Went out mapping with LouisaParry around East Leeds as part of PaulBrook's micro-mapping party.

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/804678/

Hi,

I've started to track my walks and car trips with the Garmin device which I've recently bought. So far I'm quite happy with it, but I still have to learn a lot about map making.

As I'm using a Mac I wonder if there is a way to reasonable download data from the device without having to start my Windows emulator?

I've found out that you can switch the device in settings to behave like a USB disk and hence you can download the tracks you recorded from that device. This of course will only work if you set the track saving options to "Chip" (at least that's what I think... good luck).

However, you can only download tracks, but not waypoints (and I've inserted a lot of them...). Does anybody have some experience with Garmin and Mac? Googling did not find suitable tools yet.

Furthermore, I cannot upload the POIs from Garmin - the POI loader does not like the format - don't laugh...

Cheers,
Werner

I have a landuse/forest which is a big area.
In this I have a small area (wild fields) around a river.
There are no trees because it's wet.
I wand to name the small area "Hengstbachaue" but the renderer puts this name to the forest around. See
osm.org/?lat=50.03428&lon=8.64144&zoom=15&layers=B00FT

How can I put tags, so the area is named correct?
Wieland

I began tu put gps traces because I finally got my i-Blue747 :-) gret gps receiver even if it is my second one so I have not so much knowledge to judge...
Anyway I am tracing the route we did on 19-06-08 by bike with the people of palermociclabile!
I uploaded also a little route my sister did to Mondello just to see how much good precision the mtk chip has under trees :P
Now I have to understand how can I translate those traces to something usefull...

Hallo, bin ein Neuling. Hab in unserem Ort das ein und das andere getrackt, mit JOSM bearbeitet und übertragen. Nun aber meine Probleme: Die Straßen sind nicht in Maplink zu sehen, nur in der OSM karte. Desweiteren sind nicht alle geetzten Punkte (Kirchen, Playgound) zu sehen? Watt is da falsch ?
Über Hilfe und Tipps würde ich mich freuen.
f-grande

Soderle, dann versuche ich mal mein Glück und hoffe das Projekt
unterstützen zu können !
Leute die aktiv mitmachen möchten sind herzllich eingeladen !
Lindlar wird in den kommenden Monaten dann hoffentlich immer weiter
erfasst und komplettiert...

So langsam kann man was erkennen. Einige Strassen aus dem Stadtkern und dem alten Neubaugebiet sind fertig, aber es ist noch einiges zu tun.

Graupa etwas ergänzt. August-Röckel-Ring und Umgebung. Richard-Wagner-Museum. Leider weiss ich nicht, wie man die Straßen/Wege korrekt klassifiziert und wie man Wege signiert (Punkte,Linien,Farben). Das was ich bisher in der Hilfe fand, war mir noch nicht hilfreich genug. Hilfe ist willkommen.

Started tracing out GPS tracks uploaded, photographs also uploaded to Flickr if anyone wants to browse or help out adding in roads.

Daniel Glassey and I started on Royston, Hertfordshire, yesterday, a market town of some 15,000 people (probably more now as there is a lot of new housing since the 2001 census). We completed the northern part of the town, north of the old A505 road, the old Icknield Way roman road. That leaves about a third to do (the hilly part!) next week hopefully.

Havde GPS'en med på den lille 4,3km tur i Åbenrå bjerg marathon arrangementet, så jeg fik mappet et par stier og veje i Åbenrå centrum.

Last weekend I had a great ride with Etienne (80n), Graham (marinheiro) and Simon Welshie) on the London to Brighton Bike Ride. We got two villages mapped on route and had a thoroughly fine day. Read my report and get the kml/gpx and other stuff from http://ajr.hopto.org/osm/L2B/London%20to%20Brighton%20Bike%20Ride%202008.pdf oh and its not too late to make a donation to the British Heart Foundation.

I got a new GPS receiver, the iBlue 747 (apparently also known as a BT747). It is a small receiver and logger with no display. It can record to memory, and also has both USB and Bluetooth interfaces.

It is much more accurate than my previous GPS, the Magellan GPS Companion on a Palm V. The old one takes several minutes to get a signal lock (up to 5 or 10 minutes when moving), can't receive a signal inside a house or most buildings, and has large variations (like 10 to 20 meters) in repeated readings of the same location. In the car, it needed to be on the dashboard with the best possible view of the sky to get any decent readings.

The 747 is much quicker and more accurate. It always has a lock within 30 to 45 seconds, even when moving. It has good reception indoors, and is much more consistent from one reading to the next. In the car, it gets just as good readings as the old GPS when it is in my pants pocket, and on the dashboard it is very accurate. It looks like it is a little better in the downtown "urban canyons" too.

I've been using it mostly as a stand-alone logger, and downloading the tracks by USB. I definitely missed the sattelite display at first, to know if I was getting good reception. I quickly came to find that I didn't need it with the 747 like I needed it on the Magellan; the 747 "just works" without lots of adjustment and positioning.

I have tried a few Java apps on my S-E Z525 bluetooth cellphone, but I haven't liked any yet. The biggest problem is the phone has a short battery life running Java and bluetooth, and I can't stop the screen dimmer. GpsMid looks nice, but it doesn't recognize my GPS over the bluetooth. TrekBuddy works fine, but I find that with the 747's built-in logging, I just don't need an interface much.

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wollte mal fragen, ob sich irgendwer um das nördliche Waldviertel kümmert. Werde mal die Sachen eingeben, die ohne GPS gehen.

Einen GPS Empfänger kann ich mir von einem Arbeitskollegen ausborgen und wenn ich wieder im Waldviertel bin werde ich da mal fleißig aufzeichnen.

Aber gemeinsam macht es doch immer mehr Spass als alleine.

I just improved the Bole area a little ... especially the roundabouts near the airport and the bridge.

Ich bin heute etliche Straßen zwischen Freiheitsring und Uesdorfer Straße abgelaufen und habe sie in OSM erfasst. Außerdem habe ich noch zwei "Seitenarme" der Werner-Erkens-Straße aufgenommen.

Als nächster Mapping-Bereich ist das Gebiet zwischen Uesdorfer und Krankenhausstraße geplant. Auch im Bereich Fridtjof-Nansen-Straße muss ich noch mal ran.

Ich habe mit Freude gesehen, dass sich "Tybi" des Gebietes Buschbell angenommen hat. Zusammen mit "ElDiabolo" in Königsdorf entwickelt sich der Frechener Norden gut.

Die südlichen und westlichen Bereiche von Frechen fehlen bisher leider völlig, vielleicht finden sich da ja auch noch ein paar Mapper.

I did GPS-Tracking in Ratingen, Eggerscheidt and Hösel yesterday.

Added new streets in Ratingen Hösel (south) to the OSM-Map.

Aufnahme von GPS-Tracks in Ratingen, Eggerscheidt und Hösel.

Neue Straßen in Ratingen Hösel (Süd) hinzugefügt.

black_bike

Going bushwalking with awesome tomorrow. We'll add some more tracks around Bellbird Grove in Brisbane Forest Park. And, I might even leave my gps on this time. :)

Deutsche Botschaft-Compound und Umgebungsstraßen neu aufgenommen

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Newbie mistake I'm sure... I started plotting the location of Highway 101 based on my collected GPS data before the map had completely rendered... and found out afterward that the highway was already on the map. I deleted the properties (name, road number, classification) of the offending add, but can't seem to make it go away entirely.