I have just created a discussion on the Map Feature Page: route=hiking

osm.wiki/Talk:Tag:route%3Dhiking

It is about route-markers that guide the hiker along his route. Have a look and tell us what you think: Is it a good idea or should I cast it in the rubbish bin?

Last year while hiking in the Algarve, Portugal, I added a house with its name. Recently, I received this message from an observant contributor:

osm.org/message/read/581970

This is the pertinent changeset!

osm.org/changeset/41180155

by user

osm.org/user/Dreganius

This is his/hers only contribution to OSM!

Bearing in mind that the name of the house was visible from the track I was walking on and that the Bing imagery is far more explicit/detailed than my OSM entry and within the definition of public domain data, then I consider “Dreganius” act to be very petty indeed.

So, what should I do?

• nothing: What for?

• reverse the said changeset: Dreganius could consequently do more damage than this petty act.

• report Dreganius: And have him removed as a contributor. What would we gain?

I recently did a little work (for the first time) on a HOT task 892 in Africa. It was the simple task of adding highways between the settlements. Using Bing imagery we were ask to mark the settlements as landuse=residential and the connections between as highways.

Easy enough you may say and yes it was apart from some poor imagery.

However, paths of about 1 meter width were traced with a higher category even up to highway=unclassified

Tracks of one vehicle width were also traced as highway=unclassified

The highways connecting the settlements were attached to the perimeter of the landuse=residential. Routing would be impossible.

I abided by the HOT instructions and used the landuse=residential but most of the settlements were small homesteads similar to landuse=farmyard. The tag landuse=homestead would have been more appropriate but we don’t have it.

It was also mentioned that locals on the ground would clean up the OSM data after we OSMers left but is that not being a bit unreasonable. These homesteads don’t even have tap water let alone an internet connection.

I shudder to think I would have to use this data for routing!

osm.org/#map=12/26.9196/29.2374

How about: “A school for OSM newbies”

Does anyone know what has happened to http://walking-papers.org/ It has stopped responding.

The last print was 29 days ago!

Bitte um Vorschläge:

Für meine Deutschkenntnisse bitte ich in Voraus um Entschuldigung.

Sachstand:

Ich wohne in ein Kleinstadt mitten in Deutschland: Ein Stadt von keine Bedeutung, es sei dann, das Sie die Privileg gehabt hast, hier zu wohnen. Rheinbach ist in OSM weitgehend erfasst und braucht nur Pflege! Es kann immer verbessert werden! Soweit wie ich weiß werden in Rheinbach die OSM-Daten von keine Firma, Geschäfte, Stadtverwaltung oder Vereine verwendet.

Außer der amtliche Homepage (http://www.rheinbach.de/cms121/) gibt es eine private Homepage (http://www.rheinbacher.de/).

Letztes Jahr habe ich folgender Email an www.rheinbacher.de geschickt:

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Von: myemailadresse@***.de Datum: Montag, 30. Dezember 2013 17:14

An: theiremailadresse@***.de

Betreff: Vorschlag

GoTo http://oeffnungszeiten.ulmapi.de/

Das könnten Sie für Rheinbach auch tun. Daten sind vorhanden und kostenlos als ODbL Lizenz verfügbar. Software ist in GitHub veröffentlicht auch als . ODbL Lizenz (d.h.: kostenlos) Die Öffnungszeiten sind im Open Street Map Projekt. osm.org/#map=14/50.6267/6.9526 vorhanden.

Siehe auch:

http://map.f4-group.com/#lat=50.6250130&lon=6.9495826&zoom=18&camera.theta=64.817&camera.phi=-44.404

Falls Interesse vorhanden, stehe ich zur Verfügung!

DCP

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Vor zwei Tage habe ich folgenden Email von www.rheinbacher.de erhalten

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Guten Tag Herr DCP,

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I suppose we have all used the new “notes” feature either to clear up something or to point out to other contributors that something is “probably” wrong and should be surveyed. Up to now I have only added notes and not solved any other issues.

Well, today, I decided to do my little bit and try to solve a few “notes”, but I could not: Why?

My equipment comprises a Garmin GPSmap 60CSx for locating, tracking and noting waypoints of OSM pertinent POIs. I have a Samsung Galaxy installed with OSMAnd+, which I use for viewing OSM Data, dictation and picture taking. Nothing out of the ordinary then, you all have similar equipment.

So my first thought was to transfer the notes (coordinates and text) in text form to the Galaxy: I could not find a methode so I gave that up.

Ok, no problem, I thought. I’ll make a text list on paper, i.e. download the coordinates and notes in text form and then enter the coordinates into the Garmin manually: I could not find a methode so I gave that up.

The only methode that I can think of is to write the coordinates and notes manually to a piece of paper. In my case that would have been about 20 notes. I would then have to enter the coordinates of the first “note” into the Garmin and navigate to these said coordinates, solve note 1 and repeat for note 2,3,4…….20.

Needless to say I did not start. I gave up!

Now some of you out there may have a good idea of how to do it. I can’t program so I am looking for a simple solution: i.e. Create waypoints for the Garmin which can be tranferred either using MapSource or EasyGPS. I could then sequentially navigate to each “note”, solve the issue by reading the “note” text from a piece of paper or on my Galaxy:

Anybody got any ideas! How do you go about/solve “note”-problems?