The coast-to-coast powerline across the United States is now complete. Thanks to the mappers who contributed their part of the transcontinental line (AndrewBuck, asciiphil, bruck4, choess, Chris Bell in California, Gone a.k.a. Nakor, iandees, lyx, mario824, Minh Nguyen, neuhausr, OSchlüter, stucki1, Tronikon, Vid the Kid, Your Village Maps, zephyr)!

Each black dot represents a pylon, each red dot represents a pole, each yellow dot represents a substation.
White areas are still looking for active mappers, of course. The Gulf Coast is the next destination that needs a coast-to-coast connection.

Maps have been updated on:
osm.wiki/WikiProject_Power_networks/United_States

ITO Map shows power lines with voltage tags:
http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=4&lat=39.21897960807571&lon=-96.86002037316652&zoom=5

osm.org/browse/node/1044206354

On the German mailing list one mapper recently asked how to tag a dirt road:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2011-October/089483.html

There are many dirt roads with local importance which should be tagged as tertiary due to their importance, but also as track due to their road condition:

Let's take the Mosquito Pass in Colorado - it is a major connection between Fairplay and Leadville that looks like presented in these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOOzE2_qrNg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4owzKpG4JPU

I wish we had a tagging mechanism for dirt roads combining importance (highway=*) and road condition (tracktype=* or 4wd=easy/moderate/difficult).

Any suggestions?

As the elitist mailing list does not allow public answers, I am going to publish my answer here in the blog:

> > The contributor terms say "Subject to Section 3 and 4 below, You hereby
> > grant to OSMF a worldwide, royalty-free, blah blah blah".
> >
> > The one exception might be that OSMF choses the license under which data
> > is published (from the list under "one of the following..."), so
> > everyone else can *only* use the data under that license; whereas OSMF
> > could always use the data under *any* of the named licenses.
> >
> > Oh, and the other exception might be that OSMF can sue others for abuse
> > on your behalf. But again - is that a problem? Would you rather have the
> > sentence about suing for copyright violation removed from the CT, would
> > that be better?
> >
These terms are unacceptable for members who want to distribute their
contributions without any restrictions (public domain). Anybody who wants to
distribute HIS contributions without any restrictions (public domain) should
insist on three different wordings:

"Subject to Section 3 and 4 below, I hereby grant to ANYBODY a worldwide,
royalty-free, blah blah blah".

"only one of the following..." does not fit the personal intention to
distribute personal contributions without any restrictions (public domain)

"OSMF can sue others for abuse on your behalf" should be invalid for those
users who have clicked the Public domain button.

I suppose that roughly 100 contributors have declined because these
Contributor Terms do not enable a valid dedication into Public Domain.

OpenStreetMap ist und bleibt die aktuellste Straßenkarte: Heute habe ich drei neugebaute Straßen in Schwanewede eingetragen, die weder bei Navteq noch bei TeleAtlas vorhanden sind. Auch die staatlichen Vermessungsämter (NiedersachsenViewer) haben diese Straßen noch nicht eingetragen.

These newly built roads are not available at other map providers (Navteq, Niedersachsenviewer, TeleAtlas)

http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=8.59166&lat=53.24633&zoom=15

Each black dot represents a pylon, each yellow dot represents a substation node.
White areas are still looking for active mappers, of course.

Maps have been updated on:
osm.wiki/WikiProject_Power_networks/United_States

The powermap is updated on request:
http://toolserver.org/~osm/styles/?layers=B000F0FF0000F0FFF0000T&zoom=10&lat=41.8083&lon=-83.66106

Each black dot represents a pylon, each yellow dot represents a substation node.

osm.wiki/WikiProject_Power_networks/United_States

Unfortunately, reviewing power lines was not accepted as Project of the Month, so there are still many unreviewed power lines in the USA:

Each black dot represents a pylon, each yellow dot represents a substation.

It would be great if each mapper could add some pylons or substations to the map.

the number of illuminated streets is rapidly growing:
http://toolserver.org/~osm/styles/?zoom=2&lat=0&lon=0&layers=B000F0TF0000F0FFFF

Do you want to illuminate your street as well?
Just add lit=yes, if there is light (or lit=no, if there is no light)

After 140 years of continuous service, the railroad between Chicago and San Franscisco is visible on Openbusmap:

http://www.openbusmap.org/?zoom=4&lat=38.32982&lon=-102.78337&layers=BT

Hopefully, Openbusmap will encourage mappers to add new rail and bus lines as relations (type=route, route=bus/rail/subway/tram/trolleybus, ref=99, network=XXX).

Habe gerade in Burgdamm ein paar Gebäude und Hausnummern ergänzt.

osm.org/?lat=53.17609&lon=8.71808&zoom=15&layers=M

Heute habe ich mich - zum ersten Mal in diesem schneereichen Winter - wieder aufs Fahrrad gesetzt und habe den Bernhard-Minetti-Weg erfasst:

osm.org/user/FK270673/traces/634731

(ausnahmsweise sogar als identifizierbarer Track)

Auf der Karte sieht das Ganze dann so aus:

osm.org/?lat=53.237668&lon=8.800173&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF

Dadurch ist die Stadt Osterholz-Scharmbeck vollständig (100%) erfasst.

A small triangle of bad PGS coastline can damage miles of good NHD coastline:
Look at the triangle island in this map before it disappears from the map:

osm.org/?lat=36.202004&lon=-76.45625&zoom=18

If you zoom gradually from 18 to 11 you can see how much damage a little triangle can do.

In ganz Deutschland finde ich Anschlussgleise, die als Hauptbahn (rail) eingetragen sind, obwohl sie eigentlich nur als Anschlussgleis (spur) dienen.

Außerdem sehe ich, dass einige Museumsbahnen nicht als preserved, sondern als normale Bahnlinie (rail) eingetragen sind, obwohl sie höchstens einmal im Jahr befahren werden.

Es wäre schön, wenn jeder in seiner näheren Umgebung diese falschen Einträge korrigieren könnte.

Gruß FK270673

Today, internet access with German internet provider T-Online is really a problem for me.

I have tried to access the OSM server via IP (128.40.168.98), but the server didn't return even a ping signal.

Do you have similar problems? Is it intended to ignore ping signals?

Yours, FK270673

Worpswede hat jetzt auch einige Hausnummern (housenumbers).

Dank an Ebbe73 für das Wiederherstellen einer versehentlich gelöschten Kneipe.

Das Nordseebad Burhave ist mittlerweile auch in der Karte vertreten.

If you don't understand German, just look at the map.

Jetzt sind alle Straßen in Langen (bei Bremerhaven) drin.

In my opinion, mapping housenumbers is simply a madness.

However, I have started to add some housenumbers as well.

After having edited my diary, the language setting switches to English though my text remains German.

EDIT: Some hours later, I have added some lines to this entry AND I have tried to change language for THIS entry from English to German - nothing happened.

2nd EDIT: Removed comma between hours and later and changed blog entry language to German - without success.

FK270673