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Split some ways and tagged some bridges.

Went out on a longer range bicycle expedition with my usual buddy. We navigated there using OSM (which showed a helpful cycle path that enabled us to avoid an awkward choice of a large detour vs bicycling a dual carriageway - thanks OSM!).

The village had recently been traced in (main streets only), apparently from NPE maps. We were able to improve on the placing of the streets (GPS survey being more accurate that the NPE's data), add street names, postbox, telephone box, bus stops, the church, some missing streets, the beginnings of some footpaths / bridleways, pub, car park, recycling, war memorial. Basically almost everything we could see :-)

It wasn't very large so we were able to get complete coverage of the village itself without too much effort. There are a few more features that could benefit from future survey:

* The North-East road out of the village has a complicated junction with the A428, which the current data doesn't show in detail.

* There are a number of footways within the village that could be mapped.

* Footpaths / bridleways into / out of the village could be mapped.

* Bodies of water could be converted to areas, with a bit of effort.

* House numbers?

* Extent of the church yard area, which is a reasonably large proportion of the built area?

The basics are done but there's plenty more that could be tackled!

Still, it was quite satisfying to have a whole settlement to map and to be able to cover all of the major features in an hour or so and thoroughly map the place. We hope to tackle more of the smaller outlying villages around Cambridge in future as there are a fair few within our ranage that are unmapped.

NB: if you look at the current Mapnik render of Eltisley, it looks absolutely bonkers. The database dump seems to have somehow picked up the village mid way through my edits, even though I uploaded them all at once... The Osmarender layer looks fine and hopefully Mapnik will correct itself next week.

Split ways and tagged bridges at Soap Mine Rd.

Split ways and tagged bridges at Daggett-Yermo Rd / Ghost Town Rd

ok... the problem with the Thames at Thamesmead is actually my fault, while trying to get the thames to render at all. I believe I've fixed it now.

Completed most significant public parking facilities in the City of Luxembourg (Kirchberg still to do).

Included name, type (mostly underground parking), disabled and normal capacity. Hope someone finds that useful!

I started to create some public transport routes in Berne. First I updated the tramway and tagged the 3 lines, then I added the buslines 12 (was already partly mapped) and 10. Finally I strarted with the "S-Bahn" by tagging the S3, S33 and S2 (only Schwarzenburg-Bern).
Unfortunately the routes are not rendered yet, but it might be worth to map them anyway, since this might be added on a further stage, or what do you think?
Would be cool, if we could map all public transport lines in Berne and the surroundings (perhaps even the choach-lines).

Added Mettendorfer Weg and some footways

Dropped a bunch of unneeded nodes from the northbound way. Changed some ways to trunk to match the rest of the highway.

Habe gesehen, daß es hier korrekter Weise Nationalpark-Donauauen heißt. Was ist dann die Lobau? Habe die Dechant- und Panozzalacke neugezeichnet, ein paar Wege hinzugefügt,...

Habe auch begonnen Trinkwasserbrunnen in und um Wien einzuzeichnen.

Wollte jetzt in meiner alten Wohngegend anfangen Radwege aus den Gedächtnis einzuzeichnen und mußte feststellen, daß die vorhandenen Straßen auf den ersten Blick zwar vorhanden waren, jedoch... Naja, ich will niemandem auf die Füße treten... Ich sags mal so: Ich habe etwas Detailarbeit im Bereich Schwedenplatz - Heinestraße - Untere Augartenstraße gemacht. Werde mich in nächster Zeit dem Rest des Bezirkes (es fehlen ja tatsächlich noch einige Straßen) und der Lände (geht durch mehrere Häuser) widmen, also mehr Basisarbeit, als neues hinzuzufügen.

Habe mal alles eingezeichnet was ich auf Yahoo-Maps gefunden hab was ich kenn und auch meine GPS-Tracks teilweise inkludiert.
Beim Nasenweg bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher, da die GPS-Tracks gegenüber der Luftaufnahme ordendlich off sind.
Auch habe ich den Anfang der Kahlenbergerdorf-Mountainbikestrecke eingezeichnet. Mit den Tag's bin ich mir nicht so ganz sicher. Ich bin prinzipiell für die Idee mit dem Tag MTB=dedicated/yes/... da man dann auch die MTB-Strecken in einer anderen Farbe rendern könnte. Meine Begründung ist: Die Eisernehandgasse und die Kahlenberger Straße sind Radwege surfaced=yes aber mit dem Rennrad oder Tourenrad sicher nicht ganz einfach zu bewältigen.

Finally managed to trace some more walking trails around the 3 Sisters Katoomba.

As noted by the person who previously did some of these trails, it would be nice to redo them with a high res GPS. The Giants Stepwalk ended at least 50 m out at the bottom, and the new section around Leura falls is just a mess, so still trying to work out how to trace that one.

Did manage to accurately place Jenolan Caves though.

I was boring my cousin with talk of OpenStreetMap as I went to visit her in Plymouth again last weekend. It does kind of come up in conversation when you're sat in the passenger seat taking hundreds of uninteresting photos out of the car window.

I wasn't actually planning to go into the city itself. We ended up spending some time walking around "the Hoe" (grassy peninsula parkland place with views out to sea) and "the Barbican" old town around the harbour. These are pretty much the main tourist areas to visit in Plymouth (here), so while I there, I was thinking there was a good chance that this was all on the map already.

But it turns out not. I took a look last night, and saw the whole area in nice clear Yahoo imagery coverage, but very little mapping progress. I couldn't resist settling down for a hour or so of sketching in parks and road layouts. It seems like time well spent, because now we at least have more of the tourist areas of this city roughly in place, ready for somebody local or a visiting tourist to go survey properly.

I haven't done yahoo sketching for a while. The tag highway=road got voted in, which seems to have some baring on how we are supposed to go about doing it, but to my mind it's a clumsy solution, since it involves adding this tag everywhere, and then removing and replacing again later. Too many key presses. Sketching should be quick. But at least this, along with things like the OSM fieldwork have pointed a spotlight on the potential of yahoo sketching.

But I think if it was made more clear that we are allowed/encouraged to do yahoo sketching, then we wouldn't have any yahoo covered cities which are still missing their major tourist centres.

I've traced several mountain trails and roads near Skeikampen and
used the lake walker tool to add lakes.
I plan on reviewing tagging and tracing of footways, especially near joints.
I miss SRTM data to render maps with contours for this area though.

Von Woche zu Woche werden mehr Mapper im Landkreis Sankt Wendel aktiv.

Teilweise überschneiden sich unsere Aktivitäten schon und ich bin selbst schon in die Verlegenheit gekommen, einzelne Punkte von anderen User zu ändern.

Das ist nun immer eine merkwürdige Erfahrung, wenn jemand anderes eigene Beiträge ändert. Mir ist auch immer etwas unwohl, die Objekte von anderen anzupacken. Viel angenehmer ist es, wenn man gleichzeitig in Kontakt steht und mitbekommt, was andere von den eigenen Uploads halten.

Ich habe deshalb eine Wiki-Page mit bisher rudimentärem Inhalt für Sankt Wendel eingerichtet: osm.wiki/index.php/Sankt_Wendel

Ich bin mir nicht ganz sicher, ob wir die eigentliche Seite zum Austausch nutzen sollen oder doch lieber die Diskussionsseite (und auf der eigentlichen Seite nur Infos eintragen, die von allgemeinem Interesse sind).

Jedenfalls sind alle, die in Sankt Wendel mappen, herzlich eingeladen, sich auf der Wiki-Seite zu verewigen.

Viele Grüße,
Andreas

Did some corrections in Cologne Südstadt based on the Yahoo images and own observations. Also added the two new roundabouts on Alteburger Straße.

Just came back from my 4 week hike in the french alpes. Walked 360 kilometer with 20.000 meters asc/desc from Modane to Menton on the Cote d'Azur. Added the GR5 and GR52 path to OSM.