Added some house numbers to local roads.

Did some tracing south of Brisbane

Did some tracing in Beaumont Hills, in the western subarbs of Sydney

Did some tracing in the area north of Gosford

Hi all

I upgraded to a Vista etrext HCX a while back, and have had an old yellow Garmin etrex 12 channel GPS sitting in the drawer doing nothing. I was going to stick it on ebay, but if there was someway I could contribute it to the openstreetmap project to help someone keen get mapping, I'd be happy to do so.

Does the project co-ordinate anything like this?

Cheers

Mike

Staying with friends in a place called Gesvres, west of Alencon, so having lots of friends driving round virgin openstreetmap territory. They also think this is quite an intersting thing to do, as opposed to the usual reaction of "You're doing what?.....Why?...."

Mick

Did some tracing from Yahoo around Airds and St Helen's Park, south of Sydney

Added loads more street names to the Streatham/Norbury area with my combination of 125cc trail bike, Garmin GPS and an iPhone to take the pictures.

It's great being able to load the geo-tagged pictures into JOSM along with the track, but I find that JOSM gets a bit confused if I take two pictures too close together (physically). Maybe it's the iPhone's dodgy GPS or it may be a problem with the JOSM geo-tagging plugin. Either way, it causes the photos to go out of step with the next one appearing where the last one was (if that makes sense).

Anyway, to get around it, I just make sure I take a good picture the first time every time!

Down side to all this setup when out OSM'ing, is I have to constantly leave one glove off to be able to get the iphone in and out of my pocket to take the pictures which could rule this out as an evening activity in the winter. Still, I may have all my local roads named by then 8-)

Cheers

Mike

First time I've done mapping using mainly just my iphone (and my motorbike). Just took a picture of each street name using the phone then went through them using Josm and the AgPifoJ plugin. Seems to work well enough, but I found that if I added them all at once in JOSM, I got really confused about exactly which was where. However, adding them one by one made a lot more sense (I also noticed that the photo icon stays grey until you click on it, when it turns red).

One odd thing, is that sometimes the photos often showed up at the last location I stopped. However, I think this may be more an iphone problem than a AgPifoJ one.

The webpage listing the unnamed streets is obviously invaluable doing something like this
http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/no-names/?zoom=16&lat=51.42933&lon=-0.10785&layers=0B000

Cheers

Mike

Went out this evening and grabbed some outstanding street names in Balham.

Also found a couple of streets not on there (must remember to go back and finish Bellasis Avenue off)

Mike

Added loads of new roads in the area around Galbally, which is just north of the Galtee Mountains.

Lots of the local main roads are already mapped, but everything else seems to be missing. Sadly, I'm only around for 2 days, and I'm going home tomorrow. However, I'll be back at Christmas and will do more if it's still the same.

Driving around collecting GPS traces has made an interesting change from updating Openstreetmap in London. After all, most roads there are done and it's all detail now (street names, one ways, etc). Over here, it's like a big blank canvas.

Mind you, the amount of times I headed up a side road following a road, only having to do a u-turn as I find myself in someone's yard. (Invariably, 3 or 4 men will be huddled over an car's engine, and all give me a very distrusting look as I turned the car round in front of them). On the plus side, I only once found myself in a dead end that I had to reverse out of.

Re-drew sections of the A27 along the South Coast which I can see via Yahoo tiles as it seems to be out by about 15-20'.

However, there are large sections that I can't see due to lack of low-level mapping or clouds. So, if there's anyone along the South Coase available to go over the route with a GPS, you'd probably be able to correct it all fairly easily

Cheers

Mike

Anyone know why a big square box has appeared off the north west coast of Scotland?

Also, while I'm asking, I'm curious as to why there are so many German people adding entries? Is the situation with maps the same in Germany as in the UK, ie, a government agency owns all the rights to the maps?

Cheers

Mike

Did a load of tracing around the Southern Sydney suburbs.

Traced a cemetery in Cuba and the Guantanamo Bay runway

Added in Holy Ghost Primary school in Balham

Disconnected the Millharbour/Marsh Wall Junction in the Isle of Dogs as it's currently a no-through road due to building works. Doesn't look like it'll be finished anytime soon, either.

Disconnected the Millharbour/Marsh Wall Junction in the Isle of Dogs as it's currently a no-through road due to building works. Doesn't look like it'll be finished anytime soon, either.

Added the Windmill pub on Clapham Common

My first update to openstreetmap. Saw that lots of my local roads were labelled incorrectly or not at all. Also joined up some roads.

Added some additional point of interest such as postboxes and pubs. Not quite sure what to put Balham Leisuire Centre down as on Elmfield Road, so just labelled it as a public_building.