The local broad (lake in other parts) called Martham Broad was missing so I have added it this morning together with the navigable channel that passes between the two bodies of water and the boat dyke where I have been known to launch my kayak from that is at the end of this navigable stretch of the River Thurne. A beautiful area at this time of year especially when you get it all to yourself.

I also re-plotted Horsey Mere, another body of water to the north and again the navigation channel that feeds it. I also needed to shift Horsey windpump as it had been plotted in the wrong spot by a hundred metres or so which put it the wrong side of the river.

I went to the Woodford Folk Festival on the 30th after about a twelve year abstention period. Long enough for me to forget why I didn't want to return – it's the heat, stupid. I suggest you find out more about the festival from Wikipedia, or by general googling, or image googling, or even get 1k words from flickr, but steer well clear of the painful-to-use official site (no link love, brothers).

So before leaving, I checked the map – the festival site itself is not marked (it was in fact marked since I looked by David Dean on the 29th, it seems). I remembered something about a Burning Man festival being mapped by OSM, so checked that out for ideas. Not particularly fruitful for tagging guidance, but it turned out to have been mapped in cooperation with the festival organisers (as a win-win). I liked that approach. Maybe someone keener than me might take that idea to the WFF organisers in future. Be warned that their website doesn't indicate any embracing of open digital culture (WMV downloads, right-click is disabled).

I decided to only map features which are likely to persist from year to year, which means permanent structures, larger footways (pedestrian ways, specifically), the large carpark, and the gates. Many of the larger performance venues weren't even permanent. It's just as well, because it was profoundly uncomfortable in the heat of day. Though my GPS remained on, I had very little energy for anything but finding refreshment and respite from the heat. The venues were like ovens, diminishing enjoyment almost completely. Against this adversity, for what it's worth, I was blown away (unfortunately not coolly) with performances by Doch and Taikoz. (sigh … why does every music group's website have to suck?)

So I used "access=designated" for most ways on the site. It's on private property and opens as a commercial venture during event times only. Please tell me if I should do it another way.

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Zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr 2008 war herrliches Radlwetter. Zwar war es kalt, aber trocken. Der ursprüngliche Gedanke, die Feldwege zwischen Bühlenhausen und Asch zu erfassen wurde dahingehend verändert, dass das Feriengebiet bei Berghülen noch gar nicht da war, Berghülen namenlose Straßen hatte und Bühlenhausen nur rudimentär vorhanden war. Also hab ich o.g. Orten überprüft und ergänzt. Ein paar Feldwege rund um Suppingen und südlich von Berghülen/Bühlenhausen wurden auch noch erfasst.

Inzwischen hab ich es auch geschafft die OSM-Karte auf mein GSMAP 60 zu laden, so dass ich nun unterwegs prüfen kann ob der jeweilige Weg schon vorhanden ist oder nicht.

Frohes Neues 2009

Mein wichtigstes Arbeitsgerät ist mein Fahrrad ;-).

Als Logger dient mir ein Garmin etrex Vista HCx. Der kommt meiner gelegentlich chaotischen Arbeitsweise entgegen.
Jede Woche hole ich von Computerteddy eine neue Karte für den Garmin. Meistens freue ich mich darüber.

An der Karte arbeite ich mit Potlatch.

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The problem that was the "sinking" of portions of Metro Manila is/was solved. Apparently, that problem only surfaced in osmarender, and not in Mapnik. Again, thank you for your help in solving that problem.

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I added the main ways at the area of the Klinikum im Friedrichshain. Also corrected some minore errors at Max-Fettling-Platz.

See trace

Turns out, i've not mapped much in the last week and am now stuck with traces worth of 2 weeks or more.

I've mapped a complete run from Co. Galway to Co. Carlow and back to Co. Roscommon via Athlone today. Rectified a few bits around Co. Carlow etc.

After my afternoon parking lot editing, I decided to start translating the FAQ to danish. So far I have copied the original FAQ and translated the headlines. The rest will have to wait for the weekend - and beyond! :)

The Danish FAQ:
osm.wiki/Dk:FAQ

osm.org/?lat=53.0935&lon=-3.527&zoom=13&layers=B000FTF

Now, as far as I remember from driving that road weekly for most of a year, and not getting my feet wet, I'm guessing the lake was done from Landsat, and the road from NPE. The lake is a reservoir that's been there since 1976, according to Wikipedia. What's weird, is that the road was drawn in AFTER the lake. It obviously never occurred to the original road creator to check what the area he was drawing across actually was.... :-)
I've used Landsat and memory to reroute the road around the lake - map will update on Wednesday so this post will make little sense afterwards...

Iniziato le prime vie di Valdagno...

Hallo,

die gpx Daten für diesen regionalen Fernwanderweg hat Huti in 3Etappen aufgenommen und bereitgestellt.

Tour #26149: Kressbronn-Neukirch auf dem Bodensee Jubiläumsweg
Tour #26155: Neukirch-Meckenbeuren auf dem Bodensee Jubiläumsweg
Tour #25364: Bodensee Jubiläumsweg Meckenbeuren-Markdorf

Beschreibung der Route siehe unter den angebenen Tournummern bei gps-tour

Ich kenne den Weg zu wenig um die Attribute korrekt anzugeben.

Doing nothing on the first day of the year, I thought I would create some GPS traces for the nearby shopping mall's parking lot. It took me about 40 minutes to drive all the roads.

When I came home, I started adding the road information for the parking lot to OSM. I note about the parking lot, is that it have been renewed a year ago, so the Yahoo images where of limited use.

But how many details should one add? I mean - it's a parking lot! But then again, its a big one (for danish standards).

One thing I learned, was that I should have made some more small traces instead of the one big one i did. Some places, there are two levels of parking, just covering each other a little. Here it would have been nice, if I could turn the trace layers on and of in the editor.

Ein gutes neues Jahr!

Heute habe ich noch ein paar Daten verarbeitet, die ich schon im letzten Jahr gesammelt hatte (großteils gestern ;-). Darunter auch wieder einiges am Heuchelhof (in Würzburg) So habe ich den Moskauer Ring mit seinen Seitenstraßen vervollständigt, den Lidl-Parkplatz eingezeichnet und einige Fußwege hinzugefügt. Auch eine Seitenstraße der Berner Straße habe ich getaggt. Das Mainpostgebäude habe ich nun mal als Punkt hinzugefügt.
Da der Heuchelhof großteils reines Wohngebiet ist, habe ich die einzelnen Ringe auch als Wohngebiet markiert, genauso wie Teile von Heidingsfeld und Rottenbauer. Zwar lässt sich teils etwas Detailgenauigkeit vermissen, aber zumindest grob passt das schon.

In Erlabrunn habe ich auch noch ein paar Hausnummern eingebunden, deren Daten ich schon vor über einer Woche gesammelt habe, aber bisher vergessen hatte. Außerdem habe ich in der Wiki den Status von Erlabrunn und einiger anderer Orte aktualisiert.

Hi!

You can find more about me at my wiki page at:

osm.wiki/User:Ulfl

Regards, ULFL

dear fellow mappers. :-)

Don't miss the jaw-dropping OSM 2008: A Year of Edits video by ItoWorld. It's beautiful to see a global collaborative project in such way.

mbn,.m,:_Ä

I've done some more mapping of my locality in the Lye.

I first registered with OSM very early on, and did a bit of mapping, but recently I've decided to put the effort in to make some progress. It is addictive that's for sure!

Yesterday being a lovely sunny day I headed out to my nearest place with a significant number of un-named roads (Goffs Oak), thinking an hour or two would knock it off. Unfortunately, when I got there I discovered loads of others that weren't on the map at all, so GPS tracked them, naming them and others as I went. However, now I have to go at least once more to finish off, and then again at least once more to do all interconnecting footways, which are so prevalent in these estates. Have traced the landuse=residential from Y! to delineate the areas. Also find that GPS traces are far better than Y! traces in this kind of environment because they are newish estates, with all the spurs, deadends, footpaths, parking areas, etc which you can't get the nuances off without actually being there. Even when there I sometimes can't decide when things are road and when they are just shared driveways to one or two houses. I usually go by the change in surface. If they have a lip and change from tarmac to sets or some other fancy surface I usually stop there.
Best road name - Dig Dag Hill.