welcom to OSM,
Happy mapping.

Welcome to OSM,
if you have any questions, ask them (via this, via the forum or via PM)

Happy mapping.

Yes, OSMTracker is good, the only problem is that it doesn't save data immediatly. When your phone crashes, all data is lost.

Therefore, I always use a backup: I put OpenGpsTracker on while I use OSMTracker to add info and POIs.

Test succeeded :P

Welcome at OSM,
Happy mapping

If you still need to draw the streets, you must use a GPS which tracks your movement. If the streets are drawn, you can use walking papers.

Het is een leuke hobby, soms wat verslaven, maar dat neem ik er graag bij.

Als je hulp wilt, dan moet je die maar vragen.

happy mapping.

What program/plugin do you use to sync the gpx track and the video file?

It's good. I wouldn't drop the shop link, it's good there, next to the donations.

Bienvenu chez OSM,

Je sais que Paris est très complète mais il y a quand même encore beaucoup des POIs a mettre en carte.

J'espère que vous aimez bien le monde des informations libre et que vous aidez OSM a compléter la carte.

Si vous avez des questions, vous pouvez toujours les poser.

Happy mapping, et excusez moi pour mon français, je suis flamand, pas francophone.

It seems navit can display tracks on offline vector maps. Didn't try that though.

http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Navit_on_n770/n800#Using_Tracks

osmand needs continiously internet connection. Open-gpstracker is a very good app, the data survived every hardwarecrash I had. That means: if I'm recording a gps track and the phone suddenly lock up due to RAM problems, all the data taken until then is saved. If such a thing happens with OSM-tracker, all data is lost, only the non-geotagged pictures remain. If you want to take notes, you'll better be of with OSM-tracker. Open-Gpstracker has problems with exporting all kinds of notes.

So my solution: use OSM-tracker to take notes and run Open-Gpstracker in the background to be sure you have the trace. A good thing android has multi tasking :p

BTW, if you like complete open software and data, both programs are free and if you want free navigation, try navit (search for the apk).

oh, misread, it's weird the other area doesn't show up green. Can't find a mistake.

This is a render error and seems to be known:

osm.wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dnature_reserve

You link doesn't show the green area though, here's the correct link:

osm.org/?lat=17.94313&lon=-62.81877&zoom=17

Do not edit the tags but contact someone of the rendering team.

Weet je hoe ik in contact kom met anderen? ik bekijk de geschiedenis van een gebied waar ik in bewerk en dan kijk ik wie er daar geen groot gebied bewerkt heeft, de grote gebieden zijn in de meeste gevallen botjes. Als ik mensen vind die mappen in mijn regio, dan maak ik ze "vriend".

Ik map niet in de buurt van aarschot, maar eind september kom ik naar leuven. Dat is niet zo ver van aarschot. Dus als je iets doet de zondag of in de werkweek, dan kom ik mss wel af.

Welkom bij OSM, happy mapping.

I don't remember if it was lit, but the serface was asfalt, do they sometimes use an other surface for speedways?

great text to read, I know that feeling, wanting to learn more about other mappers and I love reading personal stories.

Keep up the good work.

OK, that's only a stub, but I'll use that

>How long have you been using OSM?
I have been using OSM since I had my android phone a few months ago. On that platform, there are serveral apps that make use of OSM maps. When I tried those apps, I saw my street was only half mapped. So a few days later, I mapped the other half. That way I started editing OSM maps about 4 months ago.

>Approximately how often do you use and edit OSM?
Since that day, I use and edit OSM almost every day. If I have to be somewhere and I think this isn't yet in OSM, I fire up my tracking app and in the evening I take a look if those streets were already in OSM.

> What are your incentives for editing in OSM?
I want to provide an accurate map of the areas where I have to be a lot.

>What is your preferred method of attaining data to upload (e.g. GPS points, digitizing, uploading photographs)?
As said, I mostly use gpx tracks. When I ran out of GPX tracks, I try to correct easy "keep-right" errors (from the site keepright.ipax.at)

>Do you feel there is much disparity in the reliability of OSM data?
In my area, all OSM data is user-contributed, the Belgian government doesn't like sharing data. So there are no outdated sources and from time to time there is a contributer that tries to draw streets without data, those streets are quite fast corrected. So OSM data in my region is poor but reliable.

>If so, do you think this could be the result of the socio-economic dynamics of an area or the method of attaining data etc?
Explained in previous question.

Why spam? there's no link and I didn't know in my first OSM hors what the "diary" was, I thought it was something personal. It is possible Brian wants to save what locations he'll be working on.