Completed Newmarket today, with a couple of hour's surveying, and then just checking up on a few outstanding questions from previous visits. Newmarket is about 15,000 people, and it took about 14 hours of surveying time, over four sessions, not counting travel time, so that's pretty much par. Editing is taking me longer these days, maybe I'm putting in more detail. Did my second continuous audio and used the new JOSM facilities to play the results back - worked very effectively.

Apart from the odd tiny cul-de-sac on the outskirts of the town, Prestbury is mapped!

Wieder ein Dorf im Grundsatz erfaßt: Calberlah ist mehr oder weniger fertig. Was fehlt, sind natürlich all die "kleinen" Verbesserungen wie Bushaltestellen, Post, Apotheke usw. usf.

Strassen dort sind fertig.

-knottytom

Bin mit den Strassen in diesem Ort durch.

Gruesse,
knottytom

A few days ago, I failed as an OSMer.
I mean, what's our only ;-) purpose in life? To provide our fellow citizens with map data so they can find their destinations.
I was biking in my neighbour town Bernhausen to fill in some missing street names. It was already dark and getting colder, but hey, that shouldn't keep anybody from mapping. ;-)
I was standing on the side of the street with my bike, writing down some street names, when a car pulled beside me. I could tell from the license plate that they were not from the region.
They asked me where a certain street was. And I couldn't tell them! I could tell them that it was not in this part of the town, but that didn't help much. When they said that a certain school was nearby, I could give them instructions how to get there, though.
So maybe I only failed half. ;-)
No need to say that the street they were asking for is now in OSM. :-)

I've been mapping for a while roads around Sevilla. I've been tracing yahoo and using the references in http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/obraspublicasytransportes/www/jsp/estatica.jsp?pma=8&ct=1&e=carreteras/red_autonomica_carreteras/red_autonomica_carreteras.html and http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/obraspublicasytransportes/www/jsp/estatica.jsp?pma=8&ct=1&pmsa=0&e=carreteras/red_autonomica_carreteras/../red_provincial_carreteras/red_provincial_carreteras.html to name the roads. Roads are classified using the criteria in the Spanish Mapping features.

Having bought a Nokia N810, which makes it easy to add waymarks, I revisited using continuous sound tracks in JOSM this week, meaning I don't have to have wires draped across my handlebars, nor keep pressing the pause button. Ideally I'll use a bluetooth mic and record on the N810 in future, but the sound quality isn't good enough that way yet.

So, I've reimplemented the rudimentary audio support in JOSM to thread the audio player, supply the usual controls, synchronise with waypoints and allow for a sampled set of waypoints when you can't create them explicitly, and to have a play head which follows your track in JOSM in real time. It makes audio mapping much easier both while surveying and while entering data.

Two further trips to Newmarket on 6th and 15th February completed firstly the industrial and residential areas of Studlands Park and the area east of Exning Road over to the river valley carrying NCN51, and then the village of Exning. Not only were the existing roads there woefully incomplete, but what was there was significantly wrong as well: wrong names and deviant tracks. Corrected now.

Secondly, completed the rather more sparse area of east and north east Newmarket: the large number of stables and studs mean that residential development is not very dense along Ely Road (A142) and Bury Road (the old A11 road). Moving round to the south-east, however, density increased again on the rising ground behind the town.

Battery on my Nokia N8109 ran out on both trips after 4 hours 10 minutes. Biked home after the first session via NCN51 all the way - it's a long way round and I got back exhausted. Second trip I did bus both ways, and the timing was perfect. However it does leave an area called Crockfords Park south of the railway and the old town south of the High Street still outstanding. One more trip will probably complete the town.

I'm gearing up for some hopefully serious mapping.

I've configured my Asus EeePC to use an USB bluetooth dongle, and connected a GPS receiver to it. I have set up gpsbabel to record and convert my tracks and I will be driving around the city mapping the streets as much as I can in the next few months.

Early today I uploaded my first "test" trace which is just a stationary GPS track received by sticking out the GPS receiver through my office's window. I will be making my first true drive later today.

I'm also looking forward to getting more acquainted with JOSM.

From a few days worth of mapping, I've made a number of minor updates to the map, mainly centering around new features, the odd new road, and a couple of minor realignments (mainly of roads I've submitted).

However, I was able to travel on a new stretch of the A1 Northbound around Grantham, which is part of the major roadworks to replace many roundabouts with proper junctions. I wasn't able to survey the new slip roads, nor the new bridge, but I've re-routed the A1 Northbound to reflect the new path of the road. At the time of travel, the southbound A1 still goes to the roundabout, although that will soon change.

Most of the other roundabouts on the Peterborough to Blyth stretch of the A1 are still in place right now, but it will be interesting to watch as the map gets updated.

more mapping yesterday (not sure how much) and today (15 miles).

Wednesday afternoon saw me ride to Belgrave and fill in gaps between my stuff there from Tuesday and what was there already, and then I went north of Gipsy Lane and did bits and pieces there as well. There's still a lot to do here, but the gap is narrowing.

Thursday afternoon, I mapped the West End of Leicester. This, like much of the Belgrave Road area, is a densely built-up area of terraced housing, and consequently is very intensive to map. I did nearly the entire section east of Fosse Road and north of the railway line.

After mapping Lake Toya [osm.org/?lat=42.6093&lon=140.8445&zoom=12&layers=B0FT] in Japan where the next Top G8 take palce, I started draw some rivers in Chile south of Osorno ([osm.org/?lat=-40.44&lon=-73.061&zoom=12&layers=B0FT])

Took a nice walk yesterday down the coastal path linking Paignton Harbour, Goodrington and Broadsands beaches and managed to map in most of the various side paths and tracks down to the different bays and beaches along the way. This linked in very well with some recent work done by "I Like Cats" on the Broadsands to Brixham section of the path.

My main bug bear is that the coastline doesn't seem to be very accurate and with lots of cliffs and rocky inlets I'm not really going to be able to improve it very much.

Also managed to extend the steam railway line as far as Churston. Probably going to have to wait for the railway to re-open after their Winter break before the remainder of the line to Kingswear can be mapped in.

Working with JOSM I recently stumbled often on orphaned nodes scattered in the Data Layers (which I downloaded from OSM). These are often located near or on streets (which sometimes are mapped) and have no tags.

Example: http://enjoys.it/stuff/OSM_orphandots.png

What should I do with those, delete them?

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Hi all.
I feel excited about this project so next days I will begin to map some streets and quarters of Málaga :)

I decided to write something in my diary every now and then because I don't want to think one day "Hmm, when was my first edit? When did I finish my home town? When have I last been to ...? Can't remember!"
(I know, you probably never really finish mapping any place. ;-) )

As far as I can tell, I made my first edit on January 22, 2008.
Although this is less than 4 weeks ago, it already seems very long to me as I think I've already mapped quite a bit of ground.
I'm primarily taking care of a part of Filderstadt which is south of the Stuttgart airport in Germany. There are some other people around me mapping as well.
Luckily, we have Yahoo maps of this area which really makes work much easier although there have already been changes here and there, naturally, since these images were taken (which was in 2005 or even 2004).

This afternoon I did 13.8 miles of mapping, which is about as much as I've done in a single session. St Matthew's was ticked off the list, as well as the Syston Street/Cobden Street industrial areas. I started going up the Belgrave/Catherine Street ladder but didn't quite link up with the existing stuff there.

Day off tomorrow. Thursday will probably be West End mappage.

After 1 month i managed to have a render form the tracklog...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DTI3HVz5BQ