Kanzlerin Merkel hat zwar am Mi 10.9.08 die A6 eröffnet, der Verkehr darf aber noch nicht fließen.

today i uploaded my first track and added 2 street-fragments

Beim rumspielen mit openrouteservice musste ich feststellen, dass es viel schneller ginge wenn ich mit dem Fahrrad in die Arbeit fahren würde, als mit Straßenbahn und U-Bahn. (Wobei das cycle routing einem zu sehr auf Hauptverkehrsstrecken lotst und kleinere Gassen nur berücksichtigt wenn ein Radstreifen eingetragen ist) Außerdem würde das OSM zugute kommen, da noch ein paar Fahrradstreifen fehlen.
Meine Nerven würde es (die richtige Strecke vorausgesetzt) auch schonen, da mich die ewigen Wartezeiten und Störungen der Öffis ärgern.

Sofern ich Zeit finde ein Radschloss zu kaufen, kann ich nächste Woche Strecken durchprobieren. Schade ist nur das mein Freerunner noch nicht aus der Reparatur zurück ist und ich somit die Strecken nicht aufeichnen kann. :(

The big multipolygon I made with lots of inner polygons is finally swallowed by Mapnik. I'm curious if OSMarender will display it, but I'm now waiting, I think, for three days now, to see my changes in OSMarender. They clearly have some problems there.

I'm a keen fiddler with the OSM wiki. It's almost become my "role" within the project. Certainly it's the area where I've made myself most useful. Over time this has given me a bit of a birds-eye view of project goings-on. But it's a slightly skewed view because actually, active though it is, the wiki is not the primary communication channel of OSM. That would be the dreaded mailing list (dev and talk)

I don't follow the mailing list at all. Gave up trying. It's too high traffic. If I want high traffic, I look at Recent Changes. I should probably call in on nabble every now and then, just to look for interesting subjects. But I kind of decided that however you slice it, the mailing list will be too much of drain on my time. But this means that I (and people like me) end up missing out on any of the juicy announcements, which don't surface so quickly via other channels.

Which is why OSM community really badly needs a mailing list weekly digest again! I have just put forward this suggestion via a wiki edit (of course!). I suppose posting to the mailing list would be more sensible... but I'm not on the mailing list :-)

I recently discovered the joy of tracing coasts. But i probably made the beginners mistake of tracing the coasts the wrong way. Doing so i follded good parts of Sumatra. Now I want to correct my errors, the server is down. ;-(

After a few too many hours of Yahoo tracing, I think I've completed Porto Santo island. (As much as I can from tracing, anyway!)

If anyone has some local knowledge, I'm sure there are plenty of improvements to be made, particularly distinguishing surfaced from unsurfaced tracks/roads away from the towns.

I was surprised that an island with such good Yahoo coverage was completely blank last week.

The golf course is a bit of an estimate as it was only under construction when the aerial photos were taken. I suspect the photos are probably outdated in a number of other areas too.

Continued editing area south of San Jose in Gilroy and Morgan Hill. I've added most of the correct curves to the streets to line them up with Yahoo's images. New lines for streets have been added, but I haven't added names yet. Next to add is features such as golf courses, parks, schools and churches.

Hallo,

als Beitrag zum OSM-Projekt möchte ich die Umgebung von Unterweißbach in Thüringen systematisch kartografieren. Also hauptsächlich Wanderwege, Radwege, Naturlehrpfade und touristisch interessante Objekte.
Später sollen dann Objekte im Ort selbst an die Reihe kommen.

Stephan Gitter

is an interesting little village. Most of the village seems to be build rather recently. The street names suggest there was just agricultural land on most part. In addition to that, the large part of the village is located in kind of a no-exit area. You will have to leave the same way as you enter the residence area. Rütihof

I'm using Potlatch to edit my area (can't use JOSM on X.3.9) and the service seems to be very very slow. Loading ways takes ages or even stalls. Is this just congestion on the OSM server? Should I just try later or is it more likely to be some other problem?

Mapus Mapus

Just started with this great resource. I added the named private road in Bedford where I used to live. Not sure I've done it right, but we'll see in a week's time I guess.

After I add names to streets and add some POIs in the past, I have done my first real logging and making a map today. It's really easy with JOSM to create maps, I have thought it would be more difficult. You can have a look at the result at the map link (the data are online, should be rendered the next few minutes/hours from t@h out there or from my own t@h client here ;) ). It's just a small park with the belonging footways. But it's a start. Maybe there will be some more streets, footways, POIs, etc. next weekend for Graben-Neudorf.

Hi!

Weekeend done, 2 nice, hard, long days with some GPS traces new to OSM.
As written, saturday the Baerenschuetzklamm at Mixnitz, and sunday I went on a special trip from Graz via Weiz and the Feistritztalbahn to Birkfeld.
The narrow gauge railway from Weiz to Birkfeld is now in the data of OSM and the core of Birkfeld.
As the hike trip on saturday made my body feeling weired and I'm not 100% fit, the core of Birkfeld is rather small, it is on a hill and went further on, I wasn't in mood to walk further on. Maybe next time, maybe someone else.
And I made some correctness to the railway east of graz, as the GPS trace showed some errors in the 20-50m area.

Amiga

Da meine Mutter vor hat ins Burgenland zu ziehen und dieser Ort noch überhaupt nicht auf der Karte existiert, eröffnet sich für mich die Gelegenheit den Ort bei jedem Besuch Schritt für Schritt zu erfassen.
Es soll dort sogar ein Schloss und Schlossfestspiele geben, also ein gut geeigneter Ort zum Mappen.

As my first contribution to this project I added two new residential roads to the map between Sande and Dykhausen (Frisia - northwestern Germany). After that I felt at liberty to fix some minar errors I encountered in front of my "house door".

Added some roads in and around Kallangur.

Picked a spot on a part of the globe with very little mapping, almost nothing on the other main internet maps - Fergana in Uzbekistan. V good quality satellite images to be tracked, plus some hunting for info about the places like Besqaria, Isfara. Some images from flickr, and wikipedia entries to help.

Done some new work on Oberwart (AUSTRIA). Also fixed some Points in St. Michael.

Will be working on Güssing and Eisenstadt next Time.

One of the most enjoyable OSM distractions is mapping utterly random bits of America, courtesy of Yahoo! imagery (which you all know about) and what is possibly Potlatch's best secret - OpenTopoMap, public domain US cartography.

The streets are all there already, of course, courtesy of TIGER. But rivers, tracks, disused railways and so on can all be added from Yahoo and OpenTopoMap, greatly enriching the map and providing a fun form of virtual tourism.

I've just enjoyed a virtual visit to the town of Potlatch, Idaho, and started tracing the River Palouse.