Went out for a 15 mile hike over the weekend, walked all around Balcombe via footpaths and bridleways and then went up to Cowdray forest and walked through to Tilgate Forest and park.

Lovely sunny day, so much so that I got sunburnt a bit. ;-)

Went to Mersea Island on Saturday and, using OSM on my Garmin, was surprised to find there was nothing mapped but the coastline. Not even the roads leading to it. Was able to fill in quite a few roads including the causeway onto the island and a couple of footpaths, and have use the aerial images to mark out a few bits of land use, Cudmore park and the village of West Mersea. I also used the aerial images to move the coastline in a few places where it was clearly wrong otherwise the roads and paths I was on would have been underwater!

Started adding my first roads in last night, after waiting a good 9 hours to upload my trace, then be told its invalid then convert it to the right format and reupload again (another 9 hours!)

anyways. I've started mapping the pencoed, heol y cyw, brynna area's (heol y cyw is practically complete apart from street names which i will collect over the next few weeks), and around 2/3 small streets which you are not allowed down. also theres a lot of water works in my area so many lanes I cannot drive down as they are closed for a few more weeks for maintance (and some are just so bad i'm avoiding till last)

even got some streets that no other major map provider has (yet, and since I live in wales will proberbly be another decade away unless they use this data!)

I must admit I get a great satisfaction from adding to the maps!

Glad to be part of this project ;)

I drove around Papendorp (near Utrecht) yesterday, and after the upload troubles I find that OSM tells me that the upload ws successful, but it is only showing up partially in the the Potlatch online editor. Guess I'll try and upload the track again, maybe in smaller subpieces, to see if that works. Bummer...

So this weekend I went a bit further afield. I've added Trapp and more of the roads which converge at Trapp. There is at least one missing though, so that needs adding later.

Also I've added the road which goes from Llanarthne to Paxton's Tower. It also goes past the Botanic Gardens before reaching the main road. I've left that little bit though as I need to gather more tracks before I complete that. So thats left for a future trip for now.

There is a second road from Llanarthne almost parallel to the one I added which is missing. To be honest though, there is so much missing in this area, that I guess its not too surprising really.

Also I added the concrete lumps at Oxwich and also the Pill Box which is hidden under the trees near the road. There are still a bunch of things missing here to such as the buildings on the beach and also the second set of toilets, the phone box at the cross-roads, the post box and probably more besides.

I've been mapping Waterloo by foot during the past couple of months (at a leisurely pace, mind you). I've only just managed to scratch the surface, mapping Uptown and the surrounding area. There is still plenty of work to be done! I won't be in Waterloo again until the Fall, so I am hoping others will start contributing this Summer. (I can't map this entire city by myself!)

I am in Guelph for the Summer and I'm hoping to have the downtown area mapped in the next month or so. There are no other active mappers presently in this city either, it appears, so again lots of work to be done. Activity in Canada seems to be slowly picking up though; hopefully in a few years this country will as active as those in Europe. :)

O sul começa a apanhar o resto do país.

o IP2 já tá até Alpalhão, corrigi algumas partes deste, Messines ate Lagoa também, ficam uns tracks do Algarve por fazer. Fica também por fazer as entradas da AE do SUL.

Ho iniziato a mappare Thiene e dintorni.
Ho inserito anche un paio di vie a San Vito di Leguzzano.

Filled the gaps in the N17, traced the R334 from Ballinrobe to Headford, completed the N84 in Ballinrobe and traced the R331 from Claremorris to Ballinrobe.

As a break from mapping my home town of Cramlington, I uploaded a short trace made aboard my canal boat cruising the Grand Union Canal.

Navigating a 57" (17m) boat along a narrow waterway is actually not that difficult as the typical speed is a mere 4mph (6km/h) and after 150 years of development, most hazards have been resolved. Although the UK canal network extends throughout country, a typical day's cruising may only encounter a junction every few days.

So, if navigational hazard avoidance and routing are easy peasy, what role is there for digital mapping and GPS?

Well, canals were planned in the 18th Century when roads were terrible and many towns did not exist. What may have been a busy coal mine wharf has been forgotten and is now the middle of nowhere. The feeling of traveling along a secret route is one of the main charms of canals, except when you run out of toothpaste need to find a shop on foot!

Mass market GPS navigation devices have useful Points of Interest, but usually omit waterways and public footpaths to concentrate solely on roads. Other digital maps may include canals, but exclude details such as bridges and locks which are used as reference points.

The ability to add domain specific features to the OSM map and then render the result for your needs is a killer feature, and one that got me started mapping cycle routes in Cramlington.

My short trace around Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal was limited to half an hour by the the rainy weather rather than the capacity of my Nokia N800, but logging once a second at 4mph gives impressively dense data points.

The current canal data is missing several sections from Norton Junction to Wedon Bec, but it's good to see that one of the best pubs I visited is mapped. The Narrow Boat on the A5 (Watling Street) is included, along with amenities such as pharmacies in nearby towns.

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Used output from the Export Tab for real today. Three strip maps of areas already mapped. Scaled to 1:15,000, saved as PDF and then printed at A4 (fit to page). Results are dead crisp and brilliant for subsequent micro-mapping of some details round Pickets Lock - the actual lock, not the stadium - then up the Lea Navigation towpath.
Now if only I can get waterproof paper to feed through my printer I would be able to read my annotations better - after being caught in drizzle for ages when out mapping!
Originally I thought the fact that the orangey selection box stayed there when you zoomed was annoying. Now realise it is so useful when patching a series of slight overlays together in this way.

Second trip to Saffron Walden on Friday. Completed the whole east side of the town and a swathe across the south. One more trip will complete the remaining south central and south-west parts of the town. Hopefully there'll be some time over to go back via Strethall and Elmdon and fill in that missing section of the ridge between SW and Royston (though they are such small villages, most of it is done already from NPE).

Started out from Linton and biked down the B road through Hadstock and Little Walden collecting details on the way, so this trip also significantly extends coverage south eastwards into Essex.

Plagued by wind noise on my microphone, so I missed one or two street names in SW which I'll have to go back to - unfortunately both in opposite extremities of the town.

Unfortunately the most recently processed GPS tracks are more than 6 hours old. So probably I have to wait until tomorrow to map my new tracks :-(

Hoje puz uma data de registos no servidor, vai me permitir fazer o IP desde o Algarve até Alpalhão mais umas coisas no alto alentejo e outros no litoral alentejano.

Também um track da N125. Espero ter a 125 até ao final de Maio.

Para a semana que estou de férias vou então dar a cenhecer o projecto ao IGP e ver se nos disponibilizam as fotos seria muito bom pricipalmente para o interior.

39 new traces loaded. Need to check Wetherby - York routes and Colsterworth area once they've processed.

I've mapped the N60 from Balla to Ballyhaunis. If I'm not mistaken, this completes the N60. I've also mapped most of the R320 from Swinford to Claremorris, some streets in Claremorris, the link roads from Knock to the bypass, and the road from Ballyvary to Manulla.

Later today I'm hoping to complete the N17.

On my way to Wakefield on Friday I discovered that the A1/A57 junction between Worksop and Retford is now open in it's new, grade separated form.

So on the way back last night I carefully orbited the roundabouts and got new traces and I've now provisionally rebuilt it in it's new form. We still need a trace for the southbound off slip from the A1 and the new northbound carriageway of the A1 (what I have put in is a guesstimate based on the new southbound carriageway that somebody had already captured).

Somebody also needs to work out what has happened to the B6420, which used to terminate on the A1 about where the southbound on slip now merges with it, so the B road has presumably been realigned, possibly to terminate on the eastern half of the new junction although I didn't notice a road coming in there.

After Mapping the industrial area and the eastern part of Stutensee-Friedrichstal, this plce should be complete regarding the streets, now. Added as much POIs as possible, but surely some are still missing.

Adding of streets in the city of Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg)

What happend to the edit option of the gps traces?
The first time I used it, the map zoom to the track in edit mode and the whole track was shown in the map.
Since some days when i use the edit option of a track, the map centers in the pacific ocean and no track is displayed.
This is not a problem of my tracks, I tried it already with tracks form others.
The tacks in the database work fine.