Uzzīmēts Upesciems, kā arī Ziemeļnieki, Padebeši u.c. sīkciemi tajā rajonā

Uzzīmēju Langstiņus pilnībā, izņemot Sakaru ielu - nevaru pagaidām saprast, kura no divām mašīnu nobrauktām sliedēm tā ir :)

Visas ielas cītīgi nobraukāju ar riteni- sanāca 17.3 km. Nav slikti priekš tāda maza ciemata.

Ein langer Spaziergang, um den restlichen Urlaub auszukosten, brachte mehr Informationen zu den Waldwegen nördlich von Winkel sowie dem westlichen Teil des Wittkopsweges ein. Die Aller ist auch etwas weniger kantig in dem Gebiet.

In Winkel sind ein paar Straßen südlich der Bahn dazugekommen, Ribbesbüttel hat auch ein wenig Kontur gewonnen.

So after three months of use, my NaviGPS GT-11 has stopped working shortly after Christmas. It seems the built-in battery is dead. I can't say I'm too happy with the product -- aside from the battery problem, GPS reception has also been less than convincing.

Even though it's too expensive, I'm considering getting a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx. Is it feasible to take an Etrex for a run?

Went around my home (Gerresheim center, B7, Rennbahnstraße, glider airfield, Knitkuhl, B7 and back) by bicycle with the new Garmin eTrex Legend HCx. A friend recommended this device despite cursing their proprietary software. It works anyway thanks to the people providing things like gpsbabel and mkmap. So, within a day I learned to use the GPS device, record tracks, upload tracks, edit maps with JOSM (needs further experience), download OSM files, use mkmap to produce garmin maps and upload them to the device.

All this works on Linux and seems to be easier even then setting up a printer directly hooked to the computer:-)

For JOSM I still need to find out a few bits: is it necessary for ways to share a point at a junction to enable real routing? What is the best way to deal with residential streets for which I don't remember the name (need to take a MP3 recorder along)? What is the best tagging for forest and field tracks that are well suited for cycling. This type of track is nearly unkown in England, so the UK biased tagging is not a perfect match.

Around Brisbane the Yahoo imagery cuts out around 152.90 E. Today I actually did some "old school" OSMming using the GPS directly - yep, getting out in the field.

Travels covered Samford Road / Mount Glorious Road (up to the range at Mount Nebo Road), which now has fairly high quality cartography (in particular the range climb west of the Goat Track).

Elsewhere I "fell off" the Brisway map west of Mount Samson village, so you'll *know* that I don't cheat (I haven't entered that in yet though, wait a few days...)!

Also up to Winn Road (which skirts the southern edge of the North Pine Dam reservoir). I met up with some of NealSchulz' work.

Hmmm, just got suggested by Google that this site might interest me. Google got it right, I think. First impressions are really good.

Today i submitted my first GPS trace.
I used a cheap USB-GPS-Mouse with GPSd to collect the trip.
My Laptop in the Backpack i walked the way home.
Converted the NMEA-dump to gpx and uploaded it.
While waiting till its accepted i wonder why so few people use tags for theyr uploads...

Traced Upper Lough Erne from Landsat (well, it's kind of middle Lough Erne).

Added Erneside shops, Asda, Tesco (you wait 20 years for a good supermarket then they build two at once, across the road from each other)

I will find my GPX tracks from the past and see what I can patch up.

Whilst in Enniskillen this Xmas I decided to do a bit more updating. I was pretty unhappy to find most of it's been deleted and reconstructed in a scrappy way based on random join-the-dots method.

Oh well, back to the drawing board. I have the A4 now mapped completely from the end of the M1 to Enniskillen island.

Time for some more fiddling.

I have now done some of Cottenham with Donald, a few tweaks in Ealing and a start on Great Gransden.

Obviously I'd like to see how the maps are rendered. There are various quirks in this area of course.

From the users' point of view OSM has a few obvious failings.

The search is horribly horribly slow. Why is this so ? Is somebody doing this or is there a position available ?

I have read somewhere that tiles that appear as "...more OSM coming soon" mean that a tile is being re-rendered.

What is wrong with displaying old tiles until their replacements are ready ?
If that cannot be done would it be wrong for the text to say "tile being rendered" instead ?

For user-facing layers displaying this text instead of a tile is wrong.

At the time of writing c.tile.openstreetmap.org is sick . In fact a typical tile requests produce the 3 byte text "nil" still with a Content-type of image/png so that's not right.

It looks like [abcd].tile.openstreetmap.org are the same machine and this seems to be a valid technique for making browsers request more in parallel (in the absence of pipelining) as they only do a few per hostname.

More generally I am interested in the policy for encouraging http cache-ability, while propagating updates when they are available at the same time as tracking the tiles of interest.

Neben einer Versuchsanstalt zur Einlagerung von Atommüll befindet sich auch die Ruine der größten mittelalterlichen Brug Norddeutschlands in der Asse südlich des Elms. Ein netter Geocache ist dort, und so waren ein paar Voraussetzungen erfüllt, um der Gegend einen Besuch abzustatten. Beim Kartieren fiel mir auf, daß die Gegend unglaublich spärlich kartiert ist. Wolfenbüttel als FH-Stadt hat kaum Straßen, und die Dörfer drumherum sind teilweise kaum angebunden. Die Straßenklassifikationen sind teilweise falsch. Ich habe ein wenig aufgeräumt, ein paar Straßen hinzugefügt.

I set as a target to complete the northern part of the railway station area, as defined in the city's areas. Some minor paths still to go and some road names to fill in, but it looks already nice. Southern part also grew quite well.

Not bad for a 200.000 inhabitants city being blank 6 months ago..

Target for 2008: tidy up, check current area's and add 3 more area's to the map, starting in the east.

We drove up to Minehead on the north coast of Somerset, and started the South West Coast Path. This has been a project we have been wanting to do for a while, and now we have started, although we only walked out fro an hour and a half before having to turn back before getting caught in the dark.

There isn't much for Minehead on OSM so far, so my tracks will start to flesh it out a bit.

Virgin territory. I've laid down the first tracks in Panaji, Mapusa and the Fort Aguada areas.

The Fort Aguada peninsula is pretty complete. It's a large hill at the entrance to the Mandovi River. The whole peninsula was made into a defensive fort by the Portugese in 1610. I've tagged most of the fortifications except for one part which is in the grounds of a private home. These are visible on the Osmarender layer if you zoom in close enough.

It would be nice to get the coastlines uploaded as the whole area is currently flooded and coastlines would put a lot of the detail into a better perspective.

Having done a few rural roads I've now moved on to Armidale city roads. I drive aroud collecting some GPS tracks then used that as my first attempt at mapping city streets. I need some practice doing road junctions :-)

Went to visit some friends in Paignton yesterday and walked with them in the area around Stokeinteignhead. There are lots of small roads and footpaths there some of which are right in the tidal area of the river Teign, so mapping them puts them in the river.

The area between Paignton and Totnes could also do with some filling in, as can Paignton itself.

Today I did a small bike ride from Thorverton down to Stoke Canon and added some little side roads and tracks, as well as two named residential roads in Stoke Canon itself.

Posledný týždeň roka 2007 som strávil vo svojom rodisku. Zmapoval som celú Sninu a blízku obec Belá nad Cirochou. Čiastočne som zmapoval aj obec Zemplínske Hámre. Cesta zo Sniny do Zemplínskych Hámrov nie je zobrazená na mapách iGo.

Hoci mám konto od júla 2006 skutočne som začal mapovať až v polovici decembra 2007. Ako prvé padli za obeť košické časti KVP a západ.

Did most of the missing bits of Leicester City Centre today, leaving only one or two minor cul-de-sacs to do within the inner ring-road. Also did the St Margaret's industrial estate between the ring-road and the river, and then the Tudor Road area.

My GPS reception was dreadful in the Duke Street area, so I've got the topology right but the positioning is going to be dreadful - a combination of quite tall buildings with narrow streets. This may warrant either proper surveying or someone with a better GPS re-doing it.