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Posted by Berteun on 18 January 2009 in English.

Gisteren wat lege, en veranderde plekken in Roombeek in kaart gebracht. (Zie http://www.roombeek.nl/over_roombeek/buurten_in_roombeek/ voor een uiteindelijke planning). Hier blijft nog werkt te doen want de Lonnekerbleek is nog lang niet klaar. De wegen liggen er ook nog niet allemaal (Havikstraat en Sperwerstraat wel); maar Google maps laat er bijvoorbeeld wegen zien die er niet zijn, maar misschien dit jaar komen (?). Ook laat Google maps de Lonnekerspoorlaan verkeerd uitkomen (niet op de Voortsweg maar op de Lijsterstraat).

De Bamshoeve is uitgebreider gemapt, alhoewel daar allicht nog wat stukjes weg weer verdwijnen en er zijn wat parkjes, fietspaden en voetpaden toegevoegd.

Alle foto's ter oriëntatie staan weer op de Flickr-stream:

http://flickr.com/photos/berteun_osm/sets/72157612693562538/

Location: Roombeek, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
Posted by jonnymaserati on 18 January 2009 in English.

Went to the Sheraton in the center of Damascus for lunch this weekend and have added the hotel and the service road to the hotel's parking to the map.

I noticed that the main road that I exited off needs modifying, since it should be two one way roads, not a single road as shown on the map at the moment.

Also made a modification to the roundabout near Shami Hospital and added a bit of park.

Last week I added the tunnels under "crazy roundabout", but I think there's another bit of tunnel to add here?

I continue to modify the names of places with both English and Arabic and ensuring when I do so that the Arabic name is also given a name:ar key (plus the name:en key). Would be good if others followed suit, otherwise these maps are only any use to Arabic readers.

Location: Rabwa Neighborhood, Al Mazzeh, Al-Mazza Municipality, Damascus Subdistrict, Damascus District, Damascus Governorate, Syria

Added the new bridge over the railroad tracks and removed the old crossing that was torn out last year. Showed changes to the wastewater plant access due to this construction. Also removed some short streets that were generated from tiger line data but never really existed in reality.

Location: South Omaha, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, 68107, United States
Posted by chippy on 17 January 2009 in English. Last updated on 13 March 2014.

So, I got around to reinstalling Eclipse, and fixing the usertools plugin to work with the new JOSM, but some kind hearted JOSM developers beat me to it (not really surprising, I was dragging heals) but they didn't get around to updating the .jar file for JOSM to download. This should now be all sorted, though, thanks to crschmidt!

You can get it here http://chippy2005.googlepages.com/usertools.jar and it will also be picked up by JOSM. (version 13055)

I was just testing out something about the way the Yahoo imagery support works in the new WMS plugin and as the imagery appeared, I couldn't resist sketching in some details to help the Ciaro map again. Lots more time consuming road sketching need to happen, so rather than just getting lost in some little detail of Cairo, I thought I'd zoom out a little, and add some landuse=residential areas to try and delineate how much of that kind of work there is.

But even slapping in big areas takes quite a long time. In the imagery, and also from experience of being there, I know that tall apartment blocks suddenly give way to little strips of farm land. This is good in a way, because it leaves me in no doubt (or less doubt) about where the landuse=residential goes up to, but it meant that there's lots of jagged edges to trace around, and I feel compelled to zoom in and do a thorough job of it. The other problem is, the extents of the city are completely out-of-date in the yahoo imagery of course. But I guess it's worth sticking to the data we have to go on, until some Egyptians get involved real mapping to correct it.

After an hour or so, I'm looking at how much I've done, and... well I've only been looking at on one tiny bit of the city's edge on the South West side of Giza. It's one of those things where I feel obliged to do a few more hour long sessions and chip away at the task. But it eats up a lot of time.

Location: Kom al Akhdar, Giza, 12557, Egypt