http://gercokees.blogspot.com/2008/01/mappen-bij-windkracht-8.html

I've added several hundred kilometres of highways aroud Armidale.

I added a couple of roads west to Bundara, Barraba and Manilla.
I added the coast road east of Armidale to the Pacific Highway.

The north and south portions of the New England Highway had been manually traced from Landsat via potlach. I replaced the section north to Glen Innes and south to Tamworth with GPS-derived tracks as the latter were more accurate and showed more recent road realignments.

I've added some more residential roads in Armidale. I don't have any strategy in place to systematicaly cover the area but, rather, given that my work place is north-west of town and I live out of town on the eastern side, I've just been zigging and zagging and taking alternative routes as I head to or from work, or head into town to run errands.

This has worked well so far but now I need to do some small residential streets than resemble a maze of little twisty passages or even a twisting maze of little passages. I guess I need to enter such a maze and use the left-hand rule for traversing mazes - and see what happens.

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Habe ueber Weihnachten etwas mehr von OHZ aufgenommen. Da gibt es aber noch einiges zu machen.
Heute noch drei Strassen und den Fussweg durch den Wildpark Poing.

Went out another 3.5 hours for nearly 40 km of track by bike. Yes, taking all these photos takes it time. But now I have circled Grafenberger Wald, made the connection to Ratingen and mapped my first complete town: Hubbelrath. Oh, well, has about 50 to 100 houses, I guess, so that was easy.

While I'm waiting for my new GPS, I've been doing some mapping of Oman from memory and Yahoo imagery. The aerial photographs of the Muscat capital region are fantastic!

Hello to the mappers from the region that have uploaded highways and GPS data. I hope you don't mind me getting involved.

From west to east, Phelan Rd crosses Hwy 395, becomes Main St with no break.

Fix Highland Ave. Date St. Mirada St. Blythe St. 29th St. Valaria Dr.

Add Barton School.

Nachdem ich heute Zeit hatte, die BGS-Siedlung abzufahren, die Gegend um den Fischerweg herum fertigzumachen und das Sportzentrum Flutmulde abgelaufen bin, sind jetzt nicht mehr viele Straßen und nur noch einige Wege von Gifhorn nicht erfaßt. Jetzt geht es an die Feinheiten.

Looking at the region just north of the M8/M73 junction, I noticed a lot of ways that didn't connect to each other.

Today I filled some known holes I had left the other day between my home and Knittkuhl along the sailing plane landing strip. Also I think I have Knittkuhl complete now. Finally I tracked three more streets off Bergische Landstraße. Strange place to live. The houses look very expensive and well taken care of, but they are a so close to the primary road that I cannot imagine sitting in the garden in summer --- except you like motor sports and feel fine with the constant noise of cars:-(

Towards the end, it got dark and I learned that a cheap digicam has more and more problems to picture our street signs. They are usually on a pole up 2.5 meters high, so you cannot get really close and the flash of the digicam is useless outside. But this will improve daily now anyway towards summer:-)

Vielä tämän vuoden voimassa oleva kunnanraja on viimein piirtynyt kartalle. Sain sen käyttööni Hämeenlinnan mittaustoimiston kautta.

Olin sitten tagittanut hieman väärin ja raja ei kartalle kovasta yrityksestä huolimatta piirtynyt. Onneksi eräs englantilainen kaveri huomasi että boundary=administrative tagissa administrativen perässä oli ylimääräinen välilyönti.

Sellaista se copy&paste joskus aiheuttaa :)

Fixed with Potlatch.

Today I went to the bicycle shop, albeit by car, in Unterbach. At least now there is a minimal roundtrip available for Unterbach. This trip also allowed me to completely connect Dreherstraße in Gerresheim.

Вече картата на София прилича на нещо което може да се ползва :)

Центъра е почти готов, остават няколко улици да се наименоват и посочат еднопосочните.

Дружба 1 е като цяло също готова, западните блокове не са нанесени.

И като цяло се забелязва нарастващ интерес към проекта, което е хубаво.

Приятно мапиране на всички.

Had a nice 5 day holiday in the Grampian Ranges last week and as well as getting several hikes in the area I also managed to get a few hundred kilometers of track data as well. I've just finished adding most of the roads in to OSM this evening and once I get back online with ADSL I'll upload the 25mb of gpx track logs I'd collected. I might use LandSat satellite photos to trace some of the lakes over the next few weeks when I'm getting bored.

1/2 mile to 12 cm.

Practice mode. Potlatch shift-click to add node. Quail Ct needs corrections. Most of the streets in this area need corrections.

Measurement reference for map with no scale: at zoom 15 1/2 mile = 12 cm on my monitor.

Since a few weeks I am actively mapping, and since then I seach for the optimal mapping effectivity. But it's not always easy...

In the beginning, I used mobile trail explorer, which has nice features, but completely stops recording when minimized.

My next try was GPS Track. It has nearly no features, but does record when minimized. As I told in my earlyer post there was some disappointment when I realized that it did not record timestamps, so I could not use it to geotag photos.

I now got a modified version of that software from User Sebastiaan which includes time. It does what it says, it records time along with the position. Thanks again for that!

But anyway, mapping by bike and photographing in these dark winter times does not fit together. To make a sharp photo, I have to stop completely, take a photo, and start again. Anyway, photos may get blurry and unusable. It just seems to be the wrong aproach.

So I tried to switch from photo- to audio-tagging. My phone (SE V600i) does not allow me to start a Java App while doing voice recording - but funnly it lets FIRST start the Java App, minimize it, and then start the voice record. I may record up to three hours nonstop, which should be enough for most days :)

Another problem just popped in: The data from GPS Track is very inaccurate when it is minimized (this is true for the original version as well as for the modified).

So I gave another try to Trek Buddy which I deleted from my phone because I didn't get it to work back than. Now I managed somehow, and it seems as if this might be the perfect choice: It has most of the features known from Mobile Trail Explorer, records perfectly even when minimized, and can save GPX as well as the raw NMEA data.

Finally, I can start riding throug the cities and talking to myself all the time!

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