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In occasione di una splendida conferenza presso la locale Piazza Telematica (relatore Paolo Cavallini) abbiamo mappato la prima via di Schio.

Partiti!!!

Starting to map Hamilton, there is little to no data for my city. Should be fun.

Stage 1 of the new subdivision, Linden Grove, that I pass each day on my way to work finally got the street signage up this week. I biked around the streets with my GPS and logged them all and entered them into the map this afternoon. OSM is probably the first public map of these streets as the promotional information for the subdivision doesn't have the street names.

Hope I did it. Kinda tricky since I got
no boat and this is about waterways. I
fear that a waterway=lock_gate is still
missing... anyway, there was nothing like
this in the past. ;)

-knottytom

Some small additions today, beach of Hendaye and Lac de St Pée sur Nivelle
Streets in Cambo-les-Bains
River Bidassoa
Ile des Faisans (where was signed the "traité des Pyrénées"
Cemeteries in Souraïde - Cambo - Hendaye
Will continue later on
Thanks for updating image
regards
etxegarraia

I've started to use route relations for non-NCN cycle routes, such as the National Byway, and the Four Castles Cycle Route near Abergavenny. The concept fits really well. Just need to add a bit of Potlatch code to search for relations by name that aren't nearby...

Hoping to work further on ncn1 in Dartford area later this week. Think I can fill in some of the missing bits, but need the time to cycle there.

Have added a few roads from memory, will be doing more work on this area - Daphne knows area well & will get her to carry a GPS. Does seem to be a poor satellite signal there, so not all tracks are as accurate as would like. Am waiting on new GPS to come into stock - perhaps when this arrives will improve the tracks.

Had a quick (long actually!) look through the mapping done so far in Durham, Maidstone, Dartford & Swanley.
Think I've now corrected all the errors I made previously;
Pilgrims Way, have made a residential road again,
Birchwood Rd - now a road again.
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Other bits look okay now - if anyone reads & notices something wrong, let me know or i'll keep making the same mistake!

Ha, quite a few new lakes have been rendered. This keeps getting better. I hope to finish this project before June.

MapNav - для J2ME и GPS, mapnav.spb.ru
gpsVP - для Windows, garminmapsearch.com

During the last few months, I have done some start-up experiments trying to map my home area of southern Sunnmøre, Norway. However, I have noticed that in many places there is a mismatch between the pre-drawn coastline and the GPS traces. The mismatch seems to be quite consistent, approx. 50 meters too far north, and also a little too far west. However the coastline matches quite well the aerial maps (both Yahoo and Open Aerial), so I wonder if there is some systematic error in the software that produces this inaccuracy? Until I have more GPS tracks I can't rule out an error in the GPS tracks, so for now I will not edit the coastline. However this leaves the road 50 meters into the ocean many places, not quite desirable, so if someone has the capacity to make more tracks and verify the error, it would probably be a goood idea...

I noticed amillar's diary entry about hiding your home on GPS tracks so thought I'd mention a script I wrote to process GPX files:

http://public.subversion.nexusuk.org/projects/kismet-tools/trunk/gpx_trim.py

This lets you specify bounding boxes - any track segments starting or ending in the bounding boxes will be trimmed to remove the bits contained in the box. If the track just goes through the bounding box instead of starting/ending in it, it is left as-is.

Вече се вижда част от картата на Русе :)

At the Village "Blankenloch" north of Karlsrueh, there were already some streets and cycleways mapped by previous mappers. Last saturday, i took my bike to map the remaining streets and collecting street names. So, now that village should be complete regarding the streets. Still only very few POIs are mapped, and some street names are missing, too.

I have been mapping my hometown (Viña del Mar, Chile) for the last couple of weeks. It is a medium size metropolitan area with about eight hundred thousand people living on it, and I am the first one mapping the city in OSM!!!

Until today I did it with a GPS/Bluetooth gadget and my laptop running Navit (with logging configured in the configuration xml file) over Ubuntu 7.10 (It was a real PITS since the resulting gpx files didn't had the right sintax for OSM so I had to worked them to add a time tag, also I was limited to the laptop battery life), but today I found a really nice piece of free software for my Blackberry 8100. It is called bbTracker (http://www.bbtracker.org/). Once it is installed in your smartphone you have to configure it to connect to your Bluetooth GPS (It is not included with your BB but it's quite cheap, probably less than 50 dollars), and you start making tracks (showing you the advances in the screen of the BB), and export those tracks in a gpx file, fully compatible with OSM :) You can configure it to save the files in a folder of your SD card (I am saving it in the Video folder and works flawlessly) and then you can extract all your tracks with your preferred BB management software or a card reader (I just connect the BB with a USB cable and see it as an external drive).

Conclusion, no more laptops in the car (bulky, with the risk of being robed, with the risk of damaging the HD with the jumps, battery life limits, etc.), just my BlackBerry and the GPS/Bluetooth gadget that is even smaller than the smartphone.

Cheers

I'm mapping the town of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada. After uploading my tracks and adding my roads I like to see how it looks compared to some of the online commercial options. It's always satisfying to see errors in commercial road data when mine is right :) I've already found at least 3 gross errors that my map _won't_ have (especially roads going over water or through buildings). Here's one road I won't want to take (see imagery):
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.119953,-122.121813&spn=0.003538,0.009999&t=h&z=17

Hello all! I am Finnán Barry, and I am in Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland. I hope to be mapping out my sizable hometown over the coming weeks as part of my transition year.

I'm looking for tips and pointers. I'm not old enough to drive but I wish to partake in this map program. I currently have a BGT - 11 GPS, bike and enthusiasm.

this is a first shot at putting Mariensee on the map.
Using tracks seems to work. also tagging the streets and paths. Only problem is: the new map cannot be seen by the public. odd.