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Using PotLatch and JOSM now, but the tutorials seem to be on old versions of JOSM - couldn't find a new video tutorial. Seems OK though - some local residential areas uploaded...

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Well I'm stuffed. Did 64km on the bike today tracing out country roads in the name of cycle touring training. I estimate that about 45km of extra roads were added as a result of this exercise.

If the OSM history viewer decides it's able to visualise the changeset it can be seen here.

Otherwise I added: Boat Harbour Road, part of Eltham Road (then added the rest from Landsat), McKenze Road, Pearson Road, Cowlong Road, Alphadale Road and Tregeagle Road.

Cameron Road (joins Boat Harbour Road and Cowlong Road) was added as it's an ABS suburb boundary.

I've done 270km on the pushbike since moving to Lismore 8 days ago. Time to do nothing for a few days :p.

For some reason the osmarender layer is playing up. It's viewable through informationfreeway.org if you select the Firefishy proxy though.

If anybody's interested the motionbased.com analysis of the (very simplified) GPX track is here

Also, I feel like throwing in this photo of me on the road (yeah, the flash fired to try to fill-flash...all it did was blow out the reflective strips :p):

The construction inside the Science Education Complex inside UP is currently in full swing. All the science departments will eventually vacate the old Palma Hall and will be transferred to the new buildings being constructed. The migration actually started more than 10 years ago (with the Math, Marine Science, Geological Sciences, and Library being the first tenants) but the transfer stopped due to budget problems. The migration then restarted a few years ago with Physics, and right now the Biology and Chemistry buildings are being constructed.

There's a bunch of new roads here and I finally had the chance yesterday to drive around the area after dropping off my sister to her morning class. See my GPS trace. I added the streets to OSM last night and so I believe that OSM has the most updated map of this area anywhere, online or dead-tree. It feels great to forge new territory in OSM. :-)

In 2000 the Government said that AONBs effectively had the same status as national parks. With this in mind I want to ensure that these beautiful parts of the country are represented in OSM. However there's no source for the AONB boundary.

I've begun adding the Cotswold AONB boundary from my own, slightly fuzzy, knowledge of where it lies. As an environmental campaigner I keep an eye on what's going on in local housing decisions. A few years ago Stroud District Council controversially approved Hunts Grove, a major development at Colethrop on the edge of Gloucester. This was allowed to go ahead but it was additionally controversial as the boundary of the AONB lies on Haresfield Lane.

From such cases I know where the boundary lies around the edge of Gloucester - but much beyond Stonehouse or Cheltenham I have no idea. With the Cotswolds being the largest of the AONBs, I really need help on this one.

That's why I'm taking advantage of this, my OSM user blog, to help get the word out a bit.

Anyone interested in adding bits of the Cotswolds AONB please see the Cotswolds page on the Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cotswolds.

I will leave for Copenhagen tomorrow morning, 5 July . There is one night stay in Copenhagen and then move to Brussels.
It is no plan now in Brussels but only thing I need to do is to reserve a train to Amsterdam.:-)
I will stay Brussels in 6-9, July.

Are there any mapping activity in Brussels? Or social activity?

Более менее удалось наладить автоматическую генерацию карт под Гис Руссу. Теперь нужно понять куда их выкладывать. Было бы не плохо на openstreetmap.ru

Готов рассмотреть также и другие предложения. Интересует главным образом хостинг, куда можно выкладывать карты по фтп. Сама генерация будет пока происходить на моей машине.

http://geos.kdvz.de/spcg/index.php?app=gdisw

I started out following National Cycle Route 41 to Gloucester. NCR45 soon shared the route as well. In Gloucester I left the cycle routes, but then became quite lost. I eventually found my way out and made the journey through Worcester and eventually to Stourport-on-Severn mainly on A- and B-roads.

There was a very slight rain first thing this morning, but the promised “proper” rain never materialised. So today turned out to be quite a hot day once again. Tomorrow’s forecast shows a reasonable chance of rain. I have a fair amount of climbing tomorrow, so I hope that it materialises.

I’ve got the luxury of a WiFi connection again this evening. So I’ve managed to catch up on the data entry backlog a bit more. There’s now about 10½ days of backlog, bearing in mind that I’ve also created another day of data today (but I think most, if not all, of today’s data is already mapped…luckily).

Three main areas of work today. One to finish entering the data from my visit to Weedon Island Preserve in northeast St. Petersburg, before I make another kayaking trip to another location tomorrow and get further behind. Completed footways and cleaned up the mainland coastline. The coastline that came with the map was coded inland of the mangrove areas, leaving them as offshore. I have edited the coastline to put them "onshore" and will deal with the islands once I figure out how to separate the mangrove part of the shore from "dry land" so that I can code the former as wetland=mangrove. There must be a way to draw a trace along the boundary between dry and wet, link it to the coastline on each end, and then declare the mangrove area to be a polygon, without having to retrace all the detail of the mangrove coastline. But I can't figure it out. Help and suggestions welcome.

The second to continue the ongoing process of recording land use, parking, etc. and untangling the surface streets near Brandon Mall.

The third to untangle the unbelievably complicated interweaving of I-75, the Crosstown expressway, and other limited-access-highway links to the west of Brandon Mall. It is complicated to drive, and now I am beginning to understand just why.

As I'm working on rivers and their basins I thought I might try to just add child relations to a parent relation - but it did not render!

Example:
Take Lena river,
1. make a relation for the whole length of the river
2. find some tributaries (Vitim, Kirenga, Olyokma) and repeat step 1
3. make a river basin relation and add relations Lena, Vitim, Kirenga, Olyokma
4. test it

It did not render. It only renders when adding all single ways of all rivers (1).

(1) http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=166216

После Великой Отечественной пленные немцы столько лесу не насажали, сколько я его нарисовал за сегодня. :D

Just got home from the Brisbane OSM meet-up crossed with the local Twitterers' meetup, and thought I'd do the sensible thing and post a slightly drunken diary entry on OpenStreetMap. That's a logical thing to do, right?

It was a good night, in any case. David Dean organised pizzas early so by the time I arrived (and spent five or so minutes looking for everybody) the pizzas were already ready.

It was a pretty massive turnout by Brisbane OSM standards, there were seven people who actually turned up. I'm not sure if the others got lost (like I did) or just failed to show up, but though it was slightly less that I expected, it was still a great turn-out.

David did a JOSM demonstration, and there was some discussion of metadata and top secret projects.

After the place closed (at half past 8 PM) we went out and did a brief mapping expedition around the University campus before catching the ferry out to the other event.

We are only a few days away from the start of the State of the Map 2009.  This is the first year where we have added the Pro Users’ Day.  On Friday 10 July you will learn how your business, governmental or non-governmental organization can benefit from OpenStreetMap’s rich dataset.

You will see high quality renowned GIS industry figures discussing the use of OpenStreetMap in a professional environment.  Expect presentations from Petter Batty, founder of Spatial Networking, Aaron Cope from Flickr, Arie Duindam from Grontmij and OSM founder and mapping visionary, Steve Coast and many others.  Click here for the
schedule for the Pro Users’ Day.

On this day you will have plenty of time for networking with representatives from companies such as AND, Bliin, Carmenta, Cloudmade, European Commission, Falk, Fugro, Gemeente Amsterdam, Geodan, Geofabrik, Geotate, LogiBall, Navteq, Nutiteq, Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving, PTV, Skobbler, TomTom and many others.

Not registered?
There are only a few days left to register, do it now as there are not many tickets left.  Click here to register.

Estive por lá e estou corrigindo este trecho da BR-116 (passando por Lages, SC), que mapeei com GPS.

Atualizado nomes de ruas e praça da localidade de Pinheiro Machado, no município de Brochier - RS. Alterações foram aprovadas pela Câmara de Vereadores do município em 26/06/2009.

Praça Arno Diesel
Origem: http://tinyurl.com/m2bxvs

Ruas OSVINO RASCHE, OSVINO BECKER e ESTRADA JACOB AUGUSTIN
Origem: http://tinyurl.com/ng9lts

Alterações já foram renderizadas para osmarender, e podem ser vistas em:
http://osm.org/go/M54gqS4R6-?layers=0B00FTF

Так вот, и тоже хочу рассказать, как я до OSM докатился. :D Я являюсь одним из пионеров джиперского движения в Краснодаре и по совместительству, главным спецом по навигации в клубе «Скиф 4х4». Так вот, по горам мы катаемся по вполне зачетным полукилометровкам. Но у этих полукилометровок есть баги в виде кривых дорожек или полного отсутствия на этих картах дорог, которые были наезжены за прошедшие с момента издания карт 20 лет. :) Посему решил я собирать реальные треки и рисовать карту реально существующих и проезженных дорожек. Дабы ездить не по полуабстрактным полукилометровкам, а по вполне адекватной и актуальной карте.
Сначала пытался собирать мегатрек в GPS Track Maker, но понял, что это жесточайший мазохизм. Посему в кратчайшие сроки базово освоил JOSM и принял ся рисовать.
Вся эта эпопея началась 21 апреля. И на текущий момент горная часть Краснодарского края покрыта достаточно плотной сетью джиперских дорожек. В общем, есть чем гордиться. :)

In September, the Society of Cartographers is going to be holding their 45th annual Summer School event in Southampton.

It's interesting looking through the programme to see just how much of the event is about data, and much of it coming from sources that didn't exist just a few years ago, from OpenStreetMap, the new UKMap and of course the various Ordnance Survey datasets that are available to organisations who can afford to pay for them.

I wonder how the content of this annual summer school has changed over the years since it started, as more and more data sources have become available for cartographers to use?

If you're in the UK and are interested in making maps, the event (7-9 September) looks like it will be a good place to see where cartography is heading, get some hands on experience in the workshops and also network with others in the industry.

Bin schon länger an OpenStreetMap interessiert, nun werde ich auch mal aktiv versuchen beizutragen

Neozoon

The Open Database License 1.0 has been launched. Check out OSM’s implementation plan.

The ODC announcement is here:

The Open Database License (ODbL) is an open license for data and databases which includes explicit attribution and share-alike requirements.

This license, the first of its kind, is a major step forward for open data. There are currently very few licenses available suited to data and databases and none which provide for share-alike (existing share-alike licenses such as the GPL, GFDL and CC By-SA are all unsuitable for data).

The development of the ODbL, has been a major effort extending over more than one and half years with an intensive consultation and review period for the last 6 months. We’d like to express our thanks to the communities and individuals who have contributed during this time.

Did a few more streets in South Lismore this afternoon. Mainly because it's dead flat and I was after an easy ride.

The area is a bit of a hole. Basically it floods easily so it's either cheap residential or industrial land.

There's still some stuff to do on the East side of the Bruxner Highway such as marking the Bunnings, parks etc, but at least the bulk of the streets on the West side of the highway are now done.

Probably doing hill sprints tomorrow, so the rest of East Lismore might get done.

Has anybody else noticed that mapping is really hard on a pushbike? The constant stop/start nature of it is seriously chewing into the life of the rear tyre and cassette. My current rear tyre (Specialized flack jacket 700x25C) looks to be about half way through it's life and it's only done 300km! Same with the rear cassette, it's on it's second chain (also replaced 300km ago) and is significantly more worn than it was when the chain was installed.

I was just putting this on the discussion page for the restriction relation.
Thought mentioning it in the blog might produce even more answers:

== Progress ? ==

So is there any further progress here? The proposal is old, it sneaked into an established state by now. As far as I understand there is no voting/approval process for restrictions, so these things go merely unnoticed.
By now the restrictions are widely used and understood by renderers, format converters (Garmin) and routing tools.
Nevertheless turning restrictions are still one of the things most annoying when missing (wrong in-car routing) and a pain in the a** if you have to edit them. So they are missing in a lot of places, as they seem to be to complicated (annoying?) to most mappers. The proposed changes could have brought a bit of ease, but as there is no official approval process, they were never voted on or anything (and they are not noticed now cause they only reside somewhere in the middle of the english discussion page).

As I am no veteran here, I would like to make a simple question: Do you (all the osm activists and full time mappers) think it is still possible to change anything about this relation? Or are these to widely used by now?
Do you think a new 'proposal' would be more of use then new discussion about changing the old one? Or do you even think all is fine with the turn restrictions and all problems should be solved in the editing tools?
I was writing a long summary of problems and possible solution here, but momentarily I think it might be futile and a waste of time. Do you think otherwise?

Pretty early on in today’s cycling I followed the Strawberry Line cycle route, which follows the path of a former railway. The railway used to run through to Cheddar, but I joined it further north at Winscombe.

In Easter’s training ride from Fishguard to Canterbury I followed National Cycle Route 4 through Bristol. Considering that the city houses Sustrans’s head office I was surprised at how badly signed it was. I lost quite a bit of time to figuring out which way to head. My original plan for this trip was to follow a route through Bristol, but in the light of Easter’s experience I adjusted the route to skirt around to the west of the city using country lanes. This I’m pleased to say is well signposted.w

I’m pleased to say that tonight’s accomodation has got WiFi Internet access. So I’ve been catching up on entering some of my mapping data. Unfortunately the Internet access in Princetown a few days ago wasn’t working. So I’m currently about 12 days behind in entering the data.

A large amount of today’s cycling was spent following the National Cycle Network along canal towpaths. Thus much of the riding was pretty flat. At one point I met a couple of cyclists who wondered whether they may borrow an allen key from me to adjust the height of a saddle. In return they added to my sponsorship.

I couldn’t find any evidence of signing for the Burnham-on-sea to Brean cycle route. It looks like it would have been across the sand and I didn’t think my heavily laden bike would cope that well on the surface I saw. So I resorted to my backup plan instead.

Eindelik rust met die zieke kleine Nina

Je viens d'importer les données de Geobase pour Mont-Laurier en indiquant quelques instructions en français sur http://yansanmo.progysm.com/doc/openstreetmap . J'ai aussi ajouter deux lacs à partir des images de Landsat. J'ai rajouté des points pour les écoles et certains bâtiments important. Malheureusement, les images de Yahoo ne sont pas assez précises pour faire le contour des bâtiments. Il ne me reste plus qu'à attendre que les cartes se génèrent correctement sur openstreetmap.org et qu'il arrête de pleuvoir. J'ai pas pu aller voir les noms des ponts à cause de la pluie.

Hi all

Firefox is now able to calculate the users geolocation. This is done with WIFI signals.
People are a bit scared about that ;-)
If you wanna see that with openstreetmap, go to

http://www.khtml.org

If you click at "Follow geolocation" the map center follows you if you walk around with your computer.

Have fun

Bernhard

It's hot hot hot in London at the moment, but by the evening the streets are at a very pleasant temperature for a spot of mapping. So that's what we did last night over in Bow East London. The tube journey over there was sweaty as hell though. I think the central line was at about gas mark 7 (yes I know... I should get a bike)

I mapped an interesting little patch of new cafes and pubs in a canal criss-crossed area sandwiched between Mile End park and Victoria Park, before heading into some grotty concreteness which Tower Hamlets is more known for. Just as I decided to head to the pub I discovered my cake slice was flanked with a road full of crappy little shops. I'm getting quite into my crappy little shop mapping now though.

The Morgan Arms was in a little oasis of swankiness. Very nice. A big table was no problem, although it was only just big enough. Another good turn out. Very good considering we were a bit out of the centre. Good to see Mike along again, and we had one or two other new faces. Most of us were boring and ordered burgers (the official mapping party dish) We wondered what the oddly described prawn dish would look like, and we wondered when Jenny had got to. We also talked about...

SOTM! It's SOTM fever at the moment. We're all excited about the big trip to Amsterdam. It's going to be great. Really looking forward to it, although it's creeping up fast. I need more time to prepare!

Other server admin talk. LightHTTPd conf and all that malarkey, and how ipv6 is the most important thing for OpenStreetMap right now (not)

Finally Jenny arrived, and confirmed our suspicion that she'd been out doing a very thorough job of mapping until it got dark. She also ordered the oddly described prawn dish. All the important questions answered!

'Bow Mapping Party' photos

Next London meet-up will be on Thursday 16th July in Kings Road are (near South Kensington). That's just after State Of The Map. In August we'll have a big anniversary party, but still need to figure out the timings for that.

Lulu-Ann posted to the general Open Street Map mailing list an announcement of theaccessibility mailing list .

From her posting, this mailing list will be focused on the discussion of

• How to create non visual maps for the blind and visual impaired
• New tags that allow to map objects of special interest for disabled persons
• New maps that contain information about barriers like steps for wheelchair users
• Special routing, like wheelchair routing or pedestrian routing for the blind
• New maps that contain worthful information like theatres with subtitles for the deaf or braille writing signs or acoustic traffic lights for the blind
• Data exchange to the navigation tool “Loadstone-GPS” for the blind

All very interesting.

I’m trying an experiment with walking-papers. Get all my non-mapping friends to print out a map of their area, write on the print out the errors, house numbers etc and then I will do the rest. I’ve tweeted here:

“Help me make your map better http://bit.ly/B8F5X – what you think?”

You can too. Get your friends, family… even enemies involved. Re-tweet or facebook status update with that, or ask them to send you the paper yourself.

This is a great way to get lots more people involved, and spread your mapping efforts. For bonus points, next time you see your Aunt Ethel print it out for her, or get all your workmates to fix their home areas. Buy a pint for the person with the best map updates.

A região da Lapa, Pompéia, Perdizes, Vila Romana e etc ainda está com poucas ruas mapeadas. Estou usando imagens do Yahoo para rechear um pouco, mas a dificuldade é que muitas ruas são sinuosas. Creio que vai ser necessário ajustar com trilhas GPS posteriormente.

Have you registered? Check out State of the Map. And, there are still many cheap travel options with easyJet and others.

Sono iscritto da parecchio ma, a parte caricare tracciati GPS, non avevo mai avuto tempo di lavorare sulla mappa (più che altro perchè mi immaginavo fosse più laborioso l'editing).
Per il momento mi dedico a sistemare le prime cose vicino a casa...

Enjoyed a good long walk yesterday taking in some Dartmoor lanes and paths to the west of Buckfastleigh, basically a big circuit around the Avon Dam Reservoir. Started off on the Abbot's Way near Combe and followed that to the north of the reservoir until it joins up with the Two Moors Way. Also mapped in some old tin workings, some standing stones and crosses and the old tramway path from Western White Barrow down to Shipley Bridge.

Absolutely loads of stuff needs mapping on Dartmoor so if anyone is at a loose end this Summer give it a go.

Cycled into uni today for my first lecture and surveyed another chunk of East Lismore on the way home. Ended up doing 30km for the day. If I do 10km tomorrow it'll make 200km for the 7 days to date total :).

Anyway, the OSM history viewer linked to in previous diary entries isn't working for the today's changeset. So, lets just say that it was everything between Oakley Avenue, Wyrallah Road and the edge of the suburb. The most fun bit was surveying the stormwater drains in the area. I also did a fairly detailed survey of the kid's bike track in Wade Park.

The rest of East Lismore (the landuse=residential area to the West of Wyrallah Road) is basically a big hill, but since I'm due for a high intensity ride tomorrow I'll give it a stab.

Viime ajat olen keskittynyt uusien pyöräteiden lisäämmiseen. Eilen tuli suhattua Hattulan puolelle saakka ja 34km lenkistä tarttui ihan kivasti myös uutta fillaribaanaa.

Muutin kartalle loputkin tien päät, jossa tiedän olevan kääntöpaikka

highway=turning_circle

Samoten koko kartan POI:hin on lisätty osoitetietoja, ym. pientä ja kivaa. Hämeenlinnan kartalta löytyy aika täydellisesti ravintolat, pikaruokapaikat, pankit, pankkiautomaatit, fillariliikkeet, pubit, yökerhot, hotellit, apteekit, Siwat! ja supermarketit, ym. pientä ja kivaa mikä ei nyt tule mieleen.

This is my diary. Wheeeeee

We’ve now added a tabbed interface to the various photomap pages, as part of a drive to improve the user-friendliness of the photomap side of the system and increase the discoverability of its features.

For instance, see the new tabs on a photo page like
http://www.cyclestreets.net/location/9351/
which is one of my favourite pictures!)

You can also now easily plan a journey to a location. So add a photo of a destination and you now get a nice URL to that place, e.g.
http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/location/9351/

We’ll shortly have photos integrated within the route listings – so you can see what a route is like on the ground before you travel it! … if any photos have been added by people, of course. We used to have this feature in the original Cambridge-only system, but had to disable it when we launched CycleStreets because of performance issues (due to unoptimised code). Stay tuned!

(PS Thanks to Ian at UCS for the tabbing suggestion.)

.. and bringing in some new gear. maybe I can submit some useful tracks or points afterwards.

So I visited User:Mala in Poznań for the weekend (which we stretched to four days) and together we had our first formal Mapping Party, in the sense that more than one person had been out in the "real world" at the same time in the same place, with the specific goal of putting stuff on the map. We've been writing down everything and more, and then loading up JOSM on my laptop and mapping it before wandering off too far so if we had any doubts (my handwriting is really bad) we could just look again. The density of amenities and POIs in the centre of Poznań is such that you can map a whole lot without walking a distance longer than 100m. This also means that most stuff will not get a chance to render on mapnik because the renderer tries to avoid drawing things one on another, but this is what the centre looks like now:

http://osm.org/go/0ORAyZuhg==
(compare with osmarender)

In two weeks Mala is visiting me in Warsaw and hopefully we can do the same to the Warsaw Old Town market square which, like the Poznań Old Market is all pedestrian traffic only so you don't go there often except for tourism and so the seemingly busy and historically rich area is not really well mapped (http://osm.org/go/0Oy6Vx9yh==?layers=0B00FTF).

Saindo no metrô da Glória, mapeei o finalzinho da Rua da Glória e a parte que faltava da Rua do Catete, vide changelog: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/1703673

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Минск в административных чертах - свободный от ошибок валидации - о!
- вот повод чем занятся ;)

Сегодня добавил по снимку основное русло канала Вилейско-Минской системы; параллельно выправил много dup points

Hello everybody. I'm writing today to tell you that I've got one monster-massive GPX file that needs to be pored over.

It's this year's accumulated traces from my parents' caravan Australia-touring expeditions, and since OziExplorer is such a difficult application to use, I've only now found out how to export the damn track. You might notice it's all in one big blob.

In any case, I can't go through the entire thing on my own, and indeed I couldn't be bothered having already been through a fair portion of it, so now it's your turn. Check out my edit history to see which bits I've been working on, and have a look if there's anything you'd care to chew on.

Edit: on second viewing, that track's showing up in the ocean. I've absolutely no idea how that happened, but I'll have to sort it out later.

Sono arrivato a buon punto con la mappatura di San Vito al Tagliamento e sto andando abbastanza bene con Casarsa della Delizia.
Adesso che le strade fondamentali ci sono, inizio a mettere mani alle zone desolate sopra la SS13 ovvero Zoppola e luoghi limitrofi.

I sent a post to the talk-ie mailing list wondering whether we should reorganise the “WikiProject_Ireland” page to be more useful for those of us that are interested with mapping in Ireland.

If you’re interested please chime in with your opinion so we can arrive something workable.

Wie ich sehe, ist bei OSM die Umstellung U2 nach U3 und umgekehrt vollzogen. :)

Google Maps ist noch auf dem alten Stand. :D

A rotula entre a RS-124 e a RS-240, em Montenegro, foi montada. O render dos tiles no osmarender ja esta em andamento. A mudança vai aparecer em http://osm.org/go/M5t4FJjD_=?layers=0B00FTF

Em breve, rotula entre RS-240 e RS-141, no acesso a Brochier.

A garbage truck tipped from one alley onto parked cars in a lower alley.
http://blogs.townonline.com/brookline/2009/06/30/garbage-truck-crash-on-beacon-street/

The MassGIS import to OSM had this alley as Unnamed Road, although aligned to wrong building, but Google didn't have it at all.

I have aligned it per Yahoo imagery, and split the lower parking to a second way layer=-1, although it won't go under so -0.5 would be more accurate. Since news photo shows pavement, MassGIS tag surface=unpaved reset to surface=paved.

Tweeting about State Of The Map, before or during the conference? Use the #sotm09 hashtag. Have something to say in your own language? Use your language code as an extension! Let’s assume I want to share some SOTM09 buzz with my fellow Dutch speakers – of which there are  well over 20 million, I might add – I will use #sotm09nl. My German friends would use #sotm09de. Help spread the word even better, tweet in your own language - what are you looking forward to in particular, what are you going to say at SOTM09, why do you think SOTM09 is going to be great,when are you going, where are you staying, ride sharing, do tweet!

Directions Magazine has opened up a vote for the “Most Influential” in Geospatial for the next 5 years. Others up include Jack and Ed

Shouldn't man_made=wastewater_plant render now? There was a trac ticket and subsequent changeset, so surely it should render now?

Only it isn't rendering the big Esholt plant, and I'm not sure if something is broken. There are both areas and nodes tagged as wastewater_plant here, so something should appear. It looks wrong having it all missing.

Did 24km on the bike today, almost all of which was on new streets. I mainly aimed for hilly terrain as the previous 2 days had contained easy going rides.

The changeset can be viewed here (zoom in).

Oh, and if anybody gets a JOSM error "placeholder ids must be unique for created elements" make sure you haven't got any repeated elements in new relations. I spent a while racking my brain and googling to work out what had gone wrong to get this error message, turned out a no right turn restriction had 6 members because each member was entered twice.

Tomorrow I cycle in for my first actual uni lecturer, a good excuse for more unmapped street surveying near SCU.

I'm currently using JOSM to work on a section of Salem, specifically around the mall I've pinpointed on the map link below. In JOSM, the validator catches "style for outer way "xxx" mismatches" for the multipolygon around the mall. Is the multipolygon wrong or is the validator wrong?

Anyone out there in Phnom Penh want to hold the first OSM Mapping party ? Time to get this map going !