did some tidying and put in road number.
Moved on to have a look around Dalmeny and SQ as I lived there for 7 years or so.

Found Dalmeny well mapped except for Main Street having no name so fixed before going to follow main road to SQ.

Found that the person who did mapping had got out of step with his notes. So took a trip down memory lane and fixed as many as I could see were wrong.

Still learnt a few new techniques - its always good to see how others do things

Spent a merry afternoon riding along every road in the Troqueer and Broomlands area. Will be a lot of fun sorting it out with the street names noted in my usual scrawl.

Finished with a trip along the new Maxwellton Railway Path part of N7 though it comes into the town centre as N7, Byway, KM trail and CTC Glenkiln Loop. so that lot will be fun to tag

Hi - my first post! I've just started out mapping some areas in North Cardiff and before I get properly into it, wondered if someone could just take a look and check I'm doing things right - following conventions etc.

The two tiles I've been working in:

2011,1361
2012,1361

(I tried triggering a render, but it doesn't seem to have worked..?)

I've everything is ok, I'll get out this weekend and start filling in the gaps :o)

Hallo,
am Montag den 23. Juli habe ich das erste mal von OSM in einer Newsgroup gelesen. Da habe ich mich gleich angemeldet und begonnen meine Nachbarschaft zu Kartografieren. Lustige Sache dieses OSM. ;-)

Als GPS-Empfänger nutze ich ein Nokia N95. Dafür gibt's ein Tool namens "SportsTracker" mit dem sich Tracks als GPX-Datei ablegen lassen. Auf meinem PC (Kubuntu Linux) arbeite ich mit JOSM.

Mal sehen wie weit wir mit OSM kommen. Ich hab jedenfalls einen riesen Spaß dran gefunden.

Viele Grüße,
andwin

There is even faster and more fun to view
your mapping efforts!

Just download an ISO image (Live CD Linux) from : http://artem.dev.openstreetmap.org/files/osm-linux.iso

Burn a CD, boot and then from bash:

mapnik_at_work.py

(It'll prompt you to enter uk postcode or a bounding box. Press enter and enjoy you r data being fetched from live server and displayed in the viewer).

Have fun!

Hello,

all the tracks from my journey to Norway are uploaded. The problem with 2 of the gpx-files were that they had "%20" in their filenames. I suppose the '%'-sign is what is causing the trouble.

I also added some POI's for Norway, Normandy, Belgium, Germany, ... which I had stored in the POI-database of Maemo-mapper. Some examples maybe ...: Preikestolen (Norway), Pointe du hoc (Currently it is listed as Pointe de Hoc. Have to ceck it on a picture that I have and correct it if needed), Hotel in Germany, Ibis val druel-hotel in France, ...

Still more POI's to be uploaded normally ...

Greetings,

Michel

For those wondering, the easiest way to view your changes to the map quickly is to go to http://www.informationfreeway.org/. Press the plus in the upper-right corner and choose "tiles@home (direct)", 2nd entry. now you can zoom to level 12 and control-click any tile and it will get updated.

You can see if your tile has been rendered here: http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/Log/Requests/Recent/

You may then need to empty the browser cache to re-download the tile.