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Posted by Marlow on 10 November 2008 in English.

When I was on the continent in the last 2 weeks, I found that Nokia has an application called SportsTracker for Symbian based phones.

Essentially that allows to log a gpstrace on my Nokia E90 Communicator and export it to GPX afterwards. Very handy indeed, especially for the phones that have build-in GPS. That way I don't have to carry a laptop around.

Added a few more miles of bridleway on Saturday between the SDW and the A27, along the A27 over Ditchling Road to Stanmer and also to the North of Stanmer. Also added the Chattri War Memorial - just in time for Remembrance Sunday! Doesn't seem to show up on Osmarender though.

It seems there are still many rights of way to add in this area, so if you know anyone with who walks/cycle/rides regularly in the area, lend them a GPS! :)

Location: Patcham, Brighton and Hove, England, BN1 8QF, United Kingdom
Posted by Harry Wood on 10 November 2008 in English.

Spent the weekend at the cloudmade office for the 2nd International OSM Hack Weekend. People were quietly concentrating on getting on with the big tasks related to API 0.6. Seems they were making some good progress towards this, or a least towards some database re-organisation which needs to happen beforehand.

For my part, I kept my head down and got stuck into learning some ruby on rails. I'm pleasantly surprised by the installation process. I got the basic rails port code up and running on windows reasonably easily. Not very easy, but not as difficult as I had always imagined it would be. And I didn't even have to learn any ruby to understand the OSM rails 'views' enough to make some (silly little) contributions. Good fun!

Puzzling over openlayers javascript with a hangover yesterday was less fun.

Posted by eumiro on 10 November 2008 in English.

Après deux jours en vélo, l'Alsace du nord est encore plus complète. Pratiquement toutes les routes départementales au nord de la Forêt d'Haguenau dans le triangle Haguenau - Wissembourg - Lauterbourg sont là, aussi bien que leur frontières avec des villages (intersection avec landuse=residential), aussi bien que quelques petites rues et même quelques tracks. Les villages Neuhaeusel et Fort-Louis ont été ajoutés. Le squelette de la carte a déjà l'air assez bien. Maintenant il faut voyager toujours de plus en plus loin de Karlsruhe pour trouver des routes départementales pas encore mappées.

Posted by JasperWallace on 9 November 2008 in English.

I'm trying to:

Change the footpath to the south of the allotments to be continus rather than being split by the road.

Add the allotments

Indicate the field to the SEof the allotments is a field.

Add the gate on the footpath to the NE of the allotments (where it joins the road to the sw of the school.

Add the School playing fields (I've put access=private on them since there not open to the general public, hope thats ok).

Hmm, merkaartor crashed on upload and lost my changes, great.

Edit - redid it and it worked this time.

Now to find out what tag i'm supposed to use for dog waste specific litter bins.

Yesterday, obtained GPS trace via bicycle of part of the trails in Coyote Hills Regional Park. Converted that to data layer in JOSM and cleaned up. Adding more that I didn't cover, via USGS Urban orthophoto. Getting the trails on top of the levees is requiring a good deal of manual cleanup of the ponds and marshes so that I don't have people riding through water :)

Location: Fremont, Alameda County, California, United States
Posted by sheilanolan on 9 November 2008 in English.

I got to use the OSM app on my iPhone for the first time this morning to log a trip I do almost every week. I nearly forgot to do it which is why only the last portion of my trip is recorded. As it was Remembrance Sunday, I had to take a minor detour as traffic wasn't allowed down certain roads during the service. Hopefully, I'll have a few more trails recorded over the next month.

Location: Stanwell, Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, England, TW19 7EB, United Kingdom