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If osm.org did provide map tiles that the general public loved, we wouldn’t be able to stump up the infrastructure to be able to serve it to all the people who wanted to use it anyway.

So my view is it’s probably a helpful force to encourage the sort of farming-out-to-commercial-organizations that has to happen with tile serving.

“natural=scrub does the job but it is not natural, is it?”

But then again nothing is in England. It was almost all thick forest until humans came along.

Ahoy there.

Great to have someone on the ground in Bletchley. I did a good bit of the mapping around there from Bing imagery etc, but in the area you mention it was pretty unclear what was being built, what had already been built and what was no longer there. So I didn’t bother in many places. Hope you can clear all that up. :)

“will definetely have a look at FOSM”

Good luck with that.

Your data hasn’t actually been deleted, it’s been “redacted”. If you decide you do agree to the new license, it may be possible to restore your data at some point in the near future.

There are a few things you can do to improve reception - make sure the GPS has as good a view of the sky as possible, try to hold it in an orientation so that the GPS’s patch antenna parallel with the ground, try to go as near the centre of the street as possible… etc.

Putting it in a pocket and hoping for the best doesn’t usually get the best results.

(I’ve always considered making a hat with a strap for a gps on the top…)

Best named geographical area ever.

Cool.

I trust you okayed the license situation before you uploaded the data?

And no, that’s not me being sarcastic.

Pretty fascinating, dude.

Yeah, GPS in cities (especially with mobile phones) is… variable.

Either way, the VGPS-900 serves as a good “baseline” for the results to be had with a reasonably good receiver.

“The accuracy of the recorded aGPS data changes somewhere between 3m and 20m radius of the actual position in mid-town area”

Err.. in a mid-town area I wouldn’t expect significantly better accuracy from any consumer-level GPS device. No matter what it claims.

I have a bt747a, available on ebay for ~£25. No display, but can hold ~100k trackpoints at once. And plenty accurate enough (though accuracy is always a problem in highly built up urban areas). MTK chipset.

There are several similar variants available on ebay.

Looks good.

Interesting.

Would OSM be one of the only places with good coverage of mobile home parks in your area?

A great start.

If you’re not afraid of getting your hands dirty and have a garmin sat nav you can put the data on it yourself osm.wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin

Yeah, whatever dude.

Junctions are more important than sidewalks (to learn).

Sounds like one of the more interesting mapping projects.

And remember, we are able to revert your edit if you get something horribly wrong.

If you like, make an edit and then ask someone (either on your diary or in irc or help.openstreetmap.org) to check it out for sanity.