I currently concentrate my mapping efforts on Lörrach. I map all streets with street names and restrictions (speed, oneway, restricted access, ...)
i do not register postboxes, public transportation (bus stops, lines, ...)
If you want to help mapping Lörrach in a structured way please contact me.
If you find errors or have suggestions for an area to update contact me too.

- Bernd

My parents have some property near Taree and I stayed there over the last couple of days and did some mapping.

Yesterday I just did a few country roads in our area. The property is at Firefly and I linked it up with Krambach properly. Also mapped all 3 streets of Krambach. The diary entry map link should get you to this.

I drove home to Newcastle today and figured a few detours wouldn't hurt.

First one was to map Wootton Way, it's a section of the Old Pacific Highway that runs from Cooloongolook (spelt?) to Bulahdelah. It's one of the most fun sections of road I've ever driven! It's really twisty and really wide. Often there are "2" lanes, ie a main lane and an overtaking lane, but since there's no traffic on this road (I saw 1 other car the whole length of it) you can just fang all over it :p. Link: osm.org/?lat=-32.292&lon=152.2469&zoom=13&layers=0B00FTF

At Bulahdelah I had a poke around the state forest on the East side. Can't remember the name of it, but drove up a trail that leads to an old quarry. The trail was very steep, single lane and very rocky. The Ford Fiesta I was driving almost didn't make it. Good fun! There are a few walking tracks around here that I didn't do (had to get home eventually) but will hopefully map at a later date. There's a picnic area, toilets and playground at the start of the track. Link: osm.org/?lat=-32.41572&lon=152.2171&zoom=16&layers=0B00FTF

Next was Booral road. I first drove this road as a Pacific highway detour. Back before the Karuah bypass was built the holiday traffic would line up for about 20km North of Karuah (it had a set of traffic lights). Booral Road was a right hand turn off the highway (heading South) just South of Bulahdelah which links up with The Buckets Way. It's also very twisty, but is a 2 lane country back road so not as fun as Wootton Way. Link (hopefully, it hasn't rendered yet): osm.org/?lat=-32.4642&lon=152.0768&zoom=12&layers=0B00FTF

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Schon öfters habe ich von OpenStreetMap gehört, habe mich aber nie wirklich in den Sinn und das Ziel des Projektes eingelesen. Als vor kurzem die Nachricht kam, dass fast ganz Hamburg gemapt sei, wurde ich dann doch aufmerksam und schaute mir die "map" genauer an. Gerade in der Umgebung meiner Heimat. Einige Orte waren schon recht detailliert eingebunden (u.a. mein Heimatort), andere dagegen noch gar nicht.

Aus reinem Interesse meldete ich mich an und informierte mich darüber wie man Änderungen und Ergänzungen vornimmt. Angefangen habe ich dann (aus Mangel eines GPS-Empfängers) mit dem "taggen" von POIs in meinem Heimatort und ein paar Kleinigkeiten in der Umgebung (Tankstellen, Bäcker,...). Da mein Heimatort nun keine POIs mehr bietet, die noch gemapt werden könnten, habe ich den nächsten Schritt gewagt und mir nun ein GPS-Gerät bestellt. Mit dessen Hilfe werde ich demnächst einige Orte der Umgebung einbinden. Aktuelles Kartenmaterial (aktuelle OSM-Karte und "vollständigere" Konkurrenzkarten) habe ich schon ausgedruckt, um einen Anhaltspunkt zu haben. Wenn das Wetter mitspielt, kann ich in der kommenden Woche bereits beginnen.

Auf ein spaßiges und erfolgreiches "mappen"!

Completed the southern portion of the Highway 87 Bikeway, using the aerial photography as a guide. Tagged both the offstreet and on-street alignments with a route relation labeled Highway 87 Bikeway.

The area between 16th and 17th and San Salvador and San Fernando has a lot of interesting traffic diverters, and I did my best to add these in using the restriction relation.

I also added a random smattering of amenities, and traffic calming measures.

On N. 10th St just south of Commercial St., the signed and painted bike lane explicitly and inexplicably turns into a signed Class III Bike Route for 240' and then turns back into a Bike Lane. This is very weird, but I updated the map to reflect observed reality.

Finally got around to trying to update my home area by doing some fixes on the Southpoint area. Deleted some roads that aren't there, added in the new Southpoint Parkway, etc.

With a little help i will start tracking my environment.
I am using my Openmoko Freerunner GTA02 GPS together with tangoGPS

I've begun to document traffic calming measures on the streets I ride on regularly, including chokers, speed humps, and mini-roundabouts.

I recently added an informal dirt trail that links the Guadlupe River Trail to Component Drive and the Karina VTA light rail station. this short-cut through an open field shaves nearly a mile off the current official route that goes all the way to Trimble.

Thanks to adbrown who pointed out that this trail is actually the proposed future Component Trail: http://www.sjparks.org/Trails/ComponentTrail.htm

It is noteworthy that the current path as it exists has a very steep slope at the junction with the Guadalupe River Trail, but I'm not sure how to tag this.

My first real additions

Added a bunch of bicycle road at Fløng and connected them to roads
Named some roads at Fløng
Added bicycle path from Marbjerg to Fløng
Added some tags (noexit, roundabout, level at a bicycle tunnel)
Added Wiemosen in Roskilde
Rename/split of Naboløs

I have already seen some changes at Osmarender layer. I'm really impressed by the distributed layer service!

has any one used this mapping system whilst geocaching
Staan

I recently cycled the San Jose Crosstown Bikeway Route 11 from its northern terminus to as far south as Monterey Highway at Metcalf and added this as an LCN route. The route continues further south, but I didn't have the time nor stamina to get it all in one go. I haven't been able to find any kind of online description of Route 11, so either I or someone else will have to continue surveying on Monterey Highway from Metcalf to the southern terminus of the route.

I added the two northernmost sections of the Highway 87 Bikeway by tracing them from the aerial photograph. The southernmost section is too hard to distinguish on the photograph, so I may have to collect a GPS trace for this section.

I have recently added bike lane designations for areas that I ride on a regular basis, including in downtown, and in the vicinity of the Airport.

I've traced in a number of large and/or notable buildings, including eBay's North campus, the Walmart on Story Rd., and Bay 101.

I have also been adding amenities that I know of, such as bike shops, motels, post offices, post boxes, and water fountains.

I've corrected street name from 1-й Грайвороновский пр-д to 1-й Саратовский пр-д.

Lohra angelegt bzw. ergänzt (von GPS-Track)

Today I got the chance to discover the differents hotspots in the map and the variety they have also some of the parameters like name and such.

I got a lot done today, not only downtown but some of the main avenues I travel through the town. Also some more residentials and I think I could have one of the principal ones developed tomorrow.

My school and some other schools were also marked as well as some hospitals around the way. This is fun.

I also created a Facebook group about tracing the city of Villahermosa. Looks exciting, let see if many follow suit.

Looks like my edits from yesterday in Cork were partially not saved, so I'll have to map those roads again :(

On the other hand, I've put 470 km on the clock around Co. Galway again today. The area south of Loughrea and between Craughwell and Gort gets more complete every day.

I have to admit that I'm somewhat addicted to mapping power lines. :-)
Look at this map link, most of the lines there are from me:
osm.org/?lat=48.669&lon=9.4025&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF
(I have to use this in addition to the coordinate as you can neither specify the zoom level nor the renderer to be used.)

And this is no area where you can simply draw the lines on top of aerial images!
(This was possible to the West towards Stuttgart. The lines there were done mostly by other people and are complete.)

The station shown is *the* big distribution station in the region, about 20 km from my home.
If you follow the lines to the Northwest, you'll hit a black coal power plant as well.
So, lots of lines to map and as you can see I'm far from finished, especially if you count all the lines that run for kilometer after kilometer through the countryside to the East.
And after that, I can go up to the Schwäbische Alb and map until I reach Ulm as it seems nobody else is there who's interested in power lines as much as I am.
Well, you need a long term motivation for your hobby, right? ;-)

If you are interested in my technique:
I try to walk up to most power towers to set a proper waypoint. If I'm sure the line is running straight I use only a bearing from a nearby way to get the position of the tower. In OSM, I mark these with "source=interpolated".
I add the reference of the mast whenever possible. In Germany, this is usually a number for the line and a number for the tower, e.g. "Anlage 370, Mast 7". I do this to be able to verify which masts are still missing, even if they're obscured by obstacles or when returning weeks later. (The hard thing here is to make a sketch which includes these numbers before going out to the field. ;-) )
I won't go into the details of naming the lines, maybe I'll write about that later.

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Just had my first attempt at editing the maps by adding the street names around me. There seems to be a few big chunks missing near me so will start mapping that area when I get the chance =8^}

De OSM kort over danmark som kan downloades fra sites som
http://emexes.powweb.com/osm/ og
http://www.asmweb.de/OpenStreetMap/Europe/Denmark/
har det til fælles at man ikke får hele danmark med.
Den lille flække Brunsnæs på Brogare land
(osm.org/?lat=54.86574&lon=9.63998&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF)
kommer ikke med på kortet.

Jeg har derfor eksperimenteret med selv at lave et kort og idag lykkedes det.
Fra http://download.geofabrik.de/osm downloadede jeg filen med data for europa
hereter udpakkede jeg filen og brugte programmet osmosis (osm.wiki/index.php/Osmosis) til at udklippe "mit danmark"
som altså inkludere dele af Tyskland (bl.a. Flensborg) og dele af Sverige.
Den efterfølgende "Garminificering" fortages som vanligt med mkgmap.

Processen ser ud til at fungere, kortet kan loades i MapSource og i min GPS60Cx. Desvære er processen tidkrævende, Først skal filen downloades det mener jeg tog ca. en time, min computer brugte et par timer på at udpakke filen og igen et par timer på at klippe Danmark ud, kørslen med mkgmap tager derefter ca 10 minutter.

Processen virker, men det er nok ikke noget jeg kommer til at gøre hver dag.

Cambridge's latest Park & Ride site opened last Saturday. I really needed a map of it (don't ask!) so in major drizzle and on the bleak windswept edge of the fends our intrepid hero went to map essentially a huge car park. Brought the tracks home, and what's this: parts of the car park appearing before his very eyes? Has someone added psychic thought inference to the system? No, someone else (comsomol) had exactly the same idea at pretty much the same time. A few minutes different and we'd have bumped into each other navigating round the car park. Ho hum.