Started tracing Campbell bushland fire trails and walking tracks

At last I have put aside some time to start work on the GPX files and information gleaned at the Edinburgh mapping party on 25th August 2007.

Its harder than I thought - the GPS was fairly inaccurate in the built up area around Canongate and the traces are way off. Tricky work trying to reconcile some of the existing ways with my notes.

I aim to do about an hours work at a time and gradually transfer the information from my handwritten scrawl onto JOSM.

Hi Mappers!
I just released the first official version of GeoRecorder, a small gtk-gstreamer-gpsd tool that records what you say into your microphone and stores the longitude, latitude and altitude of your current gps position into tags. Take a look at http://georecorder.silbermayr.at/

Completed the long-outstanding village of Bar Hill, near Cambridge, a dormitory overflow settlement built in the 1970's. Also discovered a link through to Lolworth which is otherwise inaccessible by bike as the only road is off the A14 which is a motorway in all but name. Introduced a new mapper to the project, we started off together doing Bar Hill.

Have been adding some highway segments, runways and town names.

Someone has only recently started importing PGS coastline data for iceland, but in some places it's incredibly inaccurate. Some large chunks of the south coast were marked "coastline" around the edges of farms, apparently the original source felt that the huge expanses of sand on our coast all counted as sea, even though they are a fairly permanent bit of land, and are steadily becoming more permanent now that grasses grow on them. The PGS coastline had the road well out to sea, and was obviously nowhere near the real beach/shoreline. I removed large chunks of it entirely. In other parts, the east for instance, I removed points until it went back outside the gps tracked roads.

Iceland Update:
I've added surface tags to the ring road in the east, based on a recent trip around there. I've finished filling in my tracklogs from my trip around the northeast as well, adding almost all of highway 85, and parts of all the towns on the way. (Húsavík, Kópasker, Raufahöfn, Þórshöfn, Vopnafjörður)
I've just about finished dual carriageway'ifying Kringlumyrabraut, miklabraut and sæbraut. Polish is improving, now just to keep filling in blanks, and getting more people involved! (I have no desire to drive around breiðholt and grafavogur collecting tracks ;)

Outstanding issues:
the surface=unpaved tag seems to have no affect on the rendering :(

Dear Diary!

This is my frist active day on open street maps. I collected some data over the weekend to have something to play around with. Now I tried to upload my data to the db and failed several times. My lent Garmin G72 doesn't produce the right output but after some fiddling around with GPSBabel I now at least can import that GPX file into JOSM.

That is the OSM Java Editor. The handling of it is a bit crappy. At least on my PC - might be because it's not too fast a machine. But it doesn't feel like home yet.

I digitzed my data and tried to categorieze and name the streets. I am not sure if everything is correct. But it will be a basis for future users. I hope my upload worked. JOSM confirmed to upload but there seems to be no way to preview my stuff before they rerender the map.

Then I checked out Potlatch. That is the OSM online flash editor. It looks nicer but isn't all too easy. You can use all functions with the same tool. I am sure that it's pretty useful when you know what you are doing.

A gps track I uploaded now says, "description lost" This corresponded with a day when there was a massive backlog of gpx tracks waiting to be uploaded.

All my uploads from prior to that date now have mangled descriptions, as if a latin1-utf8 conversion went badly.

I feel that the "status" of OSM is not well presented to the users. The "news blog" link on the left is very rarely updated, and I feel very in the dark about what's happening sometimes :(

Complete rail link from Macksville to Coffs Harbour. Using LanSat.

Have started mapping the CBD.
Have named some of the towns around the region.

The latest version of the OpenStreetMap software (API 0.5) is coming very soon - maybe as soon as a week and a half. There are two big changes, one of which requires action now.

Segments are being abolished. When the switchover happens, any segments which aren't already part of ways will each be turned into an individual way.

This affects you if you have drawn roads with segments (using JOSM) but not yet turned them into ways. A road which you have drawn with 20 segments, for example, will become 20 individual ways.

Before this happens, you should consider turning such 'runs of segments' into ways - making them easier to edit in the future.

== How to do this ==

In JOSM: use the TWays plugin, or do it manually

In Potlatch: enable unwayed segment display (on the prefs), then move to a corner on the pink lines, and press 'U' (details)

== Where to concentrate your efforts ==

Check your local area; check anywhere you're editing; and if you have some spare time, concentrate on one of the "hotspots" where there are many such unwayed segments.

neither in FF nor in IE, it requires a flash plugin which I of course do have.

I finally managed to add in the new M9 Spur joining the M9 to the A90, downgraded the A8000 to the B800 and tideded up the link roads.

Just wrote a small blog post about Openstreetmap and mashup ideas. See http://silwol.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/ideas-for-openstreetmap-mashups/ and add your own ideas in the comments.

Today I have completed the primary way "B69". This way goes from Diepholz-Town to the motorway "A1". Between this points is my hometown Vechta...

In Vechta I have painted some ways in the south. I am just at the beginning...

Bend, OR

Ich freue mich auf das Hamburg-Treffen am 9. Oktober:

osm.wiki/index.php/Hamburger_Mappertreffen

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I have finished cleaning up the Island Glades area (make most ways conform more to the GPS track, named streets and make new streets). I am not from that area thus there are still some parts which I am not entirely sure of. You can go to the OSM main page and chose to look at osmarender (more frequently updated) layer using the plus sign at the right hand side of the page. Alternatively, here's the URL:

osm.org/?lat=5.391152566925179&lon=100.30088485682742&zoom=17&layers=0BF

Roads tagged with Unknown are the ones I do not know the names. The is still a road I haven't done connecting Jalan Besi to Jalan Tembaga. If you could provide me with the name of the road I will do it.

Also, these are some of the roads (or part of roads) missing from the map:

Jalan Tingkat Besi - Jalan Besi
Tingkat Besi 2
Lintang Besi - Tingkat Besi 2
Solok Besi
Solok Tembaga 4

(and lots more).

I've now added the Princes Frw (& Hwy) from Berwick to Nowa Nowa in far East Victoria. I'll need traces from someone else to continue to the NSW border. Adding some C class roads down towards the coast and local street data next.
Happy Mapping
Mike.