Habe in den letzten Tagen begonnen, fehlende Straßen in Reppenstedt zu vermessen und mache meine ersten Mapping-Erfahrungen.

Ich stelle auch gern Traces zur Verfügung, welche ich bei Gelegenheit aufzeichnen werde.

JOSM's usage with the api map server's node limit is a serious impediment to working on NoNames (highway=residential to service, mostly) and Oneway FIXMEs in Boston, since it seems we have full nodes everywhere. But it was fun to try with my GPS trace yesterday. If I try to fill in the missing streets at Atlantic Ave with my GPS, I will use JOSM. But for NoNames and Oneway FIXME notes taken by diverting off the commute for CloudMade garmin qa map's red zones, it's Potlatch: it scrolls.

Closed three OpenStreetBugs I had opened - World Trade Viaduct, Victory Rd underpass, Seaport Ln.

And I fixed my mistake using the wrong tag. (see cmt to self on prior)

Nachdem das bayerische Landesvermessungsamt jetzt probehalber Luftbilder der Oberpfalz zur Verfügung stellt, habe ich mich mal daran gemacht, ein paar Teile meiner alten Heimat abzuzeichnen. Insbesondere arbeite ich mich gerade am Fluß Wondreb entlang von Waldsassen aus flußaufwärts. Da ich selber nur die Gegend um Waldsassen aus eigener Anschauung kenne, sind mir aber ein paar Dinge unklar, die vielleicht jemand mit mehr Ortskenntnis beantworten kann:
- Bei Leonberg bin ich mir beim Blick auf das Luftbild nicht sicher, ob der Fluß wie gezeichnet nur am Ort vorbeifliesst oder eine Schleife durch den Ort macht.
- Im Bereich der Themenreuther Mühle ist mir nicht ganz klar, was nun Fluß und was (evtl. ehemaliger?) Mühlkanal ist.
- Bei dem Bereich in der "Waldschneise" westlich der Ortschaft Wondreb bin ich inzwischen mit zeichnen angekommen; bei näherer Betrachtung bin ich mir aber gar nicht sicher, ob dieser Bereich wirklich eine Sammlung von Extrem-Mäander zwischen lauter Teichen oder nicht vielleicht ein zum Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme teilentleerter Stausee ist.
Wenn ihr euch in der Gegend auskennt, bitte Bescheid geben oder ggf. gleich berichtigen.

Da Goch noch viele weiße Flecken auf der Karte hat, habe ich mit der Pfalzdofer Straße angefangen diese Flecken zu verringern.
Und weils so schön war, gleich noch den Ostring bis zur Pfalzdorfer Straße vervollständigt.

I'm well impressed with the quality of the mapping that i've made us of it on my own website. It's being used in two ways.

1- As an index for walks - www.walkeryri.org.uk on the homepage. Using the script i found on the Wiki along with a text file for all the points of interest. What isn't mentioned is that you can include HTML code inside the description, and i think the result looks pretty good. A border and a shadow would be nice, but it does it's job.

2 - To overlay all my walks onto a map.(e.g. http://walkeryri.org.uk/Routes/cwmcaseg.html ) This made use again of code in the wiki, but i was never able to get the javascript to extract a lat/lon for each walk's starting point to centre the map. I've got to change all those by hand on each page, but it was only a real pain having to edit nearly a hundred pages and manually enter a lat long for each!

My next step is to learn how to contribute as i've loads of gpx data that can fill a lot of gaps on the maps for Snowdonia.

The last of the tiles for my uk rail map are uploading now, and it's looking rather good.

http://kaerast.blogbound.com/ukrail.html

I've not gone to a very high level of zoom because it's taking forever to render tiles, and I want to learn what to do with it next - ie. how to make it searchable and routable, how to only render changed tiles in the future, how to find a spare server for rendering/hosting this, etc.

I wrote about my plans to map Akranes, a practically unmapped town of around 7,000 people in my last diary entry. Things went better than planned and I arrived at around 16:00 on Saturday after managing to hitch a ride from Reykjavík; Arriving almost 1h30m earlier than I would have if I had taken the bus.

I proceeded to map until around 23:00, then I slept until 6:00 in -6C in what I later discovered was an abandoned backyard (I thought it belonged to a friend at the time, but he had apparently moved). Then I mapped some more from around 7:00 to 15:00 and then took the bus back to Reykjavík.

I've uploaded the traces I made (JOSM screenshot of them). All in all I cycled around 83 km over 8 hours (6 hours moving time) at a moving average of 12.3 km/h.

I've added most of the data I surveyed to OSM, although I still have to add some nodes based on photographs I took and some areas need further landuse tagging. The area is far from complete though. It needs footways, amenities, the outlying road network etc etc.

Update: I party-rendered the weekend.

I've just got a reply back from a freedom of information request I made to my local council regarding their spending on mapping.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/spendature_on_maps

There's a little under half a million people in the area covered by Bradford City Council, which works out at around 27 pence per person on mapping fees. There are 180,000 households in the area which works out as 77 pence per household - which seems higher than other councils in the UK.

They have also failed to explain where the money comes from, giving the usual "we don't keep track of what income goes where" but do state that council tax only covers a small amount of their total expenditure which might in itself be worth another look.

Meanwhile I'm rendering tiles for my uk rail map. I don't have a decent spare machine to do the rendering on, so the resulting slippy map is unlikely to be updated very often. However, the static map I occasionally generate is online at http://kaerast.blogbound.com/ukrailmap.png.

At sheffield Barcamp, I made this flash animation, which has OSM maps!

http://timetravelagents.com/sheffield.html

Fun thing to "put sheffield on the map"

Nun ist Mühlberg/Elbe erstmal im Groben fertig.
Am 22.Dezember 2008 wird die neue Brücke über die Elbe,
Verbindung zwischen Brandenburg und Sachsen eingeweiht.
Ist ebenfalls schon vermessen und eingetragen.
Weitere Details folgen noch, sowie Dörfer im Umfeld,
wo noch garnichts ist.
Ein frohes Weihnachtsfest und alles Gute für 2009 an
alle OSM-Fans !
Hans, dk8re

A couple of weeks ago I did the way for the stream path of the Peace River in BC and AB. Even though the GeoBase load will likely wipe out most if not all of my work, I decided to plow ahead and do the riverbank work for the river over this weekend. I've been recovering from some surgery, and this was just the right kind of mindless work that made the time pass more quickly.

Last evening I rode my bicycle along all the cycleways in Papendorp (a commercial district under development in my hometown). While putting those cycleways on the map, I also added more detailed landuse with the help of Yahoo (and my observations). During the editting I noticed some weird looking road junctions and streets. I have to go back there anyway for the footpaths, so I can look at them then.

http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=15&lat=52.06846&lon=5.08147&layers=B000

Did some more roads at Crestmead, do the rest later.

Just to announce, OSM Philippines project has a dedicated simple
website for the project.

http://www.openstreetmap.org.ph/

Thanks to enthropia.com.ph for helping us. We will do incremental
improvements along the way.

Weil mir das dauernde Treppen rauf und runter doch ein bißchen zuviel wurde, bin ich mal wieder mit dem MTB die Weinberge rauf und runter. Das Wetter dafür war ja ideal, aber die Wege waren noch ganz schön matschig.

...noch mehr Treppen...

Is it just me or is the Slippy Map having problems? It won't load the slippy map for any of the renderers. It just comes up with "More OSM coming soon" tiles.

Anyone else having the same problems? I live in Melbourne, Australia and it has been happening for the past couple of days. I can still edit like normal in Potlatch.

I think it might be timing out too quickly but i'm not sure.

With great help from Bernt, I know have coordinates for the Norwegian-Russian border in WGS84. Well, at least as close as linear regression analysis can get us.

The first miles of the border, from the NO-RU-FI tripoint to border marker 18 is now updated in OSM. For a few days, the switching between Mapnik and Osmarender will show the difference.

On Friday I had a meeting with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and put my hands on one of the originals of the protocol describing the border between Norway and Finland. Very nicely bound protocol with high quality paper and everything. For some reason, they did not manage to find the maps, which are based on ortophotos.

The best part: I got a copy of the CD with all the documentation, including the maps.

Hab gestern mal in der gegend um Altransberg daten vom Luftbild abgemalt.