Nachdem ich hier bei openstreetmap.org schon länger angemeldet, aber nicht aktiv war, kommts jetzt doch endlich dazu! :)

DENN: Seit gestern hab ich ein Wintec WBT-201. Das musste ich natürlich sofort ausprobieren, die ersten Ergebnisse sind bereits in und um meine Heimatstadt Schwarzenbach an der Saale zu finden.

Insgesamt bin ich wirklich sehr zufrieden mit dem Teil, auch wenn ich noch recht wenig Erfahrung mit GPS hab.
Freu mich sehr darauf, in den nächsten Wochen und Monaten hier ein bisschen was beizutragen und die weißen Flecken auf der Karte etwas kleiner werden zu lassen :)

Freu mich auch über Kontakt zu anderen Mitstreitern hier in der Gegend (= Schwarzenbach/Saale bzw. auch Erlangen und Fürth, wo ich viel rumeier).

Bis denn
Johannes aka warwick

Mache mit den Landauer Bezirken weiter und versuche die Bundes-, Landes- und Kreisstraßen zwischen Landau und Neustadt zu vervollständigen.

Daneben habe die den Validator in JOSM entdeckt und versuche so nach und nach die Daten sauber zu bekommen.

Thursday: first mapping expedition for a while, but needed to get out of the house despite the poor weather.

There was a gap in the Duxford area along the A505 between Whittlesford and Fowlmere which encompasses the Imperial War Museum complex (not all of which is accessible), and a surprising amount of housing, some new, which is actually part of Duxford. Went a bit further west to capture the hamlet of Crishall Grange, Thriplow public waste recycling centre, and pet cemetery.

Then the weather cleared a bit so I headed south on my bike to Great Chesterford, which I've completed, and with a bit of time to spare for the train back, also did Little Chesterford.

Straighten Baseline between Waterman and Sterling.

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Well, the cheap GPS-mouse + laptop is uncomfortable.
So i borrowd a Garmin GPS 60. And started collecting traces.
I think i have to learn handling of that GPS-device a little.
But more important is handling JOSM. Anyways.
My first traces are visible in Osmarender!

Hello OpenStreetMap. I'm rorym and I'm going to start tracing over the yahoo images with places I've been.

The recent massive data loss around Metro Manila, Philippines has been reverted to previous state prior 20080116. Thanks to Ian's efforts for doing this.

Although I believe everything in OSM database can be reverted/recovered when this things happen, I do hope this incident, would highlight how easy it is to massively mess up any area (unintentional or not).

cheers,

maning

I think I can confidently say, I don't think I've missed a single road out of the main bit of Poynton in Cheshire, a fairly sizable village, although work remains on doing Higher Poynton and various connecting roads to other nearby places. My first area that I've managed to complete that doesn't have Yahoo! aerial imagery.

5 GPX files with a total of nearly 27,000 GPS points, nearly 7.5 hours of time gathering tracklogs, followed by a fair bit editing data.

I think I'll need to revisit to do several footpaths in the area and other features when it's a bit brighter in the evenings.

Added Roads from Steffisburg to Kreuzweg via Fahrni.

There is a big number of possible combinations between hardware and software to help you mapping. Most people may have useful equipment without even knowing! You will see, it's not expensive to be a "pro mapper". I got all my GPS/Tracking/audio/photo equipment for a total of $120 on ebay. On top of this, it features a MP3 Player, radio, phone, internet browser, pocket lamp, alarm clock... :)

I've just compiled a list, which may also be used as a OSM shopping guide. It's located right here in the wiki. It definitely needs some spelling corrections, I'm not a native english speaker. When some of the chapters expand over time, it might be needed to exclude them into own articles, like this very exhaustive GPS Reviews list.

To make this complete, I'd like to point you to the list of tracking software in the wiki.

There are tons of other useful information in the wiki, have a closer look if you didn't already!

Finished the main part of Boutonnet NE of Tram Ligne 1. I think the road map of Boutonnet and Beaux-Arts is mostly complete.

...und einen Marktplatz.

first of all, thanks for all replies.
within one week i managed to map two suburbs of Cologne from previously completly white to (i hope) nearly complete.
I am quite curious how this will look rendered with Mapnik.
at=50.9672&lon=6.9082&zoom=14

Some words about technical stuff, as mobile equipment i am usigng a bike, a Royaltec RGM-3800 data logger, a clipboard, a pencil and some white sheets of paper, sometimes printed OSM Map-fragments.

There are some problems with this equipment:
- paper gets wet and unusable if it is raining.
- printed OSM-Maps are limited to 1200x1600 (my max. screen resolution, i am doing screenshots). Is there any way to render crisp b/w postscript maps?
- the GPS-Logger-Readout-Software is M$-Windows only, attempts to readout the new GPS-Tracks running this software on my linux-box with wine produced some badly corrupted data, e.g. colonia_20080114_3.gpx (will be deleted). I am working on a linux-client to read the data from the GPS-tracker. For the meantime my tracks will be uploaded with some delay because i have to ask someone else with a M$-Windows box to download the data.

One more question: Police vs. Police/SOS-Telephone. Is there an amenity like "SOS-Telephone" / "Notruf". This telephones have one button only, if you press it, you get connected with the police. How do i put those in the map?

Data loss in Manila 20080116

Hi,

Apparently some ways around Metro Manila have been randomly deleted. One user have admitted he might have done some of the deletions (unintentionally). I want to ask other OSM editors in Metro Manila to look around their mapping
area to see if some of their created ways were also deleted.

Please provide a link so that we can revert the changes.

cheers,

maning

Add St. Bernardine Medical Center
Align streets to photo. South of Highland, east of Waterman, north of Evans, west of San Gabriel and Valencia.

There hasn't been a lot of noise about this so it might have gone unnoticed, but thanks to steve8, the mapnik map has nice new changes.
Tunnels are now being rendered for railways and motorway, trunk and primary roads; tracks are not as prominent anymore in lower zooms as they used to; and some new landuse areas got color. Oh, and we have railway bridges! Since these changes are just a few days old, your area might not be fully re-rendered yet.

In osmarender, bobkare has implemented automatic icon placement for areas, which saves us putting in the extra node for the icon.

I use my Nokia N95 for capturing tracks using the Nokia Sports Tracker software (http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/SportsTracker/). I was just checking for updates and noticed that from version 1.6 they have added support for photo placement where "photos captured during recording are automatically positioned on the track".

The other good thing about NST is that it will continue to run in the background if you start another application. This allows me to take voice notes using the built in voice recorder while recording a track.

I just returned to Openstreetmap after a couple of weeks absence and I see that a lot of the data I put in is now missing. Many of the roads I entered have been removed although in some cases the points still remain as isolated green dots (in Potlach).

This is quite disappointing. Was there some kind of system crash? Am I doing something wrong? If it continues to happen, then its pointless putting data in here.

Ref. Makati, Manila, Philippines.

Last friday I was out again on my bike. As I discussed earlyer, I have finally found a way to record audio and GPS at the same time with my mobile phone.

Tonight I finished a JOSM modification which enables me to load audio into the map. While I'm hearing my own voice, I see a spot moving across the map, which is always exactly at the position in which I recorded the audio.

There's also a feature to play/pause and seek with a slider bar (which is not easy cheese in Java). It still has lot of bugs, I think I will submit the patches in a week or two after some more testing.

This way, I can include much information into the map which would be lost without audio. I got familiar with mentioning every post box, bus stop, street name, hotel and many other POIs.

But what's even cooler, when I now get across a crossing, I can easyly say "here's a crossing, road xyz to the left at 9 o'clock, a cycleway to the right at 2 o'clock, and the oneway street Abc ahead of me". While the GPS shows just a straigt line across the crossing, I can put road stubs in the right position and a not-too-wrong angle into the map. I don't even have to speed down!

If you look at this place in Wernigerode, it looks like a lot of maze driving and visiting some places three times. In fact, this data comes from a mostly linear drive trough.

Sadly I remember that there's a real live waiting for me... Can't wait to record new audio tracks!

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