Thank you for sharing this.

I have been testing it for a couple of days and it turned out to be a great addition to my toolbox while mapping on the move.

There’s a few of them I wasn’t aware of.

Very nice. Thanks

Japan has a lot of bad data due to imports.

There was the big road alignment project launched in 2015 that had a good success and helped cleaned a lot but I know I’ve been realigning, combining short segments and reducing the number of points on straight roads for the past 2 years around the Nagasaki region, and I’m far from being done…

The task is huge.

Gros boulot. Bravo.

A contrario, pas bravo du tout a la SNCF…

My 2 cents: This were there is a difference between power users of OSM and general public usage.

Power users know about the potential of OSM, know its guts and know that the data is here to be used in any given service that is willing to use it.

Standard user on Internet wants to go to a certain place or find where a certain shop is located, so the user type on a search engine to have an answer, a direction. If people are introduced to OSM, first reaction I noticed is “ok but why OSM rather than google ?” If you somehow manage to explain why OSM is good, why it can be better than Gmaps, some of them are willing to give it a quick go. Most reactions I’ve heard to date is “the search engine is a bit weird, it never seems to find what I’m looking for”. Sometimes a simple post code change, typo error or whatever will not return anything, even if the data is actually here.

Power users will say: this is normal. Average Internet user will say: Gmaps is better.

Both of them can be considered as right depending on what you are looking for. The main problematic thing in my opinion is that OSM would not suffer attracting more contributors, or just users. The more users you have, the more likely the tool will be known, bringing other users, other contributors, etc etc. If, despite managing to bring a potential user to try OSM, you lose them because the tool is not usable, still in my opinion, you are losing much more than just an user since word of mouth can be very negative.

OSM introduced direction a while ago, this was a very positive thing in my opinion to encourage average users to use OSM. Not having an efficient search engine is somehow contradicting this idea.

I tend to agree on the Non-searchable = Non-existent

J'étais dans la même position que toi lorsque j'ai voulu acheter mon logger : trop de choix, wiki indigeste...
Bref, je m'y suis un peu plongé et j'ai finalement choisi un GlobalSat DG100
http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=85339

Aprés 4 mois d'utilisation, mon avis :

Le software livré est complètement anti-ergonomique mais il y a un software alternatif gratuit appelé DGmanager qui est très pratique d'utilisation, léger et sans installation :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dgmanager-net/

La précision du logger est correcte, l'autonomie est bonne (pour moi) et j'ai un jeu de pile rechargeable de rechange sur moi quand je pars pour de longues périodes, au cas où.
Il y a 3 fréquences d'enregistrements proposées (interchangeable par un bouton) que tu peux définir via le software.
Possibilité d'enregistrer en csv, gpx, kml (pour google map) et d'autres formats plus exotiques dont je ne me suis jamais servi :)

Au niveau des plus :
- abordable, j'ai eu le mien pour ~50€ hors frais de port.
- prise antenne extérieure
- bonne autonomie (piles rechargeables, donc possibilité d'avoir des rechanges)
- 3 fréquences d'enregistrements facilement personnalisables

Les moins :
- Le bouton on/off est un peu mal placé, dans un sac il arrive d'appuyer par erreur dessus et d'éteindre l'appareil. J'ai vu sur un forum quelqu'un qui avait collé une rondelle en plastique autour du bouton pour éviter d'appuyer par erreur.
- Pas de changement de fréquence d'enregistrement à la volée, il faut redémarrer l'appareil.

Mon avis : parfait pour moi.