Yahoo imagery (for background)has not enough zoom to allow me drawing over it. How can i add and edit the streets of my town if there is no proper satellital imagery background? i can't draw on an empty space.. so please help...
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Yahoo imagery (for background)has not enough zoom to allow me drawing over it. How can i add and edit the streets of my town if there is no proper satellital imagery background? i can't draw on an empty space.. so please help...
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Comment from Zartbitter on 8 June 2010 at 18:08
In my region the yahoo images are bad, too. You can't see borders of villages or streets. I had use my bike, car and my gps receiver.
Comment from lyx on 8 June 2010 at 18:09
The usual way would be to use a GPS enabled device (like e.g. a modern smartphone or a gps waylogger) to record GPS tracks while walking or driving along roads and then to draw over the tracks. As there are some streets mapped in Chilecito already, you could also interpolate (= guess) things that are not yet mapped in relation to those that are. Third possibility would be to ask your city government if they can release any map data they have for adding it to osm.
Comment from JohnSmith on 8 June 2010 at 19:35
@lyx you can get some non-smart phones that have GPS built in and use a j2me app to record your track, or instead of a fully fledged GPS device you can get cheaper USB/bluetooth devices that can talk to laptops/netbooks or phones that can handle the GPS information and record it.
Comment from JeF on 8 June 2010 at 19:56
ok... i have a cellphone with gps... anyone knows any android app that record my journey through the city? thanks
Comment from cliveb on 8 June 2010 at 20:44
I use a java app called Trekbuddy. There is also an Android version
Comment from cliveb on 8 June 2010 at 20:46
I use a java app called Trekbuddy. There is also an Android version
Comment from JeF on 8 June 2010 at 21:15
thanks! gonna check it out :D
Comment from Sanderd17 on 9 June 2010 at 07:40
I use openGpsTracker. This is a native android app.
Comment from Andrew Chadwick on 9 June 2010 at 09:38
@Sanderd17 OpenGPSTracker uses google maps tiles for its line display. That's too close to tracing from a proprietary source for me :(
@JeF Currently I use a combination of "GPS Logger" http://gpslogger.codeplex.com/ and "OSM Tracker for Android™" http://code.google.com/p/osmtracker-android/ to collect tracker data in GPX format for loading into JOSM (see the OSM wiki...). The situation hasn't changed much for me since I wrote http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-March/048790.html , although osmtracker-android now uses OSM layers for its background (when networked!)