2300 airports....?! That's insane man! We need an annual OSM Awards for the most active contributors.

Might see if Wikipedia has a list of pubs in my area...

Great choice on the HCx, mine has been very faithful for the last year.

Just be warned that the rubber around the outside edge will come un-glued if the unit gets too warm. Mine came off last Summer (after about 8 months of ownership, haven't bothered getting it repaired under warranty) but "stays on" so long as the weather doesn't warm up too much. Wouldn't want to trust the waterproofing anymore.

Other than that though it's an awesome unit.

And yes, I'm still waiting for somebody to start a local OSM'ers Anonymous group in my area.

I've noticed the same thing with the Mapnik layer. No idea what's happening, but the rapid (within the hour, generally) updates are really great.

Welcome to OpenStreetMap. Enjoy your addiction :). he he.

I'd noticed the crazy maplint around there and thought it was you! :p.

All in the name of experimentation eh? Did you re-submit those tiles to render (ctrl+click)?

Yeah, we're fighting for a greater number of coloured lines on OSM Mapper :p.

Welcome to the team :). It's nice to see more Australian mappers around the place, we're pretty thin on the ground for the most part.

MTB trails are one of the areas that OSM can excel above most other sources. Mainly because MTB trails shift and change a lot (basically after every big storm :p) and because the bulk of them are illegal, so commercial mapping companies don't have an interest in them. That, and they're not in council databases so they don't get caught up in mass imports when whereis/google/whatever gather their data.

Anyway, have fun :).

Oh, and at the rate we're both mapping we should meet up somewhere between Garden Suburb and Kotara.

Homebrew halogen headlights rock ;). Do you mind posting some info on exactly how you attached the battery? That's the one thing I always have trouble with and have resorted to things like throwing it in a backpack or lots of tie downs on the rear rack.

My lights are a bit beefier though, a 20W and a 50W for thrashing down the Fernleigh track at 30km/hr. 20W is fine for the streets. The 50W only lasts about 40mins on a 7.2Ah SLA though. It's a 10 degree or so, Lear and Smith electrical wholesalers stock them for ~$7.

Also, mapping during the day attracts a lot less attention ;).

Thanks for that! :).

It's weird how people stare sometimes.

Once I was mapping a very small coastal town called Port Albert in Victoria, Australia. Some guy who looked to be in his mid-60's flagged me down and gave me a stack of advice about how the street we were on stopped at a swamp/wetland but the name continued on the other side etc.

I just told him I was exploring, probably should have mentioned OSM but being an indoor nerd didn't have the guts :p.

There's a big difference from blurring out a single church/school/whatever building (which just screams "we like what's under this, we would be upset if you bombed here) and blurring out a military base. Basically the locations of military bases are fairly well known, but what the military tries to keep secret is the exact layout of the base. Where are the barracks, which building has the armory, where are the tanks parked, etc.

This was the issue with an attack on a friendly base in the middle east a year or so ago (can't remember details, sorry). The attacking force looked at the Google Maps imagery and was able to plan an attack based on what side of the base had the most interesting targets/least defense etc.

But yeah, blurring out a school which has a very widely known and published layout and location is just stupid.

Or you can use the Maplint layer to see which streets don't have names yet, that makes it much easier to plan mapping trips :).

I noticed this area coming together, nice work :).

The red street sign strongly reminds me or something in my youth, I suspect it's red glow in the dark stuff...gnarh, what was it? Probably tazos or something...It'll probably come to me in a dream tonight, but be forgotten in another dream by morning.

Perhaps you could ask in the osm-dev mailing list?

Other than that the only way I know of would be to download the largest chunks you could in JOSM, then do a selection based on all ways tagged with landuse=nature_reserve. That's how I added maxspeed=50 to every residential street in my hometown.

Good luck...Maybe you could borrow a machine with 16G of ram to do it :p.

Looks good :). A rubber band around the iPhone would be recommended so that it doesn't move side to side, but see how it goes.

Technically I was inspired by a similar GPS mount project on instructables.com as well.

Hmm, I'm currently suspecting a physical connector problem, as the photos I took are still there.

At least while I was working at DSE I steered many people away from Olympus cameras based on their lack of reliability (about 80% of camera service cases were Olympus) and their shocking optical quality.

JOSM has a built in feature that can play a continuous voice recording alongside a GPX log. I've never used it though, so can't provide much of a review.

On your new diary entry page (osm.org/user/Antwelm/diary/new) there are boxes at the bottom for the coordinates, but next to that is a link called "use map". That link brings up the main OSM map to browse, double clicking on the map causes a marker to appear, and for the coordinates to be filled in :).

Have you had a chance to test it yet? How'd it go?