After a couple of months break I'm in Varna again. Today I added one street only while walking to the new mall.

Finished Jubilee Playing Fields and did the Lark Rd estates. Very little more left to do south of the A1101 on the East side of the town.

I've just uploaded my street data for the area just to the southwest of Kipling and Rathburn, in Toronto. I was drawn to this area by a curious street name I discovered doing a google maps search for "Random place in Toronto" (you may have to search twice with the same query, but you should get a list with only one hit). Incidentally, if anyone knows the reason behind this name, I'd be interested to know.

I noticed that the area wasn't on OSM, so I decided to investigate. I was disappointed to discover that there were no street signs for this road for me to photograph, or even for me to submit to OSM copyright-free. Perhaps they have been stolen by others who liked the name, but who don't want to share. There are a few signs on the houses which suggest that this is an actual name (I had wondered if it was a poison Easter egg, but it appears on a number of independent maps), but I didn't feel I could photograph these, and I assume this isn't considered valid confirmation of the name as far as OSM is concerned. So this street remains nameless, but I have submitted a number of others with names. Nonetheless, there is still a fair bit of work to be done in this area, including the green space.

Anyway, this is my first submission to OSM, so if anyone has any comments or criticisms, I would like to hear them. In particular, I'm not sure how to attach nodes to tracks already in OSM. I used JOSM to create my ways, and attached nodes to streets they abut, but many of the streets abut Kipling or Rathburn, which are already in OSM, and which I did not walk. Is there a way to inform OSM that some of these nodes should be attached to existing ways on OSM?

habe einige Strassen heute erfasst in der Umgebung von Thun (Schweiz) mit Garmin Nüvi 760 und es hat gut geklappt. Tracks sind schon editiert.

Went for a (very) late night shop at the local 24 hour Tesco last night. It was a lovely crisp, slightly misty night - much cooler weather than we'd had until recently. It was awesome to see empty dual-carriageway stretching out ahead like that. As I rose over the Milton cycle bridge, the glowing tower of Tesco rose gloriously into view. Much as I dislike Tesco behaving like a bit evil corporation, it's also true that its products / services are really very good and I generally enjoy my visits there. My family plots cross-country car journey routes in terms of regular Tescos toilet stops at Tesco.

Mapped all the bus stops between the Elizabeth Way Roundabout and the Milton cycle bridge. Also did some miscellaneous other fiddling to ensure good coverage of POIs. It's now visible on Osmarender, along with some tagging of mainly bus stops that I did on Gilbert Road last night.

I've been tagging guest houses too, recently, as there seem to be a lot around where I now live. It'd be nice to see these rendered at some point in the future!

I traced some missing lakes from the Landsat images.

Something that seems to work when the width of the river is larger than the river way, is when you are done putting in the natural water, add a river way that goes down the middle of the water and name it as usual. See the example in the coordinates below.

Finished rough tracing based on Landsat imagery of farmland adjacent to Fredrikstadmarka,
e.g. the area between Fredrikstad town centre, Veumveien, Evenrødveien-Seppoveien,
Elindveien, Solliveien (Rv.112), and Rolvsøyveien (Rv. 109).

Bonjour,

Depuis juillet 2008, j'ajoute les rues et lieux dans la région parisienne et plus particulièrement autour d'Asnières-sur-Seine (92) et Arnouville-lès-Gonesse (95).

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Added loads more street names to the Streatham/Norbury area with my combination of 125cc trail bike, Garmin GPS and an iPhone to take the pictures.

It's great being able to load the geo-tagged pictures into JOSM along with the track, but I find that JOSM gets a bit confused if I take two pictures too close together (physically). Maybe it's the iPhone's dodgy GPS or it may be a problem with the JOSM geo-tagging plugin. Either way, it causes the photos to go out of step with the next one appearing where the last one was (if that makes sense).

Anyway, to get around it, I just make sure I take a good picture the first time every time!

Down side to all this setup when out OSM'ing, is I have to constantly leave one glove off to be able to get the iphone in and out of my pocket to take the pictures which could rule this out as an evening activity in the winter. Still, I may have all my local roads named by then 8-)

Cheers

Mike

I just started working on cleaning up the map around Lakewood, California. The ways are tagged as being from TIGER/Line (United States Census Bureau data) but they are all running at odd angles and have junctions and curves where none exist.

I have been straightening the street, smoothing the curves, and marking important locations around the city (e.g. libraries, post offices, police and fire stations, etc.) The freeway on and off ramps are especially disasterous. Those are taking a lot of work. Some of the major streets have two or even three ways marking them and they are tagged as primary, secondary and residential. It should be much more pretty when I am done. : )

I created a lot more detail in lakes/ponds and wood patches, added a lot of streams, added a hiking trail and an important cyclepath. A couple of buildings, both residential and industrial.

I also still struggle with one multipolygon. It's only one, the others are rendered fine in both osmarender and mapnik. I have no clue to what's the reason for this, but it clearly is faulty somewhere. Both engines have trouble with it. Maybe I just have to start over again sometime.

Overall I think it's starting to look very nice in and around Ankeveen. I remember somebody writing that in the Netherlands the features are very densly packed and Ankeveen is absolutely no exeption, but precisely that fact makes it nice to look at and to work on in my opinion.

I also now am stepping out more and more of the Ankeveen area and moved on to the neighbouring villages.

I tried for hours to get We-travel to work on my PDA (HP ipaq 4700hx with Wondows Mobile 2003), but apparently you'll need a java engine installed first, but that, so far, did not work out. I've tried several freeware JVM's, but I was not able yet to install the jar file. I'm hoping we-travel will work on my next smartphone (HTC Touch pro, which I don't have yet). Or does anyone know of a good site that wil tell me clearly how to go about this on my HP? I really want to try my changes out in navigator sofware.

Just completed the upload of my first few tracks. Had to convert them to GPX file from TRK files. Hope to map the paths in the coming days. Also drove around an area of Edenvale getting street names. Will fill in those names, as time permits.

This is really nice seeing that my track was imported in just a 10 minutes. Last week i remember the time to wait was shorter than few monthes back when i started uploading tracks.. and now in last days it has gotten even shorter!

Thanks OSM team, this really makes me want to make more tracks!

My current solution to creating tracks is to use 2 gps, mainly I use a HTC Wizard (TMobile MDA2 / O2 XDA something) with a Holox BT-321 bluetooth GPS module. In addition I've been carrying a GlobalSat DataLogger DG100 borrowed from work.

Pocket PC
The PocketPC come Phone runs Windows Mobile 5 and I use NoniPlot for creating tracks. I've tried several other apps, but nothing free has been as good at recording the tracks. I plan on writting an application aimed for OSM mappers, I've not written the spec yet, but I want it to be easy to use for tagging on the fly. The Holox gps was very cheap buy from ebay, and I'm very impressed. It aquires position very quickly and battery life is incredible, I think I've ever only charged it up 3 or 4 times, it has a Lithium Ion battery which matchs the one supplies with some nokia phones, so if the battery ever did fail replacements should be easy to find.

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South eastern part of Kastrup town, from the Airport up to Hedegaardsvej almost finished. The Yahoo WMS with the high-Res sat imagery and JOSM, makes my project of adding the buildings so much easier and faster than expected. I'm guessing that Kastrup town will be ready when the next Mapnik layer update comes around, and untill then, it can be viewed on the T@H layer.

I'm just getting to know OSM, added the first few streets - and I'm excited!
My goal is to cover at least Altdorf (Uri, Switzerland). So the next steps will probably be to make a plan about how to systematically add the all streets.
Start with the bigger streets first? Or split up the village in smaller areas and track one area after the other? Hmmm, I think the best will be to sleep over that hard decision... ;-)

By the way: I discovered that someone named some streets in Swissgerman dialect. I didn't remove the tags, but renamed the parameter from "name" to "name:dialect" and added the official streetnames as "name". I hope not to offend anyone by doing that.

hello to all of you guys,
I started to map some streets in Padova.
just some questions:
when i upload a gps trace i an see it while it is pending then it disappear. i cannot undersand why.

pippospippo

Morgen ist Mittwoch, dann wird der Stadtteil Burgdamm auf der Karte nicht mehr als weißer Fleck erscheinen, sondern mit Farbe gefüllt werden.

Tomorrow, on wednesday, Burgdamm will became mapped as last suburb of Bremen.

Gruß FK270673

Hall, habe zur Zeit das Phänomen, dass meine Daten nicht übernommen werden. Aktuelle Änderungen gelangen seit Wochen nicht in die Karte.
(Kreis Unna / Bergkamen)