On holiday in Ireland between Carrick-on-Shannon and Upper Erne on a boat on the canal. So mapped the canal of course. A bit short on names because they don't have street names inquite the same way as towns, and I wasn't concentrating on mapping either.

On Sunday I had an equestrian vaulting demonstration near Shifnal. The location I was given was Wyke, near Telford. It's not far wrong, as Shifnal is near Telford. However, there is a Wyke and The Wyke just about 10 miles apart.

Searching Wyke, Telford on Goooooogle maps (and even Multimap) returns Wyke near Ironbridge. Which is where I went. By taxi. £14 later, I was in Wyke, near Telford. I soon learnt, by asking one of the locals, there was a riding centre at The Wyke, near Shifnal. Another expensive taxi ride later, I was there.

I finally arrived just in time (5 minutes to spare, enough to get changed and do a quick warm-up). The demo went very well.

OpenStreetMap would, of course, have returned (had they been in the database at the time) both Wyke and The Wyke for a search on Wyke, Telford. One point where I think we (will) have quite a useful feature above what Google does.

Thanks to Blackadder I've got presets working again. I had to add a line to my preferences with:

taggingpreset.sources=

Last night I tagged the ways I previously created in Ireland. I noticed that lots of place names appear around there now, but are not on the slippy. I assume that they were imported from somewhere such as Geonames.

I requested that 5 tiles be rerendered, but 2 of them was never rerendered and all my requests are ignored (not even queued)
http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/Browse/?x=2365&y=2356&z=12&layer=tile and
http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/Browse/?x=2366&y=2355&z=12&layer=tile

But it doesn't matter since none-one is using the POI editor AFAIK. Mapnik and Frankieandshadow (and gosmore) will catch up soon enough.

Using JOSM with the Validator plugin and spent the last 2 days fixing the 100 km stretch of freeway I had created a few days ago. Seems I'm the only person adding to Eastern Victoria, Australia.

Started adding to OpenStreetMap a few days ago and made mistake after mistake.

While riding I've been using User:jackchallen's Tapwave Zodiac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapwave_Zodiac instead of my Palm TX as the transflective display is far easier to see in daylight. Unfortunately the hardbuttons on the Tapwave are easier to press accidentally, exiting cotoGPS or turning the device off. I've lost a few tracks by the buttons being press just from movement in my backpack, which is very annoying. Putting the Tapwave in a hard case stops it happening.

From playing with CetusGPS it seems that app. wont respond to button presses while in tracking mode, only to a specific screen tap, which is exactly the right behaviour for a being used as a datalogger.

The only thing I need now is a program that will display maps, trekbuddy (running under IBM J9 java VM) would be ideal but it causes PalmOS to reset :/

Sunday was easier: residential roads around Kingston Gorse and Ferring with my wife. The basic shape of the major roads and a few paths around that are is now done.

I did a fair amount of biking (20-25 miles) on Saturday and Sunday, some of it with User:jackchallen and my sister to fill in some bridleways and tracks around the Fittleworth, Sutton and Bignor area. Cycling up Bignor Hill is hard work.

Finished Arethusa Way and around the prison, and the track down to Bulhausen Farm. I guess I'm going to have to do the footpaths and bridleways next...

Today we spend some time cycling the streets of Brussels. We are very new to open street maps and have tried several things at the same time: load data, try several editors: JOSM, Meerkator, and editing through the potlach.

We would like to get in touch with people who would like to participate in more tracing events, because it seems to be a good way to learn how to use the system. Also we would welcome advanced user or even expert input ...
if you are interested in joining, or you can shed some lights on the more mysterious aspects of the art of open street mapping, please contact us!:
osmap AT constantvzw.com

Hey, das ist doch cool. So kann man sein GPS-System auch noch für weitere sinnvolle Zwecke einsetzen. Obwohl ich ein bischen enttäuscht bin, dass mein Wohnort noch gar keine Daten hatte - war ein weißer Fleck - habe ich mich mal gleich ins Auto gesetzt und bin die Umgehungsstraße gefahren, sozusagen als ersten Test. Und danach hat alles geklappt mit dem kartografieren, wie man sehen kann :-)

Na ja, es wird wahrscheinlich Jahre dauern, bis Vechta ganz erfaßt ist - aber irgendwann sollte man ja mal anfangen und später dann wird meine Arbeit von heute vielleicht jemandem nutzen.

I've just added my last track from my trip to Peru - a looped footpath walk from Pisac around the ruins and back to Pisac. The walk had an altitude difference of 1500ft so it was quite a walk.

We've got a common in Bisley now! And most of the roads on my route
to Oxford are there.

I can gladly be your guide around this huge city.

Somebody did a great job mapping the forests and tracks south of Munich, Germany (the area south of Taufkirchen) using Potlach alpha.

But, unfortunatelly she/he used wrong tags:

key = track

instead of

highway = track

So, the forests appear on the map, but not the tracks :-))

I started to *add* this missing tag using JOSM (now visible with Osmarender),
but I must confess: it's a lot of work to do.

When starting to map, please read the HowTo for choosing tags:

osm.wiki/index.php/Map_Key

otherwise your work could be in vain.

So, almost done with my first attempt at tracking and mapping my first road.

TODO: Finish the parking lots. Need to find out how to tag them as "PRIVATE".
Also need to add the pathways to the north and along the lower parking lot.
And perhaps the path from the corner of JCV-DrD and the lower parking lot.

Next: Add Ole Messelts vei and possibly some of the inner roads up there.

My little talk went down very well. I may have inspired one or two people to get involved.

Many thanks to Mr Chilton for sending me some of his presentation material.

Started uploading results of a trip to Abruzzo. Strange to be working in an areas that's a total blank canvas, as well as finding so many issues that are different from the ones I have with mapping in London. Above all how to use the gps when the best accuracy I ever get is 40m (so overlapping several streets!)

Yay, another new Potlatch!

The big change is when you access Potlatch by clicking 'edit' next to a GPS trace. Potlatch will now import the GPS trace ready for you, so you don't have to keep clicking the GPS button to see it. (Of course, you can still click the button to see other traces - your original trace will continue to be displayed.)

The catch in this is that it will only work with traces that haven't been compressed (gzip, bz2, or whatever). So it won't work if you've uploaded it as a .gz; and it won't work for old traces, because they get gzipped anyway to save space. I'm thinking about how to fix that.

There'll be more funky GPS stuff in the future, but that's for another time.

The little change (but one I think might be quite popular :) ) is that I fixed the tabbing order on keys and values. Plus, hopefully, the disappearing-elastic-band-when-panning issue should be fixed.