just back from a three-hours-night-cycling tour throug cologe.
First Ossendorf, later Vogelsang (translated: Birds-Voices or similar).
Some parts of Ossendorf already went throu the local media as beeing a ghetto, today i have been there, and yes, its pretty strage there. Too many 4-level-flats
packed too close together. And its going to e packed even further, construction is in progress.
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There are two parts of Vogelsang, "Steinkauzweg" in the north, with 4-layer-flats, not too far from Ossendorf and the remaining - more posh part.
A huge uniform area. Long one-way-streets and dead-end-streets.
Yes, and everyone in this area at the end of a dead-end-stret has got motion-detector triggered lamps. One positive aspect: no nasty barking dogs.
osm.org/?lat=50.95843&lon=6.88416&zoom=15&layers=0BFT
Tracks and Map comming soon.

There were brights stars tonight and its getting warm.
Maybe i im wrong, but i renember some frogs making some noise at the dead end of some muddy cycle way. Spring is comming.

Oh, a stupid beginners question:
if there is a branch of one street, how do i map this?
Is it better to leave the side-arms un-labled or should i make it like this here "Erlenweg":
osm.org/?lat=50.96721&lon=6.89578&zoom=17&layers=0BFT

Wow! I draw some much thing!

I am learning... might help out more.

Hallo zusammen,
die Gegend um Ossendorf/Nippes ist bisher ziemlich spärlich kartografiert.
Dem werde ich mit Fahrrad und freundlicherweise vom Kollegen geliehenen GPS-Tracker abhelfen. Erster Test-Track im regnerischen Köln kam gestern, weitere Tracks der Gegend werden in den kommenden Tagen folgen.

Werden Schulen eigentlich auch in den Karten verzeichnet?
Und als was trage ich einen Knast in der Karte ein, aus der Not raus habe ich "Tourist Attraction" genommen.

Took a short cross country trip for our annual run/swim in Lorne Victoria, so fo course took the GPS with us, despite doing the journey numerous times before.

I just love ignoring it's directions!

found where Navman hides it's logs & in which format they are so Ive converted them via GPS Babel and I've been having fun updating the maps. Colac, Ballarat and our Sunday journey to St Arnaud allowed for lots of tracks to be added to the Victorian countryside.

I'm noticing a lot of the streets i've added ion Warrnambool havent appeared on the maps as yet... i guess not many people view my little town!?

I've also noticed that i've made a few mistakes there.... multiple/duplicated ways etc.... so i'm in the processs of tidying that data. And generating new roads...taking random turns on my journeys... nothing too systematic right now.

Quite enjoying the mapping...so while i'm enthusiastic...ill be as productive as i can be..it's sure not to last!

I spent an hour driving around the streets in the Sweetbrier Lane area of Heavitree on monday. None of the roads there were mapped. The large cemetery and Heavitree Park also need mapping - maybe I'll do that on the weekend, walking through each of them.

This evening I drove around some of the estates in Beacon Heath. There are a lot of footpaths joining the roads together, so it will require a revisit.

Added two ways missing in the Rheinwiesen despite someone else doing a lot around this area. Also completed Leostraße, which had a strang gap right in the middle.

Did some mapping on zettersfeld.

There's been a gap in the Teddington area for quite some time. The strip to the east of Bushy Park as far as the Thames was conspicuously incomplete.

Last Sunday the weather was really nice (for January) and so I made a 50Km cycle trip to fill in this area. All of Teddington to the south of the High Street is now complete. It also fully connects my area to the mapping that was done the other side of the river in Kingston as part of the first Fill The Gap mapping party.

So now there is a complete swathe of mapping from central London out to the M25 at Byfleet. A bit of infilling in the Surbiton / New Malden area to the south and Hanworth / Twickenham to the north would complete the whole section between the M3 and A3 right out to the M25.

So, I added road to my village Perovo from E-18 and connected Vyborg to E-18 by A-124. And draw some part of river Perovka.

Just for a laugh, I have opened my passing_places proposal to comments. Have fun.

:o)

Just added a couple of smaller places in the north east of Uppland and named one street in Täby to see how fast things updated.

Working on setting up my equipment.

Tuli taas reissattua Hyvinkäällä, joten ajattelin samalla tutustua kaupungin niihin osiin joissa en ikinä ole käynyt. Vaikka näin pimeään vuodenaikaan nähtävää ei juuri ollut, niin nyt minulla on sentään jonkinlainen käsitys mihin pääkadut vievät.

Kiitokset Juhelle aikaisemman ajokerran teiden piirrosta.

Started on Bethlehem Township last night. Nothing available except rt 33, 78, and 22. Freemansburg and william Penn to the east of 33 were there and hecktown rd to the west of 33. This is pretty fun.

Many South African suburbs are combating crime by closing roads with 2m tall palisade fences. Where pedestrian gates are present, they are often designed to stop anything larger than a human being from passing through them.

So I had to abandon my mountain bike on a few occasions at one of these gates and map a little bit on foot. On other occasions I would find a spot where I can lift my bicycle over the fence (often scratching myself and / or the bicycle). If that failed, I would cycle a few extra kilometers to find the vehicular entrance.

On Sunday, when confronted with another of these gates, I discovered a really good technique for lifting the bike over the fence after I passed through it : Left hand on handlebars, get the bicycle vertical, right hand on the saddle, left hand over the top of the fence, let the bicycle rest in an inverted position with it's saddle on the crossbar of the fence (freeing the right hand), and voilà.

Edellisestä kerrasta onkin jo aikaa, kun on kirjoitellut. Hämeenlinna kasvaa ja kehittyy vähän joka kulmalta. Asuinalueet uhkaa loppua jo kesken. Isompia teitä on tullut ajeltua ja tein tikusta asiaa käydessäni Rengossa.

Vanhalle härkätielle jotkut kylähullut pistää loppiaisena ulkotulet koko matkalle molemmin puolin ja 50m välein. Olihan se hienon näköistä pimeessä. Samalla lipsahti ajelu tuonne Rengon puolelle ja sekin näkyy jo kartalla.

Tänään tuli suhattua Pälkäneeltä Valkeakoskelle, joten 307 ja 310:n alku tuli piirrettyä. Pyörähdinpä jopa itse kaupungissakin =)

Youloc -projektin prototyyppi käyttää nykyään myös openstreetmapin karttoja. Oli jokseenkin perverssi tunne seurata itseään reaaliajassa itse tehdyltä kartalta.

http://proto.youloc.net/v2/osm.php

IRCnetin kanavalle #osm.fi on viime päivinä tullut kivasti porukkaa ja siellä jopa keskustellaankin, eikä pelkästään idlailla. Kevät kun koittaa niin tämä heppu lupaa ajaa kaikki Hämeenlinnan pyörätietkin =)

Used some data from our Sunday morning ride to Saffron Walden.

I've done a bit of investigation into using OSM data in my phone-based tracker. It looks quite feasible but I don't know whether it would be re-inventing the wheel and whether I have better things to do.

Something I could do relatively easy is make the tracker a tool for collecting GPS data for those that don't want to buy a full GPS device.

Instead they would buy a ~£25 bluetooth GPS. Those with phones such as the Nokia N95 with integrated GPS might use an experimental variant I am tinkering with that uses the phone's own GPS.

Have a look at this

http://tracking.axismilton.ltd.uk/tracker/

Jon

Finally I managed to add some streets. If you find any mistakes in layout, naming etc, then please drop me a message so I can fix it. Theres only a few roads.

Trying to extend the National Cycle Route 61 from St Albans via Hatfield towards WGC. Unfortunately, soon after entering Hatfield to begin the new mapping, I managed to lose the route with the result that I spent 20 mins randomly cycling through Hatfield trying to pick it up again. Managed to find it again for a short while, then lost it. While trying to pick it up for the 2rd time, I found part of NCN 12 so contented myself with extending it southwards. All this cycling my be good for my health, but bad for the OSM cycle map :(