So anyway, I've got Mapnik working and I'm starting to play with setting up contour data (and wow, that needs serious amounts of disk space!)

One thing that's bugging me though, is how to get OpenLayers to use degrees for the permalink? OSM itself seems to do it, but my code (and the OSM cycle map) don't... I tried swiping the "new OpenLayers.Map()" usage from OSM but it's still not happening...

Une première entrée de journal bien simple pour vérifier le fonctionnement, ou si les liens marchent, notamment vers le wiki.

CCL : Pas de lien type wikipedia, mais aucun formalisme requis pour les liens http.

More detailing of the land North of Headington way this lunchtime, after filling in the maze of pedestrian access around The Croft over the middle of this week (difficult, but rewarding: high walls, trees, and sunken footpaths make my n810's GPS unhappy, so multiple passes are sometimes necessary). I now want to capture the modern extent of the ancient Cuckoo Lane running down to Marston Lane and the new Centre for Islamic Studies . As ever, headington.org.uk has history, photos and out of copyright (-looking) maps:

http://www.headington.org.uk/history/headington_hill/cuckoo_lane.htm
http://www.headington.org.uk/history/headington_hill/cuckoo_lane_west.htm

Will try to do and upload some traces of Magstadt in the next weeks.

Got my Nokia N800 the day before yesterday (March 4th). It is AWESOME !

Of course the 3 first things that I did with it: Updated the firmware for OS2008 (much nicer than OS2007), downloaded Maemo Mapper and downloaded all the maps of Sao Paulo (my hometown) into it.

New thoughts: I might release my java applet in the open, since now I want to mess with Maemo Mapper... It only downloads the bitmaps, it would be realy helpfull if it got the vector map from OSM and provided on the fly routing (couldn't manage to get routing working in Sao Paulo, only if I manually create the route points, but where's the fun in THAT !).

Cheers,
Diogo

I think Japan nearly has a complete error free coastline... the coastline error checker is only doing very sporadic updates though, so it's hard to be sure.

Spent some time this morning doing some improvement on the coastline in HK using the higher res Yahoo imagery available there. Some of what was there was very roughly traced.

I bought a new gps logger: http://www.transystem.com.tw/p-gps-iblue747.htm

Finished off an area north of the Bank of England today and yesterday. Very confusing warren of mainly pedestrian alleyways, many of which tunnel their way through large buildings and all of which are at the bottome of deep urban canyons so the GPS is useless. Mostly I've had to locate them on the map by relation to other ways and with some help from the Yahoo ariel pictures, so they should be topologically correct but may not be in exactly the right place if surveyed.

Added a few more road names near home at the weekend and also paid a visit to Amersham so was able to add in a couple more roads and paths over there. The map is pretty sparse in that area.

...

I've been trying to set up Mapnik, but I've hit a problem...

Trying to import the coastlines with shp2pgsql gives me errors:

INSERT INTO "shoreline_a" ("error","tile_x","tile_y",way) VALUES ('0','17','286','SRID=900913;0106000000010000000103000000010000000200000000000060307C71C1522159370A6F604100000060307C71C1522159370A6F6041');
ERROR: geometry requires more points

Followed by lots of:

ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block

This is running under CentOS 5.1 with postgis-1.3.2-1.el5.rf - can't see any useful references to this error in Google though. :(

When using potlatch it seems Yahoo is trying to gather my phone number as well as my credit card info, so my firewall warns me. Running ethereal on the PPPoe shows a lot of interesting activity as well. Not much idea what it means but very entertaining.
Have no idea why they would need my credit card, kind of eerie.

Today I accidentally deleted a relation. Comparing an older version (a part extracted from europe.osm.bz2 with osmosis) with the current one in two JOSM windows, I was able to find the relation.

It was (timestamp is wrong):

The recreated one is #6'384

I hope this is alright.

I bought a cheap GPS on EBay. I got a Palm Vx with a Magellan GPS companion attachment for ten dollars. By PDA standards the Palm Vx is completely obsolete, but it works fine as a GPS data logger.

The accuracy is pretty good. I have no way of measuring it explicitly, but it usually matches Yahoo aerial photos and Google Earth within a few feet. That is for open skies, either from my jacket pocket while bicycle riding or on the dashboard of the car. Looking at my tracks in Google Earth, it does correctly match the parking space in which I parked the car at the shopping center. Scary.

It didn't come with any software, so I'm using cotoGPS as the track logging software and converting it to GPX with gpsbabel. It appears that all the Palm-related GPS or map commercial software companies are no longer selling the products now.

Just got back from a week of skiing in Verbier. Snow conditions weren't great so most of the time was spent on the upper slopes. My GPS (eTrex Venture) will only store 2048 points, so I had it set to record a point "least often" - I didn't take a computer with me to download the points to, so I got about 2.5 days' worth of data for the end of the week.

I've mapped the tracks I've got - lots of the upper lifts and pistes, including the black mogul run from Mont Fort (which I ended up doing in white-out conditions (!). I'll try and get tracks from one of the snowboarders in the group who was downloading the contents of his GPS every day, which should cover much more of the Verbier pistes, right down to the bottom of the Medran lift.

Sadly, Mapnik and Osma don't render pistes, although the chairlifts, gondolas and cablecars are rendered (is anyone rendering the pistes on another server? Maybe I should set one up...). I've tagged the tracks as proposed by osm.wiki/index.php/Proposed_features/Piste_Maps so drag lifts are marked as piste:lift rather than arielway.

When I first came to OSM, jeez, perhaps THREE whole weeks ago, Southport, my hometown, was pretty much an empty void on OSM. I made the obvious joke on a number of occasions.

Because OSM is a pretty much entirely awesome, it looks like someone (called Dave Edwards) has been adding bits since then (or he added them before but I ignored them because they weren't in my bit of Southport) and I got itching to start helping out over there too. But I've been too busy over here to make the pilgrimage back to the 'port to collect GPS traces - so I thought I'd have a look at the NPE maps instead.

Around my mum and dad's house (my home for 18 years) in the east of Birkdale, things haven't changed much in the last 50 years (obvious joke number 2) so it was easy to get my bearings. I got up tracing pretty quickly and could remember all the local road names off the top of my head, and could add in other things like mini-roundabouts and Post Offices etc too. I had to double-check a couple of pub names with my mum but aside from that, it was easy going.

After I mapped the immediate area around them, I started mapping in other bits I know like the back of my hand - around friends' houses, schools and pubs I went to etc. It's nowhere near comprehensive yet but I've got a lot of the bigger roads around Birkdale in now.

I'll double-check all the positioning when I go over with a GPS unit in a few weeks but at least Southport is looking a bit less empty now - and it's a start. I've also marked everything as source=npe so if some GPSer comes along before I get to check it, then they'll know to trust their positioning rather than mine.

I've done extensive reworking of "my area" of the Upper Valley of the Connecticut River on the New Hampshire - Vermont Border. What a mess! Tiger was dropped as a layer over my previously uploaded data. Think I may have sorted a lot of it out, though no doubt a good amount is left to be done, getting a neck ache from it all. I guess my wish would be for Tiger not to be reintroduced in this area anytime soon. Tried to keep what was best of both datasets. One way to keep editors happy is to not nuke "their" data. Tiger had (and has) many significant errors here. Naming is one, missing new construction, and a spectacular mis-conflation of a major roadway, all in a days fun for Tiger, seems as Tiger has updated there data possibly from O.S.M. in one instance noted. On another note I notice the online applet editor know has copyright data from Navteq and Tele Atlas. Thought they were evil incarnate, at least according to the talk digest. Guess it's only a matter of time before forking private and getting all that free editor content and making money off of it. Perhaps they could pay me to enhance O.S.M. data.

Over the past week or so I've labelled the streets on my commute and some of the parks, schools, churches and shops in my local area. I'll add more detail before marking out further so at least my local area has some detail.

Since three days, I've started mapping Mons using bike & car.
This quite interesting, because it give you a purpose when going to a one hour ride.
I hope I will be able to ginish the city in one or two weeks ....

Well, that's it. I've completed the vehicle-centric map of the Cathedral City of Armidale. No foot- or bike-paths as yet so let's just declare it to be Phase 1 completed.

osm.wiki/index.php/WikiProject_Australia#NSW.2FNorthern_Tablelands