Spent last weekend staying in Wiveton Hall in Norfolk. Managed to get the coastal A149 completed westwards to Kings Lynn.

Oh look, a diary! Found 22/8/07.
Currently holiday-mapping on IOW but without the geo-hounds (who are on guard at home).

I am now in Stellenbosch, South [1] a family vacation. Have got a few traces and going to be doing some mapping around here.

[1] osm.org/?lat=-33.93529300000001&lon=18.859811999999998&zoom=13&layers=B0F

At the weekend I was in Leicester, and did Saffron Lane, and a few of the roads linking Wigston, Countesthorpe, Blaby and Cosby.

I finished the Camden polygon yesterday. The border within Regent's Park is not quite right, as I couldn't find anything on the ground to indicate the path it followed... Westminster next!

I need to obtain a bicycle for mapping with. Does anyone have suggestions? I don't want to spend all my time fiddling with it, so want something that is reliable and low-maintenance.

While on holiday in the Weymouth area last week I recorded some tracks that I have uploaded for public use.

Did a chunk of Þingholt this morning, and also continued parts of 105 and 104. Soo many tiny streets downtown though.

Might have to try and fill in vesturgata sometime this week. Still too much of reykjavik unmapped! Anyone reading this, feel free to edit the wiki to explain how to add borders for postcodes and cities.

Did my first bit of surveying this weekend, in my home town of Tonbridge, Kent. Learnt how to use JOSM and edited and uploaded to the database. I can't wait to see my results in the slippy map!

I'll be doing more surveying and improving the map of Tonbridge in the coming weeks and months.

Tarago streets are done. It's only half a dozen streets (or so), but it's actually a fair bit of work to do accurately!

Now that I've done Tarago, and all of the towns and estates between Bungendore and Queanbeyan, it's time to ramp up my efforts and complete a real challenge. Queanbeyan!

Friday afternoon completed surey of Meldreth and Melbourn, which means Cambridge is now completely linked to the Hertfordshre border and everything off the A10 between Cambridge and Royston is done.

Curiosities included a complete but shattered bell in Melbourn Science park; some gorgeous marrows for sale by the road side, and a little driveway with a notice "Tea Ladies Only"

i did a presentation in montreal in the afternoon about openstreetmaps to a group of ~12 people associated with FACiL.

w/ google you can find their page. my slides and a video of the presentation are available on the FACiL website.

I did about half an hour's work on an area, then pressed the delete layer button. Woops.

Surely JOSM should warn about deleting layers with modifications done to it?

I'm on holiday in south-west Ireland next week. The area does not seem to be mapped much. I shall certainly collect traces, but I may not be able to record all the road details.

In conjuction with FOSS4G 2007[1], we are organizing a mapping party[2] on the 22nd and 23rd of September in Victoria, BC, Canada[3]. Hope to see you there!

[1] http://www.foss4g2007.org/
[2] osm.wiki/index.php/Victoria_mapping_party
[3] osm.wiki/index.php/Canada:British_Columbia:Victoria

Lemminkäisenkuja is my first attempt at mapping street, a nice little one-way street right next to me. Unfortunately it seems either my data is a bit skewed, or the data for other streets is a bit messed up, it should line up with the end of Caloniuksenkatu.

The osm.wiki/index.php/London_Tube_Stations list is now complete!

I've set out to map my home town, Foster City, and use it as a means to create a better tutorial for data collection and editing.

The city has a fair number of attributes that make it a suitable crucible, including pedestrian/bike paths, undivided residential streets that suddenly change names or become divided, lagoons, parks, bridges, coastline (SF Bay), and a state highway that runs through it.

First tip: Setting my GPS tracklog to capture every 2 seconds seems to work well for capturing just the right amount of detail. It's just barely enough, for instance, to create a slight knot in the track at stop signs (so long as you're not making a California stop!), to aid in determining where to place a point in the intersections.

Though why I'm doing 105, not my home turf of 101 is beyond me.

This morning I drove a couple of missing streets in Teigur, found a completely new street in Holt, and drove the bulk of Tún and Norðurmýri. Ran into far too many sections of roadworks! Blocked me from filling the rest of Holt, with Brautarholt and Einholt being blocked off completely.

Debate question of the day, given the lack of street signs in the middle, where exactly does Langahlið turn into Nóatún? :)

Removed a few wayed, but unnamed, unconnected streets. What were they even there for? :(

Starting from Cricklewood, I managed to get a reasonable attempt at the Barnet/Camden border. The border here is quite different to other sections of border I've mapped, in that it rarely, if ever, seems to follow roads, instead apparently preferring to follow the line dividing people's back gardens. Tomorrow I'll go for a walk around Maida Vale, and should be able to finish off the Camden polygon.

Using the nifty new Zappy service, I discovered that someone had already added borders representing Kent to the database. As these were traced from the NPE map, however, this includes the old County of London/Kent border rather than the post-1965 Greater London/Kent boundary. The old County of London/Kent border is now the Greenwich/Bexley and Lewisham/Bromley border, so this is still pretty useful.

Well, just got back from my hols in France, and I got GPS traces of all the streets in the little village of Goulles (which is in the Limousin region), a little way south of Argentat (which is on the Dordogne).
I also noted all the street names that I could find, and so i've entered them into OSM.
OSM now has a better map of Goulles than Google. :)

One street I didn't get to drive down, but I think I've covered everything else, and labelled everything I drove down. (Otrateigur)

Found that for in town dedicated to OSM mapping, "auto"-"highest" is not the best setting. Going to try by time, every 2 seconds, should make for smoother roundabouts and intersections