Wow, I needed half a year to create a Wiki-page describing the mapping-party I did with some pupils at the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium in Aschaffenburg.

Here it is (in german):
osm.wiki/Aschaffenburg/FDG-Aktion

(I thought it would be better to blog in english)

I'v been out on my bike yesterday to do some mapping north of Kleinostheim. First, everything went well and some tracks and "Towers of Power" have been mapped. Suddenly I realised that my laptop wasn't logging any longer so I went back the same way I came. It was a little frustrating but traces were good after all.
This time I really tried to use Merkaator (SVN head) to do the mapping stuff and I admit that I get along with it quite well. Once you really use the keyboard shortcuts mapping is done pretty fast. Just two things that I don't get yet: Why do nodes look just the same as trackpoints? (And why can I select trackpoints?) How do I delete tags of an object? Adding or modifying them is no problem at all, trying to delete a tag from a node was just not possible. Added a short note on the wiki: osm.wiki/Merkaartor_doc_0.12#Editing_tags_of_an_object

Later that day I added about 20 amenities and shops in Kleinostheim using Merkaartor. I was so annoyed that it didn't display icons for them that I switched to JOSM just to check. Not seeing an icon on a node in JOSM is not a problem at all because you can tell a node without tags, one with and trackpoints by the way they look. In Merkaartor they all just look the same.

At about 23:30 I wanted to go out again to draw a current WiFi-map using kismet and I ended up micro-mapping some stuff around my house. Few days earlier I read that GPSrs have best reception between 00:00 and 04:00 due to the amount of electrons in the ionosphere. I checked my GPS-software and it used 12!! sats for navigation. The sky was totally clear and it was cold but it was fun to map when you know the reception is so good. The Wifi-map was drawn nevertheless.

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So, nachdem ich schon über zwei Jahre dabei bin und das diary bisher nicht genutzt habe, fange ich hiermit mal damit an.
Gestern war ich einem Freund zwischen Ebersbach und Dornau Geocachen. Da wir leider erst gegen 16:00 Uhr los konnten wurde es dann auch bald dunkel so dass wir dann nicht mehr zum Final gekommen sind. Das Ganze hat sich aber landschaftlich auf jeden Fall gelohnt und schöne Traces gab es auch.
Dann habe ich heute bei Planet OpenStreetMap das diary von Daniel27 gefunden, der in Rimpar unterwegs war. Da musste ich doch gleich mal wieder Rimpar anschauen und mir ist aufgefallen, dass ich damals meine Traces von Rimpar gar nicht hochgeladen hatte, was ich dann aber gleich nachgeholt hab. Ich hab dann in Merkaartor noch ein bisschen das Mappen versucht, aber ich komme mit JOSM doch noch besser klar, was die Bedienung angeht (Auch wenn Merkaartor bei vielen Daten nicht soooo langsam ist wie JOSM)