In addition BCNorwich’s advise, we have to wait several days for the routing engines to react to edits. I guess the routing engines may only download a new map data once a week. This time lag can be confusing because the data may be correct but the routing still does not work as expected. If something does not work as expected give it a week. then ask for help.

Hello Evgeny Arbatov I discovered the osm project in the early days ~2007 while looking on the www. for OS maps. OS or Ordinance Survey were/or are GB national government mapping agency. The Ordinance is the gunnery part of the military that understood trigonometry and therefore cartography and so got the job of mapping England in the 1800s, I think. Steve Coast who formed openstreetmap, realised by luck or design people looking for OS maps may find openstreetmap. I started mapping with the GPXes I had saved in about 2011. I have been walking a lot since retiring in 2007 and sometimes lead walks. The last walk I led was called joining up the green bits of Huntingdon Cambs UK. which are in or close to the town much like your mapping. Happy Mapping Andy

Sorry. I had not read your full text… it’s been a long day :-)

Reading this it suggests you can take out the SD card put that into USB card reader and get the date into you PC that way. If the Data is not compatible I think GPS Babel will convert formats for you.

Why not. I enjoy reading the diary. I learn from other mappers methods knowledge and share some of my mapping ideas. I think it is good to hear about other mappers experiences.

I like the diary entries, and I have tried to share what I have learn by posting something here in the past. I think these diaries are good place to share what we have learnt, sadly it seems a bit under used. I’m a user of OSM Garmin Maps, walking mainly but driving as well. I have mainly contributed footpaths I have walked and GPXed to OSM. For the last few years I have used opentopomap, it has contours and looks good and is great for walking and is routable with a selectable choice, on my Oregon 650, of foot, bike or car. It works on nuvi 2599 LMT-D but I don’t have a walking choice with it. The old Nuvi 1310T does have a walking option, but without a powerbank I’ll only get one hour of use. Thank you APM for sharing what you have learned.

Hi Terry I’m sure you will enjoy exploring and mapping. I originally started recording footpaths with a garmin GPS in the early days of openstreetmap. I had joined the Ramblers and I liked the idea of free maps. I use opentopomap on my Garmins now, and have Ordnance Survey on a smart phone. Opentopomap is based upon OSM data with Satellite and Laser generated contour lines added. Recently I have been adding house numbers locally. If people look a little puzzled, I have board with the existing OSM printed out. I write the number on it. I’ll explain what I am doing, all bar one have been supportive and friendly. One Guy thought I was contravening his data protection law. I said if he was bothered I would not add his house number, that is on the door, so we have 13,14,15,a blank and 17, 18 in the street. It gives me exercise, conversations and knowledge of the area. Often number 13 is not used. I regularly walk the countryside with some pals or my local Hunts Ramblers Group who have great website with excellent web mapping, Google them. I guess I walk 25 miles a week now It was twice that when I first retired fifteen years ago. Enjoy your mapping and retirement. Andy.

Thanks GinaroZ very belatedly. I took your advice and they did show up. Newer Airiel images proved my surveying technique was pretty good. More recently I have noticed that taking pics of the ground with hedgerows, field edges and trees and other features can help fix a point when compared to older aerial images of the area.

Just remembered one and added it. osm.org/?mlat=52.26882&mlon=-0.35503#map=18/52.26882/-0.35503

I have seen a few stands on my hikes in the Cambs UK area. I realised One man could drag a full churn from a stand to his cart, truck or trailer but not from the ground, well some could until their backs were ruined. The Farm probably had two of pairs of hands to put it on the stand. Much easier than having to stop work to help the driver or him having to bring a mate to help.

Well Done do what you can where you can. Happy Mapping

Several years ago I used quite a lot of time drawing outlines after getting a help request from another mapper. I spend months on his small town. He was more precise than me. He redrew quite a lot of it and did a great job. If you want it to your standard do it your self. It is easier with good images and a big screen, and the right tools…..JOSM, plus GPXes the verity image position and surveys to check for changes and details. See his work osm.org/#map=15/52.2168/-0.0795 Happy Mapping

You seem to be using OSM for publicity are you are making a donation to OSM?

You seem to be using OSM for publicity are you are making a donation to OSM?

Leaving a note is OK. I look at the notes in areas that are close by or ones in areas that I may visit and hopefully can resolve. Give sensible notes with enough detail please.

Hi David I got involved with OSM while looking for low cost walking maps. OSM’s name was created to be found by accident by people look for Ordnance Survey Maps Great Britain’s Government funded maps, good but expensive. I agree roundabouts are not easy to pass on cycles or foot. On foot crossing the lane into the roundabout is ok but the traffic exiting the roundabout can’t be seen or predicted when crossing the exit lane.. I have seen pictures of roundabouts with an outer foot and cycle roundabout. They cover lots of land. Low speed, say 20kph, limits on roundabouts could be one answer. Could also work well for filtering on when cross traffic is held up by a fairly continuous flow in the cross direction. I wish you happy, and safe mapping. Andy

https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/45846/coordinates-when-editing-in-osm-using-id-editor

You can drag a stored waypoint or a file with several into the open iD window and you will see the waypoints. See this answer https://help.openstreetmap.org/answer_link/85172/

Uploading GPX traces will help. We can then check and drag the images into alignment before begin to map. With lots of GPXes we can hopefully get a good average for best accuracy.

Ask here https://help.openstreetmap.org/