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Vandalismus/Dilettantismus in Gießen

Am einfachsten geht das sicherlich mit Potlatch: Drück' mal "U", dann kommen gelöschte Wege in Rot, die man durch Click auf das Schloss endgültig zurückholt. Weg Nummer 4548571 (http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/way/4548571/history) wurde übrigens von "friedemann2811" gelöscht.

Two weeks cycling and hiking with a Garmin Vista HCx

Regarding the elevation data: If setup correctly, the unit logs to GPX files on the memory card. You can access these by setting the unit to USB mass storage mode, for instance. Files like 20080615.gpx, and these include elevation data.

I don't think it's possible to store waypoints on the memory card, hence the limit. If only we could modify the software running on these...

By the way, I don't think you should expect problems uploading old data with JOSM. It should happily overwrite any changes that happened in the mean time. I believe the 0.6 API will change that.

Cheers
Rob

House names

I know there's problems with uploading GPX waypoints, but I've also heard Potlatch can edit them if you do manage to upload it. The thing is that the GPX upload is designed for tracklogs; in particular, it requires timestamps on the waypoints. I'm not sure whether a GPX with just timestamped waypoints will upload, or whether you have to convert to a route first.

Once you have it uploaded, you'll have to load the GPX file into Potlatch directly. This works through the "edit" link next to the GPX file in your *list* of GPS traces, not the "edit" link on the page of that GPX file. The URL is like osm.org/edit?gpx=123456.

Hope this helps, and if it does work, could you put this in the Wiki?

By the way, I do think adding this information is useful. Some people have started to add house numbers, as well. It's just a huge amount of work.

keine Mail

Ich habe bisher nur erfolgreich Tracks, keine Wegpunkte hochgeladen. Vielleicht das Problem?

Ansonsten: In Potlatch (Edit-Modus) gibt es einen Knopf, der alle GPS-Daten der Umgebung herunterlädt.

Was mich richtig ankotzt und warum ich jetzt Straßen löschen darf...

Meinst du übrigens sowas: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Eigentum_an_Artikeln ?

Was mich richtig ankotzt und warum ich jetzt Straßen löschen darf...

Ich meine das ganz ernst:

Wenn du der Meinung bist, deine Gegend kontrollieren zu müssen und niemand anderes dran lassen willst, wäre es sinnvoller, deinen eigenen Datenbestand zu pflegen. Am einfachsten mittels JOSM als einzelne .osm-Datei. Bei Bedarf kannst du die dann gelegentlich mit der OSM-Datenbank abgleichen.

Ich sehe jedenfalls nicht die Notwendigkeit, das Projekt durch unnötige Bürokratie auszubremsen. Ein vernünftiger Revert-Mechanismus (in Arbeit) wäre andererseits eine gute Sache.

Nebenbei: Über etwas schärfere Reaktionen solltest du dich kaum beschweren. Da lädt jemand Daten hoch, die es dir erlauben, der Karte zwei neue richtig gemappte Straßen (mit Namen und alles) zuzufügen ohne aus dem Haus zu gehen. Wohl kaum ein Grund, hier rumzu"kotz"en.

Was mich richtig ankotzt und warum ich jetzt Straßen löschen darf...

Die gesperrten Gebiete sind ja wohl ziemlich daneben. Mein Vorschlag wäre, deine eigene Karte außerhalb von OSM zu pflegen.

Change of street names

Are you using the "Edit" tab? If so:

The long road is probably just one way, which you'll have to cut into pieces.

Select the road, then select the node where you want to cut it, then click the scissors symbol. Repeat for the longer remaining part.

Now you can select each new way, and should be able to change the value of the name field.

Let me know if this doesn't work. See also osm.wiki/index.php/Potlatch/Primer

Cheers
Rob

Berlin cycle routes

It didn't save the map view: osm.org/?lat=52.5189&lon=13.5265&zoom=12&layers=00BFF

How can I contact an other user?

Regarding the area you're complaining about, it just looks incompletely mapped, no?

How can I contact an other user?

So drive down the streets on your bike and note the names down. It's what everybody else does (I hope). There is copyright on maps -- as I understand it copying a single street name is not a problem, but deriving some significant amount of our data from non-free maps (even if different people only add one name each) would be in conflict with copyright.

This should be explained very clearly in the wiki somewhere; unfortunately, I can't really find such a page... osm.wiki/index.php/Copyright

Aranjuez, Spain

lonvia,

thanks, great idea. I'll give it a try.

Cheers
Rob

Osnabrück

Siehe osm.wiki/index.php/Frida .

Gruß
Robert

(Aus versehen zunächst nicht als Kommentar.)

Updated "web" OSM "aware" (visualizing OSMers activity)

First off, I love the idea, even if I'm not getting much use out of it yet. Keep going!

Since you appear to know KML well, can you give me your opinion on the following idea:

I'd really like to view OSM data in Google Earth. The ruby osmlib can convert OSM to KML nicely (see osm.wiki/index.php/OSM_in_Google_Earth). Would it be feasible to use NetworkLinks and Regions with osmlib-generated KML tiles? I imagine running osmexport to generate KML tiles of different zoom levels similar to the way mapnik generates png tiles. That model should be able to scale to Google Earth users everywhere viewing OSM data, I hope.

Cheers
Robert

Tracks bereinigen

Ich habe unter osm.wiki/index.php/Editing_GPX_Tracks eine Wiki-Seite zum Thema angelegt. Ich bitte weitere Erkenntnisse dort zu notieren.

Gruß
Robert

Mill Wood (Penrice)

Just to comment on GPS accuracy: My Garmin often claims around 4 or 5 metres, but is regularly off by 10 or 20 metres, and has on occasion been hundreds of metres off while claiming 5 metre accuracy.

Refusing to be a puppet

That's awful... But do keep the original names in as old_name.

Cheers
Rob

Questions: bulk uploading of lighthouses / maritime navigation

The easiest approach might be to convert your KML to GPX, then uploading through JOSM. Perhaps converting the GPX to a data layer will work?

Alternatively, you could create a .osm file suitable for uploading through JOSM, see osm.wiki/index.php/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.5 for the format. To create a node with JOSM, it should have attributes lat, lon, a negative id and action=create, I believe. I'd suggest creating an appropriate node in JOSM without uploading, then saving, which should give you a nice template.

Tried out JOSM for the first time today.

To include a new street or path, it's usually sufficient for a start to set the 'highway' and 'name' tags, 'oneway' if applicable.

If you download an area through JOSM, you can save it as a .osm file which you could use later to restore the data. Also, history for all objects is stored in the database (they're not actually deleted), though there is not yet a good method for mass undeletion.

Bury, Bacup, Haslingden - what happened?!

Some people think this is the right way to do it (see osm.wiki/index.php/Yahoo): Setting a highway tag without surveying supposedly creates a false impression of completeness.