I noticed this morning that Openstreetmap got a mention on the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7586789.stm

I wonder if this will accelerate the growth in interest, traffic and contributors from the UK?

Walked around Dumbiedykes, which is a largely pedestrian estate, with lots of steps - does not show well on any map I know - I have got much of it, but there are many steps I still have not go. Filled in a few streets.
The lanes around Canongate were a bit of disaster - existing ones completely in the wrong place. Tried to get it right in the area between the Parliament and Moray House - The moray hosue complex needs revisited. (Found a nice page of old maps of central edinburgh http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_MAPS/0_maps_thumbnails.htm )

Gestern abend wieder eine kleine Feierabend-Tour, weiter mit Graben-Neudorf. Jetzt sollte der südöstliche Teil halbwegs komplett sein. Trace:

osm.org/user/flschm/traces/182345

It's two weeks ago I started collecting the data. The Osmarenderer was always more current but I find Mapnik looks nicer.

Two towns in Slovakia, Hradec and Chrenovec-Brusno are now mapped. Brusno has no street names, the whole town is referenced by house number only.

Thanks to KarstK for his initial help. It's also amazing, it's definitely not a good idea to take data from Google Maps, physically, from GM I found a street missing, GM says there are roads when in reality there isn't. And street maps aren't always correct. So, Gm for a reference only, but nothing more.

The northbound and southbound ways don't run close south of here. The northbound way was tagged originally residential.

Its so awesome how its so easy to collaborate with others with making this map project happen.

What i found best is that my keeping in touch with those who are fellow mappers in the area and also with those who are mapping country wide, this avoids so much extra work.

Im getting ever so closer to getting the map ready to launch.

Just wanted to say thanks to all random help of everyone here.

Sam
:)

Start a little north of Payson and head south.

This is about as far south as I'm going to go.

Mein erster Diary-Eintrag:
Habe die Lücke im Radweg am Westufer des Main-Donau-Kanals südl. von Nürnberg zwischen Katzwang und Neuses gefüllt. Außerdem zwei kleine Wertstoffhöfe sowie ein paar Service-Wege am Ostufer beim Nürnberger Hafen nachgetragen.

Just got my first OpenStreetMap into my Garmin device. It looks much better than the general map provided :D

Let's see if it can be used to navigate.

Added Mazatzal Rest Area.

I made a trace in a park called 'Schaep en Burgh'. Well, that was not really a success! 10% accurate, 70% a total mess, and 20% somewhere in between...

Of course I'm walking under the trees and it was a total overcast during the trip. What made it slightly better was setting the option: "record only when accuracy is" from 10 meters to 4 meters. More tests with some better weather will follow. Maybe in the winter without the leaves, I will get a better reception and perhaps also another device would perform better. I'm planning on buying the HTC Touch Pro. It'll come bundled with the latest TomTom version somewhere in october.

Nevertheless, I did some road laying and more, because I know that place very well.

I created one multipolygon outer object en lots of small islands inside. I'm really anxious to see how that works out in the maps in a couple of days! There is still a lot more to do, but before I do that, I want to see the result so far.

An instant preview option would be nice in Potlach!

I can see northbound and southbound 87 in the Yahoo image. I'll work south from here.

I have made a couple of simple tweaks to the Osmarender rules and styles: Red Arrows for Oneway Streets, Residential Buildings, Hiking Trails. Images included!

TODO: make it easy to render it yourself.

added these routes

I had no GPS with me when I ran last Sunday yet I finished 50 37/60 minutes in the 5K event. Still, I wasn't discouraged from adding more nodes and found some points of interests along the way (and finished at 50 minutes & 38 seconds).

For the longest time, the "monstrosity" (sorry for that term, way ahead of the oncoming criticism) called "that Recreational Center" (I can't just say its name, possibly tantamount to promotion), just got untagged. To be specific about it, I just removed the place=city tag on it so that the "visitors" don't have to see it yet again.

Also, I just improved some spots in Metro Manila (read: Makati City, eastern Mandaluyong City, Camp Aguinaldo, the Scout Area, somewhere in Novaliches & CAMANAVA & "downtown" Manila) and added some postal codes (ZIP Codes for others) on certain streets in one place or another.

That's enough for now. I gotta go, since I have a field trip tomorrow. hoppefully, a break from doing "OSM fieldwork".

Since getting my grubby little mitts on a GPS receiver, I've been a bit like a kid with a new toy. I don't have masses of free time to go out specifically for the purpose of gathering traces, so I promised myself I'd just do it as and when I was out and about.

So I did and it worked... to a point. I had a minor issue with the Dell BT-309 not working with GpsMid on the Nokia 6280 after I'd hooked it up to JOSM on my laptop. The GPS was showing it had a fix, but GpsMid was saying no fix. If I changed the mode to Sirf instead of NMEA then when I loaded GpsMid it would centre the map on my current position, but the position was never refreshed. It turned out that gpsd or JOSM (I'm still not sure which) had put the GPS into binary mode, while GpsMid was expecting plain old NMEA. Or something. So I lost a day's tracking to that little snag.

Since then I've broken my promise to myself and taken two expeditions for no other reason than I wanted to get some tracks. Monday night I took a walk around the back streets north of the A5111 and West of Upper Dale Road to fill in some of the GPS blanks and line up the streets I'd traced from the NPE. Tuesday night I took a drive around south of the A5111 and east of Stenson Road, filling in some of the bits that had been bugging me because I just couldn't get them to fit.

Those areas are taking shape now and I'm very pleased with the results so far. There are still more bits that need doing -- including a whole load of new (well, since the NPE!) developments south of Browning Circle I had no idea even existed -- but what's there now is, for the most part, accurate and has GPS data to support it.

hier

Just added/fixed a few roads and waterways around the Gold Coast. I am not sure if someone is working on it right now, but it does need work.