Started working on home town. Still need to add the basic locations of Walters, Ok. (police station, city hall, etc)
Cleaned up some of the streets. All the tags seemed correct.

Danish translation is almost 75% done.

I downloaded josm-latest.jar and looked at the interface in Danish. It's always nice to see the work in actual use.

Some of the translations needed minor tweaks as I was able to see them in the right context. Furthermore it was more clear which eminent menu strings would need to be translated.

I'm looking forward to the next update.

Jestetten is born!

So,

wie versprochen habe ich jetzt meine Tracks hochgeladen.

Die nächsten Tracks werden (hoffentlich) zeitnah hochgeladen.

Heute habe ich mit der "noName Street"-Suche alle Strassen rund um Ottikon gesucht und benannt wo ich die Namen wusste. Zudem habe ich bei den Dörfern rund um Ottikon die Lebensräume mit Landusage Residential markiert damit sie schön Grau werden auf den Maps. Zudem hab ich ein paar Waldwege eingetragen, was leider fast etwas augeartet ist.

Beim Arbeiten heute bin ich auf zwei Fragen gestossen die ich mir nicht so einfach beantworten konnte:

1. Bei der Benennung einer Ortschaft ist mir aufgefallen, dass man eine Ortschaft nicht zwei Gemeinden zuteilen kann (Oder ich nicht weiss wie man das macht).

osm.org/?lat=47.44282&lon=8.72742&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF

Beim Dorf Billikon müssten eigentlich die beiden Gebäude ganz Links im Dorf noch der Gemeinde "Illnau Effretikon" zugeteilt werden, die restlichen Gebäude jedoch der Gemeinde "Kyburg".

Weiss mir da jemand zu helfen? Sollte man da zwei Village Tags machen und zwei Landusage Areas drum rum zum sichergehen, dass alles seine Richtigkeit hat?

2. Wenn ich eine Strasse habe bei der sich seitlich ein Weg abspaltet der dann wieder zur Hauptstrasse zurück kommt und beide den selben Strassennamen haben kann ich die Strasse nicht kombinieren und müsste beiden Wegstücken den gleichen Namen geben, was dann beim Rendern darin resultiert, dass der Street Name zweimal gerendert wird. Einmal für die kleine Strasse und einmal für die Hauptstrasse. Wie löst man das "sauber" ? Ich habe jetzt zur Abhilfe allen Strassen den selben Namen gegeben.

Strade residenziali delle frazioni

Unterwegs auf der höchsten Binnendüne Europas und drum herum...

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I've spent the past day or so working on my open rail map. I've built a little Gnewsense server which will re-render everything once a month, and it's currently rendering to zoom level 15 [which may be a little too high if I'm to increase coverage area].

osm.blogbound.com is my little borrowed server which does all the rendering, and http://ukrail.blogbound.com is now the home of the map. Thanks to blogbound for allowing me to use up lots of disk space and bandwidth...

Currently my main issue is that I have to do a complete re-render every time something changes. I can't see a way of only rendering changed tiles, even though I am sure there must be a way of doing so. Ordinarily I suppose it makes sense to render everything, but the rail network is now somewhat stable and therefore doesn't need constant re-rendering.

Beim geocachen geloggt:

Glatten hat jetzt eine Straße mehr.

Beim geocaching fleißig geloggt.
Das Ergebnis sind ein Glascontainer und ein Weg sowie Bänke und eine Schutzhütte

Rodelbahn, Parkplatz der Bergstation Skilift Vogelskopf zugefügt

Last year I went skiing in Isola 2000 and managed to map most of the resort. I see now that Osmarender is rendering the proposed piste tags.

osm.org/?lat=44.1862&lon=7.1479&zoom=14&layers=0B00FTF

Going back there again soon and I was wondering if anyone had put together the configuration files to convert the piste and lift ways into Garmin maps? Or better still, made the Garmin piste maps already?

I tried setting up my own mapnik render of Iceland just now. It's currently rendering.

I've heard that mapnik was hard to set up, I don't know where that myth came from, aside from some slight fussing with postgres (because I wasn't used to its auth model) the instructions on the wiki were very easy to follow, setup took no more than an hour and all of the dependencies were already packaged in Ubuntu.

Before Town,here we are. Few people and soft suck music.
Elfox & Scavin were already there playing with their blackberries.

We talked about the hacking tips of bb,nude pictures news of Zhangziyi where we got from fiends' tweets.

Bad services did not affect our mood. Finally,we made the farewell in the subway entrance.

One more time that Scavin did not catch the last night train.

here's my brief take on what happened for OSM Phillipines last year:

user:maning on OSM Philippines - 2008
http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/usermaning-on-osm-philippines-2008/

any milestone I missed?

I have started mapping Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. It only had a few streets when starting, so there is a lot to do there. Fortunately, the Yahoo imagery covers the region.

I remember my first steps in OSM. I drew buildings using Yahoo images. How ugly they were! I spent hours, but they did not look like real houses, just some strange, crooked figures.

With JOSM it is much better!
Now I draw similar shape quickly and very approximately, press "Tools/Orthogonalize shape" and that's almost it. Sometimes it's needed to widen or to narrow the house.

Great thanks to JOSM community!

Започнах и черните пътища в околността на Казанлък. Още подобрения по уличната мрежа на Казанлък.

Dear diary,

I'm contributing since february 2008, but never posted here. So let's give it a try.

My current town in France (Aix-En-Provence) is in progress, thanks to the work of a few OSMers. All "bicycle_rental" amenities have been taggued yet. Okay, there were just 16 (compared to the thousands in Paris) ... But I'm ready for an another goal now. I tried via the yahoo imagery to draw some buildings (including "private" / personal buildings) in the area but I don't know if it is a good idea or not. They all appear in pink on the map, and for sure this is not the priority. Perhaps should I focus on the streets (namings, oneways, ...) before trying to have a surcharged map with full of (useless ?) things.

While reading some stuffs on the net this evenning, I just fall on this : http://www.procedural.com/cityengine/features.html ; it looks like an interesting project - proprietary, but interesting anyway :-P. Relying on the webpage (and if I understand correctly), it can use OSM datas in order to make 3D views of cities (a colleague from my french school will work on her final internship on this software). But what about the licensing of the work resulting in the use of this application ? I hope to see a lot of 3D-rendered towns under creative commons. Wait and see ...

Sorry for my bad english, and see you later !