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Spend your vacation getting started with OpenStreetMap (linux.com article about OSM)

Posted by HannesHH on 17 August 2008 in English.

There is a nice article about OSM at linux.com.
"We have written about the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project many times, but we have yet to explain how to get started with it as a contributor. Since it is the vacation high season in the Northern Hemisphere and many more people will be hitting the maps, this is the perfect time."

This is a great introduction for newbies. Go read it and then send it to all your friends (actually, yes, why not):
http://www.linux.com/feature/145136

meine Premiere

Posted by wahnsinnsknabe on 16 August 2008 in English.

Hallo Leute,

habe mich erst vor ein paar Stunden hier angemeldet und bin total begeister. Ist heute quasi meine OpenStreeMap Taufe. Ist wirklich eine geniale Sache.

Nach einer 50km Tour heute bin stolz auf meinen ersten Beitrag. Habe zwei unbekannte Forstwege an der Würm ergänzt. Außerdem zwei Verbindungspfade durch den Wald bei Germering
Liebe Grüße
KH

Tönisvorst Südviertel "Jungfernfahrt"

Posted by Timocracy on 16 August 2008 in English.

Heute habe ich zum ersten mal einen Trace mit meinem neuen Garmin Vista HCx aufgenommen und in JOSM bearbeitet.

Bei dem herrlich sonnigen Wetter habe ich den weißen Fleck im Tönisvorster Südviertel (Hasenheide, Benraderstraße, Südtstraße) etwas ausgefüllt und benannt.
Es fehlen natürlich noch einige Straßen, doch einmal auf den Geschmack gekommen werde ich das garantiert demnächst nachholen.

Location: Feldburg, Tönisvorst, Kreis Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, 47804, Germany

Boosting my OSM Geek Cred

Posted by morb_au on 16 August 2008 in English.

I went for a walk through downtown Brisbane last night, leaving a trail in OSM of newly-captured features through George Street, Charlotte Street and a little of Albert Street.

There's still some more of Charlotte Street, Edward Street and Adelaide Street left to enter into OSM. Let's hope the renderers don't choke on the newly dense crowds of POIs (-:

The capture method of choice was the voice memo recorder of my mobile phone. I think it blends in quite well in the crowd - simply pretend you're calling someone because you're "lost", and, well, you have to "describe" where you are to the phone!

Location: Brisbane City, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia

TIGER artifacts

Posted by ArtyCarty479831 on 16 August 2008 in English.

I just finished two trips, one from Portland to Seattle and one from Portland to Newport, OR on the coast. I recorded tracks from my GPS logger, and now I'm cleaning up the TIGER data for the covered areas.

Most of the trips were highway driving, which has given me some interesting insight into the TIGER data. The US Census Bureau documentation says that TIGER is a composite of multiple sources, and the highways show it.

US highway 20 in Oregon had some interesting artifacts. In Lincoln county, the way was a rough approximation of the road, with typical TIGER misalignment. As soon as it crossed into Benton county, the way was an exact match with the GPS track and the Yahoo aerial photos.

Interstate highway 5 in Washington state was interesting too. In Cowlitz county, I-5 was a single way with poor accuracy, but as soon as it crossed into Lewis county, it became dual ways with accurate placement. Based on the tiger:tlid tags, it looks like the dual ways were original Tiger data and not later OSM edits.

I expected that US highways and Interstate highways would be consistent for their whole length. But in retrospect, I imagine that not only do they export at county levels, much of the TIGER database was probably built by importing data at county level too.

Location: Lewis County, Washington, United States

Multipolygone im Süd-Harz - kaputt?

Posted by bgruen on 15 August 2008 in English.

Hi,
RWoelfel und ich haben die Gegend um Bad Lauterberg erfasst und dabei vermeintlich ein Multipolygon "korrigiert". Stelle nun fest, dass ab Zoomstufe 11 das ganze (oder mehrere) Multipolygon(e) einfach weg sind im Mapnik.
Weiß aber nicht, ob es nun an meinen Änderungen liegt oder diese Polygone von sich aus schon nicht okay sind/ waren.

Deshalb meine Frage: Liegt das merkwürdige Rendern ab Zoom 11 des Südharzrandes daran dass ich ein paar Punkte des Polygons gelöscht und ein paar andere verschoben habe, ohne auf die Warnung, dass es sich hierbei um eine Relation handelt, zu achten?

Und: was tun, um das zu korrigieren?

Location: Bartolfelde, Bad Lauterberg im Harz, Landkreis Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

A good chunk of Newcastle is now traced

Posted by Biogenesis_ on 15 August 2008 in English.

Well, everything North and East of Lake Macquarie is traced in anyway. There are sections of bushland West of the lake (South of West Wallsend) which haven't been marked in yet either.

My next task will concentrate on marking in as much of the bushland West of the F3 as is feasible.

All I can say so far is: That was Epic. Several thousand nodes a night for about a week and finally most of Newcastle is done.

My ground surveying is going to concentrate on paved cycleways and bush tracks. A lot of bush tracks (particularly MTB and dirt bike trails) tend to be made by civilians and so are mostly undocumented on any "official" maps.

Street name collection will probably happen at some stage, but I'd love to get some help for that one! Hopefully somebody in the region will see the map so far and think "wow, maybe this will be useful someday".

The one thing to keep telling yourself is "once it's mapped it's mapped", so the map can only get better :).

Another low priority job would be to mark landuse=residential, but it just makes the map look cool and isn't a great navigational aid.

Location: Glendale, Newcastle-Maitland, City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, 2285, Australia