Following a comment from Mark Williamson on my last diary entry I was able to line up the NPE map with my ways and correct (hopefully!) some of my previous inaccuracies. I've also started playing tonight with JOSM, which highlighted a whole load of GPS data I didn't even know existed, so I was able to line up my ways with the GPS data in some instances. There's still a certain amount of interpolation where I have no GPS data (yet!) but it should be more accurate now.

Now if only I can stop myself spending so long doing this stuff... but it's so much FUN!

More work on the body of Stanford campus.

Wish I had an iPhone app to help store pictures alongside with GPS traces.

(Dunno if that'd be useful for getting buildings right given the (lack of) accuracy on the device.)

That said, it'd be a great way to gather data more conveniently on a larger scale, to have a GPS trace where points (segments?) can be tagged with pictures, sounds, actual tags, or text!

Also getting up to speed on the OSM XML format. Seems challenging to deal with -- is it a bear to get imported into PostGIS? Might try to extract just enough data using XQilla...

Dear diary... I'm writing today to remind my selff not to stay again endless hours, redoing tasks that I done before... This is also a reminder to improve Paphos, and stop doing Limassol, as more or less I completed it by my self... Dear me from now on start putting names on the roads... Don't just put nodes, and do ways and areas... Repair the limanaki area, that as U may noticed doesn't really work under mapnik, because the coastline is stuck at it's earlier version.... And stop searching endless hours 4 road schedules and plans... they are not building anything sugnigicant at least for the next 5 years...! With love...
Andreas...!!!

I've extended the Don Valley trail's south end and added the Waterfront Trail where it runs through the Beaches.

Corrected a street name spelling error in Minden, Germany ("Wingarten" -> "Weingarten"), added two highschools in Minden ("Ratsgymnasium" and "Herdergymnnasium"), edited the street "Nach den Bülten" in Minden so that it's not a through street anymore, added two new streets in Porta Westfalica, Germany ("Rehwinkel" and "Oberfeldstraße") and added a street's name in Born, Germany ("Mühlenberg").

Made my first trace today. Drew it in JOSM, and tagged the ways. Too bad only a quarter of the journey appears. I dont know if there was a problem in the recording, or during transfer, as I deleted the memory. Will have to look better next time.

After some month without a logger I can gather tracks again. The new device is a Locosys BGT-31. It is faster and has much better reception than the old BGT-11. First areas are in the map, the story continues ...

Heute Vechelde westlich der Bahnline und Wohngebiet "Kurzer Kamp" vervollständigt.

Until today I have only been able to make minor edits, such as road names, speed limits and suchlike. Today, I finally got my GPS working.
Its a Pocket PC version 4 system, recording tracks with Beeline GPS. Fantastic program, but its not free. Does anyone have any experience of similar programs which wont cost anything?

Anyway, updated a few of the roads around Barnstaple and added a few new ones, waiting to see my edits on the slippy map. May take a walk around and map a few of the missing roads soon if the nice weather keeps up.

Hab heute mit Potlach die Bahnstation Langenhorner Markt in Hamburg eingetragen.

Gerade die erste 'richtige' OSM-Tour beendet. Mit dem Rad durch unkartierte Bereiche in Duisburg Huckingen.

Made the first 'dedicatet' OSM-tour by bike. Through Duisburg Huckingen and mapped new areas.

Can I upload GPS data without tagging them?
I mean, I want to drive throught my city by car and bike and offer the raw data to openstreetmap - but I have not enough time for give streetnames etc.

And an other Question... When I go on a way twice, is it recognized by openstreetmap.org - or did I have than 2 lines on a quaremeter?

Ich habe mal angefangen und hae erste Straßen in Ulfen gezeichnet. Auch ein Wirtschaftsweg der zu zwei Geocaches führt! Heute noch nicht gerendert!

When I take my dog to the park, I've been taking the occasional detour so I can build up a map of all the walking tracks in the reserve. The OSM map now has way more coverage for walking tracks than any of the other maps I know of. There are still some bits I need to explore, but I'll add them as I go.

The other day I was at one of the ovals and some people asked me if I knew if there was a walking track from one oval to another. The map at the park which they were looking at didn't have any connection, but they thought there should be one. Luckily for them, I had some fairly recent OSM maps loaded in my n810 so I could be a little bit less vague when giving directions.

So then a few questions:

1) How does one generally go about mapping a creek? There are a few creeks in the area which you can't see from the yahoo images, and in lots of spots they aren't really walkable.

2) I'm also not quite sure how to label the reserve. There are signs that indicate it is called "Twin Creeks Reserve", but I don't think that this name extends all the way north, so I don't know where the boundary would be.

3) Is it possible to share nodes between ways in potlach? Or else, does someone want to fix up the dodginess around the northern field (Brown's field) - there isn't any gap between the field and bush. Or should I just put the field in a layer above the bush?

(oh, and first post)

Added my first "road" to map. Hopefully all done right with tags:
highway=path
surface=paved
landuse=farm

Also added a undercrossing for peds and bikes at
Lat:50.01828000514416
Long:8.432149791376816

Most ways don't have the 'surface' attribute.
But for inline-skaters, road-bikers and even pedestrians it is very important to know the kind of surface they do sports on!

Ich bin zwar neu hier und habe noch nicht viel editiert, aber es fällt auf, dass das Attribut 'surface' mit den Werten [paved | unpaved] selten definiert wird. Im Freizeitbereich und für Sportler ist das ein sehr wichtiges Attribut!

Gruß
ccj

Did a load of tracing around the Southern Sydney suburbs.

Walked the southern part of Henley in two sessions yesterday, sustained at the interval by a pint of Guinness in the Bird in Hand (voted South Oxfordshire CAMRA Pub of the Year, for real ale enthusiasts). My GPSr informs me I walked a total of nearly twelve miles.

Habe heute die L20 ergänzt. Sie fehlte auf etwa 20km.
Heute hat Mapnik auch Hohen Wangelin neu gerendert. Sieht doch schon viel besser aus. Es fehlt aber noch viel.

I've given the area around Copenhagen, Denmark, quite some love over the past few days. The biggest change was that I downgraded all the roads which were incorrectly tagged "secondary" to "tertiary". That's not only how it's supposed to be, the map actually looks much better. Besides, I have made lots of little detail corrections. I've used http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com to track them. If you live in the area and see an error, feel free to report a bug on that site - it's very easy!