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I am finishing up my project to make a map of Clonmel soon as I have to get back to working in school starting Monday. I have not gotten every single point in town but I have all main and important roads, along with most estates surrounding.

I did not have a huge amount of time left by the end of the week so I do not have a lot of street names in, but I am putting up what little I managed to find over the last day or two. I will be finishing up now by adding my geotagged images (I am having a few minor problems with them) but that will be my last contribution to OSM for quite some time at least.

A big thanks to my Dad who introduced me to OSM and helped me along the way when needed.

Slán agus gurbh míle math agat gach duine,
Finnán Barry

Location: Greenan, Clonmel West Urban, The Borough District of Clonmel, County Tipperary, Munster, Ireland
Posted by nogueira on 18 April 2008 in English.

Actualmente non podo editar osm (non teño internet na casa) pero si que estou a recoller trazas.

Ata agora non as subía para non meter basura pero como vexo que estan aparecendo veciños activos creo que é millor que as suba.

Me queda revisalas para ver cales están ben, así que en breve espero que as teñades dispoñibles.

Un saúdo!!

Posted by Steve Hill on 18 April 2008 in English.

Summer has arrived (although still rather cold around here :) and it's time to get outdoors and do some rock climbing.

But I discovered that there seems to be no way to tag crags, routes, etc (well, there's the sport=climbing tag, but how to use it is rather ambiguous). So I've started putting together a set of tags:
osm.wiki/index.php/Proposed_features/Climbing

Representing vertical features is quite a difficult problem - at the moment I have opted to just mark the start of each route with a single node. However, I'm not sure how to show the difference between a path leading to the start of the route and one leading to the end - maybe the solution is to allow the use of ways to show the route, even though the start and end will often be practically on top of each other.

Posted by Nuno José on 18 April 2008 in English.

3º dia de cartografia de Vila Franca de Xira. Já vai bastante adiantada, só vou fazendo as ruas que tenho a certeza. Este fim de semana in loco fotografar todas as ruas para acabar a cidade e fica pronta. Quero também por muitos POIs.

third day in Vila Franca de Xira. Almost done this weekend to finish the minor streets and take pictures. Also to add last POIs.

Posted by Jonnybob on 18 April 2008 in English.

Traced some more gpx files in Brantford, something isnt right with my GPS though, some streets are too close together (Albion and Pearl). Also, traced another route between Brantford and Ancaster (Jerseyville Road) quite a fun drive in the winding roads.

Fied up the roads in Ancaster I was missing, still not all of the subdivisions are in though, seems like a new one pops up all the time. Drove out to Sulphur Springs and Mineral Springs Road, ignored all the compaining my car did, again fun with the winding dirt roads. These ones could have been traced off the Aerial but due to tree density, connecting the dots would have taken quite the imagination. Just easier with the gpx.

Location: Clearview, Hamilton, Golden Horseshoe, Ontario, Canada
Posted by BlueMM on 17 April 2008 in English.

I've been tracing Yahoo! imagery in Potlatch for a while now, and have really gotten the hang of Potlatch. I'd like to get into JOSM, but find the interface has a bit of a learning curve (just like Potlatch). It might be my connection, but I find I have to keep pressing the "data wasn't updated" warning icon in Potlatch, and it gets very annoying. I don't have a GPS yet, so it's tracing all the way.

I have successfully setup JOSM and downloaded an area. Also worked out how to get Yahoo! imagery through Firefox.
The problem is, I can't seem to get JOSM to remember the background Y! image between sessions. This is annoying since I do little bits at a time, and would prefer to come back and continue editing without needed to download the Y! images again...

Posted by Otterylexa on 17 April 2008 in English.

I've spent several hours this afternoon and this evening getting to know JOSM. Most of the effort went into tracing routes and areas from Yahoo Aerial images in the Riberac and Bourg-des-Maisons areas of Perigord, France (24320). Also made a few changes to the map for Risinghurst (which has much better images). I still can't get my head around the interface for Potlatch though.

The bluetooth gps unit I bought on ebay should be arriving tomorrow, so watch this space. I'll certainly be taking it with me when I go to France in two weeks time.

Posted by oscarBravo on 16 April 2008 in English.

Several smaller roads around Castlebar, the N26 from Ballina to Foxford, the R310 from Ballina to Castlebar, the roads from Balla and Bohola to Kiltimagh and from Kiltimagh to Kilkelly and Knock... all pretty much done.

I'm tracing in the Westport and Ballina railway lines from the overhead imagery, but it's hard to get them accurate. I might have to get a train to Dublin sometime, and I'll bring the GPS.

More streets and local roads as I travel them...

Location: Moyhenna, Manulla Electoral Division, Castlebar Municipal District, County Mayo, Connacht, Ireland

Vielleicht kennt jemand von Euch diese Papier Rollenspiele, man hat ein Buch
mit ganz vielen Seiten und dann ist dort eine Situation beschrieben ala: "Der
Drache greift dich an", und mehrere Möglichkeiten zu regagieren: Wenn du
fliehen willst lese auf Seite 24, Wenn du ihn ein Schlaflied singen willst
auf Seite 130 und wenn du kämpfen willst gehe zu Seite 93.
(vgl. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spielbuch)

Ich hab in der letzten Zeit etwas Zeit damit verbracht in Hamburg bei Behörden
nach Daten für OSM zu fragen, und komme mir etwas in das Medium versetzt vor,
nur das man statt Seitenzahlen Telefonnummer bekommt, die man mal probieren
kann (Begegungen mit Guten Feen und bösen Drachen erlebt man dort allerdings
auch :-))

Trotzdem hatte ich Erfolg: Das in Hamburg-Neugraben geplante Neubaugebiet NF65
ist jetzt schon in OSM drinn (mit Straßennamen) dabei sind die Straßen noch
nicht mal offiziell gewidmet, das Gebietsverzeichnis dürfen wir für OSM
benutzen ( http://svenanders.openstreetmap.de/hamburg-stat/ )

Zur Nachahmung also wirklich empfohlen!!!

Gruß
Sven

Location: Vogelkamp Neugraben, Neugraben-Fischbek, Harburg, Hamburg, 21147, Germany
Posted by HannesHH on 16 April 2008 in English.

The last few months spent a lot of time into mapping the western parts of Hamburg, Germany by bike and foot. Now the map is in a state where most streets and ways are present.

And since I feel like a proud daddy for this region I want to "maintain" it. I want to be able to track any changes, I want to be able to see who did what when. I want to be able to discuss, compare, revert.

Searching through the wiki (painful these days, couldn't someone make a browsable static copy of the pages it until the performance issues are solved? I'd volunteer to host it.) I could not find any way to do this. But maybe there is?

Location: Blankenese, Altona, Hamburg, 22587, Germany