One year old yesterday... seems like at least ten. Your mileage may vary whether this is a cause for celebration or commiseration, but I've enjoyed writing it, so far!

I'm just in Malaysia for a business trip and take the chance to sample some tracks from roads in areas which are still shown as jungle or plantation even on google earth and virtual earth :-)

A note to any and all budding OSM people in the Dewsbury area or indeed anyone using the national cycle network round here (route 66).

I have just been out surveying and am unhappy to report that the end of my latest trace should be tagged "trace terminated due to mugging". Seems the assualt by a group of youths, which was completely unprovoked on my part, was not for theft purely a random act of violence.

So just to repeat any OSMers in the Dewsbury area, be careful people.

Im just trying this out to see how it works.

Note: My target audience is anyone who wants to travel by bike across Canada
Mainly taking the Awesome Trans Canada Trail. What i have done is connected all of the official trail segments, (as the trail is not complete) and made it easier to get on and off the trail right across the country. My map is available online
AcrossCanadaTrails.blogspot.com

Iĺl update this page later once i learn more about this website.
Feel free to call me at 250 588 9041 if your in the area and perhaps you want to bike the Trans Canada Trail, i can certainly help you :)

Just back from the cycle ride - we aimed to get part of the the National Cycle Route 51

osm.wiki/index.php/Bletchley_to_Bedford_cycle_ride

Hopefully we have recorded all of that cycle route which exists. The round-trip distance (for me) was 65 miles. Shaun McDonald is (as of 8pm) setting-off for his return trip cycling back to Bletchley, so wish him luck getting back okay.

So today I headed out to map the remainder of the tracks in Mill Wood. There are still a number of footpaths there unmapped - I've no idea if they are "official" or not, so I thought it best just to stick to the tracks for now.

Also I discovered a path from Penrice through to Oxwich Marsh, so I'll have to go back at some stage to add that one too.

The actual location of the road near Mill Wood still seems to be the subject of some conjecture, so each time I go down there I'll try to upload a new trace so that eventually it should be more obvious where it really is. Its a really nice place to go walking, so that I don't mind repeated visits. The one downside is the road though - today I met traffic coming the other way for the first time, not just one car either, but several convoys of cars so I think I won't try visiting again on a weekend in the Summer. I don't think my nerves can take it! :-)

I noticed that there are more bits of Reynoldston still to do as I headed home that way. Now that I have a track of that alternate route, I've been able to add the Police Station and correct where that road meets the main road, so that it comes out opposite the track from Mill Wood.

soll bitte die strassennamen eintragen.

und nicht alles in einem zeichnen, da das oft verschidene strassen sind

Took delivery of my cheapy bluetooth GPS from eBay this week. I'm using it with a Nokia 6120 phone, and the Nokia SportsTracker. Can't figure out how to do waypoints, so when I reach a major junction, I continue on one road for a few hundred metres, then do a u-turn and go back to the other road.

There's a huge hole between the N20 and the N24, and this week I've traced and mapped much of the R511, R512 and R513 going south out of Limerick, as well as some of the R roads heading East to West. I'm hoping to map all of the R roads and many of the tertiary roads in East Limerick and North Cork over the next few months, as my work takes me all over those areas. I'm also going to try and improve the streets in Limerick city where I live, although my GPS doesn't work so well when walking.

This stuff is pretty addictive!

Yesterday i _used_ the map for routing the first time. I went past a Shop i wanted to go to later and simply used Navit to "Set as Destination". Later i let navit (http://navit-project.org) bring me back where i want. While using i found more bugs in the map (streets not beeing connected but rather drawn near each other) and tons of "untagged" paths which were streets but navit wouldnt use them.

Flo

I've finally figured out how to get my NaviGPS BGT-31 working and saving data. It's great! I can get a decent signal while it's in my pocket or in the top pocket of my bag. That should make it easier to record lots and lots of tracks. I've ordered a 1GB membory card. Although the inbuilt memory can store 20,000 points, it'll only really store 8,100 points as a 'trace', that you can download. That's about 2 hours mapping.

Anyways after a bit of fiddlying to clean up the GPX trace in JOSM () I've uploaded my first trace (). :D Yay! I can see what's addictive about mapping!

I have been adding some detail to my local village and the ones nearby. Added some major roads that link the villages and added my favourite walk to the pub footpath. I just got hold of a Garmin 705, so I am now planning on doing more.

Well another weekend, another tracklog...

This time I've added some more roads in Carmarthenshire, and Dryslwyn Castle, plus the bridge over the Towy/Tywi. Need to get some more tracks to sort out the remainder of the National Botanic Garden of Wales junction of the A48, but there is just enough there already to make it recognisable at least.

Still lots of roads missing in this area, so I plan to take a slightly different route each time I visit in future to see how many I can fill in :-)

I now have gosmore running on my TGPS 375 with a map of Pretoria and Johannesburg. It's already quite pretty and will look even better with rotated text. Then I'll be able to easily verify the map as I go.

The TPGS 375 is an entry level SatNav device running WinCE 4.2 that should cost no more than R1,000 = Euro 100, if you can still find it in the stores.

Just a quick note, my NaviGPS BGT-31 arrived today from Storage Depot. I am suprised at how quickly it arrived. I've got some hacking a poking to do now. :) I'm looking forward to making a proper contribution to OpenStreetMaps, instead of just tracking aerial images.:)

Everything south of village centre is now completed to footpath level.

I've noticed this week that changes don't seem to be appearing in the osmarender layer. Looking at the server status pages it looks like there is a large backlog (30,000 requests). There are also some changes I made a few weeks ago which still aren't rendered at all at lower resolutions. Is it the case that we have reached the point where there are simply more people editing openstreetmap.org, but without a corresponding increase in the number of people willing to render tiles? If so, what can be done about it? Do we just need more people to volunteer their CPU time to keep up?

I noticed that Deelkar expressed some concerns about osmarender a few weeks ago, especially concerning the hardware requirements for rendering the more complicated tiles - these can take up to 12GB of RAM to render, which is more than most people have available. It seems that the osmarender infrastructure is creaking at the seams, I'm not one of the developers but wonder what (if anything) I can do to help. I find osmarender really useful as a preliminary check of my edits, it usually flags up a few issues that require tweaking before Mapnik renders those changes on a Wednesday.

Spent a pleasant day yesterday in Ireland. Drove from Shannon to Galway and back and picked up some alternative routes that hadn't been mapped yet. Also a few residential and other streets in Galway itself as well as generally tweaking roads in the area. A couple of observations from the trip, the rural roads in Ireland are as bumpy as hell and a lot more streets don’t have a name than I am used to. Galway seemed to have many small private housing estates where the name of the estate is the name of the road and the format of signage different in each case.

It is it. ;)

Two Mountainbiketoures around Berlin-Spandau

I went for a walk photographing street names, then I uploaded the GPS traces for my wife's running routes. When I started to edit the map it raised more questions than it answered, so I'll need to do some more fieldwork.

I noticed that the outline of Williamson Park is very approximate. I'll try to walk the boundary sometime. Also I noticed that the location of the canal where it passes underneath the A6 isn't right. This area needs to be re-worked.