So, what software and hardware are you using? Let us know how it works for you.

That's quite a bad problem. Maybe balloon or kite photography would help?

Mapmorph: So many posts promoting your interest one after the other! If you want to advertise, why spam with so many posts and not just put up one post with all the links in one place?

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And even better, I see I can get both jhead and gpscorrelate straight off the Debian repository. Nice!

Wow, I've just checked out gps2photo, and it looks brilliant! If I keep a tracklog with my gps device and take photos with my normal camera, I'll be able to geotag them. Thanks for the tip!

That's actually quite a neat solution. I did in fact copy my pictures off the phone onto my linux box, and it did preserve the timestamps, but they weren't well enough synchronized with the GPS trace that I could clearly identify where they belonged. I've just done two small mapping runs where I'm using TrekBuddy to take photos and associate them with waypoints, and JOSM works beautifully with them. I just move the gps track directory and the waypoints directory off the phone onto the PC, load the data into JOSM, and clickable icons of all the pictures are neatly arranged where I took them. It really works well.

Buy me some plane tickets; I'll help you out ;-]

But seriously, keep your spirits up, and good luck! I guess it's a great way to beef up your language skills.

Nokia decided to re-use numbers: the 6600 is a Symbian phone, so I guess Location tagger is now integrated into it. The "6600 slide" is not a Symbian phone, so it can't run Location Tagger. I dislike using its camera, because (even though it's not required in South Africa) the shutter sound is locked on in the one I have. But still, now that I've figured out how to link the photos to waypoints from TrekBuddy, it's probably my best option.

Well, that's a good test of an expensive piece of equipment! I'm glad it's working again.

Yeah, that's one of the major barriers to mapping: many of the poorer areas around here are incompletely mapped. I'm thinking of asking the police or an NGO I know for a ride-along, because riding in a nice car or on a nice mountain-bike through the townships in Gauteng using a mobile phone and USB GPS to map is kind of asking for insurance claims :-)

So I updated my system, and now JOSM works. Testing...

thanks, good suggestion. What's your workflow for house-numbers? Is it well documented in the wiki?

OK, thanks!

Java 1.4.2-03 running on a rather old linux system... Maybe my rather newly upgraded Ubuntu laptop will do better; I'll try.

Acutally, I tried to upload the GPX file onto traces, and it wouldn't upload at all. The failure email said "Found no good GPX points in the input data".

Ja, alles geht hier, so lange es hilft...

Wilkommen (bin selbst neuerdings hier angekommen, aber doch wilkommen :-)

Hmm, SportsTracker is an actual Nokia product, which might be good for integration, but:

1) it's closed source, commercial freeware, which is a bit of a minus

2) The website has a list of phones for which you can download it, and mine (not having built-in GPS) isn't in the list. I could probably research which of the phones are closest to mine and give it a shot, but I'm not sure it would install.

3) MobileTrailExplorer seems to be working OK so far.

OK, maybe Nokia Sports tracker is worth a shot. What is its best feature? I couldn't get gpsmid working on my phone: the applet is too big. I see one can build custom builds with the maps in the filesystem, so maybe later...

Thanks, I'll check it out!