Just befor the news of the bing imagery came, I started mapping housenumbers. But when I heard the news, I stopped because it would be double work anyway.

And in Belgium, I've not met one company or government that donated something to OSM or made data public in general. I don't know how it comes. I guess they don't understand the benefits of "free", I think they only see it in the way of "giving away for free" and they aren't thinking about what they can get back from the community. So before bing, you could only map your own house with gps points.

I have bing imagery up to zoom level 18, which is far better than the old yahoo (which I could only use in the minumum zoom of potlatch).

I'm finally able to draw buildings and landuses which I can't go around. And I'm doing quite a few buildings:

osm.org/?lat=50.940768&lon=3.069552&zoom=18&layers=M

c'est avec mon android que je fais des traces. C'est l'android le moins cher (HTC tattoo) que j'ai trouvé. Le iPhone coûte trop pour moi.

bienvenu chez OSM
Happy mapping.

@Harry - For OSM routing on your android, try navit (you have to install the apk). It works ootb and is fully configurable, just the thing geeks like I (and maybe you) want. My current configuration is on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/3me7j0jT .

The rendering isn't so smooth as mapdroyd, but you can display a lot more OSM info.

misschien gaat het met een zuivere gps beter, maar met mijn android kan ik niet werken met handschoenen.

Nu zie ik de tracks. De tracks die je genomen hebt staan al op OSM, maar ze kunnen natuurlijk dienen voor extra precisie.

Zie je het ook zitten om de kaart echt aan te vullen? Als je dat ziet zitten, zend mij maar gerust een bericht, dan kan ik wat tips geven. Ik vrees dat ik dit dagboek bericht niet meer snel terug zal vinden. Als je het niet ziet zitten, tracks doneren is ook positief voor het project.

Bij ons sneeuwde het dit weekend, bij jullie ook?

En eerlijk gezegd, ik nou niet zo van mappen in de koude, mijn vingers bevriezen dan. Ik fiets en wandel wel graag in de koude, maar mappen is iets teveel gevraagd.

hmmmm, ik zie niets, kan het zijn dat er iets verkeerd gelopen is in het opslaan?

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The only reason I see to not change the license is because we will lose an amount of data. I don't know what amount yet, but OSM will certainly lose data.

Apart from that, I believe the ODBL is better suited than CC-BY-SA since CC-BY-SA is meant for creative works while in fact, OSM is not that creative. I's a database of facts.

That's a lot

how do you work with video mapping? do you use a plugin for JOSM? or do you just look at the time of your video and the time of your gpx file?

hmmm, I don't know about the phone book. I think it's on the grey edge of copyright violation. I don't know who owns the rights to it.

As for walking papers, I've used it, but only for a shopping street. That way I could add more information than I can include in a gpx file. If I'm noting only numbers (maybe a L or R to indicate the side), I can just as good use gpx.

Sorry, I forgot to put it in the post, it's in now.

yesterday, I worked on my home town: osm.org/?mlat=50.93779&mlon=3.06229&zoom=17&layers=M

and today in the city where I am during the midweek.

My method is to walk a street with my android in my hand, and stop at approx every 5th house (or every house if there's lot of space) and note the number with OSMtracker on a gpx track. Once home, the regular thing: downloading data with JOSM and editing the map with the gpx file.

Bedankt,

In Ieper kom ik jammer genoeg niet zo veel meer. Vroeger gingen wij daar vaak de zondag gaan wandelen, maar nu ik de zondag al naar Leuven moet vertrekken is er geen tijd meer voor.

Ik weet wel nog ongeveer hoe de streek er uit ziet, maar als je er niet komt, dan kan je geen gps data verzamelen om de kaart te verbeteren.

see this wiki page: osm.wiki/Key:access#Routing_restrictions

both keys are used:

oneway:bicycle=no AND
bicycle:oneway=no

but I think the fist is better.

Sorry to answer in english, I can read german, but I can't write it anymore, I have too mutch problems with all the conjugations.

If you use linux (it doesn't work on windows or mac yet), you can make your owne rendering with mkgmap. It's settings are rather simple and thus the rendering is not that great. I've used it to highlight the boundaries af a village together with the major roads in a lesson.

If you want to go more advanced, you can set up an osmarenderer service, but this will require a lot of hours making config files to get the rendering correct.

about searching the map, someone is making a better search engine which might get implemented into the OSM front page in the future. Take a look here: http://oegeo.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/a-better-search-field-for-openstreetmap/

Welcome to OSM, I hope you can contribute well to your region.

happy mapping

Walking papers can only work when about 80% of the streets is already mapped, it's good for noting names and POIs.

About the accuracy of the GPS. When I travel through an already mapped area (and I don't have time to map extra details), I put my gps tracing on. Afterwards, I compare the gpx trace with the map, if the difference is too big, I put the trace on OSM and I take the mean of all the public gps traces of that road.

That way, the roads get precise, even if no gps is accurate.