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Posted by skohlmann on 15 November 2008 in English. Last updated on 23 December 2008.

Today tried out the GPS with the new Nokia N85. On a walk with my daughter I tracked the two small parks between Ebertystraße and Hausburgstraße. Additionaly some footways in a park at Hausburgstraße. The first two parks are in the urban canyons of Berlin. Old buildings with flats and low distance between the buildings. As expected the track was not good. The waypoints in the last park were still better - lower buildings and much more distance between them.

I use Nokias Sports Tracker (1.82). The programm supports export to the GPX format.

See the trace.

Location: Friedrichshain, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Posted by gigglebok on 15 November 2008 in English. Last updated on 16 November 2008.

After just two weeks of effort, I have now got to the point where the map is beginning to take shape... next challenge will be to map the old pedestrianized city centre without getting too much GPS distortion down the narrow, winding medieval streets. Following that, moving into Öreghegy. This is a vast improvement on what was here just two weeks ago - as a city with just over 100k inhabitants though, I still have a fair old way to go!

Location: Vezérutcák, Székesfehérvár, Székesfehérvári járás, Fejér, Central Transdanubia, Transdanubia, 8000, Hungary
Posted by davespod on 15 November 2008 in English.

Very tentative steps in mapping out Oldfield Brow, Altrincham. I have now deleted my first attempt at Stokoe Avenue, as it seems the AGPS on my new phone was way out. However, I seem to have mastered getting it to lock on well enough now, so Taylor Road, Stokoe Avenue and Greenway are in place. I can now start filling in the gaps.

Location: Little Heath Farm, Heath Farm, Dunham Massey, Dunham Town, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, WA14 4SE, United Kingdom
Posted by gwww on 15 November 2008 in English.

Die Installation von JOSM war ein kleines bißchen umständlich, weil sich im repository von Kubuntu nur eine ziemlich alte Version befindet.
JOSM ist am Anfang auch etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig.

Zum ersten Mal einige Änderungen in der Würzburger Innenstadt gemacht. Einige POIs, einige Korrekturen.
Später dann auch an die erste Straße "gewagt" - die Hofstraße war als Einbahnstraße in die falsche Richtung ausgewiesen.
Auch (noch) ohne GPS-Tracker gibt es doch eine Menge zu tun, was man mit Ortskenntnis machen kann. Mehr, als ich erwartet hätte.

Zum Schluß dann auch noch die Mainwiesen (ein wichtiger Veranstaltungsort) markiert, aber die Grenzen nur abgeschätzt.

Location: Würzburg Altstadt, Würzburg, Bavaria, 97070, Germany
Posted by Interlope on 15 November 2008 in English.

Mapped The beginning of Flagstone Creek road and part of Silver Pinch Road (up to the unpaved section) on the outskirts of Toowoomba. I was having too much fun driving and looking at the incredible scenery to collect some of the road names - so I have Silver Pinch Road incorrectly intersecting directly with Flagstone Creek Road at the moment. It's a great trip if anyone wants to fix it... The roads follow mountain ridges so there are valley views both sides of the road.

Location: Silver Ridge, Lockyer Valley Regional, Queensland, 4352, Australia

Hi, sorry for the advertising here..
But check this out.
www.BikeMap.net uses openstreetmap as one of the maps available to choose from.
YouTube video (in German) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpWctNV4yXs

It uses elements from all the other GPS collecting sites that i found before, and incorporates most of the thinks which are the best from each.

I am sharing this.. because this is EXACTLY what im looking for, and can see how users can now... (as soon as they want to) see where openstreetmap needs improvement, and post their GPX tracks here and fix it. ... but using this awesome routing site to share it.
That's soo cool.

Once i get into it a little, i probably have a few sugestions. But on 1st glance... WOW... it's awsome :)

(we can give ourselves a pat on the back, as together we can make OSM the most widely used map... and the most useful map, better than all other maps :)

Go OpenStreetMap :)

Cheers,
Sam

Posted by Operenzia on 15 November 2008 in English.

Gestern abend war ich wohl etwas übermütig. Nach meinem Erstversuch mit Potlatch gemeint, nun auf's Eis tanzen gehen zu müssen. Aber nix da:

JOSM meinte: OSM Daten laden
Aus einer Datei lädt man OSM-Daten ebenso wie GPX-Dateien. In der Regel wird man OSM-Daten aber vom Server laden. Dazu wählt man Datei - Vom OSM Server herunterladen ... und es öffnet sich eine Dialogbox.

Dataquellen und Typen gibt an, welche Daten geladen werden sollen. Meistens will man hier sowohl OpenStreetmap Daten als auch Rohe GPS-Daten von anderen Benutzern wählen. In manchen Fällen kann es aber auch sinnvoll sein, nur eines von beiden auszuwählen.

Operenzia: Ich, z.B., wollte nur OSM Daten laden - aber auch das ist mir nicht gelungen.

JOSM: Als neue Ebene laden lädt die Daten in eine eigene Ebene (was das bedeutet später mehr).

Operenzia: Aha! Und was bedeutet das für mich? Soll ich das jetzt anklicken oder nicht?

JOSM: Mit der Registerkarte (Tab) bei Bereich laden wählt man aus, wie und wo die Datei bzw. welches Gebiet heruntergeladen werden sollen. Die ganze Welt wird man in der Regel nicht auf einmal vom Server herunterladen (ein zu großer Bereich wird der Server sogar verbieten).

Operenzia: Ich find weder Registerkarten (was "(Tab)" zu bedeuten hat, weiss ich übrigens auch nicht, im ganzen JOSM habe ich nichts mit Tab gefunden), noch kann ich ein Gebiet auswählen.

JOSM: Bei Bounding Box hat man die Wahl ob man entweder direkt die Koordinaten eingibt (wird man wohl selten auswendig wissen) oder ein Link angibt der die Koordinaten enthält. Link eintragen (URL von www.openstreetmap.org): Man geht auf eine Seite wie OpenStreetMap.org, sucht sich in der Slippy Map den gewünschten Ausschnitt, kopiert sich den 'Permanent Link' rechts unten und fügt ihn in die entsprechende Editbox ein.

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Posted by Mark Williamson on 15 November 2008 in English.

Have been tracing more buildings from around my neighbourhood using Yahoo through YWMS in JOSM. Time consuming but hopefully will be useful in the end. It seems a shame to have a partially-building-ified map but the data could always be hidden if necessary. In the meantime, help on this project is welcome ;-)

Some buildings were hard to see or exactly discern the shape of so I either did my best on those or left them out. Going out "on the ground" to see what things should look like would probably be useful at some point...

Location: Lynfield Court, Chesterton, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, England, CB4 1DP, United Kingdom
Posted by Kieselstein32 on 14 November 2008 in English.

Mein erster Beitrag wurde angenommen und veröffentlicht. Jetzt lese ich mich weiter in die Materie ein. Habe mir das Buch zu OSM gekauft, es liest sich gut. Nachdem ich hier Anfangsschwierigkeiten hatte, hat mir das Buch schon auf den ersten Seiten einige Aha-Lichtblicke gegeben. Und ich habe wieder richtig Lust, meinen ersten Weg zu zeichnen.
Meine nächsten Vorhaben sind: einige Wege in Naumburg abzugehen und meine Kinder in die Arbeit mit einzubeziehen. Später dann bis zur Weidelsburg. Und dann mal sehen.

Posted by Marlow on 14 November 2008 in English.

It seems, that quite a few of the R- (secondary) roads aren't mapped in the midwest.

So I got a few more R- and L- roads done today.

The worst thing about L- (or not ?) roads is their lousy signing. Sometimes you find the L- roadnumber on one end of the road but nowhere along the road and not on the other end either. It could be a separate sign or it could be part of the streetsign with the distances, depending on, if the signs have been upgraded at some point. This makes it very difficult to figure out, where a L-road ends, as a t-junction doesn't necessarily mean the end of that particular L-road.

Also I've seen no other mapping material so far, that has the L-road numbers. I'll need to investigate, to see, if there's a list or map somewhere with all of them. After all, there's tenthousands of them !! (they go as heigh as 71xxx around here).

Until then, I'll leave tertiary roads, that have no sign for their number as unclassified roads. Not much else, that can be done.

I also startet using MoM today. It's quite good and works brill on my E90. Gives me an idea, what roads aren't mapped yet. The only problem is, that the bloody thing hangs, when the GPRS/3G connection goes to sh*t and also the logging is patchy, which isn't a big problem, because I use my logger in the GPS receiver for that. But just to get an idea, what is mapped and what not, it's a brilliant tool, as it downloads the maps as needed.

Posted by Mark Williamson on 14 November 2008 in English.

I realised yesterday that there are even more footways between terraces in my area, as there were some I'd previously forgotten to cover. I needed to buy some dishwasher tablets today so I took a circuitous walk to the convenience store in order to get some mapping done on the way.

I took care of various paths, upgraded one to a service highway and I found an allotment site that I never knew was there! I was able to map the allotment using Yahoo imagery once I knew it was there; I'll go back and add in the access footways at the North and South ends using my GPS.

A few observations:
1) This is a fully mapped area, as far as "normal" streets are concerned, yet I've been able to contribute a lot of additional data to it, making it substantially more detailed. This should be heartening to contributors in already-mapped areas who are looking for something local to do.
2) Adding in (some of) the housing in the area has added quite a lot of value here, making it easier to spot where the (well hidden) pathways actually are when using the map. The housing data also helped me to line up the paths I'd mapped when the GPS reception was put off by the buildings.
3) Building style around housing areas seems to vary a lot. I've found loads of these footways in this area but a couple of streets down there are few or none of them.

Changes to this area are on the Osmarender layer now, Mapnik maps should show this data next week...

Location: Lynfield Court, Chesterton, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, England, CB4 1DP, United Kingdom