Just started today with my new Wintec WBT-201 G-Rays 2. Nice device, size of a large matchbox and usable software, although sometimes funny translation of the manual from Taiwanese to English :-)

Puh, jede Menge zu tun da. Da fehlte sogar ein Stück B500! Ansonsten auch so noch jede Menge kleine Straßen nicht erfaßt. Und Wald ist da auch noch nicht wirklich eingezeichnet...
420km haben ne Menge WPs eingefahren. :-)

Last days make a little trip to my home town Ussuriisk and back to Vladivostok. Trace federal road M60 and part of Trans-Siberian Railway. Correct railway and add stations. And, of course, map some central streets at Ussuriisk.

I've been busy mapping out the wooded areas of Windsor Great Park and correcting the paths and roads in the park, Englefield Green and Egham. Having patches of green over the park makes it look much better, though unfortunately the Yahoo! imagery runs out in the middle of the park - someone should suggest they buy some more. Anyone worried about what Microsoft might do to Yahoo! maps?

On an unrelated note, I noticed this annoying rendering issue:

Go to the linked map and go to zoom level 14 on Osmarender. You see a massive 'Truss's Island' label for what is a tiny place (< 150m long and about 30m wide). Mapnik does a better job of this and scales it more appropriately.

It seems to be caused by the 'place=island' value, Osmarender must assume that islands are significant I guess...

Back to work!

Third and final trip to Saffron Walden on Friday, changes now uploaded. Saffron Walden now complete. Nothing of any great note in the area that remained to be filled in, except that SW has horrendous traffic problems for a place of its size, and despite the fact that the M11 bypasses the twon, and even the old A11 trunk road also bypasses the town. Everywhere there were queues, and the one-way system doesn't help that much. Where is everyone going in the middle of a Friday? It's a town where you could walk from one end to the other in half an hour, yet everyone seems to drive everywhere all the time.

To finish off this delightfully sunny day I surveyed the much pleasanter rolling hills west of SW to fill in a hole this side of the Cambs-Essex border containing the small villages of Strethall (which seems to be the church and not much else), Elmdon and Littlebury Green. This means that everything north of the B1039 SW to Royston Road is now complete right up to Cambridge and beyond, and north east of SW as far as the edge of Haverhill.

Royston, Hertfordshire, should perhaps be my next target.

Went for a very nice walk on the open heathland in the forest near Hilversum (just next to the local airfield, which someone should still add to OSM I see) and it looks as if the pethora of walking trails that exist there are still nowhere to be seen in OSM. I added the route we walked and next times we will walk there I will try to get as many of the uncharted paths as I can.

Decided to go out for an evening walk yesterday as the weather was so nice.

Hiked up to Rusper where I saw what I believe to be a Sparrow Hawk or Hobby skimming over the top of the wood, looking for some tasty morsel no doubt.

Then walked back down towards Horsham via a number of footpaths I've never been on before; first towards Faygate and then down towards Horsham using more footpaths I've never used before. Lots of bluebells out, many different butterfly species spotted as well as lots of birds, including Yellowhammers, Partridges and also the first Swallow I have seen this year. The usual Tits, Sparrows, Thrushes, Blackbirds, Wrens and Finches were well represented too.

The usual obligatory, for the time of year, lambs were enjoying the lovely weather, as were the rabbits who were out in abundance.

All in all a glorious and refreshing walk to end a busy week; all 11 miles of it.

The municipality of Potchefstroom recently decided to rename many of the streets. The old names where completely unremarkable : The name of a river here, a plant name there, perhaps a couple of historical figures dating back to the 17th, 18th or 19th century.

The new names belong without exception to past and current members of the ruling ANC party. The town councilors must feel confident that these freedom fighters turned office bearers will not fall from grace like Kenneth Kaunda and Robert Mugabe. Neither do they see any need for balance, like honoring those who fought the system from within.

Many residents complain. One fought back by erecting a signpost on his own property bearing the old name. I considered various ways to reduce the amount of propaganda that I will upload to OSM and still make a good map. I finally decided to upload the street names exactly as I observed them and to write this diary entry instead.

Perhaps I've just been unlucky but

I've updated a bunch of roads that were out of place or just wrong in and around the bridgend area, I accidently changed a couple of roads that i didn't mean to(but reverted them back to the originals! phew!)

half of broadlands housing estate is now mapped, well, at least a third anyways, most street names are listed in english and welsh (some streets are only welsh it seems, have a nice large photographic collection of street signs which i'm sure some people have been watching me in confusion as i take pictures of signs...I must admit I do feel silly but I can never remember how these welsh roads are spelt!)

got a tiny bit of my hometown pencoed mapped, the main strech of tondu is complete except maybe one or too little roads including an accurate map of a new housing estate, also added 2 industrial estates (still need to get all the street names, also started on nantgarw industrial estate), also i think i've pretty comprehensivly mapped M4 J35, (would appricate any feedback, I tried to do it as detailed as possible) think i spent way to long trying to get the junction just right, and the shopping centre just next to it.

chucks of sarn have been mapped, a start on aberkenfig, a big B road previously onmapped has also been added in the small costal town of southerdown :)

A friend of mine has also been getting along slowly but steadily on bridgend, mainly brackla, and the industrial estates around the area.

I've only been going a week, I'm hoping to finish off my town within the next few weeks, at least the side I deliver to anyway.

I hope no one minds but i've been fixing up alot of roads adding in dual carrigeways and trying to lay more accurate road layouts, had to shift one of the dual carrigeways completly as it seemed to drive straight thru a small town.

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Today I made my first steps in editing objects in OSM. I selected some area in Stuttgart-Heslach that was not yet covered.

Because I have no GPS, I just wrote down street names and entered the data in Potlatch, using the underlying Yahoo orthophoto as a basis.

It's great fun and I hope that I could borrow a GPS device by someone and get some tracks recorded. At first, Potlatch was a bit unintuitive in usage but I got used to it. I think an easier to use editor could attrackt more people to this project.

My survey of some new roads in the Papendorp area has now been processed (thanks to osm.org/user/Tallguy for his tip about reusing the show overlay button in Potlatch!). Also, we went for a walk in the new park area in Leidsche Rijn Park and of course I surveyed the footpaths we walked. The area is not yet complete, but at least some of the paths that are already there are in OSM already.

Una de las carreteras gordas pendientes alrededor de Madrid y alguna de las no tan gordas y frecuentadas por el este de la comunidad (Loecehes, Villar del Prado, Arganda, Paracuellos...)

I managed to flood my home town. If the little circle goes one way life is good if not, well we better give Noah a call. I just didn't catch my mistake before the rendering engine did. I guess I'll have to wait another week to see my updates. I was positive I hit that validate button before I hit the upload button, but a whole lot of water proves otherwise. I must have been inspire by all the flooding in the news lately.

Kleine Radelrunde rund um Böblingen, Sindelfingen, Magstadt, Ehningen.

After weeks of development and some brilliant testing, suggestions and help from a few good men (you know who you are) the first release version (v.1.2.3) of mom is now available for anyone to download and use. You can get it at the website, mom.poco.org.uk and give me your feedback, bug reports and suggestions at the wiki page, wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mom.

Enjoy!

Today, I cleaned up some TIGER data around Louisville. Mostly exit numbers and bridges. I also added quite a bit of water: The southern part of Floyds Fork, Salt River from Floyds Fork to Taylorsville Lake, and Taylorsville Lake, itself.
When OSM starts being used for boating, we'll be ready.

Today, I'm currenlty uploading ways covering Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. I believe I have covered almost 90% of the city.
The data came from an image map from the City government (with permission of course). I rectified the image and created a local wms
for JOSM. Most streets are unnamed and I hope local mappers would continue adding the names and other POIs.

cheers,
maning

I finished the Ted Errey loop which follows the Anakie Gorge for a while before looping up into the hills and back down into the anakie gorge at the end.

Lovely walk and now completely mapped.

Always amazed to see that a few people had already done a lot of it previously.

I've been cleaning up some data that was imported from TIGER. So far I've done Stockertown, and I'm working on Easton and Forks.