I discovered OSM because my bicycle speedometer got a flat battery.

Instead of buying a new battery, I thought I would try to download some kind of GPS speedometer/trip computer for my new GPS-enabled PDA. Instead I discovered GPS tracking software and OSM. Since then I have been mapping every street I can find between my home and place of work, plus anywhere else I happen to roam. Already my wife fears she will become an OSM widow.

toyed a bit with potlach around my neighbourhood which isnt well mapped at all it seems

den westlichen Teil vom Ortsteil Haltingen habe ich vermessen und heute die Strassen dazu erstellt. GarryX3D hatte hier schon wertvolle Vorarbeit geleistet und die Hauptstrassen eingetragen.

Jul. 15, '08, first tracing.

Finally i got around to trying the editing part for me first capturing.

Tried the online editor but felt i was missing some important features, so tried JOSM and wow what a difference.
At first i needed some training and getting used to the program, but after a short while i ended up liking the way it worked for me.
Also the fact that it's a cross platform program makes it even more appealing to me and my "I hate windows problem" witch to me is not a problem at all :).

I've during today put in all the changes I've mapped since my first post, it was fairly easy after playing around with JOSM a bit.

Next on my todo list:
More mapping and perhaps helping out others if they need help inserting some of the map data they have collected :)

JOSM's YWMS plugin currently only works in Firefox 2. So if you for example use Debian Lenny and it's got Firefox 3 in the repositories you are screwed. This is how I fixed it.

Note: This might create a mess if you have Firefox 3 installed and use it. I switched to Opera so I don't care. :)

Download the latest http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
Put it somewhere (for example: ~/projects/openstreetmap/firefox
tar xfvz firefox-2.0.0.15.tar.gz

Now start JOSM, go to the YWMS plugin's settings and set the path to
/home/you/kram/projects/openstreetmap/firefox/firefox
Click the create button for the profile and follow the instructions.

Just started to add my street in my neighborhood. Getting familiar with the system. In fact, my whole neighborhood is missing. Did it manually and will see the result when activated on Thursday. Will eventually add whole neighborhood with gps traces. Got to find device.

Der heutige Einkaufstrip führte zur Entdeckung von drei noch nicht eingetragenen Straßen in Zehlendorf. Wie unerwartet! Aber das Gemeindewäldchen und Friedhof in Zehlendorf-Mitte waren ja auch noch nicht drin...

I fixed up a few missing street names and other minor details in the Petrie Terrace area.

The small river was nicely mapped some week ago.
I hope it was not me, who deleted it.
How can we recover and how to find out what happened?
A part of it was here: osm.org/?lat=50.03147&lon=8.6337&zoom=16&layers=B00FTF

I gave a talk at the State of the Map conference at Limerick and some people were interested in CartoType's CTM1 data format, mainly because it is very compact (UK data = 37Mb; Germany = 50Mb). I have documented it and made it freely available with an attribution license: see http://www.cartotype.com/cartotype_map_data_format_type_1.html.

Ich bringe gerade Altdorf bei Nürtingen auf den richtigen Stand. Es fehlen einige Straßen und Straßennamen. Den vorhandenen Straßen habe ich die Straßennamen hinzugefügt.
Für die fehlenden Straßen möchte ich erst GPS Traces aufzeichnen.

Walked northern half of Sonning Common yesterday to fill in missing streets and footpaths, and add public buildings. Most of Sonning Common roads' and paths' network is now complete. Outlying footpaths is next on the list.

Did some surveying in Aspley while waiting for Zupps to finish servicing my car.

I'm undoing an import, that i did, because it was very inacurate, not of the quality needed for osm

Der kleinste Stadtteil Trier ist drin: Filsch

Am Wochenende mal wieder ein Besuch in dieser schönen Gegend - diesmal mit Daten-Logger und Navi :)

Nach dem gestrigen Einzeichnen von zwei Wanderwegen und einigen Korrekturen heute dann noch viel mehr Korrekturen, Schreibfehler, fehlende Wege und Parkplätze etc. Allerdings gibt es da noch viel zu tun, besonders Hardtburg und die umliegenden kleineren Ortschaften und Wald/Wanderwege fehlen noch komplett.

Vielleicht hat ja mal jemand Lust mitzukommen? ;)

hinzugefügt: Platz "Europaplatz"
hinzugefügt: Platz "Marktplatz"
korrigiert: Verlauf der Bauna
hinzugefügt: Fußwege im Bereich "Am Erlenbach"
hinzugefügt: Fußgängerzone Innenstadt, Rathaus, Stadthalle

Plötzlich bekommen neu gewidmete Straßen, wie sie in amtlichen Bekanntmachungen auftauchen, eine ganz andere Bedeutung: Heute las ich von einer neuen Straße in Walle, die in meiner Mittagspause mit dem Rad gut zu erreichen war. Also neues "Futter" für OSM.
Amtliche Bekanntmachungen der Bremer Senatzkanzlei;
http://www.rathaus-bremen.de/sixcms/detail.php?gsid=bremen02.c.1685.de

Tried to add Långarn, an island in the Stockhom archipelago.
Its my first OSM edit, so I have no idea if it works or if I did the right thing.