Well seeing as I live there I might as well start there.

Basically been adding names to roads based on my knowledge of the area, also adding land marks and local features (schools, churches, etc). Also traced a few roads from the Yahoo imagery as I'm waiting for my GPS to arrive. When it does I intend to go round and get data for all the roads and footpaths.

Might even get my bike out.

Much to my surprise, much of the area around Rivington and the West Pennine Moors had not been mapped at all prior to today.. Improvements have been made.

Added some streets and villages around Heiligenstadt.
That streets are part of an area which is called
'franconian switzerland'. Nice area to do some moun-
tainbiking, btw. Yeah, I will add some tracks when
summer has come, at this time it all looks more like
a big swamp (hard to get through w/ my MTB)... ;-)

respect,
knottytom

Added some tracks around Forchheim. Used my MTB. This
way through the forest is one of my favorite (easy)
downhill tracks near my home.

I discovered --- after some confusion --- that there
a whole waterway section is missing... will be there
in some days. ;-)

respect,
knottytom

Je viens de digitaliser la route de la Saune depuis Quint Fonsegrives jusqu'à Ste Foy d Aigrefeuille !

I've got my work cut out for me. There are gaps of hundreds of kilometers that
need to be mapped. I don't even want to count the number of cities that are missing. Thankfully my job requires me to work in various places, so hopefully I will be able to connect some of the missing areas.

Stay tuned, I think part of Southwestern Ontario, Canada is going to look a little more populated.

Wow, the new lakes have been rendered. It looks very promising, but there is still much work to be done.

I just made trip from Zagreb to Sv. Martin in Croatia and also from Zagreb to Ljubljana and Logatec in Slovenia and back. So, if you think you can help mapping these points - feel free to do it. Just go to my traces and edit.

Finally Basingstoke Town FC are on the map :-)

Added a couple more roads and footpaths -- have been making steady progress in SW Basingstoke over my lunch hours :-)

First time I've been "robustly challenged" while mapping -- apparently I looked suspicious -- which I guess is likely when you're wandering round cul-de-sacs (wearing a baseball cap).

Unfortunately, I had to delete some "experimentation" that seems to have happened near Basingstoke station -- luckily only a few untagged zigzag ways, a spare point or two and a moved point on a footpath -- only spotted it when I switched on MapLint. Similarly, it looks like a nice long road I'd added in Kingsclere has been deleted and re-added in a new "colour" -- unfortunately, the side roads weren't reconnected onto it. I hope I've remedied the situation to everyone's satisfaction, if not -- drop me a mail on here.

In the weekend I cycled up to Dyers Pass above Christchurch and then east along the Summit Road to Port Hills Road. This was the first time I've used JOSM to edit the map and the first time I've used my new GPS to add data to the map. Some photos I experimented with geotagging using GPS Correlate can be seen here
http://picasaweb.google.com/jeff.northcott/PortHillsWithBicycleAndGPS

I then mapped the walk way through Canterbury Park, not far from my home. I hope to get out and do some more mapping over the Easter weekend.

The number of mapped lakes keeps on growing. This will really look great in a month or two.

Oggi abbiamo lanciato l'iniziativa M(')appare Milano. Una serie di micromapping party per completare la copertura di Milano.
Con la collaborazione di Radio Popolare e del programma MenteLocale.
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Today we launched the M(')appare Milano initiative: a series of Micro Mapping Party to complete the Milano coverage.
With the collaboration of Radio Popolare Mente Locale talk show.

Mappare means to map but m'appare means it become visible to me, so this is a word joke :)

I love when you are looking around the far flung corners of the globe that you've traveled too and you see that there are high resolution Yahoo Images of the area. This means you can start tracing and getting some basic road layout of an area done.

I recently discovered that Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania (pop 2.5million) is almost completly unmapped but has high resolution Yahoo imagary available. :) Time to start tracing out some road networks!

I just started mapping arround Espelette, based on registered tracks I already made and verified several times.

[En Español abajo]

I very long trip today and lots of ways to process. But i noticed a lot of new things.

-Im planifying my route trying to avoid places already in the map
-After a change in the way back I went back using OSM map instead of Google Maps on the Maemo Mapper, and using a lot of ways not mapped by me.
-The paper maps were obsolete, a lot of recently built highways were not present but OSM rules
-And lots of new places to add, now without dragons, leprechaums and other stuff.

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Una excursión larga hoy para ver a mis padres y un montón de ways para procesar, pero lo más importante, he visto que han cambiado muchas cosas.

-Ahora planifico mis rutas tratando de esquivar las rutas que ya están en el mapa.
-Después de alterar mi camino de vuelta a última hora volví usando los tiles de Mapnik en vez de Google Maps en el Maemo Mapper, y usando muchas muchas cosas no hechas por mí.
-Los mapas de papel estan obsoletos, muchas autopistas de reciente construcción no estaban reflejadas, sin embargo OSM mola.
-Y lo más divertido, gran cantidad de sitios nuevos que añadir en los que podemos afirmar que no hay dragones, leprechaums u otras criaturas míticas

It's difficult for the renderers to do justice to a junction like this, where the right-hand lane of an elevated trunk road just disappears into the earth, emerging at ground level in a different direction.

In fact, this whole section of road is a nightmare to navigate around, where an incorrect lane choice can send you in unpredictable directions. The 'sliproads to exit and normal lanes to continue' convention doesn't apply...

I've traced some buildings on the University of Nottingham main campus from Yahoo imagery, filling-in names from memory (and with a few hints from the Wikipedia article)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Nottingham_Halls_of_Residence

It adds a new tag:

place=hall_of_residence

which may be worth rendering on campus maps.

In the meantime, I've lablled the residential buildings with the name of their hall (e.g. 10 buildings all with name=Lenton and Wortley, which shows-up on the map)

There are parks and woodlands marked inside the campus. The area tagging causes some problems:

To make a woodland appear above the generic "landuse=university" purple area, we have to use the layer attribute. But that makes some paths disappear 'under' the woodland. I don't want to put a higher layer on those paths just to make them render, since technically they're ground-level paths.

Multipolygon relations are being used for courtyards within buildings.

osm.wiki/index.php/Relations/Multipolygon

I'm used to getting puzzled looks while mapping, but perhaps none more so than today, when there were several stares of utter bafflement as we drove down the A361 in the Pluriel, with the roof open, with two bikes sticking out the top. In the rain.

After a few days of "shall we / shan't we" as the weather forecast remained resolutely crap, we decided to say "sod it" and cycled NCN 45 from Swindon to Kemble. It's a really nice route, sort of.

There was one forest of pedestrian crossings over the Swindon bypass (Thamesdown Drive, I think) where the signs were unclear and we ended up cycling down a very muddy path then retracing our steps; then the short bit alongside Thamesdown Drive itself was particularly uninspiring, to the point where Anna yelled over at me "Sustrans really ought to get a clue"... just one second before we turned a corner to find a magnificent new cycle bridge over the road, with a swooping, smooth tarmac path down the other side.

The railway path from Cricklade was interesting, in that when they said "this route goes through the Cotswold Water Park" I didn't realise they meant it literally. The puddles were enormous, and enormously muddy - the bikes needed re-WD40ing every five minutes. I suspect it's not always been like that, but today's lousy weather coupled with last year's flood damage made for pretty crap conditions.

Despite that, and the rain, the ride itself was generally really enjoyable: fairly gentle, a couple of startling sights (like an infilled Thames & Severn Canal lock and cottage), and an interesting chance conversation with the chairman of Cricklade's chamber of commerce about the benefits that cycle tourism has brought to his town. And best of all, it ended at a really friendly pub next to Kemble railway station, where a pint of Stowford Press (me) and Arkells 2B (Anna) were the perfect accompaniment to watching Wales beat France at rugby as we waited for the train home.

Bei einem kurzen Besuch in der Nordheide die paar Straßen von Oerrel abgefahren. Die Feldwege leider nicht. Und da die Gegend dort nicht so kahl wie die Karte ist, ein wenig Wald ergänzt.

Added some more detail to the area around Nottingham Trent University whilst staying at a hotel nearby before going to cross country race at Wollaton Park.