I'm visiting my family's cabin in Truckee, California, so I decided to use the opportunity to edit OSM in the area. So far I've done the following:

* Cleaned up a bunch of TIGER data, primarily Northwoods Blvd and some of the adjoining streets.
* Added some of the local bike routes, including all or parts of routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8.
* Added a few notable shops and amenities, including fuel, groceries, and a local bike shop.

As always, the TIGER data is very rough and needs a lot of attention.

28 December 2008

Uploaded my first GPS trace - the Bass highway from San Remo through Grantville to the Holden Vechicle Proving Ground in Victoria.

Habe einige Straßen Schwerpunkt Nordostsiedlung getracktund eingezeichnet

Judgling from a very muddy survey expedition today, Sustrans have a lot of work on to link [[Cramlington]] to Bedlington via the old Humford Mill stepping stones over the River Blyth.

The project publicity concentrates on the exciting river crossing, but the section to the South leading to East Hartford will be the real challenge.

The first section starts out in a plantation NE of Hartford. Dropping down a flight of wooden steps, the path lowers down to the flood level of a small river and turns into a muddy swamp.

Heavy rains must swell the 1m wide stream considerably as man-made rubbish hangs in scrubby trees. A small metal bridge crosses the water and the adventure proper starts. The path hugs the side of a V-shaped dean cut by water and the sound of the flow is never far away.

The Council improved the path many years ago with wooden posts forming steps up the steep valley side and small foot bridges crossing drainage pipes. Nature has worked unseen on these foreign structures and most are rotten.

Several large trees now lie across the wet path adding to the obstacle course of briars and muddy scrub. In one spot, a topped trees have formed a considerable dam and forced the water to eat away at the bank path.

Once through the dean, the much larger River Blyth takes control of the terrain and things level out. 18 stepping stones take you across to Humford Mill and on to the first bit of tarmac. This is an ideal cycling spot, with a car park and a quiet road leading up hill to St Cuthberts Church in Bedlington main street.

A information board proclaims this area as Bedlington Country Park, and if Sustrans can get through the mud, fallen trees and scrub, this will be a great cycle route. It avoids both Plessey and Bedlington bridges which have steep hills with narrow bridges that cars have trouble staying on, making cycling rather dangerous.
http://www.sustransconnect2.org.uk/schemes/project_detail.php?id=137

Strade attorno al santuario di San Valentino.

spot of mapping while on holiday in Egypt. Little bits around the souq of Luxor and also scratching at the surface of Cairo.

Cairo is another mondohumungous chaotically semi-developed mega-city which feels like it could benefit massively from having a good free map. So far the OSM coverage is semi-developed also. Like with Sao Paulo, the streets appear with glistening sun-baked clarity on the yahoo imagery, but even just quick-sketching all the streets will be a lot of work. On the plus side many of the streets of Cairo seem to be without names anyway, so maybe a sketched map will be an almost complete map! How can we organise many hands to make light work of this?

I did do some proper GPS photo mapping to record some details on the ground, as seen from our tour coach window. Here's an interesting natural=cliff in the middle of the city.

Hmmm I see now that GPS fun is in breach of Egyptian law (WikiProject Egypt) Oopse!

Bem, as adições que fiz já aparecem no render do mapnik! Resta aumentar o pormenor do que fiz até agora, mas pelo menos já aparecem referenciadas no mapa: Leceia, Porto Salvo, Queluz de Baixo, Barcarena, Queijas, Valejas, Talaíde, Leião, o Tagus Parque.

Assinalei algumas escolas da região, mas devem existir mais.

Também assinalei os Bombeiros de Barcarena.

Resta agora começar a recolher traces nas ruas e apontar os nomes destas, mas isso é trabalho para demorar. :-)

Went with my family to vacation in "Al Sfat Ha'Nahal" at kibutz Nir-David, so I found some time to map the kibutz roads.

Habe ein paar Straßen dort getrackt, jetzt sind die Ortskundigen dran ;-)

geschafft. jetzt steht auch der letzte (und westlichste?)ort deutschlands (auch nach der wiedervereinigung) in osm: zyfflich. lieben gruß an alle zyfflicher.

Ercsi, Ráckeresztúr, Martonvásár, Tahitótfalu utcái, 11-es vasútvonal (rész: Eplény - Veszprém), 12-es vasútvonal (Oroszlány - Tatabánya)

Alle Sammelstellen (recycling) in Winterthur ergänzt.

Rafter Arena - rolls off the tongue like a ballboy's underarm dispatch. Named after Bermuda's Queensland's favourite tennis son, Pat "very comfy undies" Rafter, it's the centrepiece of the new Tennis Centre. The new centre is in Tennyson (where else?) because apparently we needed a world-class tennis venue more than usable transport, health, education, and water planning. How'd that soapbox get under my feet?

I had a really quick look this afternoon on foot being towed with excited dogs, so didn't make great notes or walk in necessarily straight lines. Still, as I've learned, better to get topologically basically correct details in there than nothing, and others will come to clean up. Because this new development is basically a greenfield mapping opportunity, I've noticed a whole raft of usernames in there, many correcting the rough first sketches and extending the stubs that were there before it opened up only very recently.

I traced most of the shared footway, a few parking bays, and got the front side of the arena itself (it's closed off). I've extrapolated to give the area's extent. I expect this to be corrected by an OSM fuzzy ball freak in the near future.

Take that, Google Maps! Take that, other also-rans! Come to OSM where the data is lovingly tended.

...so might get around to uploading some new tracks!

I knew of the OpenStreetMap Routing Service before but it was only recently that I got to play around with it. It's a pretty nifty service and I've been trying out various routes within Metro Manila since I've pretty much driven most major streets in this metropolis and I wanted to cross-validate what I know with the service's algorithm and the OSM data.

As a result of my playing around, I've identified several major errors in the routing-related data in OSM (e.g., one direction of a dual-carriageway trunk bridge had a reversed oneway tag) and isolated a possible routing algorithm issue.

The Routing Service is definitely a must-have tool for verifying the OSM data (Maplint can only do so much). :-)

In this area, the road from Philipsburg continues to meet the main road from Simpson Bay/Maho. I will get GPS tracks on it this week. Cloud cover prevented the Yahoo image from showing the main road.

I was in the area so I took the car around the Ferny Grove/Keperra area and took some data. I had the GPS, my laptop and my phone for annotations, so I've managed to correct a fair bit of data to the south of Ferny Grove and the north of Keperra where it was skewed slightly from the satellite traces.

I've been trialling the audio annotation feature of JOSM to get street names as I'm mapping them, and I really wish I knew about it when I was tracing on Christmas Eve. I've only taken street names, bus stops, and visible points of interest today, although I'm not going to add the bus stops to the map as I'm not entirely sure how, and my audio data is slightly out of sync anyway. I figure I'll leave it to someone with more accurate data. :)

Днес записах "следа", която ми позволи да разширя уличаната мрежа. За съжаление съм далеч от пълното покритие.

I just ordered my GPS online and am waiting to get started. Playing around with JOSM and others apps trying to get a handle on things. :)

I'll be moving to Guyana soon and want to help fill in that big black hole of nothing that shows up on most map sites. One month left! So it's time for me to quickly pick up some mapping skills!

Now one problem I have is that potlatch doesn't have zoom imagery close enough to see the streets in Guyana, it's all a huge cloud layer. Is it best to use JOSM or something else in this situation? Or is arial photography blocked so that people don't make derivative works based on it? I was just thinking to use that to check that my lines aren't off or something.

With all that said, I'll be going through the FAQ's, docs and things attempting to learn how to fill in a large blank area. I'm gonna look up points already made in the area I'm moving to and see if I can get in touch with the people who've started there.

Domäne Bill