Set out yesterday lunchtime with the intent of finishing off the London Borough of Camden. Instead, I got lost somewhere north of Hampstead Heath, so I only got the Camden/Haringey border finished, and not the borders with Barnet , Brent and Westminster. I think I'll attack the border from the other direction for my next attempt : I know that the A5 Edgware Road is the western border, so I can start from there.

About a third (the north-east quadrant) of the large village of Sawston south east of Cambridge completed today. Would have done more but I had yet another puncture. Every time I go out something seems to go wrong with my bike.Last week it was a broken saddle. So more of Sawston to follow another day.

I am starting the import of the missing sections of the West African coastline @ +-1am BST...

North of Namibia to Gabon. Libreville :-)

coastlines@firefishy.com

Grant

As I heard about OSM, I felt the need to try. Because I work with PC's a long time, this shouldn't be too difficult. But, as I'm trying now, it's not so easy either!

Completed Bungendore, Weetalabah and the Ridgeway streets today (NSW, Australia).
Having a great time doing this. Adding more to Queanbeyan daily.

Just finished tracing Airport Road, "way" #5055285, finishing the 70-plus mile route between Columbus, NM and El Paso, Texas. Yeah! Time for a beer.

i've carried
I-10 across your threshold, hope you and Phoenix can take it from there... that missing stretch might reappear as mysteriously as it disappeared, or someone (maybe i) may need to add it back...

I-10 between Deming and Las Cruces is starting to show up at some levels of zoom, including the default level! And I see somebody in Tucson has been mapping stuff there, so I'll just finish from Lordsburg to Tucson and hand off to them... progress!

I have created a short tutorial based on my experiences of using Maemo-mapper on the Nokia 770/N800 for creating and uploading OSM tracks.

You can find it here:
osm.wiki/index.php/Creating_a_track_with_Maemo-mapper

Just got back from a week staying with friends in Bydgoscsz, Poland, which is currently very bare on the map. Managed to get GPS tracks of the railway to Gdansk, along with some of the major routes around the area, in addition to a little city centre mapping. Will be experimenting with geotagged photos as notetakers for names etc. Have started uploading changes already.

Finally managed to do some mapping yesterday on my bike. I was quite pleased at how much I managed to do in the 5 or so minutes I had when going out to meet my sister. I got done what would've taken me 20 minutes by foot. Quite promising for future mapping trips.

As the bike is a folding mountain bike it had no trouble with a couple of steps I encountered when taking a 'short-cut.' Also as it folds it had no trouble fitting in the back of the car to get home at the end of the evening.

My next plan when I have a day spare is to take it on the train to Shrewsbury and get a couple of the cycle routes mapped. I think it's the NR71 that passes through the town along the river so should be a nice section to do.

I have finished tagging the portions of Interstates 80, 83, and 78 in Pennsylvania.

I have most of I-76 (aka the Pennsylvania Turnpike)finished, too. Hope to finish it up next week.

I think that only leaves I-79, I-90, and I-81, and all the interstates in PA will be done.

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just entered Interstate 10 from Las Cruces, NM to El Paso, TX for about the 5th time, tracing the Yahoo satellite imagery. sure hope it doesn't disappear this time...

London Borough of Islington done now. I may go and revisit the Crouch End area again at some point because I wasn't 100% satisfied with my survey there, but it's good enough.

As if to make up for this complexity, the border after this was easy: Hornsey Lane/Dartmouth Park Road/Brecknock Road/York Way, from Hornsey to King's Cross without really needing to turn.

So, that's 5 out of 33 boroughs!

ho hum...

...of traffic jam.

Last Wednesday, I was driving to Wacken Open Air - the World's biggest Heavy Metal Festival, situated near the village Wacken(http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=54.02362543046328&lon=9.37861261315626&zoom=14&layers=0B00F000) in the middle of nowhere in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Unfortunately, there had been massive rain the days before and the campgrounds where not accessible for cars, leading to a temporary shutdown of the main entrance and thus a massive traffic jam from the Motorway 23 to the Village.
(Which was also fun, at least for those not having to drive, because most people just started the festival on the road :-) )

Anyhow, the Joke is: Friends of us, who started 8 hours later, managed to circumvent the jam because they met a local Festival employee at a motorway restaurant and followed him through some "secret" unclassified and track roads.
The result was that we all arrived at the main entrance simultaneously.

So, if there had been good OSM coverage of the area(there was nothing and commercial routing software also didn't help), maybe we could also have saved some hours and went to sleep before sunrise that day. ;-)

Apart from this, it was a great Festival - I'll be there again next year and hope there will be some more coverage by that time.
(I've added some local roads and tracks now, but they only cover the two main routes from and to Wacken)

\m/

Find me on irc, #osm.se

Now supporting voice recording/playback of POI descriptions

Completed an outline of Googong dam (with Islands) a few days ago. I copied the method used on Lake Burley Griffin (good work whoever did that one!)

Completed Yass Road from the roundabout in Queanbeyan to the first roundabout at Brindabella Business park tonight.

In the next few days I should have Fairbairn complete, and with any luck, Brindabella Business Park too.

I've decided to ditch Potlatch and use JOSM full time now as it looks like the Potlatch author is making changes on the fly. What was with the change in line thickness a few days ago?? Now it's back to the way it was! Maybe I hit a wrong key or something?

Also, I did, and re-did, only to do again, the Googong dam way. I did it the first couple of times in Potlatch but some of the changes didn't stick after checking it 24 hours later. I was getting segments that weren't part of the dam's way, even though they were all created sequentially in the one sitting. Very strange. Finally resorted to JOSM in the end. I'll scream if the data is still broken next time I check it..