The park across the road from me was dug up for maintenance, and it's still out of action. I've been updating it on OSM as it changes, but I guess that's a benefit of living across the road.

I'd probably replace it with a highway=construction;access=no;, and keep an eye out for changes. :D

The problem is that I've deliberately set out to fetch these three street names twice now and I've still missed tagging one. I must have been really absent that day. :)

That's really odd, because none of the stations I've put in are rendering. That's both ways and areas, and I have absolutely no idea why. Here's a prime example with both a way and an area platform, neither are rendering.

Another thought: I don't think it's a good idea routing algorithms having to support an exhaustive list of tags when solutions like this can provide unambiguous hints. The sleepier I get, the more strongly I'm convinced this is a good idea. >_>

A routing programme should just say "go to station x", then let your brain do the rest.

I mean, if you've got a platform between you and your destination. I'm thinking in particular if there's a rail bridge only accessible from the platform and the platform itself isn't routeable (because the router doesn't understand railway=platform,) it may send you on a wild detour to the nearest routable railway crossing.

I've used railway=platform on this particular station, just added the extra tag for added semantics.

Yup, Im only using interpolation in the cases when I can't reconcile it with the satellite maps manually. I went out for a walk this afternoon, and collected some more numbers while I was out. I'll see how it goes.

To be honest I'm not sure what happened exactly. Someone definitely got to uploading before me, and that was the thing that messed it up initially, and after that I couldn't reconcile the differences.

It's okay, I took another two hours and re-did everything, in small increments. :) Figured something constructive was in order after a big sooky rant.

I know what you mean about the aches and pains, I'm still reeling from my trip out today. You reckon a handlebar riser (I'll have to Google that) can help prevent that? I'm guessing it's just some kind of extensiony bit.

Anyhow, good work; you're making some awesome progress out there. It's one of my medium term goals to set myself up in an obscure place like that and get some serious data done over a weekend or something.

I guess you're right, I've been doing some reading and I'm finding myself in a level of mathematics that's way over my head. I'd love to see some kind of advanced/magic hinting algorithm, but it sounds a bit outside the scope of JOSM at this point.

I might have another crack at little Banyo town and see if I can make it look any better now I've got more of a feel. It was an earlier OSM project of mine, and could probably do with a tidy anyway. :)

Sorry to disappoint. :)

the relations I'm trying to get jiving are in the lake, and the park in the wetlands. It looks like someone else might have fiddled with them, but I don't have the time to find out what happened at the moment.

Wow, that is looking quite good, isn't it?

You're going to end up finishing the place, and having to cycle further and further out to collect data. I'm not sure yet if that's an incentive or a demotivator. :-P

From whawt I'm understanding, it uses all of the APs which are in range regardless of whether you're connected or not. All FF needs to do is compare the SSIDs in your area with the ones in the central database and it can triangulate a location from that.

Check out Skyhook, which seems to be the benchmark for this thing.

That doesn't sound too good. Maybe you need to check out some more heavy duty equipment?

I guess I can't really comment though because I do most of my mapping on foot. That's the benefit of high density areas I guess.

Oh, rubbish yeah, I did bugger up one upload, I'll have to go over that. D:

I know what you mean, there's a whole heap of new developments on the north of Brisbane that aren't on the satellite maps. I've had a few field days mapping on the bike. :)

Have fun in any case, I'll keep an eye on your work.

Looking nice. It's good to get the difficult bit out of the way first I guess. :-P

Sorry, not JOSM, the WMS plugin rather.

There's a conflict with the version of gnome-web-photo that comes with Ubuntu 9.04. The solution is to compile a new version, which sounds more like a problem to me, so I haven't bothered with it yet. I'm hoping in time it will sort itself out. :)

Hello to you too. Just found this post in a vanity Google. Better late than never, right? :)

Hello to you too. Just found this post in a vanity Google. Better late than never, right? :)

That's a really, really hot map. For countries sans-elevation data, would it be practical to create some kind of estimation from the altitude data in uploaded gps traces?

I was thinking about this a little while ago, it would be especially useful for the cycle map in urban/suburban areas. I know I've been badly caught out on massive inclines because the cycle contours aren't all that distinguishable, at least. :)

Brilliant work though, you deserve a beer/preference. :)