OpenStreetMap
I moved back to Newcastle from Lismore yesterday and have already been out mapping!
I did a few new tracks in the Glenrock State Recreation Area and confirmed/corrected a few others. Bellbird Bridge geocache was found on the way too :).
Anyway, by now many of the changes should be uploaded from JOSM.
I've done some learning about multipolygon relations as there are some private property sections in the park. Hopefully they work...*crosses fingers*.
The area is getting quite complex with the large number of walking and cycling trails cris-crossing. Quite often 2 trails run so close together that GPS errors can cause the GPX tracks to overlap.
Anyway, I'd like to eventually have a high accuracy and high detail map of the park which can be printed and handed out or left in geocaches in order to increase the popularity of OSM.
Discussion
Comment from petdr on 4 August 2008 at 12:07
I did the tracks in Glenrock. It would be great if you could get a better fix for those tracks. I did them using a Garmin Etrex Legend, and the fix wasn't great a lot of the time. I also did the rest of the roads around the area, just using the yahoo imagery, also I used the imagery for getting the road down to the lagoon, so it might not be in the right place.
Comment from Biogenesis_ on 5 August 2008 at 07:51
I'd looked you up before, you certainly did a good chunk of the area!
The scout camp road was about 100m off towards the bottom end, so cycled down it to the entrance of the scout camp, after which it becomes private land.
A lot of the trails are difficult due to the sheer number of them. Lots of the intersections have multiple short cut tracks which make for a right mess of a gpx log. Not to worry though.
I've got a Legend HCx which maintains and excellent fix in bushland (not even taking it into the Grand Canyon (near Blackheath in the Blue Mountains) caused it to lose signal...it was pretty inaccurate though).
Was there any reason why you chose highway=cycleway for the wider tracks? I guess they are fairly borderline footway/track but cycleway causes them to render the same as, say, the Fernleigh track which is a significantly better surface. I guess we just need better paved/unpaved rendering.
Anyway, glad to have you make contact. There are so few Australian mappers that it feels like you're all alone most of the time.
Comment from SuborbitalPigeon on 6 August 2008 at 11:59
I've always thought that Lismore was a weeish island off of Oban on the west coast of Scotland.
Comment from Biogenesis_ on 6 August 2008 at 13:03
Yes yes, so we stole a lot of your place names. Or our founding fathers were lazy. Either way it makes googling for region specific things a pain sometimes.
Comment from petdr on 11 August 2008 at 13:21
I was up visiting my mum, and I wanted to have a map of the area so I didn't get lost, so I mapped the bits that I needed, and then uploaded them to my gps.
I marked all the tracks cycleway as I was using them as mtb tracks. So to me they were cycleways. I do wish the unpaved and paved tracks rendered differently because as you say there is a big difference between the fernleigh track and the paths in Glenrock.