It´s impressive to see all the new lakes render in western Sweden. I just finished the largest one so far, hope to see it in the map quite soon.

Konnte einige Tage im Skiurlaub zum Kartographieren nutzen. Leider nicht sehr umfangreich. Ergebnisse hier: osm.org/?lat=47.0959&lon=9.9442&zoom=13&layers=0BFT

Today I downloaded and installed JOSM to see what it can do. It was actually really easy - I'm using it on Windows which comes with Java already installed by default. That JOSM is awesome! Really great program, love it. With JOSM it was easy to see all the TIGER errors that need to be fixed just in San Francisco. Can't wait to get started.

So I'll start fixing it up as soon as I figure out what all of the conventions are for streets and other objects. It looks like they all have a direction (even if it's a two-way street), and they have nodes where the interesections are, and divided highways have two streets side-by-side, etc. I know there's a guide on the wiki, I just need to read it more carefully. The other thing I don't understand are the tags - it seems like the TIGER data has so many tags just for each and every street - what tags should I include if I add a new street or path?

But the big question I have about this is: how is OSM backed up? If I spend a lot of time fixing all the San Francisco data, can it accidentally get deleted? If so, can I just download some data (like San Francisco Bay Area only) onto my computer and back it up there? (I mean, in a format that would make it easy to upload to OSM again, if necessary?)

Mapped (almost) all the buildings in University of Toronto (where I'm going to school right now) and nearby Ryerson University, tracing their outlines using Yahoo imagery. I missed a few buildings because they were missing signs or were under construction. I added the addresses of most of the buildings (shown on the signs) so if someone gets a geocoder running then it can use them. They should show up on Mapnik tomorrow.

Manca lo svincolo e il tratto in direzione Rimini che parte da qui.

I tracciati gps dell'A14 intorno a questo punto non sembrano molto buoni e non si capisce se sono presi in entrambe le direzioni o meno in quanto spesso si uniscono.

went away to a remote part of the country. Recorded some tracks that already existed, didn't bother to record ones that didn't, and in one place where I had, I didn't download the tracks soon enough, and overwrote part of it with newer, already existing tracks.

So be it. I made some spelling corrections on a few roads in the area, putting in the ð's properly. I guess this sort of half arsed mapping is what you get when you aren't in your own car with your equipment set up.

Something strange has happened in the north of manchester/south pennines area. Most roads seem to have been mapped (probably from the imagery) but the ways are not marked as highways so they do not render. I'm not sure why this is but it's in need of much fixing!

I'm not sure if it's possible to check if the ways used to be correctly tagged and have lost them, or if they were never fully tagged. Tagging as highways will sort the rendering, but someone will need to visit to get all the street names.

Have added several streets in St Annes (Fylde, Lancs, UK). If anyone wants a whole town to call their own, then this is the one!

Most streets that I added were from GPS, and some were just interpolated between known points when I knew the road was straight.

Yahoo imagery is non-existent here (Google has great coverage unfortunately)

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Finished main roads in Souraïde and "Lac de Saint Pée sur Nivelle.
RN10 from Spanish Border to Bayonne
RD932 from Bayonne Maignon to Cambo
Main streets in Espelette and Ustaritz plus CD250 Ustaritz-Saint Pée sur NIvelle
Espelette to Dantcharia (Spanish border) on CD20
Will continue
Regards to all

Die Ölpipeline im FZK wird leider nicht erfasst. Ausserdem scheinen die Aussengrenzen des FZK nicht wirklich zu passen. Da muss man bei Gelgenheit wohl nochmal was anpassen.

Auf Osterurlaub Vorhelm und Tönnishäuschen "vollständig" erfasst. Vorhelm-Bahnhof wird noch eine Weile warten müssen.

That was nice. Yesterday, the exceptional good weather day in an Easter weekend with generally horrible weather, I used bicycle "routing" from my home to Kettwig and back for the first time. Kettwig is a surprisingly nice little town with old houses and narrow alleys. And the weather even permitted to have a coffee on a balkony overlooking the Ruhr.

It was no real routing, of course, because all I had was a list of waypoints. I got the waypoints through a site that offers exactly that: clicking waypoints on a google map.

Cycling along the waypoints stored on the GPS device is just great compared to fiddling with a paper map. Even in areas where OSM does not yet have any roads and tracks, it is easy to follow the waypoints route.

This site for getting the waypoints is a bit terrible to use, because the author also provides a probably nicer one for cash. The days before I toyed a bit with OpenLayers (openlayers.org) and with no prior knowledge to Javascript (albeit I am a hacker) I was able built my own simple site to display smoothly the more interesting map data described on http://www.gis3.nrw.de/DienstelisteInternet/ .

To bad I cannot demo the result online, because I am not sure about the copyright implications. What I read about this data, it seems to be ok to use it at home for private viewing. (I wonder if it would be ok to distribute the 10+ lines of Javascript?) This little app does not yet allow to click waypoints, but this should be no more difficult than integrating the maps, so I really want to get to that soon.

There have been some nice days to be out on the bike or walking.
I've completed the Summit Road from Gebbies pass to Mt Pleasant Rd, still have the section to Evans Pass to complete. also added to an incomplete section on the Old Tai Tapu road
I've also been adding some tracks as footways around the lake in Canterbury Park and the Quarry Trail which is in Kennedy's Bush reserve.

Started importing data from BSWM of Laguna, Philippines. Some nodes are already in the database, but ways aren't. If somebody is editing this region, please refrain for deleting the uploaded nodes. We hope to finish the import by the end of the week.

On snowy and cold Easter day, I thought I'd fill a few streets in Hull in. There was no-one about so it was quick and easy. When I compared the photos of street names at home I found two clear easter-eggs on other maps of the area. Seems appropriate somehow.

Even more lakes rendered now, this is looking better all the time. I actually think that my goal to map all of the lakes in the hires region is possible.

Just added a lot to Hafnarfjörður, Norðurbær. Also something in the center and sout. Couple of roads in Kópavogur, some in Garðabær and in Grafarholt where I live. Not to forget a few new roads in Grafarvogur as well.