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Posted by George Kalash on 10 July 2008 in English.

I added now a very important exit for beirut - amman travelers.

I Love Open street Map and big thanks to who came with this idea.
Step by step, I am building Lebanon roads and for the first time in my life, I went to my village (Bterram, Koura) in the north of Lebanon using my Garmin.

Thanks for the people behind in the idea of Open Street Map.

Location: Fardos Neighbourhood, Kafr Sousa Municipality, Damascus Subdistrict, Damascus District, Damascus Governorate, Syria

Hallo zusammen,

mit ein wenig Übung, gelang es, die ersten GPS-Tracks hoch zu laden. Voller Übermut bin ich dann her gegangen und hab auch mal versucht, eine erste Strasse anzulegen. Leider hab ich sie mind. doppelt, wenn nicht sogar noch mehr mals erfasst und weiß nicht, wie ich die Dopplungen raus bekommen soll. Kann sich jemand dieses Problems annehmen? Es handelt sich um den Maienweg in Leipzig-Holzhausen.
Ich verspreche auch, mich voerst nicht mehr an der Kartengestaltung zu vergreifen, sondern mich auf das Sammeln von Tracks zu beschränken.

Danke im Voraus - Peter

P.S.: die ungefähren Koordinaten hab ich unten eingetragen

Location: Waldsiedlung Holzhausen, Holzhausen, Südost, Leipzig, Saxony, 04288, Germany
Posted by Harry Wood on 9 July 2008 in English.

Just took a bus up Caledonia Road on the way home. I had been peering at some suspicious looking bits of the Yahoo imagery, which looked like streets but weren't traced at all. Sure enough, they are right there in this quite central location, and easily visible from the 91 bus route, and not on the map yet! So that's a reminder to me, that eliminating all the unnamed streets is not the be all and end all. There's still important refinements to make closer to the centre of London.

Location: Angel, Islington, London Borough of Islington, Greater London, England, N1 8EQ, United Kingdom
Posted by Rimers on 9 July 2008 in English.

Finaly time came to test out if my tracking / mapping solution was worth anything.

I'm running a windows based pocket pc with a bluetooth pocket pc with OSMtracker, and it seems to work quite good.

Only problem i had was getting the GPS connection to work initialy, but after that was sorted i've had no problems at all.

Next task is to edit / render the files captured during today.

Posted by Aubanel on 9 July 2008 in English.

Essayé cette semaine JOSM avec le plugin WMcadastre pour commencer à mapper Saint Estève (66). Il y a encore du boulot, mais auparavant c'était vide... Vraiment très sympa, voilà qui devrait aider à augmenter très rapidement la couverture OSM en France... Merci à ceux qui on fait ce plugin !

Location: Lotissement La Pierre Droite, Saint-Estève, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitania, Metropolitan France, 66240, France

With the help of a local expert, the small village Goldlauter in the Thuringian Forest was added the last days.

Unfortunately, I was victim of a small JOSM bug which prevented STRG+S from working and cost me about 3 hours of mapping time :-( - The latest version doesn't include this bug, so make sure to check your JOSM version!

Can somebody tell me, why Osmarender seems to be blind in some areas, e.g. here: osm.org/?lat=50.6306&lon=10.7451&zoom=14&layers=0B0FTF ? On the left of the map, I can see that my edits on the type of "Suhler Straße" were progressed, but the center still remains empty...

And, yes, the complete site is called "Goldlauter-Heidersbach" and consists of two villages, but it started raining on Monday and I was biking :)

Location: Goldlauter, Suhl, Thuringia, 98528, Germany
Posted by James Pritchard on 9 July 2008 in English.

Last nights walk resulted in little useful tracking. I'm still experimenting with software for Pocket PC to record the tracks. Turbo GPS was pretty useless.

Today I went out at lunch and drove some of the smaller roads around Grantham, this time I used NoniGPSPlot. The tracks are more better, I'll get them into JOSM this evening and have a closer look.

Any suggestions on alternative software for the Pocket PC, or even a list of useful features you'd like in such software.

Location: Heath Farm, Grantham, South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, Greater Lincolnshire, England, NG31 7UF, United Kingdom
Posted by DanielM on 9 July 2008 in English.

Last week, I decided to put my GPS to another good use and start mapping. Before that, I only occasionally corrected some errors in the map. After this week's Mapnik rendering run, the results are now visible for the "standard user" as well. I'm surprised to see that Osmarender uses more tags: access restrictions are not visible in Mapnik. :( But well, the area around my home is now somewhat closer to being completely mapped. :)

I'm surprised how easy it is to map, at least with basic features. JOSM may not be really ergonomic, but it's easier to use than I initially feared.
And I really need a voice recorder - they are far more practical to speak into than a cell phone, plus using it while driving is legal. ;)

Location: Klein-Barop, Barop, Hombruch, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, 44227, Germany

Die MapInt Karte wurde eben neu gerendert und meine aktualisierungen der letzten tage übernommen.
Abe rein paar Kleinigkeiten erscheinen nicht, warum?
Wo ist der Marktplatz (ein area)?
Wo das Rathaus)?
Wo Neukauf (area)?
Wo der Parkplatz-Bereich bei Neukauf?

Location: Reichensachsen, Wehretal, Werra-Meißner-Kreis, Hesse, 37287, Germany
Posted by MapDeliverer on 9 July 2008 in English.

Heute habe ich meinen neuen GPS-Logger iBlue 747 getestet. Mich überrascht die Genauigkeit, wenn der Weg zu den Satelliten frei ist. Schon von der Hosentasche aus bekommt man weniger gute Ergebnisse.
1. Strecke: Auto über Trier-Filsch, -Tarforst -Irsch (Link)
2. Strecke: kurzer Spaziergang durch Irsch, um ein paar fehlende Fußgängerwege zu ergänzen (Link)

Location: Filsch, Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, 54296, Germany