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I needed to find a better opportunity to get a GPS device (or whatever they call it), through GPStogo.

I also found an opportunity to map more areas of San Pablo City, through the upcoming Milo Marathon, (to be held on Sunday, August 24, 2008 to be specific about it).

The problem is that time and money are the enemy. And I am competing in the 5K competition, due to my young age.

I think that THIS is a good opportunity to expand the reach of OSM to the City of Seven Lakes. I have added some streetnames and improved the coverage in the poblacion (downtown) area and in areas near my home. Also, have you seen a "kinda big" improvement in Bicol (Connecting the Maharlika Highway from Lopez, Quezon to possibly Libmanan, Camarines Sur via Tagkawayan, Quezon)? I did that. And there are too much FIXME tags almost all over Laguna.

GPStogo could be very promising for a person like me. Since it gives a big opportunity to every OSM contributor in the developing countries, including the Philippines.

But since I can't wait, maybe I need a basic GPS device that can help in my contribs.

Since I don't have much time, I have to end this.

Location: IV-C, San Pablo, Laguna, Calabarzon, 4000, Philippines

It's called odysseus road, but it's marked as a highway belonging to a lot of segments. I don't have anything against an extra layer showing how to get to the highway, but I also don't know how to do it in josm to make an extra layer yet, and to unite it with the next segment close by.

Location: Kallithea, Συκιές, Sykies Community, Sykies Municipal Unit, Municipality of Neapoli-Sykies, Thessaloniki Regional Unit, Central Macedonia, Macedonia and Thrace, 546 32, Greece
Posted by Julio_Costa_Zambelli on 31 July 2008 in English.

I have been working (technically and conceptually) for some time to implement a local website for the OpenStreetMap project. The rest of the local contributors seam to be very interested in the idea of a local site (in our language) that helps to make the project well known and understood among the rest of the community.

The initial idea is to put in place an front page wish is a full page map, with a header containing some buttons to get to a Blog and OpenStreetMap.org, and a footer explaining the (cc) License that covers the map data, and giving credit to all the parts involved.

Most of the front page work is done, but I just can not figure out how to lower the navigation tools and the button to access the layer selection. I am not a javascript expert so I guessed the people that work with the OpenStreetMap.org Openlayer interface could help me with this.

I almost send this post without the URL for the site :)

http://www.openstreetmap.cl/

Thank you very much for your comments and help.

Cheers,

Julio Costa

Location: Lusitania, Miraflores, Viña del Mar, Provincia de Valparaíso, Valparaiso Region, 2250000, Chile
Posted by Kevo on 30 July 2008 in English.

Just finished the Orchard neighbourhood of Burlington. Only a couple of streets missing plus paths; however, the map of this area is the most-up-to-date and complete map of this neighbourhood on the Internet besides official City of Burlington maps (see transit maps), it is even more complete than the Google, Yahoo, and MSN (Live) sets. I hope to add in a majority of the paths that go through the neighbourhood soon too before I'm away from home. Also, I'd like to add in as many parks as possible in the 4 northern neighbourhoods: Millcroft, Headon, Tyandaga, and the Orchard.

Millcroft is complete as is Headon Forest neighbourhoods and I'm still working on Tyandaga. I'm doing a bit of the Thomas Alton neighbourhood too with the GPS to try and get some of that completed.

I'll also be cleaning up the streets I've drawn soon to make the corners a bit smoother.

Complete:
-Streets of Headon, Millcroft, Orchard.
To Do:
-Finish Tyandaga;
-Orchard paths.
Working On:
-Alton neighbourhood;
-Parks + other trinkets you'd find at the side of the road;
-Giving regional roads for all of Halton proper reference numbers.

Questions/Comments? Feel free to PM me.

Location: Orchard, Burlington, Halton Region, Golden Horseshoe, Ontario, L7L 7J8, Canada
Posted by Harry Wood on 30 July 2008 in English.

We're going to canning town tonight. Quite a lot of people have signed up for this, so should be a good one. Anyone else fancy coming along?

We don't know the name of the pub we're going to yet, which is all very mysterious (just know where it is). I imagine it will be a pleasant place by the docks. But then again they'll be a planes landing over head.

Hopefully I'll have to time to pop over to the riverfront and take a look at the Thames barrier. Never seen it close up.

Posted by Interlope on 30 July 2008 in English.

After a forced "mapping holiday" I have finally had a chance to map data I've collected for scattered residential streets in Toowoomba. A serious fault at our electrical meter, and the sluggish pace of my 7 year old computer after an OS upgrade have conspired to make mapping very difficult for the past few weeks.

I've been trying some new GPS tracking software - OSMtracker. It looks promising feature-wise, but somehow the tracks seem less accurate than I was getting with GPSVP.

Location: Mount Lofty, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Regional, Queensland, 4350, Australia