Think OpenStreetMap is a great initiative that will definately enrich the internet big time. Of course we all have a long way to go before it can fully compete with commercial maps. But hey, wikipedia outpaced Brittanica in the end ;-)

I will start editing here and there but am still sorting out how to add GPS navigation points...

signed up today

pingelaere

signed up to openstreetmap

Heute morgen hatte ich mit meinem Freerunner einen ersten Fix in 42 Sekunden! Sehr schnell sah das Gerät 6 Satelliten, es dauerte dann aber noch über eine halbe Minute, bis der Fix zustande kam.

Getraced habe ich dann den Weg vom Farchet nach Holzrkichen.

Bin dabei, Elfershausen abzufahren und die fehlenden Straßen einzuzeichnen.

Ich muss sagen, es macht richtig Spass und gibt dem Weg zur Arbeit einen Sinn. :)

*sigh* I just did ~24km of cycling with a couple of mishaps. Firstly I did the first half with the GPX log turned off, then, due to having loaded routable maps last night, the second half was set to lock on road.

Well, just another excuse to go for a ride tomorrow ay?

In case you haven't seen them yet the mapsource installers for various routable Garmin maps are here: http://emexes.powweb.com/osm/download.html

Here's a funny story.

Some chaps came over to our London office from the Czech republic, and after I'd spent the day giving them a training course, they asked me some questions about how to get to Big Ben and Tower Bridge etc. Naturally I pulled up an online map on the projector screen, and naturally it was openstreetmap.org . Openstreetmap has been better than google maps in central London for a long time now. They were impressed by the detail. Even their hotel showed up on the map, so they started asking me questions about it.

Part of me was thinking "No. please don't get me started. I'm supposed to be enthusiastic about our company products, not OSM!" So I casually described the project, and tempered their enthusiasm (and mine) by pointing out that London is an extreme case. The coverage isn't that detailed everywhere. For example let's take a look at the city where they are from: Olomouc ...oh wow ...OK

Maybe OSM coverage really is expanding at an increasing rate.

http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=309

Mein erster Versuch... mal sehen, was draus wird

Another convert from LugRadio Live UK. I found my Nokia E61 was perfectly capable of collecting gpx data. I've today started trying to map my residential estate, (Highfields) by taking slight detours from my usual journeys.

Added in Holy Ghost Primary school in Balham

Mir fiel auf, dass in der Innenstadt von Stade zahlreiche Straßennamen nicht mit den zutreffenden Umlauten, sondern mit den "Behelfsbuchstaben" ae, oe, ue und ss (...strasse) geschrieben sind. Das mag ich ja nun gar nicht ;-)

Nach einzelnen Abgleichen mit anderen Quellen hab ich die name-tags der Straßen, welche an den betreffenden Stellen definitiv mit ä ö ü oder ß geschrieben werden, korrigiert.

Dies kann man nach meiner Erfahrung statt mit JOSM einfacher mit Merkaartor machen, der hat auch eine schöne Textsuche innerhalb der tags. Also mal den Bereich von Stade geladen und z.B. nach "ue" gesucht. In der Ergebnisliste dann way für way geprüft und korrigiert.

Dabei versteht sich von selbst, dass eine eventuelle Falschschreibung überprüft werden muss, ob es nicht doch richtig ist

Kennt denn jemand irgendwo in Deutschland einen Straßennamen, der offiziell mit "...strasse" geschrieben wird?

Und wer hat Lust, in seinem eigenen OSM.Gebiet mal nach ae, oe, ue und strasse zu suchen, ob dort auch Korrekturbedarf besteht? Berichtet doch mal ...

EN: corrected the german umlauts in streetnames at the town Stade in Germany.

Hi,

today I finished uploading my old tracks from holidays and I visited Walluf near the river Rhine where I mapped most parts of the town.

Cheers

Gary68

Bei einer Tour durch Bebra habe ich gleich einiges an Straßen abgefahren und angefügt! Zudem Kleinigkeiten in Sontra und Eschwege!

ein paar Straßen und Wege in Olsber-Wulmeringhausen, Sauerland.

scheint, dass die Yaho-Satelliten-Aufnahem in der Gegend ncith ganz korrekt ist? Jedenfalls sind die GPS-Daten und die Yahoo-Karte auf einer NW-SO-Achse gegeneinander verschoben um einige Kilometer...

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some streest and tracks in Olsberg, Wulmeringhausen, Sauerland, Germany.

Looks like the Yahoo-Map is not correct in that area? GPS-data and yahoo are shifted by on a ne-sw-axis to each other by several kilometers...

Relation 23801 für die Bundestraße 186 erstellt.

Gaborone, Botswana - a capital city with 2 roads - until this week :]
I'm not going to get it all done, but it's a decent start - just batting about the place shopping & having tea seems to be getting a fair crack at it. The residential roads are not like home; it's all numbered blocks with guards on gates so I can only do one block, but the connecting roads are fair game - -have decided to mark them at the residential level as the inner zones are very small, but I wonder if named unclassified is nearer correct?
Mark

Ab dem 21.07.2008 bis zum 05.12.2008 wird ein grundhafter Ausbau der B186 auf dem Teilstück beginnend Zwenkau / Zum Wasserwerk bis Abfahrt Kleindalzig erfolgen.

Dieser Straßenabschnitt wird in der Bauphase voll gesperrt.
Die Umleitung erfolgt über die A38 und B2 bzw. entgegengesetzt.

Der Streckenabschnitt wurde mit Tag construction versehen.

Im currently integrating the road to Mizan Tepi via Jimma.

Much thanks to Teddy and Gashaw what took the GPS Logger and filled a GPS survey form.

... I realized, was uploading to much GPS traces... My crontab was set to "*/30 * * * *" (i.e. every 30 minutes), so I decided to change the interval to two hours: "* /2 * * *" I'm sorry! :-/ It was before my first coffee. So now, it's disabled, I'll re-enable it when my queue is empty.

Another strange issue which ran my way is that Tiles@Home complained about the RAM on one of my machines (detailed outpup below). Well, 4 GB should be enough on a machine wich is nearly idle and just uses 20 MB of its swap area. My BSD box just has 2 GB, t@h never said a word about it. Strange strange. I believe, it has something to do witch my freshly installed NIS, indeed I forgot to change some permissions in the t@h working directory.
Now as promised the detailed log:
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[#53 0% Preproc] Downloading: Map data to /mnt/sda3/tilesAtHome/tmp/tmp/data-11113-1-7.osm (slice [#53 0% Preproc] Downloading: Map data to /mnt/sda3/tilesAtHome/tmp/tmp/data-11113-1-8.osm (slice [#53 0% Preproc] Downloading: Map data to /mnt/sda3/tilesAtHome/tmp/tmp/data-11113-1-9.osm (slice [#53 0% Preproc] Downloading: Map data to /mnt/sda3/tilesAtHome/tmp/tmp/data-11113-1-10.osm (slice 10 of 10)...
[#53 0% Preproc] Checking for UTF-8 errors in /mnt/sda3/tilesAtHome/tmp/tmp/data-11113.osm... [#53 100% tile] Finished 2147,1444 for layer tile
[#53 0% maplint] Running maplint... sh: tmp.11113: Permission denied
ERROR
The following command produced an error message:
nice -n10 "xmlstarlet" tr maplint/lib/run-tests.xsl /mnt/sda3/tilesAtHome/tmp/tmp/data-11113.osm > "tmp.11113"
Debug output follows:

Additional info about the Error(s):

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Disconnected the Millharbour/Marsh Wall Junction in the Isle of Dogs as it's currently a no-through road due to building works. Doesn't look like it'll be finished anytime soon, either.