Got a notice about an error nearby where I live, so when I had to go for a ride, I started my GPS to record a track. You can see it here:
osm.org/user/Anders%20Lund/traces/287044

To cover the three roads I wanted to, I had to drive three times, one time getting on to the highway. My Nokia N95 performed way better than I would have hoped and it was 'fun' to do.

Other than that, I have translated some more Wiki and fixing some errors reported at OpenStreetBug:
http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/

After my afternoon parking lot editing, I decided to start translating the FAQ to danish. So far I have copied the original FAQ and translated the headlines. The rest will have to wait for the weekend - and beyond! :)

The Danish FAQ:
osm.wiki/Dk:FAQ

Doing nothing on the first day of the year, I thought I would create some GPS traces for the nearby shopping mall's parking lot. It took me about 40 minutes to drive all the roads.

When I came home, I started adding the road information for the parking lot to OSM. I note about the parking lot, is that it have been renewed a year ago, so the Yahoo images where of limited use.

But how many details should one add? I mean - it's a parking lot! But then again, its a big one (for danish standards).

One thing I learned, was that I should have made some more small traces instead of the one big one i did. Some places, there are two levels of parking, just covering each other a little. Here it would have been nice, if I could turn the trace layers on and of in the editor.

Wow ... I think I have broken all my other records, regarding contributing to online projects. Well, I have multiple years of CPU time donated to various distributed projects, but not where I (me, myself) have spent so much time on making a project better.

Tonight I have helped translating some portions of the Wiki to Danish. This is my first translation job, so I hope that my fellow danes will accept my work. Otherwise, they can do it them self.

I have also spent some time reading on how to get better at map editing and tried installing Merkaartor a nice program, when you get to now its way to work. :)

Tried to view some of the corrections I made some days ago, I could not see them. Switching to the editor showed that the changes where there, but not on the "real" map.

After a brief search I found this FAQ:
osm.wiki/FAQ#I_have_just_made_some_changes_to_the_map._How_do_I_get_to_see_my_changes.3F
It opened my eyes to the next page:
osm.wiki/Tiles%40home

What? They have a distributed client, that is used to render the maps - or tiles as it's called. Cool! I saw that there where a nice Windows installer ... that failed. In the discussion, I saw that others had the same problem as I had. So I tried installing it manually, only to fail. Then I saw that there is a virtualbox download, where everying is (almost, you need to do one tiny thing to get it completely installed) installed:
osm.wiki/Virtual_Tiles%40Home

I downloaded the Ubuntu version, as it is the most current. Fast download via BitTorrent, quick setup with VirtualBox (that I have never used before). It got up and running real fast.

The way it works is like most other distributed projects:
- Client running at a users computer
- Server on insternet has job for client
- client download job from server
- client process the job (creating new tiles)
- client uploads result to server
- client waits for next job

I love distributed computing, but don't want to run it all the time. I'm on a notebook, that can get very noisy when it has to work 100% all the time. This is where tiles@home is great. I start it when I want to, let it run for some time and then shut it down. The work unites are quickly processed, so you will see the results quick.

I'm new here as an tracker, but created an account here about a year ago.
Recently moved and invested in a Tomtom GPS unit with Map Share, that lets you edit details about the map and upload it to Tomtom. Now I wanted to make some of these changes available to the OpenStreetMap project.

For the tracking purpose I use my Nokia N95 and the Nokia Sports Tracker application, that have GPX export functionality. This works great.

After tracking some small uncharted roads around my apartment, I started editing the OSM map. Some of the editing I have done evolve creating new roads, deleting some (on map, but no longer in reality) roads, changing one-way streets and types of roads, I now have a good sense of how it works.

Now I just need to find a navigation application for my N95, that uses OpenStreetMap. :-)