re osm.org/user/morb_au/diary/2012

Earlier today I tracked through the suburbs of Mitchelton, Oxford Park, Everton Hills and Albany Creek, in particular the parts of the Yahoo imagery that are neither aligned "well enough" nor have a constant error (and would otherwise benefit from the space+drag hack in Potlatch). GPS traces are already uploaded. I was going to just drive around to record the GPS tracks, but I couldn't help but stop every once in a while to note down street names.

I uploaded the first batch on route using some new fangled mobile phone internet thingy (-: and osmarender had already refreshed the area by the time I got back home. That's pretty cool.

Not so cool will be the tedious task of shifting the ways that were aligned to the Yahoo imagery to the truer alignment of the GPS tracks. The area in question has a mix of yahoo- and gpx-traced roads so it's difficult to automate. This will take a bit longer to show up in the map. However as I bonus I discovered various little recent housing developments, so they'll show up too.

Finally I think I already covered most of slice 6 in the upcoming Albany Creek mapping party already. (-: Didn't notice the diary entry until I got back...