In the Villages Stutensee-Büchig and Blankenloch north of Karlsruhe, some streets were already mapped, but mostly without name and correct type. Today i started in the south, completed Büchig and continued with the south-eastern part of Blankenloch. In Blankenloch still remains a lot to do, i hope tomorrow the weather will be as fine as today so i can continue with that village.

The mapping of lakes in western Sweden is coming along just fine. Adding a few each day.

I recently went back and looked at an area of Hillsboro, Oregon, USA that I had mapped before, and found all the street names changed in the development. In the county's GIS the names were all new (which I confirmed on a subsequent reconnaissance mission), but in Google the names were old.

After a few minutes' thinking, I realized that the development had been a trailer park (i.e. a lot for "manufactured homes"), but the trailers had been evicted several years ago and permanent housing is now being built. Although this area was still empty lots, all the street names had been changed from the old days, and Google Maps had not caught up.

I fixed the Henry Hudson Parkway, Henry Hudson Bridge, exits and crossovers in Bronx NY

Having systematic plans for a half-hour lightning mapping session and then finding streets and alleys and dense little time-consuming conservation areas in areas you just meant to de-maplint sucks. Finding C. S. Lewis's grave after a hint from a passer-by and being able to evangelise a bit about OSM helps make up for that, though.

This is my first attempt. Hopefully I did a reasonable job. I mapped all the major parkways/highways in Westchester County between the NYC line (which had been mapped) and I287 the Cross Westchester Expressway.

Following the day before's surveying jaunt, I headed out after work today and ticked off some missing streets, some missing onramps, and cleared out one more small neighbourhood.

Another nice big complete swathe is now ready. Still needs things like shops and churches and schools, and particularly on Öskjuhlíð, it needs some sort of marking for the forest and the cemetary.

Suburbs Palmerston & Nichols in the north of Canberra mapped

I've now got contours rendering on http://openpistemap.org thanks to the very helpful Contours wiki page created by Gravitystorm (of cycle map fame) (osm.wiki/index.php/Contours).

I've taken a slightly different approach, which I think is a bit neater - instead of leaving the contours data as shapefiles I have imported it into PostGIS. I've updated the Contours wiki page with this alternative method.

The piste map is now rendering the whole planet data set rather than just one resort (but it won't update regularly yet), and it will render contours for most of the European ski resorts. I need to work out which bits of other continents I should be including contour data for (let me know if there's anywhere I've missed).

So now I'm back from the Linuxtage in Chemnitz. All in all there were very interesting lectures and stalls. I got to know lots of knew projects according the openknowledge- and linux-world. And one of these things was OpenStreetMap, which I first ignored. But at home I got really curious and found out, that there are lots of white dots on the map in my hometown Lübeck, what has to be changed ;). Well, at least the maping of my small estate Rangenberg, which is a part of Lübeck's city-district Kücknitz.
I hope that this won't be that difficult as establishing a WLAN-mesh-network (see Freifunk + B.A.T.M.A.N. (+ OLSR)).

I've been spending a lot of time with mom lately - mobile open map.

This is a mobile phone application for viewing OpenStreetMap, tracking a Bluetooth GPS, making and following routes, finding and saving places, saving tracklogs and even taking photos!

It is working now but not yet thoroughly tested and I am inviting people to try it out, try to break it, and let me know what they like/don't like, what improvements/features they suggest.

Anyone interested should contact me for a trial copy.

When deleting A15 roadways in tiger data, you will find to your dismay that the offending roadway extended over a couple of tiles. Seems major roads in tiger, as brought in to O.S.M. are Verrrrrry long. What does Tiger say?
Meow.

Probably been a few months since I surveyed any new streets around town, but got on the road after work the other day, and filled in a whole neighbourhood. Gerði, check!

After reviewing the map today, and looking at my notes, it seems there's only one neighbourhood, around kringlan, and a couple of forgotten streets in Suður Hlíðar, and all of reykjavik north of Bústaðavegur will be complete. Hooray! I've also made a note of a couple of the on/off ramps that need to be driven in different directions to complete them. And tonight, I'm off out in the country to a new location, should be fun!

Circuitous route to the sandwich shop this lunchtime via Headington Quarry - not an area I'm familiar with - and finding all sorts of hidden footpaths, parklets, allotments, and the usual small-scale stuff. Oddities: one tiny Assemblies of God[1] chapel about the size of a small shoebox.

[1] The Jimmy Swaggart lot, unless that's some other sub-cult^Wsect.

Test Performed using a few streets in the city center.

Taking a look at the Mallorca traces and asking for help to some friends living there. http://mitago.net/archives/2008/03/10/T20_16_44/index.html

Fortunately the main city has good YWMS photos so I will add some mapping inthere. Also im defining the coastline.

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Echando un ojo a las trazas de Mallorca y de paso pidiendo colaboraciones a algunos amigos viviendo allí. http://mitago.net/archives/2008/03/10/T20_16_44/index.html

Además, por suerte, Palma y alrededores tienen fotos de YWMS de muy buena resolución, así que mapear la ciudad con los nombres de las calles que conozco puede ser fácil.
De paso estoy definiendo algo más la coastline usando las mismas fotos.

I've been trying to find some easier ways to clean up the Tiger data for my area around Portland, Oregon. I've been corresponding with a few others also trying to do the same thing.

I'll skip to the punchline first: Better JOSM layers for aerial photos at

http://terraservice.net/ogcmap.ashx?version=1.1.1&request=GetMap&Layers=urbanarea&Styles=&SRS=EPSG:4326&format=image/jpeg&

and public street maps from the county tax office at

http://columbo.nrlssc.navy.mil/ogcwms/servlet/WMSServlet/Portland_OR_Metro_Maps.wms?VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&SRS=EPSG:4326&LAYERS=0:42&FORMAT=image/png

Here's the long version of the story:

For my county, I've found excellent position consistency among all data sources other than Tiger. My GPS readings match the Yahoo aerial photos, Google Earth, Washington County tax maps, Beaverton city maps, and the USGS urban area photo maps at terraservice.net. The Tiger data is broadly correct with pretty much all the right streets in the right relationships, but it is often shifted out of place by varying amounts.

So everybody agrees except Tiger. This is good, in that it gives me confidence in the other sources, meaning I don't have to travel every single street with my GPS since my tax dollars already did so. I figure that if I get a large rectangle by GPS which matches the aerial photos, then the area within the rectangle can be aligned with just the photo. I've been looking for the most efficient way to do that. Sometimes the Yahoo aerial photos are not as clear as I would like, such as being obscured by trees.

Although I like the simplicity of Potlatch, I found I really need the multiple-node selection and movement capability in JOSM for realigning the Tiger data. The key, then, has been to find better sources of public data which I can use as WMS layers in JOSM.

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I'm rewriting the tag editing code in Potlatch to be a bit more reliable at the moment... and it's taking longer than expected. So, sorry for the lack of updates. 0.8 will be along as soon as I can finish it...

Keep an eye on the status of mapping Aurora at:

osm.wiki/index.php/Canada:Ontario:Aurora

Just bought a new GPS logger to replace my old BT-338 receiver that drowned in my car. I must say that precision has improved drastically. I am now able to see when I have moved around a parked car, parked myself, .. It's almost too detailed, because I now have to take care to stay really on one lane to get a straight track..

Still love it though :)

I'll add a review to the wiki in the coming weeks. Hope that my experience stays this positive. Very happy to be mapping again after a detox period of 3 weeks (with addiction pains).