The local newspaper "Uusi Rauma" reported about me and my contribution to OSM. Because I mapped a big part of Rauma (Finnish westcoast), and I did it from the scratch, and I did it quite alone.

See http://www.ur.fi/epaper/766380857359663/ page 9.

Wife has a serious Geocaching dependency but when she is not using the gps60 ive started taking local tracks of Rothwell still a bit unclear on tags but i will try to find a better help file. Also need to figure out how to cut a road where it changes name!

RobD

Being an avid Openstreetmap fan and having a Openmoko Neo phone I needed some software to get OSM onto the phone. The result is [http://tangogps.org tangoGPS]. It runs on my Laptop (Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora), on the phone and reportedly on the eeePC too.

Quite practical for mapping is that you can start and stop logging tracks from the UI. If someone wants to check it out, I'll be happy for any feedback. On the website there are two articles how to track and how to geotag your digicam photos.

Decided I'd do stuff off The Mount on my way home today. It's pretty flat all the way with some gentle up and downs until it gets to about 200 yards from Frankwell where it's a good downhill. Leaving the road is a different story but it wasn't too bad.

I decided I'd take every road on the left, although I did a couple of cul-de-sacs anyway.

Once in town I headed up Claremont Bank, which was quite steep and recently made 2 way. Then a few little bits of that before I joined the Victoria Avenue (NCN81) in the Quarry Park.

Right, to tag up...

Today I mapped my first part of Horkheim. It works! I am very exited!

I've been spending some time fixing up bits of the Gower coastline by tracing the (rather fuzzy) yahoo photos. For the most part, leaving the existing natural=coastline way where it is (which should be roughly the high tide line... ish) and filling in each beach as two areas - one inside the coastline and one outside the coastline with a water=tidal tag. I've been using surface=sand/rocky/etc. to describe the type of ground.

At the moment they are also tagged with natural=beach but I favour deprecating this tag since it is rather ambiguous and the surface tag should give enough information about how to render it.

I've drawn the tidal bits of beach down to the water line shown in the yahoo photos, which seems to be a lowish tide for most of the area. But Swansea Bay seems to be photographed at high tide, so this will be harder (I'm not wading through that knee-deep mud at low tide with a GPS! :)

I walked round the lanes near Kensworth this morning, stopping off at Yogi Patel's newsagent (which I shall mark on the map) to get my Telegraph. The Garmin Forerunner 305 I use for my running seems to work very well, collecting a trackpoint every few seconds.

I have quite a few old traces in my Garmin from leaving it sitting on the dash as I do my normal business around the county, so I'm making a start on filling in the gaps in Mayo.

So far I have Westport's main streets, the N5 from Westport to Castlebar, a couple of the streets in Castlebar including the relief road, and several of the regional roads around Castlebar.

Coming up: more detail in Castlebar and Westport, roads to Ballina, and the N5 to Charlestown. Next week I should be able to complete the N5 to Longford.

I've just got home from work, which has taken me about 2.5 hours. Considering I live about 3 miles away, that's a really long time. Actually, my average speed was about 6 miles per hour because in that time I covered about 16 miles, probably ~6-8 of that is previously unmapped roads, and ~1 mile currently unmapped by Google.

I've also worked how a few existing roads join up, with some of the roads in between being easily done on my journey to work. Basically, it cuts off a mile of main road before I get onto NCN81, which takes me about 1/4 mile from work.

The battered fish fillets I bought from local shop are ridiculously expensive! £4.99 for 4, which turn out to be really tiny! Not impressed.

map map map! just starting mapping hamburg.
tomorrow i'll map berlin \o/

Continue mapping of Vladivostok: see vlmapper.blogspot.com (at russian).

So Cefn Bryn is not looking too bad now. Most major stuff is there bar a footpath which goes from the trig point near Arthur's Stone across to Oldwalls. There are a number of minor tracks still do to, and for those with webbed feet, a few streams too.

Mind you, Broad Pool was rather damp around the edges. The road isn't quite right as it passed broad pool. Not really enough points, but I've not moved it yet.

There are big blanks still in North Gower, so that might be a good place to look at next.

I've finally got the CartoType demo program for Windows Mobile 5 on-line: see www.cartotype.com for details. It's a 16MB download that contains the complete OSM map of the UK in compressed form.

It's not a polished app but shows that CartoType can render high-quality maps on demand on small devices.

Loveland, Ohio now features a bunch of subdivision points, thanks to this neighborhood map.

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(more about me)

osm.wiki/index.php/User:Mcguire

Moved from Accra to Nairobi and will continue to map a bit from aerials

Сделал второй трек: Тихая и Чуркин.

I will run out of fresh lakes (in the western part of Sweden) to map in a few weeks, as most of them are mapped by now. Almost all of the ones left are partly covered by clouds, which makes them hard to map correctly. More/renewed Yahoo imagery would really help.

Вчера снял свой первый трек, сегодня обработал - пока что вчерне. Добавил несколько основных улиц, озеро.

Finished off first run over Anglesea based on the out of copyright map imagery.

Done most of the residential areas of Conah's Quay based on Yahoo imagery.