...was what I thought seeing the NCN 57 sign outside Blackwells in Oxford (aren't I good? I went past Blackwells and didn't buy anything).

It goes to Chesham - to be precise, Chesham Underground station. Along the way there are some smashing traffic-free sections (such as the 'Phoenix Trail' railway track from Thame to Princes Risborough), some very tempting pubs, and as usual, some infeasibly steep hills. The one out of Great Missenden is one of only two on the NCN where I've had to get off and push - the other being the awesome climb out of Aberllefenni on Lon Las Cymru.

Along the way, there were two bent-round direction signs to right, and only one or two other places where the signage wasn't clear (mostly in Oxford, to be honest), which is quite good by usual NCN standards.

Obviously, having got to Chesham, I had to get back somehow: and (hoorah) it's Saturday, which means Rail Replacement Bus fun. So I cycled back (not on the NCN this time) to Haddenham, caught a train to Bicester, and then managed another five miles or so before dying and phoning Anna for a lift home.

Total 62 miles of tracks, which I might even map once the API wakes up.

Incidentally, Thame is rubbish for a lunch break. The fabulous butcher selling fabulous-looking steak, ale and Stilton pies won't heat them up; and the seemingly innocent Coronation chicken sandwich from the little bakery is now wreaking peculiar forms of vengeance on my digestive system.

Completed the town of Whaley Bridge (east of Stockport) last weekend, after being rained off heavily on two previous vists. More extensive than I thought and hard work on a bike, as it is on the edge of a steep hill.

The canal basin at Buxworth is interesting: where the transshipment used to happen between the tramway (now a cycleway) leading up to the stone quarries up in the hills and the Peak Forest Canal.

A nice day to be out on a bike yesterday, so completed a lot - the parishes of Comberton (a medium sized village) and Harlton, Great and Little Eversden, Kingston and Toft (all quite small).

For one month I created this page on my personal website ( http://fredericbonifas.free.fr/osm.html ), 3 people already pointed me errors in Lyon.
I don't know how they come on this page but they do, and the concept works.
An improved version of this could perhaps be implemented on the main osm website ?

Hi all,

I am using the Yahoo aerial photograph in Montpellier to add new roads and places in the city center. I would like to complete the pedestrian area in 2 weeks.
Feel free to comment.

Kimaidou

String vanished off my GPS today, complete with little holder bar. Does this count as a mapping accident? As I don't know how / when it happened, I guess not..

I've been helping the author with testing and suggesting improvements. He has been very helpful. It's gradually evolving into what I had wanted for an OSM mapping tool. It can use OSM tiles so you can see what is already mapped.

I have some issues with my position lagging behind my actual location. This may be due to my old Acer n35 being a bit slow, but he's looking at improving performance. I can run Tomtom and other GPS apps, so it should be possible.

My latest request is for more control over the rate of logging. I think that it should be dynamic, taking distance covered and change in heading into account. He's working on that too.

There's a page on the wiki for the application with a wish list.

I've begun most major roads on the island.

I'm amusing myself a bit by tracing the river that flows through my home town. I just did a stretch of 20km from the nearest city upstream and now I'm getting ready to do the same 20km downstream, where it merges with another river.

Is it OK to do this by using the photographic material from Yahoo? I don't see anybody who is going to use a kayak to trace the flow of a river like this, risking an expensive GPS unit.

Polyglot

- Changehistory, Es wäre schön, wenn es wie bei wikipedia eine Versionsgeschichte gäbe in der man sehen kann, welche Person wann welche Änderung gemacht hat.

- Ein Tool, welches die Straßentypen und andere Tags länderspezifisch einschränkt.
- Map Tool mit konfortablen Tag eingabe/korrektur
- Map Tool, welches die Grafik entsprächend den gestzten Tageigenschaften darstellt.

- Changehistory, Es wäre schön, wenn es wie bei wikipedia eine Versionsgeschichte gäbe in der man sehen kann, wer wann welche Änderung gemacht hat.

- Ein Tool, welches die Straßentypen und andere Tags länderspezifisch einschränkt.
- Map Tool mit konfortablen Tag eingabe/korrektur
- Map Tool, welches die Grafik entsprächend den gestzten Tageigenschaften darstellt.

Vcera jsem byl opet ve viskach na jih od Prahy, tak jsem si zapamatoval nektere nazvy ulic a pridal je. Zaroven jsem opravil chybne znaceni silnic druhe a treti tridy.

Hi,

I've been editing a bit on the maps of my city. I find that there are some inaccuracies between the lines representing the streets and the Yahoo imagery. Am I supposed/allowed to fix this? As it is now, the streets (Tiensestraat/Blijde Inkomststraat) cross over the rooftops of the houses...

Polyglot

New tramway rails in Lyon ? No problem, the mappers are behind the workers

GPSBabel seems to be able to extract dates correctly from my Garmin GPS72:
I set it to Garmin serial/USB protocol, COM1 and export "Tracks" into GPX XML.

http://www.prosa.dk/aktuelt/prosabladet/artikel/artikel/openstreetmap-kortlaegger-danmark-gratis/

Dnes jsem prosel plzen a udelal si schematicky planek ulic v okoli Klatovske a Americke a napsal si k nim jmena. Postupne to zanesu do mapy.

There's an 'Add as a friend' link on OSM profiles, but I can't see what benefit it's giving. It's obviously storing something as it tells me if I have already added them, but I would expect to have easy access to friends' diaries etc.

I've just completed Wamboin, NSW Australia streets.
Still working on Kurri Kurri (more surveying required!)

I notice people are creating ways without names in the Canberra area, especially Royalla and Deakin. Why bother creating a way if you don't have all the details? It means someone is going to have to revisit that map area in the future. Worse still is that people may think the area is complete - which it certainly is not if it is missing road names, etc.

Started tracing internal roads and paths in the Australian national Botanic Gardens (http://www.anbg.gov.au)