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Increasing My Tool Set

Posted by James Tait on 22 August 2008 in English.

With the help of GpsMid (http://gpsmid.sf.net), a J2ME Midlet to display vector maps on a Java-enabled mobile phone, I've been adding more detail to the areas that I've been mapping. Although I don't yet have a GPS receiver, GpsMid will interface with one via Bluetooth and I intend to take full advantage of that fact the next time I'm in Mansfield and I can nab my brother's. In the meantime I'm making extensive use of GpsMid's Save Waypoint feature to mark significant places by hand which can then be more accurately positioned when I have actual GPS data to align things.

All of the back streets I regularly walk on my way to and from work are now mapped, mostly by tracing over the NPE, some by tracing someone else's GPS data. I've started to venture further afield, taking different routes home and pounding different streets when taking the kids to the park or nipping down to the shops so I can add more streets and more details. There are still some significant gaps where I don't know enough about the layout of the streets to reliably trace the NPE, but again I'll cover those when I'm GPS-enabled.

My eldest son likes to see the map on Daddy's phone and seems to understand that we're helping to draw it. My wife and people in the office are probably sick to death of me banging on about it and constantly polling them (and even complete strangers in the street!) for details, always mindful of the need to draw on their own knowledge, not that gained from Google Maps or similar.

Location: Peartree, Derby, East Midlands, England, DE23 8UN, United Kingdom

an alle deutschen "Mitarbeiter"

Posted by fralfral on 22 August 2008 in English. Last updated on 25 August 2008.

Mir ist aufgefallen, daß viele deutsche Land-, Kreis- und Bundesstraßen nicht immer korrekt bezeichnet sind. Nach Vorgaben sollten diese immer mit K xx oder L xx bzw. B xx gekennzeichnet sein und nicht Kxx Lxx oder Bxx. Dh. immer ein Leerzeichen zwischen Buchstabe und Zahl wie in De:Howto Map A... beschrieben:

ref=* wird mit Leerzeichen eingetragen. Also z.B. ref=A 2 für die Bundesautobahn 2.

Also sollte jeder in seiner Umgebung nachforschen und korrigieren.

Viel Vergnügen dabei

Grrrrrrr! Crashes... recoverable JOSM edits? probably not

Posted by Breezer on 22 August 2008 in English.

Using Josm and having input quite a few edits, I managed to cause my Ubuntu PC to kill X... I am guessing the "Keep backup files" only applies when saving files; I hadn't hit save yet, or uploaded stuff... Damn and blast. Damn and blast.

I'd been experimenting this time with

Location: East Marylebone, Mayfair, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, W1T 3PP, United Kingdom

94305, and broken seas

Posted by lwu on 21 August 2008 in English.

Campus (94305) is looking quite a bit shape-lier after the changes I made last week (which finally rendered in Mapnik):

osm.org/?lat=37.42817&lon=-122.17105&zoom=15&layers=B00FTF

The Cayman islands look good again, at least in OSMArender (perhaps they'll be fixed in Mapnik by next week):
osm.org/?lat=19.266&lon=-81.231&zoom=11&layers=0B0FTF

Alas, I noticed a few more visual bugs:

Especially in New Orleans...
osm.org/?lat=29.601&lon=-89.931&zoom=9&layers=B00FTF

Might have time in the future to look at it, but for the moment have been filing Mapnik tickets, hacking, and making lots of changes to the Mapnik wiki! http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki

A27 along the South Coast

Posted by mapryan on 21 August 2008 in English.

Re-drew sections of the A27 along the South Coast which I can see via Yahoo tiles as it seems to be out by about 15-20'.

However, there are large sections that I can't see due to lack of low-level mapping or clouds. So, if there's anyone along the South Coase available to go over the route with a GPS, you'd probably be able to correct it all fairly easily

Cheers

Mike

Location: Portslade Village, Portslade by Sea, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, England, BN41 2LL, United Kingdom