I was trying to search for a highway with ref:82 earlier, but of course JOSM's partial search also picked up ref:823, ref:282 and a multitude of other things.

So I implemented regex search support in JOSM for which I'd filed a bug 3 weeks ago.

Now I can just search for ^ref$:^82$ and only get exactly what I want.

I've finished mapping the road network in Breiðholt, not counting Seljahverfi.

The road network in the Greater Reyjavík Area is now complete north of Breiðholtsbraut and south of Elliðár. That only leaves Grafarvogur, Árbær and Úlfarsfell as the major road networks with holes in them left.

I tried setting up my own mapnik render of Iceland just now. It's currently rendering.

I've heard that mapnik was hard to set up, I don't know where that myth came from, aside from some slight fussing with postgres (because I wasn't used to its auth model) the instructions on the wiki were very easy to follow, setup took no more than an hour and all of the dependencies were already packaged in Ubuntu.

As there seemed to be some interest I've advertised a mapping party in Reykjavík, Iceland on Tuesday.

I just finished some satellite mapping of the Tristan da Cuncha archipelago. For reference I used a free map of the islands on Wikimedia Commons.

It would be pretty easy to map Edinburgh of the Seven Seas by bike, the hard part is getting someone there. Optimally we'd get the islanders involved.

I wrote about my plans to map Akranes, a practically unmapped town of around 7,000 people in my last diary entry. Things went better than planned and I arrived at around 16:00 on Saturday after managing to hitch a ride from Reykjavík; Arriving almost 1h30m earlier than I would have if I had taken the bus.

I proceeded to map until around 23:00, then I slept until 6:00 in -6C in what I later discovered was an abandoned backyard (I thought it belonged to a friend at the time, but he had apparently moved). Then I mapped some more from around 7:00 to 15:00 and then took the bus back to Reykjavík.

I've uploaded the traces I made (JOSM screenshot of them). All in all I cycled around 83 km over 8 hours (6 hours moving time) at a moving average of 12.3 km/h.

I've added most of the data I surveyed to OSM, although I still have to add some nodes based on photographs I took and some areas need further landuse tagging. The area is far from complete though. It needs footways, amenities, the outlying road network etc etc.

Update: I party-rendered the weekend.

I'm going to take city bus from Reykjavík to Akranes today to map the aforementioned neighboring town of Reykjavík.

I'll arrive at 17:22 and stay there until sunday evening. The town is almost completely unmapped but hopefully I'll be able to completely map its road network as well as adding the main POIs. A camera will help with the latter.

Went well, we should have a fairly fleshed out are later today, see osm.wiki/index.php/H%C3%B6fu%C3%B0borgarsv%C3%A6%C3%B0i%C3%B0/Party/2008-09-21