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Posted by marinheiro on 24 August 2008 in English.

London Borough of Hounslow - from Bedfont in the west to Chiswick in the east - is finally finished and the boundaries sealed off... or is it? What does 'finished' mean? Well, I think all named roads and footpaths are in there. Seems hard to believe I've physically visited every one. But I can't prove it. How do I prove there aren't odd streets I've missed? And how do I keep it finished with the new estates popping up everywhere?

It looks like the task may be changing from getting away from the computer and goingg out on a bike to a mix of hassling the council for information and writing scripts to validate my data against other people's lists, neither of which is inspiring. Or I could move on to more interesting stuff, like adding my own layers to use which local statistics based on LSOAs etc - which will need postcodes and more tedium :-(

Maybe I should just get back on the bike and go over the border to Southall, one of the few areas not to have been blanket covered by the armchair yahoo tracers...

Location: Worton, London Borough of Hounslow, Greater London, England, TW7 7EH, United Kingdom
Posted by Sprengkraft on 24 August 2008 in English.

Habe Heute meinen ersten kleinen Track mit meinen neuen GArmin etrex aufgenommen und zu OSM hinzugefügt. Dabei viel gelernt.

Zusätzlich gibt es jetzt in Fahrenzhausen einige POIs und Straßennamen mehr. Wenn ich hier vor Ort genug geübt habe geht es hinaus in die große weite Welt ;-).

Gestern beim Geocachen auch auf eine fehlende Straße bei einem einzamen Gehöft gestoßen. Diese ist nun auch gepflegt.

Gruß

Sprengkraft.

Bin einmal den Ring Ichendorfer Weg/Rehbergweg/Grefrather Weg gelaufen. Habe auch den Peter-Pesch-Weg aufgenommen, der möglicherweise offiziell gar keinen Namen mehr hat, bin da aus der Beschriftung nicht ganz schlau geworden. Ich habe auch Am Rittersberg aufgenommen sowie die zum Fußweg zurückgebaute ehemalige Alte Landstraße (die hat jetzt offenbar wirklich keinen Namen mehr). Habe auch die Hohenschutzstraße mit aufgenommen.

Da ich gestern mein Openmoko Freerunner endlich bekommen habe, hat es mich natürlich begleitet, um TangoGPS auszuprobieren. Habe daheim im Garten keinen GPS-Fix bekommen, daher bin ich ohne Kartenmaterial los gestiefelt. Als ich unterwegs war, bekam ich dann plötzlich doch Empfang, hatte bis zu 10 Satelliten und in der Spitze einen HDOP von 1.4.

Leider ist mir TangoGPS anfangs nach ein paar Sekunden Nutzung immer abgeschmiert, nach einem Reboot des Freerunner lief es dann aber stabil.

Ich habe erstmal meine "Ernte" in JOSM eingepflegt und hochgeladen, ich möchte mir jetzt gleich mal die GPS-Tracks meiner WinTec-GPS-Maus und die des Freerunners vergleichen.

Location: Hemmerich, Bachem, Frechen, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, 50226, Germany
Posted by James Tait on 24 August 2008 in English.

Today I took a drive up to Mansfield to get my hair cut, see my dad and pick up a Bluetooth-enabled GPS receiver to use with GpsMid on my Nokia 6280. I was amazed at how simple it was to start collecting traces. As a first stab, I took a quick walk around the block and produced a trace encompassing Goldsmith Street, Chaucer Street, some of Bancroft Lane and Rosemary Street, Layton Avenue and Stanton Place (I think, I need to check that street name).

When I came to leave, I took an extended route to pick up the rest of Bancroft Lane, some of Ladybrook Lane and the remaining bit of the ring road. It was so cool when I was approaching Derby seeing the map approaching (I only had a very small area, barely covering Derby, downloaded to my phone) and this allowed me to again take a small detour to take in some of the back streets of Derby that I'm not so familiar with and struggled to trace from the NPE. I made sure to go right around the roundabout just down the road, as I've been wanting to fill that in accurately for a while now, and also to weave around Lewis Street, Birdwood Street, St Augustine Street and Vincent Street to get the important points to line them up.

I edited the first trace in JOSM and uploaded the results... then uploaded the raw GPX in case that's useful for others. The second trace for some reason didn't work out, possibly a problem with the GPX export as it displays OK on the phone. The third trace came out really well and I've now lined up Lewis Street, even if some of the other streets in the area need some more data and a little more tweaking.

Location: Rose Hill, New Normanton, Derby, East Midlands, England, DE23 8FZ, United Kingdom
Posted by ott on 23 August 2008 in English.

After installing JOSM and Java, I experienced that JOSM is terribly slow and nearly unusable. I'm running it with jamvm currently, because all other Java virtual machines (including Sun's jre, OpenJDK and gcj) didn't work and just showed a white window. Java really sucks and is just bloated non-sense in my opinion.
Anyhow I'm using Merkaartor now which performs quite good on my computer.

For all the roads there at least. The new Zycast SG-949-USB receiver (SiRf-III) I'm using is the business compared to the one in my N810 - though I carry both when I'm out tracing.

Onto Cuddesdon and Garsington for the bank holiday weekend, lunch at the Bat and Ball (NOM, and IIRC they do wifi too). Then maybe some more bits of poor, dragon-infested Abingdon during the week.

Location: Wheatley, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom