Mapping of the commercial area of West Perth, Australia is now done down to addresses. There is always improvements to be made but looking good. Also added some streets in the City West area north of the City West railway station and some features in King's Park in southern West Perth.

With the OSM data and data from over 1500 business the West Perth Business Map has been revised. The results can be seen at www.mineraldata.com.au/wp/. The application is produced using Map Publisher (sorry closed source). Hovering over the circles shows business details.

The business data is also accessible at www.mineraldata.com.au/wp_data/ use username "guest" and password "guest". The nice database front end is www.dadabik.org - a seemingly dead project that is actually just in hibernation. The geographic co-ordinates for each entry aren't available on the site but if anyone wants them just email me (david at mineraldata.com.au).

Both works are CC-by-sa.

osm.org/?lat=-31.94837&lon=115.84319&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF

Uploaded buildings, car parks from the West Perth Business Map. Required a fair amount of adjustment to get everything to sit in the right places. Will need a bit more and also some more tagging. Also a number of other lesser edits.

Now for building numbers and laneways.

Starting to look ok.

Have tried using JOSM on the Eeepc 701 netbook, seems to work nicely.

I mapped West Perth using the Eeepc based on street addresses, collecting business information in a openoffice spreadsheet. You can see the results at www.mineraldata.com.au under the West Perth Business Map section.

I think for taking down street numbers JOSM and the eeepc may not be the easiest method, the old pen and paper method with a print out of building outlines is probably easier and quicker.

However for recording a lot of business names (often long), bus stops, post offices, public phones car parks etc etc JOSM, wireless internet, livegps and a usbGPS might be a good and cheap setup. I have yet to try livegps but the usbGPS and internet connection would be optional as long as building outlines & address are already in OSM.

I also see that there is a wikipage on Asus Eee osm.wiki/Asus_EEE.

Would be curious to know if anyone has any success with a setup like this.

In my experience I found it do-able by cradling the eee in one arm and typing with the other!

Added some traffic signals, bus stops, rail crossings and a few other features in West Perth, Western Australia.

Car Parking seems to be the next logical addition. I will add these as polygons -- thus making it clear how much space they really take up! There is a fair amount of private parking and fee parking in West Perth. Looks like this is the scheme to use along with key=fee.
osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Additional_parking_types_for_amenity%3Dparking

Started reading the beginners guide and using JOSM (nice). Made a few edits and added the remaining post boxes in West Perth south of the railway line.

Also tried out the osm features in qgis by adding some parks in West Perth. I have all the data for the West Perth Business Map (www.mineraldta.com.au) in gis layers so qgis will make it much easier to upload this data. qgis 1.3 returned a python error when trying to upload but version 1.2 worked but the tags weren't uploaded....something to figure out...

I'm pretty impressed!

Today Mineral Data Services (owned by me) released the West Perth Business Map under the CC-by-sa License - see announcement below.

The map is located at www.mineraldata.com.au

***Announcement
Mineral Data Services would like to announce that today it has released the West Perth Business Map under the Creative Commons attribution share-alike License (CC-by-sa). This allows sharing and remixing of the work provided that attribution is given and derivative works are shared alike. See the link below or visit www.creativecommons.org for details.

Releasing the West Perth Business Map under creative commons is in line with Mineral Data Services motto of "liberating information".

The intention is to share the data contained in the West Perth Business Map with OpenStreetMap to give it a broader context.

Creative Commons License
West Perth Business Map by Mineral Data Services is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.