Littleport is a village of about 7,000 people in the heart of the Cambridgeshire Fens about 5 miles north of Ely. There was an almost believable skeleton of roads already present (quite a few residential streets) but it was highly selective and, it turned out, with lots of errors. Spent two mapping trips, today and last Tuesday, doing the town systematically so that it is now complete.

There is a large chunk of new housing being built of Highfield Drive in the southwest of the town. The first phase is largely complete, and now mapped of course, but the second phase is barely started, so Littleport will need another visit in a year or so to fill in these new streets.

Ahh. Just home from a mapping trip. I used my Neo1973 along with the program TangoGPS. It can show your position on the openstreetmap, and if you see a road that's not on it, you simply start logging and cycle down that road.

This is absolutely nice!

I am still quite new to OSM and JOSM, but I have added a small chunk of my current project in Clonmel Co. Tipperary. It has a few main roads, a pedestrian road or two and I have mapped out parking spaces, shopping centers etc. Also included the odd one way streets of Clonmel.

Roads have no names(updating that very soon) and are preset for tertiary, unclassified and pedestrian types.

Roads are visible in Osmarender and preset buildings are visible in max zoom.
All found at my given Lat. and Long. below.

These will probably change a little again soon but these are still basic tests.

I've hacked up a viewer program that runs on Windows Mobile using CartoType, my map rendering library (www.cartotype.com). The UK OSM data compresses down to about 27MB. The style sheet gives a display that looks very similar to Mapnik's rendering; the viewer renders on the fly and the map can be zoomed out to show the whole of the UK, or right in to street level. By this evening I should have the program, data file, and style sheet up on the CartoType web site for free download; and also the data conversion tool, so that anyone who wants can make new CartoType map data files (CTM1 files) from OSM data.

I'll also make the Windows XP version available. It uses the same data file.

I made my first OSM edits tonight. Mostly, I added cycle paths in my immediate neighborhood, but I also removed two "bad" roads that were in TIGER -- one was really a driveway (so I removed it as a highway), the other was a driveway, but has been upgraded to a residential street and given a name, so I fixed it up and named it.

I intend to start mapping some newer subdivisions in my immediate area soon, along with cleaning up some TIGER data (it still shows old railroads where the Fox River Trail now is, for instance).

Mapping following n-121, several nice places like Igantzi, Lesaka, Bera and going through France.
Added ref to france highways and changed from secondary to tertiary but maybe French people uses diferent notation.

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Siguiendo la orilla del Bidasoa mapeando alrededor de las dos N-121, la a y la b, bonitos pueblos como Lesaka o Igantzi
Paso la frontera de Francia y voy a la busqueda del tren de la Rhune, añado referencias a las carreteras y las cambio de secondary a tertiary, pero puede que los franceses osmeros esten empleando otra notación.

I've created a wiki page for Swansea:
osm.wiki/index.php/Swansea

Hopefully this might generate a bit more interest in mapping the area, as well as allowing the mappers to jot notes on their progress and which areas they are mapping.

Began a slow, lunchtime mapping of Ringwood town centre (UK, Hampshire) a few weeks ago. It's coming along reasonably well with all the centre roads and footpaths (that I can find) all mapped out now.

Hello all again.

I have been practicing a little bit more with JOSM and I should have most of the major roads of Clonmel (still unnamed so far) drawn out. I'll be going into smaller patches after I have a main frame of the town to work on.

Over the next two weeks we should see a nice 'ol map of Clonmel develop.

I've updated the Garmin cycle map script to cope with relations, and be a bit less fussy about the XML in planet.osm. It's in svn as usual.

You can now also download a prebuilt UK-only cycle map if you don't want to faff around with building your own.

More here.

Hi folks,

I've done a trial run of building lowzoom (levels 8 to 11) tiles for Ireland and, consequently, the Isle of Man. It seems to have worked fine except for the coastline at the very North, near Derry, and the South, between Cork and Waterford. Has anyone else had a problem like this? It seems to mainly occur at zoom level 8, and only to a very small degree at higher zoom levels:
http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/?x=122&y=80&z=8&layer=tile

(And this is my first diary post :)

Andrew

Ну вот нарисовал еще чуть-чуть домов и дорог в окресностях своего дома.
Смотрю Mourner подключился достаточно активно :)

I made some progress on NCN 20 yesterday in Crawley, but it seems that the signage is not yet complete. The section through Tilgate golf course is fully signed, and I but once the edge of the residential area is reached, the signs dissapear. Nevertheless, I mapped the cycle path that I believe NCN 20 will run along up to Three Bridges Road.

Does anyone know about the status of NCN 20, regarding how complete it is?

I've just finished adding the MAX light rail Yellow Line in Portland.

I've decided that streets being mis-positioned are not the biggest problem with Tiger data. Rather, layers and intersections are. Now that I have read the Tiger documentation, I see that it does clearly state that there is no discrimination among overlapping layers (overpasses, underpasses) and that intersection points are put where the various paths cross. It is what it is.

Portland has several freeway interchanges with bridges, multiple layers of overpasses, train tracks, light rail tracks, and surface streets below. Unraveling the layers can be daunting. I started out being cautious, trying to preserve as many of the original nodes and ways as I could. Now I'm finding that it is quicker to go in and delete all of the intersecting nodes and ways in the middle and just lay down new ones as needed.

Of course, I still don't have anything to complain about. It does still mean that 99% of the mapping is already done, compared to the countries where folks are starting from zero.

Well, I compiled the UK data into CartoType format and this was the result:

06/04/2008 00:06 26,632,558 uk-080123.ctm1
26/01/2008 18:45 696,113,272 uk-080123.osm

That is, the CartoType CTM1 file is under 27MB for the whole of Britain. It seems to work fine using the Windows viewer. Tomorrow if I have time I'll load it on to the Windows Mobile viewer and see if it works acceptably fast.

In preparation for Long Bike Ride starting a week on Sunday, I did a hilly fifty-something mile stint on the NCN today - from Chepstow to Abergavenny on route 42, then on to Hereford on route 46.

Great fun even though I was utterly, utterly exhausted by the end of it and my legs still haven't recovered. Granny gear was engaged as early as the climb out of Chepstow, and Route 46 in particular is one for the "hills mean picturesque!" brigade (as opposed to "hills mean pain!"). I especially liked the extremely narrow road around Skirrid Fawr (it didn't quite get to the top, but felt like it) where, at one point, I had to 'reverse' to let an agricultural truck past - the road was that narrow. Of course, it helped that I was then rewarded with a lovely smile and a twinkly wave from the young female blonde ruddy-cheeked Welsh hill farmer who was driving said truck.

I was, however, a little miffed to find that all my effort to get to Hereford station for 5.50 (I think I made 5.48) was rewarded by a crap uncomfortable train with no buffet that was scheduled to wait at Shrub Hill for 15 minutes and Moreton-in-Marsh for 25. I mean, it could at least stop somewhere where there are shops. Or a takeaway.

In the middle of revising the new roadways at the Sea-Tac airport. I am new to editing these maps, but I am getting the hang of it. Doing final tweaks this week. Roadways are done by GPS. Names may be slightly in error at this time.

I've had a long session today of improving CartoType's conversion of OSM data to its own format (CTM1 = CartoType Map format type 1) and writing a new style sheet to display OSM data more as it should look, and after quite a struggle I've met with some success. To recap, CartoType is a map rendering library that runs on mobile OSs like Symbian and Windows Mobile as well as on Windows (and Linux, Mac, etc.) It is not open source, but I shall make CartoType map viewer programs freely available, as well as the data conversion tool, style sheets, etc., so that people can look at the whole of the UK on their mobile phone without having to go online. The OSM data for the UK should fit into about 35MB in CTM1 form, so that's quite manageable.

Habe die Straßen Zwochau und Grebehna abgefahren und mit Namen versehen. Feinarbeit ist aber sicher noch an einigen Stellen nötig; z.B. eine Eisdiele in Zwochau.
In Radefeld und Freiroda fehlen noch die Namen.
Die Orte Glesien, Gerbisdorf (mit dem Schaufelrad), Hayna, Wolteritz und Lemsel fehlen noch.

Einen Monat wohne ich jetzt schon hier und heute war ich auf der Suche nach guten Inlinerstrecken in der Region. Von Böblingen bis Dettenpfronn war eigentlich auch immer eine Asphaltierte Strecke neben der Straße. Wenn jetzt noch das Wetter passend wäre.... naja

In Sulz am Eck ist mir dann der erste richtig gravierende Fehler in der OSM aufgefallen. Dank der GPS Daten müsste der aber demnächst gefixt sein ;)