wow, my first edits (from yesterday) have appeared on the mapnik tiles. I removed the decommissioned railway tracks of the Penn Central Railroad in east Urbana, and corrected the length of an alley segment in my neighbourhood (that part of the alley just isn't there, there are fences and back yards, why did it make it into the thiger data anyways).
On a different note, I wonder if there actually is vandalism on OSM, and how tiny but wrong map edits get detected.

Hi,

I mapped a part of Weilbach today. Streets are mostly present but no names yet. Added a few amenities and cycleways also. I wrote my first two PERL scripts to evaluate OSM files. Quite nice. I am trying to get an access to the SVN currently. Then i will try to produce a more sophisticated script and publish. I plan to program some quality check/assurance. But right now it's only a draft...

Cheers

Gary68

Kürzlich hat sich jemand darüber beschwert, dass Fürth in der Karte größer als Nürnberg dargestellt wird. Und es sieht so aus, als ob sich auch jemand darum gekümmert hat. Fürth ist jetzt nämlich weg, und Nürnberg heisst nur noch "Hauptmarkt Nürnberg".

Viele Straßen in Raeren, Belgien (bei Aachen) waren eindeutig eine Kategorie zu hoch ... kleine Wohnstraßen (teils Sackgassen) waren als Tertiary Road eingestuft, schmale Waldstraßen ohne Fahrbahnmarkierung oder Seitenstreifen (für den öffentlichen Verkehr freigegeben) sogar als Secondary

Ich hab da mal grundlegend aufgeräumt und daraus residentials bzw. unclassifieds (in zwei Fällen auch Tertiarys) gemacht und zudem noch zahlreiche unnütze Tags entfernt - bei einer Straße macht landuse = residential nicht wirklich Sinn, und oneway = no bzw. fixme = no ist auch nur Speicherplatzverschwendung.

Gruß aus Monschau, el-tee

Teile von Salzgitter Sauingen und die L475 zwischen Broistedt und Vallstedt neu hinzu.

Having driven most of the country now, I find fuel stations are a major consideration - due to being infrequent... Many added.

I've outlined a lot of Gaborone, and done a little detail round the block we're visiting.

A number of extant roads are tagged "interestingly" eg dirt tracks as secondary. If I've tagged it above unclassified it's a proper road!

Geschafft, die paar Sträßchen rund um die Sophienhöhe und im Krausewäldchen sind mit Potlach erfaßt. OSM macht Spaß!

I am evil.

See evil stuff.

Some times I brick stuff oh dam it!!!!

Well I decided it was high time I started making some actual contributions, notwithstanding the lack of a GPS unit or usable aerial imagery for my area. So I started tracing over the old out-of-copyright map using Potlatch, adding my street and the back streets around Derby that I know.

I noticed the overlay is somewhat misaligned when compared to the existing ways, so I expect that when I do get my Freerunner in the next few weeks and start adding some GPS traces I will have some editing to do to correct what I've entered so far. No matter, at least we officially exist on OSM now.

Having mentioned what I was doing to one person in the office, another colleague piped up that they were also a contributor. I suspect that if I asked around I'd find one or two more as well -- I've noticed GPS traces of the private on-site access roads here, so clearly someone is actively tracing and uploading.

Köln ist zum Großteil gut erfasst, wobei es in Richtung Norden immer mehr Lücken gibt (z.B. fehlende Straßen, nicht eingetragene Restaurants und Kirchen etc.). In der kleinen Tour am 12. August erfasste ich Salons, Restaurants, Telefonzellen, Recycling-Container, Eiscafés, S-Bahn- und Bushaltestellen sowie Kirchen. Ich konnte auf der Site osm.wiki/index.php/De:Map_Features keinen Tag finden, um eine Müllverbrennungsanlage, eine Konzerthalle (z.B. "Die Kantine" in der Neusser Landstr. 2 in Köln) und ein Geschäft für An- und Verkauf von Haushaltsgeräten zu erfassen.

A few communities along the Swedish west coast are nearing completion: Kullavik, Billdal, Hovås and Askim. Most of the street names are still missing, though. I am going to polish these areas a bit more and then continue going south from Kullavik towards Onsala.

Problem. You want to capture all those lovely high rise buildings in your city of your choice.

You know you need to take into account the parallax error (because the satellite photography is rarely straight down), but you can only see the roof of the building, not its position on the ground. What to do?

Well it may be obvious to some but I only worked it out today. Trace the top of the building anyway, and at the end just use Potlatch to slide the shape into place on the ground.

So much easier than estimating the offset in your head and kinda drawing with a tilt!

Start filling in areas around the Quad

Noticed Cayman Islands coastline fails to render in Mapnik -- unable to determine why.

See osm.org/user/db48x/diary/2542

This not a road or street of any sort. It may look like it from the air, but it is at best a dirt track in a private field along a ditch.

Added many buildings, fields, service roads, etc. to campus

I posted the GPS tracks from moose jaw to regina.
hopefully that will help someone out there :)

12.08.2008

Looked at the primary road between these two towns. I'm not sure I added much vallue on this one.

Teile der E45 in Schweden zwischen Kronogård und Hammerdal aktualisiert, desweiteren folgende Campingplätze inkl. Anfahrt eingefügt:
Ulricehamn (S), Strömstad (S), Fagernes (N), Hammerdal (S), Våmhus (S), Holmsland Klit (DK), Grønhøj (DK)