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Posted by ise on 9 September 2008 in English.

Hi,
my first time writing an entry to my diary. :) I plan to do some mapping in Graben-Neudorf. There are nearly all streets mapped, but there are some errors, I try to fix those errors and map the missing streets and ways. I want to map the POIs I come around, too. I have seen, that the industrial section isn't mapped at all and the ways behind the Prestelsee aren't mapped, too. So there will be some work to do.

If anyone want to join me, feel free to send me a message. I hope I can manage it this weekend, if not the next weekend.

Location: Neudorf, Graben-Neudorf, VVG der Gemeinde Graben-Neudorf, Landkreis Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, 76676, Germany
Posted by Hans van Wijk on 8 September 2008 in English.

I read about a navigator on the web that uses our OSM data called: "OpenStreetMap routing service": http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/~lambertus/routing-world/ and with that I checked a bikepath I made and it works! That gives me the first real clue that I'm doing this right.

On another check the drawn path stops on a connection between two roads that where already drawn in there by AND. I changed a little thing and I have to wait for wednesday to see what effect that had in order to deduct the problem. At first glance the two roads look identical tagwise, but I created another attached road to the same node. Maybe I messed something up there. We'll see.

I also again added a bunch of wood patches, small ponds and streams.

Location: Ankeveen, Wijdemeren, North Holland, Netherlands
Posted by Tiliae on 8 September 2008 in English.

Da entdecke ich dieses Projekt ungefähr vier Tage, bevor ich das Sauerland erstmal für eine Weile hinter mir lasse und zum Studium nach Paderborn ziehe - HIER gibt es noch viel zu tun, DA ist eigentlich alles fertig >_<. Naja, in den letzten Tagen hab ich den NMEA-Logger auf dem TomTom beim durch die Gegend fahren (und beim Geocachen das 60csx :D) noch mitlaufen lassen und die eine oder andere fehlende Straße/POI eingetragen oder korrigiert. Hätte ich vor drei Monaten angefangen, hätte ich vielleich auch noch ne Chance gehabt, meinen Heimatort Finnentrop zu tracen aber so... :/ Ja well, wenigstens ein kleiner, wenn auch unsystematischer Anfang hier in der Ecke...

Location: Altfinnentrop, Heggen, Finnentrop, Kreis Olpe, North Rhine-Westphalia, 57413, Germany
Posted by peps on 8 September 2008 in English.

Wie es aussieht haben wir einen neuen Mapper im Raum Freisen. Hallo Kollege ich hoffe Du liest diesen Beitrag. Wenn Du deine Tracks einträgst mußt Du darauf achten bestehende Wege nicht zu überschreiben! Du mußt deine Wege an bestehende Wege anschließen, nicht drüberlegen. An einigen Stellen lagen 6 Straßen übereinander.

Gruß an Alle

Posted by Ryu-HRO on 8 September 2008 in English.

So, nun bin ich aktiv dabei!
Hab mir OSM lange angeschaut und nun endlich einen Account erstellt und gleich mal die ersten Anpassungen in meiner Gegend vorgenommen. Hab mich gleich an JOSM probiert, ist gar nicht so schwer. Ein paar Einbahnstraßen und POIs eingetragen.
Werd jetzt sicher öfter hier sein... :)

Location: Hansaviertel, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Posted by JND on 8 September 2008 in English.

Another weekend in Solingen and a change to track the rail connection from Solingen Hbf to Solingen Grünewald. I'm wondering who the train windows affect the GPS resolution. In ICE-trains there is nearly no chance of getting good
tracks, but regional trains are OK if You get a place near a window...

Added some streets too, but still lot of white areas...

Location: Höhscheid/Burg, Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Posted by PhilippeP on 8 September 2008 in English.

As every OSM freak , I did take my GPS Logger with me to map parts of my journey in this amazing country of Iceland.
Amazing also how much is already mapped, congrats to the Icelandic Community!!
I managed to map some new footways, and the camp site in Reykjavik and some 'pistes' around F225 inside the country.

Location: Þórisstaðir, Grímsnes- og Grafningshreppur, Southern Region, Iceland
Posted by acrosscanadatrails on 8 September 2008 in English.

I started to add in the main streets.. its a small town, so in the course of my activities tomorrow, ill be walking all around, so it'll be easy to track it.

I'm just walking on one side of the road, then the other side on the way back, so its easy to see where the roads are.

What i'm doing is jumping around from other cities that i know of, and compare on how to properly tag, or to see whats the standard.
There are tonnes of things to be tagging here.

Posted by PaulW2 on 8 September 2008 in English.

Finally took the plunge and had my first weekend of mapping. Didn't have much time free, so only mapped two of the very small villages in South Cambs (of which very few remain unmapped). Did a quick survey (re-survey?) of Little Shelford on Saturday since it was listed as "in progress" on the wiki but looked mostly complete (it was - just a couple of minor tweaks and additions needed). Sunday I did a little bit of mapping from scratch and added the village of Croxton. Hopefully will get some more of then done this week and/or next weekend, then maybe start on St Neots.

Posted by EdLoach on 7 September 2008 in English.

Not many traces this weekend, compared with the last couple of weeks. We pushed the pram from Clacton to Jaywick to track the footpath and cyclepath (well, mostly pushed - there was some carrying where drifts of sand had crossed the wall and made it impossible to push the pram).

On the plus side I worked out how to use the Waymarks in the Genie. A great addition. While I can import photos in JOSM against the track gpx, using the waypoints seems a much neater solution.

And I spent some time getting Tiles at Home running more reliably on mine and my wife's Windows machines (XP and Vista). Problems since all seem to be server related rather than client.

I considered cycling Lodge Road today but waited in for visitors who didn't make it in the end. Lodge Road seems to be marked on many maps as a road. I cycled it years ago and it starts as a poorly surfaced road and finishes at the other end as a track (at a gate that I pass regularly by car). I want to mark where it changes from road to track, having marked it on as a track with a gate at one end based on NPE maps in Potlatch and the knowledge it can't really be called a road.

Jaywick and Little Clacton are targets for tracing by car in the coming week, as I think I've got almost all the more central Clacton roads marked now. If fine I might get out on the bike and add PsOI (or should that be POIs?) instead. Or at least check it is still roadworthy.