I just discovered that the Mac Mighty-Mouse can be configured to do the middle click in JOSM. JOSM needs the middle click to show way numbers. I can't find any other way to discover a way number in JOSM, but it is free software so I won't complain.

In the Mac OSX System Preferences keyboard & mouse panel, the Mighty Mouse scroll-ball can be changed to "Button 3". For me, this worked to get JOSM to display the middle-click info box.

I used this sunny afternoon to mount a GPS receiver on my bicycle and started the first mapping attempts of Lustenau´s minor roads. There´s a lot of work to do, here and in the surroundings :)

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Habe diesen sonnigen Nachmittag genutzt, das GPS aufs Rad montiert und die ersten Mappingversuche von Lustenau´s Nebenstraßen begonnen. Hier und in der Umgebung gibt es noch genug Arbeit :)

I've started a new job in Central London, so I'll be dropping mapping in the western parts of London Borough of Hounslow for a while and concentrating on the bits I cycle through on the way to work. That means the new Feltham town centre and the southern part of Bedfont are going to stay uncompleted for now, unless someone else wants to wants to take them on. Instead I'm now filling in the last blank part of Brentford and then going on to the bits of Chiswick which have been drawn from yahoo but not yet labelled and completed on the ground.

I've mapped some streets and roads at my home village Villähde, as well as some streets and buildings in Lahti.

I know that the center of the town should be mapped first, but I couldn't resist myself adding some streets at western Lahti, because I've lived on that area before.

Mapping seems fun, this seems times a bit addictive, at least if you ask my wife ;)

Trace some streets, make small corrections to existing.

last week i added the "barmbeker stichkanal" and the "stichkanalbrücke" to the map. in hamburg/barmbek-nord the streets (119) are complete!

tomorrow i'll buy my new bike and clear some left out streets in hamburg/dulsberg and hamburg/barmbek-süd.

see: http://svenanders.openstreetmap.de/hamburg-stat/

Twice this weekend I cycled out to Ponsonby in Auckland and recorded street names. These I added to the map after tracing over the roads using JOSM and yahoo satellite images. I also put the ferry route in between Auckland and Gulf Harbour. Unfortunately I didn't have my GPS logger but the route was pretty simple so I think it is accurate enough.

Add main-street of Osaka "Midou-suji" and "Yotsubashi-suji".

Adding details to lakes in the olympia, washington area

all tracks without description/tags deleted

remaining tracks are all public now

Started to delete my old untagged non public tracks,
they will be uploaded as public with description and tags again

I forgot to mark where the foot path became road when I got to the Llangennith end of the path. I also suspect that my little bit of road should be merged somehow with the other bit of road thats already there. The internal roads of the camp site need to be mapped still I think.

I also need to ask someone about the ruins up on the hill. I have a feeling that its an old radar station, but there are a lot of things there, so it might be more than that.

I got the bottom path and the top path, but the middle (i.e. behind the old rectory) is missing from the map still and also there are other paths over the top of the hill too.

Plus I added another road from three crosses as well. Not too bad for a days work although I wouldn't recommend the footpath from Llangennith up over the hill as it rises from near sea level to over 600ft in a very short space of time. We really need to have some contours on the maps :-)

Bored this morning so jumped on my bike an tracked the country road from Rothwell to Harrington village and back to Rothwell.

RobD aka Ididnotkilljfk

Tracked this morning

Tracked Inagh Valley this morning. Had to restart due to a dodgy gps link

I've spent a bit of time adding most of the lakes and a few rivers of Southern Peru to the map, mainly in the Arequipa district, tracing them from the Yahoo imagery. This area had pretty much no mapping at all until a few weeks ago (with the exception of Lake Titicaca), so it seemed appropriate to add a number of the basic geographical features. I've also added a few of the major volcanic peaks, but these don't seem to show up on the map. Hopefully this should provide a basic geographical framework for further mapping - the imagery isn't high enough resolution to be able to make out all the roads clearly (at least not the unpaved ones, i.e. the majority), but the mountains are pretty spectacular and valleys easy to follow.

A thought occurred to me - some of these places are very remote, and probably have never been accurately mapped. The advent of satellite imagery makes this possible for the first time.

Driving around north Gower I realise just how much is left to do in that area... lots of little villages, most of which don't appear on the map. Lots of odd tracks, paths and bridleways....

Il mio primo contatto con il progetto è stato in occasione dell'incontro con Paolo Cavallini di gFoss che ho organizzato come Piazza Telematica di Schio il 2 aprile 2008. La cosa mi ha subito appassionato, anche per i tanti collegamenti che ha con i miei interessi e i miei ambiti lavorativi.
L'occasione giusta per cominciare a dare il mio contributo si è presentata subito, con il primo Micro Mapping Party a Vicenza. Ora manca solo un data logger...

Started work on Saffron Walden yesterday, an Essex market town of about 15,000 people. Completed the town centre (north of George Street) and the north side of the town above Ashdon Road. That's about one third of the town so I think two more trips should do it.

I started the day on the little village of Wendens Ambo, though it was bigger than I thought, and rather short on street name signs. A bit remains to be done on Royston Road east of the station: the village is actually the location of Audley End railway station which has a huge car park, so all that's done now. Then moved on to Littlebury, a medium size village a few km north west of Saffron Walden. The bare bones were there but with errors. Once again a couple of streets with no visible name - frustrating - but otherwise now complete.

Landsat and npe helped my to get the outline of the Audley End Estate and woodland, but I'll need to refine some of this on future visits. Also added the two rail tunnels on the northern approach to Audley End station.

Mapper gained some kind of audio note taking system some weeks ago, and I finally had a chance to properly test it by doing some mapping, so I mapped the Kohmo and Pääskyvuori suburbs in Turku, a couple of days ago and it went pretty well after figuring out how to sync the audio note with my track in JOSM.
The only negative with audio notes is my own voice.. can't stand it. (And speaking to yourself in an empty car, feels a bit stupid)