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Got my problems resolved, thanks to TomH. I'll start mapping the highway between Dammam and Riyadh.
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Uploaded tracks from Riyadh to Manama (Bahrain) and Doha (Qatar) and tracks from Al Ain (UAE) to Muscat (Oman) and from Muscat to Fujairah (UAE).
Tried to start using JOSM, but the server seems to give me an error 403 no matter what I try to download or upload. Couldn't find any help for the issue from FAQ or the Beginners help at wiki.
- Fixed all the labels for sub-sectors
- Drew out sub sectors (F-6, G-8 and parts of G-7)
- Labeled landsites(Shakar Parian, Graveyard)
In response to HaraldK's diary post.
Please take a read at the JOSM wiki page, which tells you how to do what you are looking for:
2008-01-05
34.1400 -117.3053
San Bernardino
Fix highway 30-259-215 interchanges and ways. Fix highway 30 westbound links to Waterman Ave. Links connect to E. 30th St.
2008 01-04
Chicago 41.798 -87.589
Add Midway Plaisance, E. 51st St, S. Woodlawn Ave.
2008-01-01
Downloaded JOSM and learned how to use it well enough to add The Point in Chicago. 41.4796 -87.5771
Added measurment plug-in.
Today I improved my Coastline Download Tool. Not it can analyze whether the nodes of a closed loop are arranged clockwise (= lake) or counter-clockwise (= island). All closed loops are considered beeing islands and (if necessary) corrected.
Here it is: http://www.lenz-online.de/divers/osm/
Last A-road in Oxfordshire duly mapped!
This is a strange corner of bush/park between the B7 and Benderstraße. It contains a water reservoir for Düsseldorf and surprisingly many footpaths. I had to stay longer there than expected to track them all.
Recently I learned about the photo-sync capability of JOSM (right click on the GPX-layer). With the clock set properly, it easily add thumbnails to the GPX track, which is quite nice to check out street names.
It makes sense to (a) always make the photo in the direction of travel, because if you (b) make the photo to include even two street signs, you know which applies to which street.
Of course photos are also nice to record the type of road surface or access restrictions or features like playgrounds or shelters or information plaques or you name it.
I note that when I ride a street up and then down that the two tracks really look as if they can make the difference between the two sides. But from the estimated resolution of between 5m and 10m this cannot possibly be. So maybe Garmin put a software fix in that always corrects the points slightly to the right in the direction of travel. Would be easy to check in the UK, though. Except they have the driving side of a country taken into account;-)
Two hours' city walk (Fribourg, Switzerland) of GPS data ruined -- program crashed.
On a more positive note, I mapped all of Basel's (also Switzerland) old town. Only visible in the Osmarender layer for now.
Just came back from my parents in BM, part of the way over the Autobahn A46 and the Theodor-Heuss Brücke in Düsseldorf. While driving I recorded the track and had a chance to compare the path with map. It was obvious that the map has some gross simplifications. Sometimes I swerved away from the line on the map to hit it exactly a few hundred meters later. This looks like they just left out a few points from the path.
At home I loaded the track into JOSM and compared with OSM. According to OSM I drove right on the road all the time:-)
I started to tell friends about OSM. Most of them were wondering "Why would someone need this? We have google Maps!". After a few words about Copyright most of them agreed that OSM is rather important for us all.
One of them (Uwe) instantly started to put in the name and position of his home (Kuxwinkel near Schlagenthin).
An my ohter friend (Alex) even took my GPS device, coupled it with his mobile phone, and went off to map his home village Berßel (not present until that day) which I linked below (maybe visible in the Tiles@home layer only). Impressive work if you consider it was his first day mapping!
He also implemented my idea of a virtual Tiles@home-client, so we could spread OSM even more, because setting up a render client won't be pain anymore. We are currently awaiting an accout. As soon as we got it, we will optimize the virtual client, and you all can start rendering.
There seems to be a cartographer in most of us. I'm looking forward to the future developement of OSM.
I am continuing to fill in the Pennsylvania area, and also add footpaths around the Ludwell Valley Park, which is next to where I work in Pynes Hill. I have also found and corrected some errors in the central Exeter area.
Sent a message to Guy who has done a lot of Exeter. Hopefully we can co-ordinate our efforts to get Exeter completely mapped.
Slowly working on Gdańsk Oliwa i.e. northern part of the city. The main Grunwaldzka street with 3 lanes in each direction, two tram railways, bicycle path and whatnot will be tough. Some potlatch user filled most of it with one lane of unnamed primary road spanning from where it's known as Aleja Zwycięstwa up to the nearby city of Sopot. More than 10km-long single way in dense urban environment is too much.
Please, do divide your ways in manageable chunks.
My first try on my home in Kungsladugård, Gothenburg.
Added a small road, joined two roads and corrected the spelling of another. I don´t use GPS so I have to rely on the GPS-traces from other users and get some guidance of the aerial photos, they seem to coincide roughly with the GPS so I think I can trust it.
Just made a plugin for helping with user / authors.
http://geothings.net/osm/usertools.jar
plugin adds a new menu item to the top bar.
Select map data, show the author panel (alt-a), select a user from that panel.
Using the menu, click to open browser to open that user's profile page, for easy messaging, looking at traces etc
Using the menu, click to replace the map selection with all the selected user's map data.
todo:
Make it a right click menu for author table
Add a show user panel button
list all users in data
suggestions welcome.
This time I took my digicam along (I don't one a photo mobile:-). That makes it much easier to record street names. Just mark a waypoint and take a photo. The two are trivially synchronized by time.
If Josm would make the timestamps in the GPX file available for display, I would not even have to enter waypoints on the GPS device.
The question is, of course: why does the @!#$#@$ GPS device not have a camera, or an MP3-recorder, or both?-(
Anyway, the camera solution is not too bad.
I think I'm getting the hang of JOSM now. I've tidied up all my untagged roads and fixed up all the outstanding cross-overs. I think I'm beginning to understand where I should differentiate between highway=unclassified and =residential and =service.
Blaat
On Holiday in Brisbane. Mapping the places I visit. Not used to mapping where so much is already done by others. I am the only mapper in Hobart. "Bumped into" morb_au's work and had a chat as a result which was nice.