Took another trip out to Somersham yesterday, this time with a cycling buddy for company. We managed to take care of some more residential streets in the village although I'm aware there are still a few left to do: some off Parkhall Road and possibly some to the west down the St Ives road (there's a service road to the business park that needs doing, also).

The thing which was particularly surprising on this trip was the network of drove roads to the north of the village. There are quite a lot of them, running across a large area of the countryside. A few were marked private and we didn't follow them, however there were plenty that appeared to be rights of way. There is more surveying left to do up there but I didn't have time to stub all of the paths as I usually try to. There were also several wind farms out there that I wasn't aware of. We came back down the Chatteris Road (B1050), enabling us to fill out more of its length with accurate GPS traces. On a future trip, I'd like to go all the way to Chatteris and finish this part off.

We were able to fill in a lot of local detail in Somersham this time, including memorials, pubs, the pathways in the churchyard, etc. Hopefully by the time the mapping of the road network is completed, we'll also have a decent amount of local detail that might be interesting to cyclists, pedestrians, hikers, etc. I've been considering the idea of e-mailing village councils / village webmasters to say "You have been mapped", since they might be interested in being able to use OSM maps for local purposes rather than having to pay for some "official" maps. Has anyone tried this?

Anlässlich eines längeren Aufenthalts in Seligenstadt am Main habe ich fast alle Strassen dort, die noch nicht in OM waren getrackt.

Keine Gelegenheit die Strassennamen etc. zu notieren, so dass jemand mit mehr Ortskenntniss da noch mal fine tuning betreiben müsste.

Heute mit Fahrrad und Auto ca. 17km Wege in Krefeld-Fischeln getracked und fast vollständig (bis auf einige Fußwege) eingezeichnet. Die Gegend zwischen Hafelsstraße, Oberbruchstraße, Kölner Straße und Eichhornstraße sollte damit weitgehend komplett sein. Einige Spielplätze&POIs trag ich die nächsten Tagen noch nach.

I just found two bug in the osmarender rendering wiht underwater tunnel I don't know if it has already been reported (neighteir than where is the bug list) but the bug is that the renderer seem to place the tunnel on a lower layer then the water so we doesn't see the tunnel when it's in the water, also the name of splitted way shouldn't be written on both of the way since it's look like their is shadow under the name (which make it hard to read)

ich habe heute Ahnsen per Fahrrad abgestrampelt und dann eingetragen ...

To Do ... Die Wegnahmen müssen noch eingetragen werden

Habe zwei Spielplätze und einen Bolzplatz eingetragen mit
leisure=playground und leisure=pitch.
Tischtennisplatten mit leisure=table tennis hat keine Wirkung.
Mal sehen, was daraus wird, vielleicht lösche ich es wieder.

Hi friends in London!
This street does not exist! I know, that you got your data from a company or so, but I am afraid, here are your data wrong! The street runs directly through the University Womens Club, where I stay sometimes. I do therefore know this region of London very well and I can tell you, the map is wrong there! I tried several times to correct it, but my knowledge of editing seems not to be sufficient enough to manage this task. So, would someone perhaps drive to this location, have a look for himself/herself and make the necessary correction? It is on South Audley Square.
Best wishes
surgeon

Approximately 2800 Minsk city POI's were uploaded.More to come for whole Belarus.

Beim Spaziergang ein paar der noch fehlenden Treppenwege erfasst und mit Feldwegerfassung begonnen.

To do: Luginsland fertig mappen, das ist mir bisher durch die Lappen gegangen. :-(

Добавих пътните възли около Велико Търново, по-точно пресичанията на първокласните пътища:
5 [E 85], 4 [E 772]
и второкласния път
55
и третокласните пътища
514, 551, 5302
Коригирах част от ж.п. линията в района(мостове, тунели).
Добавени са коритата на реките Янтра, Белица и Дряновска и мостовете над тях.

Edit: Ignore the following paragraph, T@H is back online, working again :D
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There are lots of errors appearing on the T@H main server:
http://server.tah.openstreetmap.org/
It'd be really nice if this were to be fixed.
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Other news:
I went for a challenging survey cycle around Montmorency,
osm.org/?mlat=-37.723945&mlon=145.133812&zoom=16
I couldn't use Potlatch, because there's too many trees.
Nor can I drive by car, because there's too many dead ends.
There are many many walk ways, parks, and playgrounds scattered around there, all on a big hill.

Equipped with a pen and a colour printout with 'NoName' highlighting, I have been writing down and adding some more street names. It is a slow task; I have nothing but admiration for Phyllis Pearsall for mapping the whole of London single-handed. (By the way, are the early A-Z maps out of copyright?)

I found a couple of short roads (probably private ones) which have no name as far as I can see. I would like to mark them somehow as 'no name' so they don't get flagged by the NoName plugin, to spare someone else the effort of going to the same spot and still not finding a name. Also some roads have gates in front of them; how should that be marked?

I am using Merkaator to update the map and being an early version it is a bit limited. It won't allow you to split roads, for example. In some cases I have deleted nodes from a road and recreated it. Uploading a couple of my changes failed with 'precondition' errors, but I hope the rest got through.

Oh gosh, the stuff around UDM is really a big mess. I suspect Gmaps has a big error in giving two segments of Louis-Colin as opposite direction one-ways, and the exit ways are almost certainly incorrect: The Chemin de la Rampe (in both directions) opens directly on the Louis-Colin/Northmount-Édouard-Montpetit traffic light.

Had to split two ways, which apparently I was responsible for originally combining (or at least lengthening Fendall to cover Maréchal). Ugh. Also added several amenities and whatnots. Given the issues I found last time I worked on it, I'm honestly worried about the state of the area... (also wondering how come I see so few post boxes in general ô_o) And I really wish I could figure why every entrance to the UDM campus has at least two different civic numbers attached. While I managed to associate several of those to buildings, the meaning of others has eluded me completely.

It's a rather dense area (e.g. four different banking institutions and three churches within a few blocks), so I'm scared of thinking what it will look like in OsmaRender when everything shows up...

Spend the day out geocaching and logging the trails. I forgot to turn off the track log a few time when bush wacking to the cache. I'll have to leave the task of logging the remaining side trails to someone else, unless I get out to the Ingersoll area again. It's amazing some of the scenic areas that you find while out geocaching.

Habe die Parkplätze und den Bus-Bahnhof mit Hilfe eines älteren Tracks nachbearbeitet.

Ok, just got done with redrawing/adjusting/completing I-10 across Texas (all ~900 miles of it!), so my next project chosen is US 77. Had already completed through Cameron County previously, so started @ Cam/Willacy county line yesterday. Everything from Kenedy County to intersction with I-37 on ly had 1 lane, so got to draw one side or the other all the way through. Also cleaned up the business routes in Kingsville and Robstown. Have completed through the terror that is it's intersection with I-37. Will start there tomorrow, but since I-37 only represented by one way, will likely draw in other direction from the intersection south to the terminus downtown.

This time I managed to not get carried away and stayed close: Took the other route to Muzzano and then looped around Biogno. Quite nice up there. Also, from the looks of it, quite rich. Why the Swiss like to build there houses as big concrete blobs is beyond me, though.

Finally found a street right next to where I live that somehow slipped from mapping so far.

Pause déjeuner GPS au bout du parc technologique de Saint-Priest.
Ajout de la rue Gay Lussac, de la rue Long de Feuilly, de la rue du Chavorlay.
Prolongation de la rue de l'Aviation.
Ajout de 2 boîtes aux lettres.
Correction Kyabi -> Kiabi et Siemens -> Schneider Electric.

I run the site http://www.ballofdirt.com with a couple of friends - the maps for each travel journal, e.g.
http://www.ballofdirt.com/journeys/6653.html

We want to put OSM in as a layer on the maps - can you help?

The current maps are done using our own software that takes digital elevation data and plots the colours accordingly (with a bit of shadow).

We have made it turn into Mercator projection and just need to turn the maps into tile numbers, so that they fit under the OSM maps. I think we might need to create our own tile server (??) and pull updates from OSM as well. Can you help advise and code?

I've been doing Walsall, Mapnik doesn't show it, but the link on this diary entry does... Switch between Mapnik and Osmarender to see the difference...
osm.org/?lat=52.5848&lon=-1.9736&zoom=13&layers=0B00FTF

The other cool thing I discovered is the awesome visual diffs at:
http://www.itoworld.com/product/osm/area