Okay, we have a swamp in Ankeveen with lots of water and inside the water a myriade of little islands. I found the possibility of multypolygons and I have to investigate that in more depth. Also the layer stuff I want to understand completely. This is important when doing work on such complex natural feature as our swamp or marsh, I think.

This swamp came into existence when in the old days people dug out peat for their fuel in stoves and such. They appearently did that in a not so orderly fashion, because, as said, it left a myriade of islands. On the up side, it's now a much appreciated peace of semi-wild nature, adored by the good people of Ankeveen. It's also a beautiful place to go skating in the winter. Well, not so much in the last few years, because the temperature drops not often and long enough below zero, to make it freeze over.

I already did a lot of way-correcting and already I changed the class of some islands from natural:water into natural:wood. I also created a body of water with layer 1 and gave the overlapping islands of wood layer 2. So hopefully the water will lay under the wood. Let's see what happens in the 2 rendering engines the coming days.

I found out that Osmarender and Mapnik render the layers differently. That's tough to work with, since osmarender is the first to show at least something but Mapnik seems to do a better job. Only for the Mapnik render I'm already waiting two days, for my first addition to show up in there.

I also downloaded and installed OSMTracker on my HP Ipaq HX4700 and it looks like it's working just fine. I'm definitely going to use that to map the footpath's in the parks we have in our next door town of 's-Graveland. So lot's of fun work to be done here!

Decided for a walk around my little town in Germany. I thought the walkways were pretty much complete. Found some pathways and a playground! Added a bunch of pubs and pharmacies along the way. The map shows where the playground is.

Christmas is some months ahead; until then I have to find maps that are part of bylaws or related stuff. This allowed me to add some more features to the Heidelberg map, notably the Landfried area, just opposite the DANTE office (http://www.dante.de).

I saw that inside a leisure:park object AND has drawn water bodies all wrong. The parts that are swampy woodland are drawn as water and the water itself is left blank (therefor has the tag leisure:park.)

Can it be that AND has these big mistakes in their maps? There is a lot of work to be done there then!

I'm on a roll! Solved question 3 to. As it turns out: you have to deselect the object you're working on when you change to view mode and back. It will save your changes the moment you deselect your object, I presume.

I found it. As it turns out you have to extend your existing road with at least one segment. That one will connect to an existing road. Then if you end up with one node to many you can just delete it. It's a little fiddly, but it works.

Well, I like the idea of participating in creating a world map very much and I started in my own neighbourhood, but I have now a lot of questions which all came up in an hour or so of working with it and all of them couldn't be answered by the wiki, the faq or the forum.

1) How do I connect two roads of a different class?

2) Why are only parts of my creation visible in Osmarender. (I’m still waiting on Mapnik). All of the houses (landuse: residential) don't show up, but two business buildings (landuse: industrial) do.

3) Why can’t I change stuff from AND? Well, I can change but they don’t save!

Question 1 I posted on the forum; let’s see what happens…

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This weekend I have added a number of roads (some just named stubs) and footpaths to Irby, West Kirby, Greasby and a number of named road stubs in Heswall, Gayton and Thingwall. There's more lot more work to be done here, but I am unlikely to be in the areas again any time soon. I may continue with some Yahoo tracing. However, I think there's a bit of an offset on the hi-res images, and it seems to be inconsistent :(

I spent a week in Torsnes outside Fredrikstad this summer,
exploring the last bits of trails in Heiefjella and Thorsø-tangene.

I've traced footpaths based on over 30 tracklogs collected while mountain biking
there over the last three years.

The amazing aspect of user contributed maps is how accurate and
up-to-date we can make them. This spring they released a brand new map
of the area called "kulturhistorisk turkart" (historical hiking map).
The mapper obviously haven't revisited any of the trails recently (last 5-10 years),
as some tracks (what would have been tagged tracktype=grade4) are now
been overgrown by vegetation, and are hardly visible.

I also added woods for Torsnes, drawn after Landsat imagery and
corrected near GPS tracks of roads and trails, as well as from
memory of what the terrain looks like.

I created ways in Kellenhusen (Germany). Some streets still missing but maybe someone else will correct them. I will not get there again in the near feature.

Added streets to Sanxenxo, country roads and quite a few of the paths in the hills and woods based on GPS and yahoo tracing

From lots of GPS track I have managed to add a great deal of the footpaths in the hills behind and around Escorial, on abantos and around the Sierra de Guadarrama. However the actual village itself needs completed with a new visit.
also some tracks and roads to Villabla, Cercedilla, Siete Picos etc

Adding paths and peaks in the Pentlands, based on gps tracks and some of Yahoo images (but hese only cover a small amount).

Surprised to find that the tram network in Amsterdam is not very well developed. added some of the lines I regularly take when visiting. Some issues about whether to draw new ways, or make exisiting way railway=tram

I've been adding a few roads near my parents-in-law in derby, but my GPS ran out of battery, so I didn't get as much done as I should have.

Visit to Rotterdam, correct and add some street around where I am staying. Main problem with Rotterdam is the tram network is not completed. Trams run beteen two lane of major roads, or sometimes on their own roads, so I have drawn some based on GPS and yahoo. added some information about Route 21 as a relation.

I've done at this area, but also some buildings to the west of that place.

I continue to map the smaller ways in Westfalenpark and Rombergpark. Last week I discovered the validation plugin for JOSM and started to fix thing which are along the road.
Two topics are still a bit unclear. 1: cycleways along roads which are also used by pedestrians 2: Huge ways in parks (sometimes more than 4 meters wide) but sometimes scattered with trees or flower areas. There is a similar problem with very wide steps...

Habe diese Woche das Neubaugebiet im Ort erfasst, erste Baukräne stehen schon, die Straßen sind noch halbfertig und schon in der Karte.
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In Osmarender schon zu sehen, in Mapnik ab Mitte der Woche. Hier ist Openstreetmap derzeit die aktuellste Karte. Jetzt muss ich noch die Weinberge und die POI vervollständigen.

In die Nachbarorte komme ich auch schon gelegentlich. Wenn noch gar keine Straßen vorhanden sind fahre ich einfach mal eine Runde und nehme die Straßen ohne Namen auf - meistens mit dem Auto. Eine Woche später sind sie in der Karte. Die drucke ich aus und fahre mit dem Rad nochmal hin. Jetzt kommen die Namen rein, die POI und die Sackgassen bzw. vergessene Straßen. Jedenfalls habe ich mit dem zuvor angelegten Straßennetz ein gutes Gerüst zur Verfügung.

Ich habe rausgefunden, wie ich die OSM Karte in mein Navi laden kann. Jetzt kann ich noch nicht erfasste Straßen sehen und nehme sie mit, wenn ich in der Gegend bin. Ich bin froh, dass ich nicht nur einen Logger ohne Kartenanzeige angeschafft habe.