Cycled around St Lucia tonight on my way home from work gathering street names. Most of the missing residential streets have now been named. Just a couple on the East and near Ironside left to do. Not bad considering I only planned on finishing the streets North of Sir Fred Schonell Drive.

Last weekend's mapping in Chelmer and Graceville has finally rendered. I also remembered the names of three streets and the primary school in Buderim (Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia) so they have been added, but it's an otherwise sparse area.

Got rather sunburned on Monday filling in a big group of villages on the far south-eastern corner of Cambridgeshire between Newmarket and Haverhill on the Suffolk border. Managed to crash my N810 and lots the tracks so I had to redo the first hour. Ho hum. However this trip means that the whole of the eastern side of South Cambs is now complete.

In South Cambridgeshire:
Weston Colville
Carlton (and Carlton Green)

In East Cambridgeshire:
Dullingham
Stetchworth
Woodditton (and Ditton Green & Little Ditton)
Westley Waterless
Burrough Green
Brinkley

And still remaining to do in this pocket of East Cambs:
Ashley
Cheveley (and Saxon Street & Broad Green)
Kirtling (and Kirtling Green)

* Aménagements cyclables : http://www.amenagements-cyclables.fr
* Île-de-france-mobilites : https://www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/actualites/pour-une-meilleure-connaissance-des-amenagements-cyclables-en-ile-de-france/ : projet "Pour une meilleure connaissance des aménagements cyclables en Île-de-France"
* IGN
* Cerema
* CAPVM quand le SIG sera public
* Vélo en France

My BGT-31 (new SIRF-III NaviGPS with Bluetooth) arrived yesterday from StorageDepot.

It look exactly like the BGT-11 but is far more able to get, on hold, signal. My tracks look pretty good and without, even when heading down narrow alleys and under dense tree cover.

Setting up was simply a case of inserting the SD card, turning it on and turning on logging (which I actually forgot to do).

Like the 'beta' firmware I have on my BGT-11, it is able to dump tracks from internal memory to SD card.

Thanks to 'pope' TomH the latest release of GPSBabel (1.3.5) includes support for the NaviGPS, both directly and from the dumped files. Simply use 'navilink' as the input format - but don't forget the -t flag to get the tracks off.

Getting the latest GPSBabel into Ubuntu Hardy was easy once I knew what I was doing; use 'alien' to convert the .rpm package to .deb. I also had to make a symbolic link in /usr/lib pointing libexpat.so.0 to libexpat.so.1 - presumably there's a better solution but it seems to work, which building from source didn't.

So my tracks were salvaged. Unfortunately my mapping was cut short when the point of a drawing pin (thumb tack for you Americans) pierced my front inner tube - the third puncture I've had to repair on that, second within a month.

Well I'm really overjoyed to have found this map and can't wait to get started. First place has to be where I work which is near the new New England Quarter in Brighton. My office isn't on the map at all so my diary entry is being posted from a blank space right now.

Does anyone have any advice for what GPS equipment I should buy? I'm kind of less interested in having it show me which way to go than having it be accurate at recording where I've been (if you see what I mean)

I'm going to have a look at some reviews and the wiki page but I'd be grateful if anyone has any definite no's to tell me about a particular model that they really love?

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Aloitin Pohjois-Järvenpään pyöräteiden kartoituksen. Samalla menee asuinalueiden kadut kanssa. Tulevan kesän aikana kartta tarkentunee pikkuteiden osalta ;)

So today I went back to Mill Wood to try and resolve how all the various tracks join up. According to my GPS I should be withing 10ft or so of reality when the sky is clear of trees, and between 20 and 30ft out in case of tree cover.

On that basis my mapping of the car park area and the surrounding tracks/paths should be pretty good, but it still looks a bit confusing around there. I think at least one more visit will be required to finally solve the mystery.

I have heavily edited that area, including things I added last time and also one path rollercow added. They now join up in the way that things appear on the ground, even if the actual location might be a bit iffy.

I'll try to take another track on the road at some point, preferably on foot since in a car the steep sides of the road at various points makes the signal rather poor I'd imagine.

I've added St. Andrew at Penrice and I need to go back again there to add some more tracks and things over that side as well. Still plenty more tracks to explore down in Mill Wood too. They are well sign posted which makes a change.

Added many of the principle footpaths. Most of it I could do from local knowledge and the aerial pictures but it will need another visit to finish it off.

As the weather continued to be very nice, the last part of mapping my direct neighborhood could go one. Most of the streets could be done by bicycle but a few footpaths where on the way as well.

Looks like the next mapping project brings me into the forests nearby...

Added forrest areas in the triangle
* Gunzendorf
* Weigelshofen
* Unterstürmig

-knottytom

Added:
* Roebersdorf
* Herrnsdorf
* Lonnershof
* Schluesselau
* Jungenhofen
* Schnaid

... and streets there.

-knottytom

Added some tracks in the forrest (starting in Pautzfeld) and areas
in Neuses.

-knottytom

When it's also a one-way street.

In reality, Popes Drive is a one-way street, but it has two exits.

So ein schönes Wetter an Pfingsten und so wenig vom Donauradweg im OSM! Samstag-Montag, 240km von der Brigachquelle bei Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald über Villingen, Donaueschingen, Tuttlingen, Sigmaringen bis nach Ulm geradelt mit meinem Legend HCx und so viel aufgezeichnet, wie es nur ging.

Da ich aber in einer Gruppe war und wegen des Tempos konnte nicht immer anhalten um Wegpunkte zu bezeichnen, habe ich mich hauptsächlich um Übergänge zwischen Residential und anderen Straßen gekümmert, so wie um Brücken. Da es bisher in diesem Gebiet echt wenig eingezeichnet wurde, habe ich einfach alles, was keine Residential/Secondary/Tertiary einfach als Cycleway markiert, obwohl es auch ein Track von verschiedener Qualität gewesen sein konnte. Also bei Gelegenheit bitte korrigieren. Habe auch paar wichtige Punkte für Radfahrer markiert, also Gaststätte, Trinkwasserbrunnen, usw.

Noch eine Frage - habe schon bisschen nachgesucht, wie ich eine Relation (?) für den Donauradweg machen kann. Was empfiehlt ihr mir? Es waren aber nicht nur spezielle Cycleways, sondern auch landwirtschaftliche Tracks, Waldwege, Residential, oder sogar kurze Teile von Secondary/Tertiary. Also insgesamt paar Hunderte Abschnitte von allen möglichen Highways, die zusammen den Donauradweg darstellen.

I'm testing the new version of gosmore with it's powerful search functionality. It tries to built an index of all the meaningful tags in the planet, like 'fuel'.

The problem is that there is so much stuff that it meaningless to the average user : The majority of it is TIGER ids which is easy to suppress. But there still a lot of nodes with class=node tags and time=... tags and ele=... tags and and and.

There are even a few ways that refer to nodes that no longer exist. (e.g. node 80169)

Ich würde meine "wahllos" beim Geocaching aufgezeichneten Tracks gern sinnvoll bereinigen.
Beispiel:
osm.org/user/-ad-/traces/109532

Sinnvoll wäre es als allererstes, alle Vektoren/Sprünge größer 200m herauszuwerfen. Das scheinen kilometerlange Sprünge zu sein, die entstehen, wenn der GPSr aus- und wieder eingeschaltet wurde.

Wenn jemand eine Idee hat, wie man das halbwegs sinnvoll scripten kann: Ich mache es sofort!

here are my points where I think that Potlatch is not intuitive and
could be improved:

- in general, most functionality that is available should not only work with keyboard commands, but with icons: In this way, you know what possibilities you have. At least one should list somewhere which keyboard shortcuts are available in the current context and what action they will perform.

- when Potlatch loads data, it is not clear weather it is already finished
(and there are so many streets missing in this area), or if it is still loading
something. An icon should indicate that Potlatch is currently loading and not yet finished with rendering the map.

-this is especially true when you hit the history button (H)

- GPS-Tracks shall have a label and one should be able to switch them on and off individually.

- there should be a history of the edits one made in the current session. I found that it was very easy to accidentally add some point to the map and then loose it in the chaos of lines and dots. I want to look into the history and find these wrong-edits.

It was a nice weekend! We took the train from Interlaken to Grindelwald. Unfortunately, my Venture CX didn't like all the tunnels that much, so I just have some parts of the rail track and just some train stations along. In Grindelwald we walk a bit and finally drove by car back to Interlaken.

So, this time, I could start to connect Grindelwald to Interlaken and I've colored a bit the white area there, with no names of roads and most train stations, though. But time will come and I'm back there! :-)

Added missing footpaths and adjusted things a bit. Ramsden Square and Gainsborough Close.

Added principle paths and lakes to the Science Park.

Tidied up the Business Park and added many missing service roads.

A lot more could be done to the Science Park. I don't intend to do all the car parks but I will add the remaining principle pedestrian routes. Not many more of those.

Licensing of mapping data in various jurisdictions is not easy. To make sure that I know exactly what license my contributions are under, and in support of the widest possible use of Openstreetmap data, I feel this is the best solution:

To the extent possible under law, I waive all copyright, moral rights, database rights, and any other rights that might be asserted over my contributions to Openstreetmap.