Next Sunday i'll be in Mantova (Italy) to be part of a conference about wikipedia and Africa The progect, named WikiAfrica, should "africanize" Wikipedia inserting or updating information about Africa.
In the session involving my presence we will talk about migrations so maybe i could talk about mapping efforts in Africa as the african people lack maps. I hope to talk about Openstreetmap and raise some interest about our project.

http://www.festivaletteratura.it/2007/programma_dett2007.php?day=9&month=9&year=2007&when=pomeriggio

The Isle of Man Mapping Party this weekend was a nice little success, with parts of Douglas being fleshed out by three of us, walking, biking and driving around the Island's capital. More info soon, once we've had a chance to finishing processing all the data we collected.

I think I found one of those intentional errors for copyright detection. as soon as rendered I will post figures. for the quirious, the Ohmstrasse in Dornach (near Munich, Germany) does not exist in google maps. it is labeled "Salzstrasse" instead.

Just collected my first trace a few days ago, driving from Bisley (Surrey, UK) to Pirbright, edited it and seen it appear on osmarender. Brilliant, I'm on the map! Now got to get the handlebar mount for my geko and I'm going to start doing Bisley.

I'm in Tel Aviv for work. I see there is some data for here, but only of main roads. I'd like to get some traces, but it can be hard to find the time on a brief visit. My best chance would be to collect data whilst riding taxis to the office, but does that work very well?

I'm slightly wary of arousing suspicion. This is a very security conscious place and they may not react well to a foreigner collecting that sort of information. Not that I plan to go near any sensitive areas.

You can now enter points of interest (POIs) in Potlatch - i.e. single nodes not connected to a way. These are good for towns, post boxes, peaks, pubs, etc. etc.

Just double-click to drop a point, then edit it exactly like you would a way.

After two weeks of vacation in Italy I've gathered lots of track data of Toscany which will keep me busy for a while.

Interestingly I found that my car navigation system with up-to-date data sometimes works terribly bad in Italy. I hit lots of streets and roundabouts that where not in the map. Between Bologna an Firence I even found parts of the Autostrada not in the map. So my navi quite often totally lost orientation.

For whatsoever reason, proprietary map data in Italy seems to be real bad. I felt the community based approach of OSM could do really good there, as local street changes might find there way into the database quicker.

Even thought Italy seems to be a great field of activity, OSM data in Italy is still quite rare. Hopefully OSM will find more supporters in Italy.

Best regards,
Andi

Just got back from a short break in Normandy. Expect the A16 and A28 autoroutes, and the link through Rouen to be on the slippy map soon. I've got the hang of drawing roundabouts anti-clockwise, and motorways with right-hand-driving.

I've finished adding the railway line from Cusco to Machu Picchu in Peru. There are a few gaps in it where my GPS lost signal due to the Andes and where there is no aerial photography to trace the gaps.

I've also added the west to east traced for the zig zag road up to Machu Picchu (I was say on one side of the bus and only had a signal in one direction).

And finally I've added the footpath the by-passes the zig zag road. I've only added the top of the path which was the bit we walked down when geocaching (we didn't find the cache but from the spoiler that the owner sent me I must have had my hand within an inch of it - we would have been first to find too).

Looking forward to Thursday now to see my work rendered by Mapnik.

Ignore my last message -- no need to trace! TIGER imports for the USA are restarting. Dave Hansen is the man to see about this.

osm.wiki/index.php/Tiger

I used his scripts and they work some with minor tweaks on Mac OS X.

They run quickly but its very memory intensive. I've modified them to be more friendly and now most data sets take "about 1 minute". The Big Ones still are a hog, but I'm working on that too.

If you have some Unix skills you can pull down the code, and convert any TIGER dataset you want and display in JOSM. For NYC, I've converted TIGER to OSM format and then uploaded it to a Garmin HCX. Looking GOOD! I walked all over Manhattan today and the match was great. (note: I did not upload the tiger data to the live OSM server)

I'll write up my changes, and a HOWTO later this weekend. If you are desperate to play with this, send me a note.

--nickg
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nokia 6230i and navibe gb732 and trekbuddy worked together for the first time, the trick was to add a new bluetooth-device in the nokia bt-menu

Sorry about that. The email is dave (ATSYMBOL) sr71 (DOT) net. See the dev mailing list for more info.

The TIGER import has restarted again. If you want data for New York City, just email Dave Hansen, the person who is doing the imports, at , and ask him to move New York up the queue.

Hello all, I just discovered OpenStreetMap.

Right now NYC coverage is non-existent with the exception of Broadway (which is interesting since it's the oldest street in NYC. It was modeled on the original footpaths the Native Americans used around 1500 A.D. or so).

One great thing about Manhattan is that its mostly a grid (with the exception of Wall Street and West Village), so rapid progress should be possible with Potlach. Tracing is fun!

I'm working on the Lower East Side of NYC, since that's where I live. I'm still getting the hang of the editor and options. Looks like I'll have to use JOSM to fix a misnamed way. Oops.

Comments welcome.

--nickg

I yesterday went to pick up an athlon cpu to see about fixing my sister's computer (complaining of l2 cache error). Got home, went to take the old one out and found it stuck. A quick 'google' and I discovered these ones are apparently soldered in place. Crap!

Anyway, cycled to station, caught train to Dudley Port, did a few roads around where the seller lives (conveniently a fairly small circle road with a few cul de sacs coming off it). Back to station, got back to Smethwick, turned on GPS, did a few roads round there, got home, plugged in memory card, found my last trace (Smethwick) was 0 bytes in total. Argh!

Luckily the NaviGPS can log to its own memory as well as the SD card. Quick fire up of laptop (windows) to copy and I had at least something, although not filtered as my usual traces are.

Fun day.

I've make a demand for Holux M-1000, that means I'll start participating Osm soon.

Ok, So I haven't figured out one-ways.
Turn restrictions seem to be an in-progress thing.
And JOSM is like looking at "the city by night".

I've looked through the wiki for further info on one ways, but no joy yet.

On the bright side, I've filled in lots of Sheppard Ave and Wilson. I have to figure out how to erase a way, because Finch Ave runs from where it really physically intersects Yonge Street along to the 401, parallel to Yonge. Trust me, it's not there, but I don't know how to fix it -- yet.

It seems that some roads are not very acurately mapped
in this area. Most are fine but some seem to come
of a map instead of a GPS. A few points I had to move
to match the (very exact and many) GPS-coordinates.

The tagging is fine but there are a lot of segments
with no way and ways with no name here.

Even though a fair bit of work around my local area has been done and it’s not such a void on the map, it looks as though Devon will have to be a bit a of ‘white area’ for a little while longer.

Due to other commitments, I’ve lost contact with my mapping partner (he makes sure my edits are correct otherwise, the map would be in a right state).

Hopefully, it won’t be long until I’m back in circulation even if I’ve got to get to grips with the editing myself!!!

Tested the waterway=riverbank tag, very nice rendering. Map much more readable after adding the main Nile banks around Khartoum city