Last week I uploaded my 500,000th GPX point made with my Garmin eTrex Vista HCx, which I've had since Christmas, the half-millionth point somewhere near Nottingham on a recent trip there. I've so far found it a very good GPS unit; usually gets a very good signal - the tracks I get look to be very close together if I have to go over the same road on another visit. The mass-storage mode makes it very easy to upload the tracks to OSM, and I've had no problems with the OSM on Garmin maps.

Having the GPS has enabled me to map the area outside the Manchester Yahoo imagery, and now, most of the rural areas of North and East Cheshire are approaching completeness, at least in terms of the road network. There are countless footpaths and bridleways to do - and then Macclesfield has hardly been touched yet, so that'll be a goal over the next couple of months.

I've started doing Congleton, which, until a couple of days ago just had the main A-roads.

Going next weekend to Grindelwald. osm.org/?lat=46.6244&lon=8.0552&zoom=13&layers=0BFT
Pretty much to do there.

During the past few weeks, I have updated the coast line along the Swedish west coast, from Amundön (just south of Gothenburg) to Ölmanäs (on the east side of the Onsala peninsula). It looks quite a lot better now. I have updated some of the islands as well, but there is still quite a few of them to improve.

Went for a walk around local footpaths and mapped them. This is my first contribution in about 7 months. Took me a while to get back into using Josm.

I recently bought an additional GPS unit : an I-blue 747 which would serve when I'm not in a running mood (or mode).
But ther is another reason for this : I want to be able to go online live tracking on some occasions :)

i pass every day there, and so...

Fahrt nach Lambrecht getrackt und eingegeben

Schlängelei mit dem Fahrrad durchs Neubaugebiet. Hab ein bissel die Übersicht verloren, was da nun noch residential war und was Fußweg. Also irgendwann nochmal...

There are some problems with the t@h approach to rendering maps, but there are two that might develop to the point where they become show-stoppers:
(from my point of view)

A) The server is too slow.
B) The clients can't handle certain tiles.

Yes, the server is too slow. It cannot handle enough clients to keep the world up to date soon, let alone retroactively re-render everything that need to be rendered when a layer gets added to the portfolio of things we want to show.
For almost all year the server has not shown a similar improvement in speed to everything else OSM.

Also since several city-tiles are getting very complex, there are fewer and fewer clients that can infact render those tiles. Next to nobody has a PC with 12+ GB of RAM laying around. The problem being that if we start precutting the tiles into more manageable chunks the osm to svg transformation becomes prohibitively slow. There should be a more effective way of keeping svg complexity down when rendering high-zoom subtiles of densely mapped city areas, other than mucking around with the osm data.

Iniziato a tracciare quasi per scherzo dopo essermi trasferito quà, all`inizio di gennaio 2008 ho iniziato, partendo da zero, dopo aver percorso centinaia di km in bici e moto e un migliaio in auto, la città sta prendendo forma e le provincie limitrofe pure. Ma il lavoro da fare è immenso,in modo speciale per il resto della Thailand

die Südseite von Raibach ist jetzt als GPS-Trag erfasst.
.. jetzt muss ich nur noch Zeit finden die Straßen anzulegen.

Am WE mal wieder etwas unterwegs gewesen und die eine Hälfte von Essingen
getrackt. Mal sehen wann ich wieder hinkomme und den Rest abfahren kann.

Knöringen habe ich auch mal angefangen, sollte relativ schnell drin sein, da
der Ort relativ klein ist.

Auch mal wieder im Horst unterwegs gewesen, aber das ganze ist ziemlich
verzwickt aufgebaut und einige Straßen sind nur mit Fahrrad oder zu Fuß
zu tracken.

My hopes were high when I read about OpenStreetMap. I thought that for the first time there is a place in the mapping world where every bit of the earth surface is treated equally. This feeling was short lived as I navigated away from my address in the UK to my place of birth, the city of Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa. It was then that I experience again the pain in the truth contain in this statement; "that's just the way it is, some things will never change". This statement has been used in poems, speeches and songs. This statement is familiar to a lot of people. But for people like myself who continually live and struggle to break free from that other side of life on earth where some things are not changing, we sings these songs, listen to these speeches, read these poems but believe that some way somehow, some of these barriers will begin to break. We have fervent hope in the Open Source movement. So I urge OpenStreetMap to do something about the lack of aerial photo backgrounds in some of these places. Let nothing stand in the way of the movement of change. Open Source!!

Just came back from a weekend up north. Thought that a full gps would be plenty of track recording memory, but I should have known better. Mananged to fill in the loop around Hvammstangi, but didn't add in all the side roads, I was touring, not mapping.

Unfortunately, coming back down the east side of Skagi, I ran out of trackpoint memory, and without the laptop, that was it for the weekend. Oh well, lots of km added, and lots of pictures taken. Still a great weekend away :)

Along the way I've pushed some coastline around, and also, because it had been bugging me for a while, the road between hveragerði and selfoss has been downgraded back to primary. It's one lane each way, and even though it's planned on moving to 3 lanes, there's no way it could be called a trunk.

Short bike ride to map some of lcn 88, which goes by near me. Must look up where it goes to and from sometime! Usual problem of how to map different types of physical presence: separate lane, pavement with markings, using service roads, short breaks, etc. Then on way back watched random cricket match and mapped the micro detail inside Oakwood Park, and had a nice coffee there.

It looks like there's something screwey with the tracks I'm recording while driving around. I have a computer in my car which runs Kismet. I plug my eTrex Venture GPS into it, letting Kismet record a track from the NMEA stream (via gpsd) and then process Kismet's GPS logs into GPX files. But I just compared one of the Kismet data sets with a track downloaded directly from the eTrex with gpsbabel and the tracks are consistently offset from each other by about 100 metres or so. So now I've got to work out where on earth the error is being introduced. The GPS is set to WGS84 and I presume Kismet is too dumb to try and do any kind of datum conversion on the coordinates so I'm a bit stumped.

I've been mapping the Royal Holloway - University of London campus and I've had a couple of problems.

The main building is '8' shaped - a rectangular building with two large courtyards/quads. I'm not sure how to make it show like this, I've managed to cut out one of the quads but not the other. Anyone able to suggest how best to do this?

Adicionei o trilho dos moinhos para BTT

Am 1. hat ein Freund den Keller seines Hauses gebaut; eine gute Gelegenheit, den Ort zu erfassen. Außerdem habe ich mich ein wenig verfahren.
Diese Ecke von Leipzig war auch noch nicht erfasst(erledigt).
In Schkeuditz habe ich auch noch einige weiße Flecken entdeckt.

sef

If you use the simplify way plugin for josm. Then if you add the parameter simplify-way.max-error to the advanced preferences you can adjust how much the way is simplified.

I use 250 to simplify ways which are mountain bike and bush walking tracks.

Also despite the warning about restarting josm, this is not required for adjusting the value of this preference.