Bike mapping is good fun: gets you close to the ground and the exercise is nice. One can still miss some small details on a bike, though: are you sure you didn't travel through some buildings and large rivers and just not notice?

Great stuff! You sound like the right kind of maniac.

Congratulations on your re-entry!

Check out osm.wiki/Key:sac_scale for some ideas on marking footpaths.

Wow, after reading that discussion, I was first convinced that your way was better, than than it was all wrong, and then that it is quite subtle and depends on context. Near where I live, there's a housing estate surrounded by a fence, with a grassy area separating it from the highway. Clearly, that is an example where the highway is not the border of the estate. However, if I were to map a farm that goes up to the highway (i.e. the highway is the border of the farm) I can on one side argue that it is cleanest and simplest to re-use the highway nodes, or on the other side argue that there is 5 metres from the centreline of the highway to the farm fence, so one should map the two separately. I won't shoot anyone on either side of this argument. As soon as we have the whole world mapped to the satisfaction of the keepright tool, we can start fighting about stuff like this.

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".