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Now with this new GPS, it's much easier. .. i now can see the waypoints i put in.

Here's what i do... maybe you do too..

Using cardstock que-cards (a bunch of 50) with a clip. ...and a pen. I mark down the point #, and then the description, (as much as i need to remember it)
For those lines roads or trails, i mark down 2 points ie. ( #5-6 footpath) that means, from point #5 and along my tracks to point #6 is a footpath.
... and then for areas, i put (#7,8,9,10 amenity=parking )

This way, it's rather quick.. so then when i get to a spot where i have wi-fi, and can upload my tracks and points.. i 1st load them all to OSM website. then i open up JOSM, and open the track file (direct from the device with USB) and then zoom in to the area that i want to play with. Download the latest so far, and add in what i need to, and upload the changes.

After that, i jump onto here and write in the user diary a little something about what i did.

So when im marking something, and want to see exactly how it "should (recommended)" be marked, i just zoom around to the closest spot where it exists already. Maybe like 75% of the time; point, lines, areas already have been done somewhere close. ... making it easy. .. and so, if im not sure, i go ahead and message the person who drew in those points,lines, areas so to keep them up- to-date. ... but more frequently, i just look up on the Wiki Map Features page.. or zoom out to another country (that i have been to) and find something similar.

Cheers,
Sam

Location: Gordon Head, Saanich, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Posted by acrosscanadatrails on 23 October 2008 in English.

Yup, so cool. So for those Canadians out there who know of Mountain Equipment Co-op, well thats where i got my GPS from. What was cool is that they have a guarentee of the products. I bought my old one. The eTrex Legend Cx there a year and a half ago, and returned it because the rubber came loose, and would no longer let me export waypoints.. just the tracks. So i got a refund which was enough to pay for this new GPS.
...
I guess that now covers for my lost GPS last year when i lost all my tracks from Vancouver Island. :) ... So none-the-less, i recommend getting your GPS Device from Mountain Equipment Co-op. May be a little more $, but the guarentee is there.

And so i was deciding on the eTrex Legend HCx or this one.. the main difference is the durability. Because i plan on doing TONNES of mapping, and making tourist maps and local area maps for parks and such, having the stronger more powerful one is worth it. ... maybe the Legend is Great for Biking, and everything else. .. I just figured 'cause i'll be using it more than the average user, it's worth it.

P.S. This isn't meant to be promotions... However, i guess it is :) ... but it's useful info for everyone to know. .. in case your deciding on getting a new GPS. :)

Location: Downtown, Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Posted by aeonesa on 22 October 2008 in English.

Am 22.10.08 habe ich den Mühlgraben soweit er parallel zur Fischweide und parallel zur Straße am Wehr läuft eingezeichnet. Track habe ich eingestellt.

Hier wäre noch Arbeit zur Daterfassung nötig, um den Verlauf bis zum Wiedereintritt in die Hörsel zu erfassen

Location: Hofferbertaue, Stockhausen, Eisenach, Wartburgkreis, Thuringia, 99817, Germany
Posted by mattylaws on 22 October 2008 in English.

I just registered with OSM. Done a couple of edits to a village called Bethersden using my memory of the area (I'm quite familar with it), and the NPE map. Not sure if it's entirely acurate, but I'm going to be getting a GPS reciever soon so I can double check my edits.

I added the main road which goes through the village centre, along with the church and a pub. Also I added norton lane and named a couple of the roads.

I hope to be doing lots more edits around that area, mainly naming the roads and finding out where the other two pubs lie.

Location: Bethersden, Ashford, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Posted by ph_import on 22 October 2008 in English.

Recently completed Taytay, Rizal Philippines data upload from Rally de Leon

The tags are below:
Rally's tag = OSM tag
river = waterway:river
creek = waterway:stream
alley = highway:footway
footpath = highway:footway
track = highway:footway
UNVERIFIED = highway:road and FIXME:unverified
road = highway:residential
name = name

I also added source:Rally de Leon gtm data 20081022

Now the task of verifying and checking for errors.

Location: Dolores, Taytay, Rizal, Calabarzon, 1920, Philippines
Posted by Philipp Sªsse on 22 October 2008 in English.

Ich habe anhand von ausgezeichneten Tracks (vermutlich fast alle Straßen befahren, die meisten vielfach, so daß Ausreißer auffallen) Gaggenau ergänzt und Michelbach und Sulzbach angelegt, leider mangels Ortskenntnis nur als »road« und ohne Namen. Wer kennt jemanden vor Ort, der die Attribute nachpflegen könnte (oder hat einen Vorschlag, wie man jemanden finden kann -- bei den Benutzern, die dort schon etwas gemacht haben, waren das eher Zufallsprodukte)?

Location: Michelbach, Gaggenau, Landkreis Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Posted by Circeus on 22 October 2008 in English.

So, as I said previously, my first instinct regarding Louis-Colin street was incorrect. The impression that something was off, however, was entirely justified, and I should have noticed earlier. That segment of street which continues past Édouard-Montpetit Bld. does NOT actually connect to Côte-Sainte-Catherine (what can be seen on the other side of the tree thicket is a service alley). Furthermore, the name is incorrect, Northmount Av. is on the other side of Côte-Sainte-Catherine, the segment is merely a continuation of Louis-Colin

Posted by Andrew Chadwick on 22 October 2008 in English.

Scouted most of the 20 MPH zone in the centre of the city this evening, fixing the bus gate location and permitted traffic and doing a lot of s/^car=/motorcar=/g. So now applications like YOURS shouldn't route your car through the camera enforcement bit. Hopefully that link'll update nicely with the next planet.osm pull. Saved copy for comparison later on.

There's still no way of saying "PSVs only down this road, but bicycles and *only* bicycles may also use it between t1 and t2".

Location: St Ebbes, City Centre, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1170074/

It's this coming weekend. This is my first one organised, but people are signing up, which frankly astounds me as I hardly know anyone within the project yet. Still need to do the cake slices, but so far so good.

Location: Abingdon on Thames, Abingdon, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Posted by mapset on 21 October 2008 in English.

google map(zenrin),Yahoo!J map(Alps?),mapion,etc...
ついでにWikipediaにも
「末吉大通りは県道14号ではない。」って書かれてるけど
道路標識は「末吉大通り=県道14号」ってなってるんだよな。。。

とりあえず secondary にしといた。

Location: Kamisueyoshi 2-chome, Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, 231-0017, Japan