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US 93 in ArizonaAlmost as far south as Mineral Rd. I'm taking the single way and moving it to the north bound lanes. After I reach Kingman, I'll create the southbound way.
Coordinates:Posted by n7xsd at Tue Aug 19 20:18:11 +0100 2008
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US 93 in Arizona
Comparing US 93 to track logs and Yahoo images. Started at the Dam and working south.
Coordinates:Posted by n7xsd at Tue Aug 19 20:13:59 +0100 2008
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over night stay
How do you typical tag an accommodation for overnight stay. What we typical in German call a Pension or Dorfgasthof with overnight stay. Not as big and comfortable as an hotel. Please advice. I found nothing in the Wiki, but think it is as important as fuel stations for travelers.
Heinz
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postcodes!!!!
so i've been happily adding in postcodes that I know.
however when searching it seems osm doesnt' seem to search the postcode field, you just get the free the postcode results
however my home street which i post coded as i made it, osm search picks up, the search function returns my street name, i'm finding this a bit frustrating, as a delivery driver i've added in some unusual postcodes (ones that don't seem to be on any map/gps/royal mail/etc) that i've confirmed with the people who live their and added, however these don't seem to come back in the search results (the last edits i've done are over a month ago and still not showing up!)
slightly frustrated, and wondering if i should contiune adding little bits here and there, i've left it for well over a month now, but went down some nice ackward lanes to find some farms today and decided it would be a good idea to add them in (if only for myself in the future when i forget ware they are!)
Posted by Stead at Tue Aug 19 16:42:21 +0100 2008Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 2 comments
...the last 9 months mapping
I have not added a diary entry since I started 9 months ago. Since then I have been mapping in Bristol. Frenchay, Emmersons Green, Puckelchurch, To the west of Bristol south of the M4. I worked in Swindon so I also mapped most of West Swindon.
Recently, I got my Openmoko Freerunner. I am using tangogps with OSM maps on it.
After initial GPS problems, I managed to get data for footpaths at Begbrook Park.
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Sandkrug, Wardenburg, Tungeln & Hatten
Hi,
Die letzte Woche ist dank mir und Markus Müller Sandkrug, Wardenburg und Kirchhatten um einige Straßen reicher geworden (siehe GPS Traces). Außerdem bin ich die Bümmersteder Fleth entlangelaufen und habe diese zu 70% eingetragen (der Rest wird folgen). Auf meiner TODO Liste stehen als nächstes:
* Bümmersteder Fleth (der kleine Rest der fehlt)
* Teich an der Straße "Am Fischteich"
* Teich an der Straße "Paul-Löbe-Straße"
* Der Wald zwischen Sandkrug und Bümmerstede
sowie die Hochspannungsleitung, welche ich zusammen mit den Updates Tungeln und Bümmersteder Fleth bereits weitergeführt habe.
mfG,
Sebastian
P.S.: Dies ist meine erste Woche, in der ich dank meines neue Freerunners Daten zum Open Street Map Projekt beitragen kann und ich bin sehr zufrieden mit den Ergebnissen. Das Freerunner ist dank TangoGPS das perfekte Device zum mappen.
Coordinates:Posted by Sebastian Reichel at Tue Aug 19 04:53:09 +0100 2008
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1st tracklog, Pirna city center
wandered arround just a little in the evening, mainly Karl-Liebknecht-Str. and Maxim-Gorki-Str. southern part
Coordinates:Posted by Steffen Hoffmann at Mon Aug 18 22:58:38 +0100 2008
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Back again
Viel Stress beruflich und privat, daher leider Zwangspause.
Neues Auto mit neuem Navi, kann zwar Wegpunkte aufzeichen und speichern, aber diese lassen sich nicht herausholen aus dem Gerät (Anfrage beim Händler gestartet).
Neues Handy ist bestellt, N95, dann kann das Tracken endlich losgehen.
Derweil halt Detailpflege im Umfeld. Wie taggt man Autohändler?
Posted by Diogenes at Mon Aug 18 20:42:02 +0100 2008Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
Zooming around Cambridge...
I'm continuing to improve the high zoom coverage of Cambridge by adding more paths within colleges, some areas of trees, drainage ditches that connect to the river Cam, etc. I've also started filling in bus stops, which are one of the few advantages Google Maps coverage has over OSM for Cambridge. I'm surveying the bus stops in person, with GPS unit and camera.
I've also traced a load more buildings on Sidgwick Site (off West Road) and in the centre (mainly churches) using Yahoo coverage, although I've not filled in the names for most of the new ones yet. I'll have to go there in person to flesh out the remaining details...
Coordinates:Posted by Mark Williamson at Mon Aug 18 19:17:43 +0100 2008
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More West of Cambridge, plus some watery detective work...
Went out with my usual expeditioning buddy and took some traces of more footpaths West of Cambridge. This time primarily between Long Road and Hardwick (finishing off a network of paths that were mostly already completed there) and between Hardwick and Caldecote (also joining up with existing paths).
Whilst out there I also did some detective work: the out-of-copyright NPE maps show a stream that starts somewhere near Hardwick and goes down through Coton. I've surveyed portions of this stream directly where it went alongside footpaths and was able to use the NPE map to join these portions up. Similarly, NPE revealed that a stream I'd seen flowing from Dry Drayton to Hardwick was called "Callow Brook" and extended south into Hardwick itself...
My theory is that these are the same waterway and that the old OS surveyors just didn't have time to confirm that they joined up. I'm not able to check using satellite maps as there's no Yahoo coverage in the area. I was able to extend the path of the stream a bit more through direct survey; next time I'm hoping to take some compass bearings of whatever bits I can get to, in order to confirm that they join up. It's fun to explore :-)
Coordinates:Posted by Mark Williamson at Mon Aug 18 19:13:50 +0100 2008
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Five go to Bury St Edmunds
The Bury St Edmunds mapping party last Saturday attracted five people. Despite the miserable weather forecast, it was actually a pleasant, warm, rainless day, so between us we got about 30 person-hours of surveying done. I think this amounts to about 70% of the city. There is a much new development on the eastern fringes of the city that wasn't apparent from Landsat so Donald rather drew the short straw on that one. North through west and south is pretty much done (and most, but not all, the data for those now uploaded) except for a small bit in the south east. And then the dense section of the town centre south of Abbeygate Street remains to be surveyed.
Of the bits I did, I discovered an excellent cycleway in from the west parallel to the A14 which I didn't know existed. A new access road to West Suffolk college will be a first. Slightly surprisingly the river really does go right through the middle of Tewco's car park! The maze of narrow one-way residential streets in the old town immediately north of the centre meant going round several times if I wasn't to keep breaking the rules. There is an obscene amount of car parking around the town centre, though some of what I remember as car park on my last visit there a couple of years ago is now having a new shopping centre built on it.
Coordinates:Posted by davidearl at Mon Aug 18 18:38:40 +0100 2008
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LK Peine / LK Salzgitter
K 36 (SZ 36) Lückenschluss zur K 50 (PE 50)
Coordinates:Posted by olf at Mon Aug 18 18:07:56 +0100 2008
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Piste resistance – finished New Zealand
… turn it over, put a fork in it, it's done. No, not quite, but I have left some bits in much better shape. Not the bits I expected to do, but that's weather for you.
It's now more than two weeks since we returned from our ski trip in Canterbury, a trip where I learned to love and eke my primitive eTrex. That sounds a little wrong but it's actually all good. I collected pages and pages of scribbled notes, as many tracks as I could squeeze in, more waypoints than I saw sheep (not really), and most importantly, fantastic ideas, experiences, and techniques.
The weather meant that we visited places I didn't expect, and didn't visit places I did expect, so all my prepared printouts were rendered useless. I was forced to educatedly guess what would have had good coverage and what would have had usable aerial photography (back on the interweb). More edumacation would be a fine thing. We only skied one resort, Mount Hutt, where we'd hoped to get to three. Only three days of skiing (including an unplanned Saturday), but nice powder on those days. I didn't expect to take a cross-country train journey – in fact, the plan was hatched and decision made while the train was still at Springfield station. No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition. I may document my tractivity in more detail on the wiki some day. This diary entry mustn't digress into a travelogue.
I've really hit the edits most nights since we returned to complete what I had to. As light relief, I've finally worked through a couple of my backlog of Oz-trailian bushwalk traces, too. I've pondered bus stops and bus routes. All good stuff. I've had Potlatch running on a LiveCD on a spare laptop for a while now to do my editing. I think it's the last major tranche of work I will do with a live editing tool, unless the network round-trip can magickly speed up.
Here are my random observations. Many will be obvious to those with a blood supply to their head:
- If you take the time to offload your tracks before the holiday, also remember to clear the tracklog before you start holiday tracking. Wasted 20% right there. Not painting myself in a very good light so far. :~(
- One really needs to get a good fix on satellites before tracking. It's not OK to switch on at the top of a ski lift, tighten one's boots, and cruise down.
- You can get a satellite fix first, then turn logging on if you're concerned about filling up your tracklog. This is better than leaving tracking on and using the power button. Ahem…
- To save on tracklog, waypoints alone can be sufficient if you think the road can be easily traced. It is even feasible to ask your wife successfully to mark major features while you drive, but don't push it with the granularity (hamlets are a reasonable level).
- Riding shotgun is good for side road naming and pointing.
- It's good to have a plan, but then again, the best laid plans…
- New Zealand has lots and lots and lots of one-way bridges, not really one-way, but one at a time, prompting me to ask how that should be tagged.
- According to road signs, there are no apostrophes in roadnames in New Zealand (e.g. McFarlanes Road, Gundrys Road, Moodies Road, even Foxs Road). Discuss.
- it can be handy to mark:
- passing lanes
- bridges (beginning and end on long ones and priority direction on one-ways)
- stock effluent disposal points Yes, please explain.
- picnic areas
- train stations
- tunnel beginnings and ends (though if tracking, this can be obvious)
- Free software zealots can run Potlatch on a LiveCD. RMS won't be that mad
- I think I've outgrown Potlatch. There are many facets to that point, but many of my problems doing large amounts of edits are due to the live editing model and the server load – layers simply don't load fast enough. It's not so much because of the tool itself, which has both problems and advantages, and is brilliant for a mainly one-man development. (Richard is also admirably resilient to the criticism his tool receives.) One day maybe I'll write up all of the usability problems I've noticed.
- It's really hard to work with the low-res imagery, which is why any near-accurate mapping is probably better than none as a foundation.
- Piste mapping is very hard, as is orientation and navigation, when the signage is poor. That's something only the skifield management can address.
- Mapnik's rendering of pistes seems to be confined to lifts at present.
- All of the renderings I've seen of pistes which are areas (polygons) rather than ways (arcs) kinda suck.
- You would need to ski/snowboard all the way down each edge of a piste to really get a good trace of its extent, unless you had outstanding aerial photography. I guess if you turned from edge to edge you might get something close. That all assumes you know its extent.
- I'd really like a rendering suitable for printing out areas, so it's unambiguous what's been named/labelled/tagged. At present I haven't seen a rendering that has at least every streetname in it without going to very large zoom levels, which means more printouts and joins.
I can't wait for my next overseas mapping expedition – that's the one where I go victoriously to Grenada. ;~)
Coordinates:Posted by awesm at Mon Aug 18 14:03:53 +0100 2008
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New to OpenStreetMap
And working out how to use User Diaries. As a start this is the information from my wiki profile which I think should have been diary entries instead.
As at 15th August 2008 I became the owner of a Locosys Genie NaviGPS GT-31 - and am now working out how to drive it. Trial and error at the post office car park might have captured the route home, but we'll see.
18/08/2008 As it turns out it hadn't captured the route home - I hadn't set an interval for tracking my route. Since then I've done a few 1 second intervals of roads in and around Clacton, as well as a 5 second interval route pushing a pram around an industrial estate! Someone said this was addictive. Anyway, I think I've now mastered mini-roundabouts, roundabouts, level-crossings and bridges in JOSM and I'm getting the hang of the different street types. As an aside I went to Wivenhoe at the weekend (as chauffeur to daughters) and that looks beautifully mapped already. At some point I'll work out the OSM user diaries as I suspect I should move these sort of notes there.
Posted by EdLoach at Mon Aug 18 11:51:39 +0100 2008Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
Seven Sisters and Cuckmere Haven
Did a bit of walking around Cuckmere Haven, Seven Sisters and Alfriston on the weekend. Have now done the editing, and found that lots of the area is well covered by Yahoo aerial, so I added some of the cliffs and water areas. I was surprised that the South Downs Way (footpath version) doesn't seem to have been mapped yet. I only added it as a name to paths, I think a relation will need doing sometime to link it all up.
Coordinates:Posted by daveemtb at Mon Aug 18 11:04:08 +0100 2008
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JOSM hitting a high-point (of addictiveness, for me anyway)
Stayed up all night learning to use JOSM properly (well, from about 1am anyway). Suddenly realised it was ~5am and that it wasn't worth going to bed. But I did a tonne of updates! Had only got node editing practice before, but now I'm getting happier adding/editing/splitting ways, and even did an area. It's really not the simplest interface to learn, but I can see how it can be quite quick to use when your fingers know the shortcut keys well. Still managed to hit Ctrl-Z too often while using Ctrl-Alt-Shift to add nodes near existing items. Honestly, 3 simultaneous fingers plus a mouse click! Maybe I need to check the manual or default options more. Also still not happy how to get the layers set up and having the ones I want visible at the same time (and actually usefully visible, not in grey/... I know I can mess with colours, not done that yet much except for my GPS traces). Why does it sometimes seem to make a layer invisible if I click on it and other times not, but if I test clicking on the left end of it rather than the name it doesn't make a difference!
JOSM rant...
I want to be able to move around the map using Search, or double-clicking on a node in the "commands" window to check it out... Or when the validation plugin pulls up a problem, to be able to go to it and highlight it for a second or so when I click on it! I don't really know enough Java to help out without it being slow and painful, but if I did I'd be v.tempted!
Localities Edited...
Woolwich Royal Arsenal development - improvements to one or two paths and tags, added the square on the main walkway down to the riverfront (but wasn't sure on how to tag it, so left a FIXME tag with a note).
south side of Vauxhall - road names in some of the residential areas there, one-way indicattors (meant reversing and splitting/re-combining a few way segments, so good practice!)
General random updates/edits to add postboxes, telephone boxes and the ref no's on them for some south west/central-west areas of London UK where I've cycled through (obsessively stopping for them in some cases.. oh dear!), and a little out towards Fenchurch Street station. Note to self: need to make sure gps has a better lock before making annotations (even though I'm good at noting which side of a junction/road a note is for even if the gps isn't accurate).
GPS tracking apps (Symbiam/S60)...
I like WhereAmI+ at the moment on my Nokia N95 8Gb, feels more developery and resiliant to accidental quits/hitting the wrong key; tried MGMaps but I think it seemed to lose my edits if I accidentally quit the app, happens sometimes. Need to look into more. If you have a (free cost-wise/v.good value for money) fave, suggestions welcomed.
John.
Might even have to consider getting a good quality BlueTooth GPS 'mouse' if this carries on...
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Wald im Werra-Meinßer-Kreis
Ich habe mit Hilfe der Yahoo-Bilder eben mal den Wald rund um den Meißner eingezeichnet. Ist aber wahrscheinlich noch an einigen Stellen verbesserungswürdig ;)
Coordinates:Posted by the|silent at Mon Aug 18 09:53:36 +0100 2008
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Lauchhammer-Ost
Habe wieder ein paar Straßen nachgetragen.
Robert-Koch-Straße, Goethestraße, Hammerstraße, Friedrich-Engels-Straße, Formerstraße.
Weiterhin einige Korrekturen bzw. Ergänzungen.
Kreisverkehr in Lauchhammer-Mitte.
Begrenzung auf 30km/h am Kindergarten in Schwarzheide.
Ampeln auf der Kreuzung Ruhland (Bundesstraße und Autobahnauffahrten).
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Bicycle parking (cycle racks) - capacity Q/wonderings
When people come across bike racks, what do they put down as the capacity? Do you specify the number of hoops, or twice the number of hoops as you can usually comfortably fit 2 bikes per hoop, one on each side? My regular one I use for work usually ends up with many hoops having 3 bikes and on occasion even 4 per hoop (shows Westminster's cycle policy up against others - a trip through North West London/West End recently amazed me at how many racks there are, and not just near stations!)
Posted by Breezer at Mon Aug 18 04:23:44 +0100 2008Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 5 comments
Röthenbach im Allgäu Kartographiert
Ein Langweiliger Tag wurde für Openstreetmap sinnvoll genutzt.
Coordinates:Posted by edwin-ldbg at Mon Aug 18 04:19:17 +0100 2008
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