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Riverside County, CA, US

2009-11-22T20:19:39+00:00

Working in SW Riverside County using public domain county and/or city gis data and non-attributed county parcel dataset (public records act) to establish city, park, retail, commercial and industrial boundaries on a city-by-city basis (no bulk importing). Correcting road alignments via Yahoo as needed, adding missing roads as needed, will follow up with field surveying for streetnames and poi's as time permits. Adding/revising known road and poi names as appropriate based on local knowledge. Please feel free to contact or provide sugestions.

tangogps release with route tracks

2009-11-22T18:56:35+00:00

The latest release of tangoGPS now allows for downloading routes from http://yournavigation.org and from http://openrouteservice.org. Not a turn by turn navigation but still a quite nifty feature.

Apart from that the user interface has been improved, it looks now pretty good on laptops and even larger desktop LCDs too!

tangoGPS can be found on http://tangogps.org and feedback is always welcome.

Revised scheme for trails in Middlesex Fells, Mass., USA

2009-11-22T17:46:10+00:00

I'm trying to get all trails in the Middlesex Fells mapped using GPS tracks. I'm writing this down so that I can be consistent, and so that if I'm doing anything wrong, hopefully someone can correct me. This is a revision of a previous diary entry, after getting feedback, and more closely reading wiki pages.

The Fells has a bunch of trails whose main uses are (light) hiking and mountain biking. Near the reservoirs, there are areas that are off-limits to all users. There are also some offical-use-only access roads to various reservoir-related buildings and facilities.

So, first thing is that anything behind the "no trespassing" signs near the reservoirs gets "access=no".

Next, since the "highway" tag is documented as a "description of the importance of the highway for the road grid", and since the main uses of all the trails are hiking and mountain biking, the vast majority of them will be tagged as "highway=path".

The only exceptions to "highway=path" will be the access roads. The only motor vehicles allowed on these are official park vehicles, but they are otherwise open to hikers and bikers, except of course in the "access=no" areas.

These access roads are the only ways in the park with maintained surfaces. These will either get "highway=service" ("generally for access to a building") or "highway=track" ("gravel roads in the forest") depending on their condition and use. If not already "access=no", then they will also get "motorcar=no" and "motorcycle=no", because motorized vehicle use by the public is always forbidden (but might be otherwise implied by "service" or "track"). They will also get "tracktype" and "surface" tags, as appropriate.

Next, any way that is part of a signed, named trail will get "foot=designated". If it's also part of the "Mountain Bike Loop", it will get "bicycle=designated". Each of the named trails will have its own relation, and ways will get linked to them.

Finally, bicycles are allowed on any trail officially designated as a "Fire Road", so these ways will get "bicycle=yes". Anything not a fire road, and not on the "Mountain Bike Loop" is off-limits for bikes, and will get "bicycle=no".

New Casino Table Games

2009-11-22T17:32:24+00:00

New Casino Table Games
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white pearl necklace

Another Collserola mountain bike ride

2009-11-22T16:55:11+00:00

Very hard after spending a week in bed with the flu. I also picked some of the more difficult tracks.

Slowly it is getting more difficult to map new paths and tracks in the Collserola park, which is good and bad :-)

http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=1822429

New mapping approach using netbook on-site

2009-11-22T12:07:20+00:00

First of all, thanks to all OSM participants, this is great work!
Second, I want to thank Moore's law to make hardware dirt-cheap, which got me a tiny netbook for little money.

I found the current mapping techniques in the wiki do not yet reflect useful tools / toys like netbooks. So I wrote page on what I consider a "state-of-the-art" mapping approach.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_on_site_using_a_netbook

Using a netbook, you can use JOSM on site. You no longer have to correlate your GPS track with your notes afterwards.

Please review the page and tell me, what you think.

Enjoy the remainder of your weekend,

casualwalker

Finding Footpaths by Lookking for Gaps in Google Maps Property Lines

2009-11-22T12:05:03+00:00

Hey,
People have probably found this before, but I discovered a way to locate possible footpaths in urban areas online using Google Maps. When you go to an urban area in Google Maps in "map" mode (not satellite mode), and zoom in, it shows you the boundaries of each property. And if you look in a hilly area (e.g. Berkeley hills), every once in a while you will see an interesting "gap" (set of very closely spaced parallel lines) that streches from one street to another. This means that it is a thin strip of public land. This is a good indication of a pedestrian path. Sometimes it is not; it could be just trees or something; but more often than not it will be either a paved path, or at least a grassy passable area. Of course, you should double-check with satellite mode, Google street view, or by visiting in person. I've added several of these footpaths onto OpenStreetMap (some I'm sure are real based on street view; some very unsure). I figure, if I'm wrong, what's the worst that'll happen? (Someone will go there, find it wrong, and then delete it.) But for the ones that are right, I think it is very valuable information for the public.

Central Bendigo detail

2009-11-22T11:22:50+00:00

Went for a walk this evening with the new GPS and collected some detail close to home. Not all that impressed with the accuracy pf the Garmin eTrex Legend, but their weren't all that many satellites visible at 8pm either.

Mapping trails in the Middlesex Fells, Massachusetts, USA

2009-11-22T04:42:10+00:00

(EDIT: After feedback from others, and a more careful reading of the wiki, I think a different scheme is better suited to this area, and I'll post details soon)

I've been using my GPS-enabled Android phone to trace the various trails in the Middlesex Fells Reservation outside of Boston. This is a document specifying how I've been laying out the attributes. This is mainly for my own reference, so I can be consistent as I make progress (my goal is to get all trails into OSM over the next year or so). But, if anybody wants to chime in with any corrections or suggestions, I'm all ears. Thanks!

I'm classifying the trails on two dimensions: official status, and actual physical characteristics.

As far as the actual, physical characteristics go, here are the descriptions I've got for the trails I've seen so far:

* Car-ready roads: There are a few "trails" which a regular passenger car could use without issue (of course, this is prohibited in real life). These are graded, and are usually hard-packed dirt or gravel, although they may even be paved in sections. These get "highway=service", "motorcar=no", and "motorcycle=no" tags.

* 4x4 roads: These are impassable by a regular car, but could be used by a 4x4 truck. These get "highway=track", "motorcar=no" and "motorcycle=no" tags.

* Paths: No motorized vehicle can pass, perhaps because the trail is too narrow, or too windy, too rocky, or too sheer and steep. These get "highway=path" (which implies no motorized vehicles).

Now, for official status. This park is run by the Massachusetts Division of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), which was formerly the MDC. The DCR disallows decides which users get to access which trails. They prohibit all motorized vehicles entirely, and they have the following trail classifications:

* Off-Limits: Trails that are "too close" to the reservoirs may not be used by any member of the public, at any time. Yet, there are trails here, as seen on DCR maps posted at various parking areas. These all are getting the "access=no" tag. (obviating the need for any "motor*=no" tags)

* Fire Roads: The condition of these trails varies wildly, from paved and wide, to rocky and narrow. Regardless of condition, the DCR allows all park users (including bicyclists) to use these trails. 4x4 roads and paths get the "bicycle=yes" tag. (bicycle access is implied for car-ready roads).

* Designated Trails: These trails are officially marked with colored blazes and sometimes wooden signposts. Hikers are allowed to use these trails, so these all get the "foot=designated" tag. Bicycles are not, in general, allowed to use these trails, so the "bicycle=no" tag is applied to the car-ready and 4x4 roads (bike restrictions are implied for highway=path). The exception to this is for those sections designated as being on the "Mountain Bike Loop". All of these get the "bicycle=designated" tag.

* Undesignated Trails: These trails are officially unmarked, and appear on no official DCR maps. In some cases, these trails were previously designated, and you can occasionally find the remnants of very old blazes. The DCR does not explicitly prohibit hikers from using these trails. These are all paths, impassable to vehicles, so they all get "highway=path", which implies only foot access. So, no need to add any tags for this case.

The DCR also recognizes a handful of named trails (e.g. the "Skyline Trail" and the "Reservoir Trail". These each have their own color blaze, and they snake around the park, following various roads and paths as they do. Sometimes more than one named trail will be on the same path at the same time. I've done these using relations. So, a way will get marked with the attributes listed above, and, if it's part of a named trail, it will also get an association.

Mapping the Ottertal

2009-11-22T03:48:33+00:00

Fungi of the Ottertal - 1

Yesterday we celebrated the 60th birthday of my mother at the village where I grew up. A nice occasion to meet family members and other people I haven’t seen for a very long time.

I abused the occasion for some mapping of the Ottertal (which has nothing to do with the Glottertal in the black forest), a lovely nearby valley. I haven’t been there for ages, and it has changed a lot. There are several interesting locations, of which I wanted to collect some for openstreetmap. The stream of the valley (not mapped yet), called Otterbach, also marks the border of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Here’s the trip:

iLOE V1.6 update arrived

2009-11-22T01:35:37+00:00

Within record breaking 4 days, apple reviewed iLOE V1.6 [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ILOE] (though it's called 1.5 in the app store). What's new? Much work on the GUI. Lot of work on the workflow. And last not least copy and paste of tags. Very usefull if you wan't to tag house numbers for example. (http://bit.ly/2LwQOq).

Leigh

2009-11-22T00:03:20+00:00

Spent today driving around Pennington in Leigh using my GPS to log tracks. Have spent the evening updating the tracks into JOSM.

I now have my eye on Leigh & Atherton, which are very sparse in areas. Anyone else planning to map this area?

The GPS I used is actually my new Palm Pre, which I've had for nearly 3 weeks. Unfortunately there was no OSM software at all when I first acquired it, despite it having built-in GPS. Although to be fair it's only been available in Europe for a few weeks.

I picked up some knowledge of the new Palm webOS development kit (Mojo), and wrote a pretty crude App that logs GPS points, and stores them in an internal database. I've submitted this App to a Pre homebrew website, but it's still awaiting publishing. As soon as it becomes available, I'll put some references to it in the OSM Wiki. I believe there is another App being developed by someone else that does the same thing, but additionally plots the traces on top of the OSM tiles. Watch this space...

Trans-Labrador Highway

2009-11-21T22:17:55+00:00

Après de multiples corrections à l'aide de Potlach et de Yahoo! Imagery sur la rive-sud de Montréal, j'ai pu utiliser un GPS de façon importante.

En déplacement au Labrador pour le travail, j'ai pu enregistrer plus de 200 km de la route Trans-Labrador. Bien que peu utilisé, il est toujours intéressant de poser des références pour des contrées plus éloignées!

Bref, l'expérience était des plus plaisantes!

Discovered OpenStreetMap Today!

2009-11-21T21:44:36+00:00

Looking forward to using these tools and contributing to the community. Preparing for the patient painting-o-plenty of data onto the planet!

Help

2009-11-21T21:16:34+00:00

Something went wrong with my user profile. I cannot change it - I only get the following message on http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/EM311

"Application error

The OpenStreetMap server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request (HTTP 500)

Feel free to contact the OpenStreetMap community if your problem persists. Make a note of the exact URL / post data of your request.

This may be a problem in our Ruby On Rails code. 500 occurs with exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code)"

I'm also unable to log into forums. So that here is the only way to ask for help

Thanks for your support!

Update: The problem has been solved. Thanks for your help!

Keep Right! work in Delaware

2009-11-21T18:23:43+00:00

As of the 21 Nov 09 update for Keep Right! data in Delaware, there should be no outstanding errors of the type 'dead-ended one-ways'.

http://keepright.ipax.at/

Confirmed that, as of 21 Nov 09, no non-closed-area errors are detectable in Delaware by Keep Right!

neu neu neu :-)

2009-11-20T23:29:47+00:00

Heute habe ich mich das erste mal mit OSM beschäftigt und war gleich beeindruckt von der Leistung dieser Gemeinschaft.
Da ich sofort irgend einen Beitrag leisten wollte habe ich mich soweit schlau gelesen, dass nun auf einem root-Server die VM liegt, welche Tiles rendert.

Mein nächster Plan ist:
Ich möchte mich schlau machen, wie ich mit meinem iPhone GPS-Daten sammeln und hier zur Verfügung stellen kann... ich hoffe, es wird leichter als ich denke ;)

Navigation

2009-11-20T16:33:10+00:00

Why I use my GPS for other things than navigating..

Unknown city- Ghana

2009-11-20T15:22:28+00:00

Whoever is mapping Ghana and writes unknown town or city all over the place- please stop.
If you are really keen on mapping, please help importing the GEOnet Names Server Data- much more usefull. When someone comes around adding the correct names via import one has to delete all your unknown cities.

Please stop doing this- it adds only marginal value to the map and is a pain to clean up afterwards, when the map gets more complete over time.
Please use your much appreciated enthusiasm in a more sensitive way,

Thanks, Zenfunk

Sinj-Vukoviči,Lošo

2009-11-20T15:03:46+00:00

Dodana nova log datoteka i uctano:
- ulica u Karajkovi lokvi-Lošo,
-spojni zemljani put u Vukovičima.

Log datoteka prikupljena sa i-gotU i biciklom.

Openstreetmap in the news, 20.11.09 nytimes, guardian,

2009-11-20T11:18:56+00:00

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/happy-national-geography-week/

A New Way to Use GPS

You probably know about GPS devices—maybe you even let one guide you to new destinations. But you can also use many GPS devices to gather data for Wiki maps at OpenStreetMap.org. Have students travel around their home area, gathering map data. Help them upload their data to the Web site.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/19/digital-media-aol-foursquare-local-news-patch-peer
AOL sees revenues in local: Its CEO, Tim Armstrong, announced yesterday in New York that it plans to digitize entire towns with the help of Patch, the hyperlocal network it bought last year. Armstrong clearly sees a hole in the market here and plans to cover every aspect of community life from school boards to restaurants and shops. "We're hiring reporters," Armstrong said according to the business journal Portfolio.com. "Can you imagine that?"

Patch just switched to OpenStreetMap and appears to be busy with building its own map infrastructure, including designing, rendering and hosting its own tiles, according to zdnet. But that is not all. "Patch will go into stores, photograph everything and even tell consumers how many parking spaces there are," Armstrong said. "Even though it will have only 30 local communities outside New York City initially, it will scale substantially."

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3206875

CloudMade is gearing up to release a set of tools that will enable people to quickly and easily contribute to the OpenStreetMap project.
At the same time the company is looking to create a developer model that will enable developers to use OpenStreetMap data and databases in their websites and iPhone applications.

"There are really two sides to this, there's a community facing side called Mapzen and a developer platform," said Nick Black, Founder of CloudMade.

Исправляем ошибки на Березняках

2009-11-20T10:41:16+00:00

Закончил редактированием Березняков.

Started editing on Palawan, could need a mentor

2009-11-20T09:46:49+00:00

After some months of rest, today I started editing on Palawan, a island in the west of the Philippines. As I am not very keen with editing OSM I would be glad if someone could look over my changes!

My first international edits

2009-11-20T06:35:45+00:00

I am now an international man of mapmaking! I've uploaded the data from my business trip to Gaborone. Fixed some roads, added a road name or two, added a number of buildings and actually added new roads that weren't on the map at all! There are lots more that need to be added.

I took a lot of pictures of street names that just weren't readable. Unfortunately, when you're only there for a day and have to work, there's only so much time to write down street names.

Tiger 2009 areas

2009-11-20T06:11:45+00:00

I just finished adding the Tiger 2009 area polygon shapefiles for California. The data includes most parks, national forests, cemeteries, commercial areas, some schools, colleges and universities and more. I tried to remove the larger parks and areas to not duplicate existing areas. But some of the smaller parks were repeated and need to be manually removed. Also Tiger uses a weird set of abbreviations which I documented on the [[TIGER 2009]] wiki page. I corrected some of the later ones by opening the OSM file in a text editor and then doing a find and replace for each one. I uploaded all the counties except for Santa Cruz and Los Angeles which have already had imports done in them or have already been mapped. I added the points and water files in the bay area. A lot of these repeat what is on the ground, so I am going to let others add the other ones in their counties if they want. If anyone in the U.S. would like to upload data for their counties but doesn't know how to use the java shp-to-osm, let me know and I can email you the OSM files you can upload in JOSM.

Fehlende McDonalds in Deutschland 2

2009-11-19T20:40:19+00:00

ich habe die Liste von McDos aktualisiert, die laut mcdonalds.de existieren, ich aber nicht in OSM finden konnte. Jetzt 21 weniger.
Bitte nicht einfach eintragen, sondern nur wenn man mit GPS vor Ort war. Man muss auch nicht da essen.

http://wielandpusch.de/mcdomissing2.kml

Kann man sich z.B. mit
http://maps.google.de/?q=http://wielandpusch.de/mcdomissing2.kml
ansehen.

Fehler oder Kommentare gerne an mich oder hier.

Bitte Info an mich, wenn ihr einen Fehler behebt, dann ist es für mich einfacher.

Tagwatch mission complete (for now)

2009-11-19T20:32:58+00:00

Just finished a mission I set myself to clean out the UK Tagwatch (http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu) a bit. Don't panic though, I haven't been bulldozing away all the new and novel tags people are using, just going through it all carefully with a duster and having a go at the following:

*Fixing spelling mistakes. By the nature of Tagwatch, this mainly means spelling mistakes in the tags, not the values. For example, I'll definitely have caught amneity=parking, but not necessarily amenity=praking. Also I might have left a tag or two that was obviously only being used by one person as *all* instances were misspelled. ;-) This category included trailing spaces, although I think a lot of these get auto-fixed eventually even if I don't bother...

*Nonstandard -> standard tags. This was by far the biggest job, as these are trickier to spot by users outside of Tagwatch. Let's face it, we don't all remember the entire Map Features page all the time, and so sometimes we put max_speed instead of maxspeed, or think the tag for phone numbers is "telephone=" instead of "phone=". I know I do, since I've embarrassed myself by turning up plenty of my own mistakes like these as I've gone through...! Unfortunately some of the most common mistakes were made just too often to be fixed by hand by me in any sensible time: if anyone feels like finishing off "telephone=*" then go ahead, but you're in for a long job!

*Nonstandard -> nonstandard (i.e. unapproved) tags. This is the main controversial bit - I've tried to be as careful about it as I can, and I hope I haven't stood on anybody's toes too much while doing it. If I have - please do change back whatever you're annoyed about, or tell me to do it, or ask why I've done it (as a few people here and there have done already). My standard answer is that tags representing the same thing should be the same (and their exact wordings can be changed around later), so if I'm confident that Tag 1 means the same as well-used Tag 2 (and there aren't too many examples of Tag 1 to do this carefully on a case-by-case basis) then I've grouped them all under Tag 2, even if that tag doesn't have formal approval yet. Note that I'm not saying Tag 2 is good or Tag 1 is rubbish - just that there were very few examples of Tag 1 compared to lots of Tag 2. For example, one of the last things I did was take the "uk:row" tag (short for uk:right-of-way, I discovered) and merge it into the "designation" tag where all its values had corresponding values. It doesn't matter to me whether designation gets approved or replaced with something else - all I'm trying to do is make it so when the dust settles, you know where to search for the relevant nodes, ways and relations to start the conversion process.

*Grouping very minor tags. Some of these edits were a bit cheeky, but they're for the same kind of reasons as the set above. Consider them as no more than suggestions for tags you might like to use to represent a common concept...

So I know that this autumn-clean is going to be undone the very day I stop monitoring Tagwatch... but hopefully it's come in at least a bit useful and saved someone a bit of time down the line! I think I'll probably have another OSM break now though...

SbU

2009-11-19T20:10:00+00:00

Edgemaster has loaded the NaPTAN data for East Yorkshire, so there's another 1622 stops to check. There's been quite a lot of muttering about data imports, much of which I agree with. I think imports should be treated as the start of a process to improve the data they bring and imports need managing by people local to the area the import covers. Imports can bring valuable data in their own right, and the process of checking them certainly gathers extra POIs and extra tracks for lightly covered areas. A few local mappers are checking their local stops.

We've been out locally checking the quality of the data. Compared to Hull's stops the ones in east Yorkshire seem to be much more accurately positioned. The biggest problem so far is that the Atco code is missing from many of the stop signs.

I know that the East Riding of Yorkshire council have some plans for assisting passengers with some new information system and I think they need to have the code on every stop so people know where they are. I hope they will benefit from our findings.

Today we checked the stops in Welton, Brough and Elloughton. There are few shelters and they are mostly old brick built ones, but a couple have been improved.

masts risen from obscurity

2009-11-19T19:45:23+00:00

man_made:masts now seem to be rendered in Mapnik; anything else newish?

Potlatch support for NearMap & more

2009-11-19T18:47:48+00:00

I added NearMap to the list of imagery presets in Potlatch 1.2f which'll hopefully be live soon. This makes mapping Australia slightly easier:

Unfortunately due to a Potlatch bug the full detail of NearMap isn't available in it. It's a bit harder to set up JOSM for NearMap but the resulting detail is insane, here are some people on the beach on Rottnest Island at zoom 23 in JOSM:

recién registrada

2009-11-19T16:38:36+00:00

Jueves, día 19 de noviembre de 2009;

¡ A trazar mi ciudad !

Anfang

2009-11-19T16:25:19+00:00

Hiermit fang ich mal an. :-)

Biciklističke staze "Sinj"

2009-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

Dodane log datoteke i ucrtano:
-dio trase biciklističke staze Sinj3 oko Ćitluka,
-dodani si .gpx filovi biciklističkih staza oko grada Sinja,koji su skupljali biciklisti tijekom akcije TZ Sinj.

Prva log datoteka je prikupljena sa i-gotU i biciklom.
Ostale rute su samo dodane,jer za večinu več postoji zapis od prije.

Nearmap, meet Potlatch, meet OSM data, meet Nearmap

2009-11-19T14:46:13+00:00

as per http://nearmap.lefora.com/2009/11/12/edit-the-map-instructions/15826202/

If you're a NearMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JohnSmith/diary/8559) fan, you can now go to their website, have a cruise around their imagery with the "StreetMap" layer turned on, then when you see something not quite right, you can (now) click on their edit link and have a Potlatch screen (with the Nearmap imagery) come right up at the same spot. Genius!

Example URL: http://openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=-27.47223&lon=153.01384&zoom=19&tileurl=http%3A//www.nearmap.com/kh/zxy%3D%21%2C%21%2C%21

With any luck the quality of edits will snowball in the areas Nearmap have covered.

Ma première rivière : la Maine

2009-11-19T11:55:49+00:00

Bonjour,
Je viens de terminer le tracé de la Maine (49). Facile vous allez me dire, étant donné qu'elle ne fait que 11,5 km de long !! En effet (petit cours de géographie gratuit), la Maine naît de la jonction de la Mayenne et de la Sarthe et se jette dans la Loire peu après Angers. Par terminer le tracé, je veux dire :
- chemin 'waterway=river'
- rives 'waterway=riverbank'
- relation 'type=river'

Le bien-fondé de cette dernière est en discussion sur la page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Rivers où son existence même est débattue. Je n'ai pas (encore) l'expérience pour participer activement mais je trouve l'argument du principal opposant à l'utilisation de cette relation convainquant. La relation apporte le tag 'tributary_of=*' afin de définir la dépendance affluent/confluent d'un cours d'eau par rapport à un autre. Le contre-argument est qu'il suffit de suivre les chemins des sources aux embouchures pour reconstituer le bassin. Information dans la base de données contre calcul à la demande, problème classique mais pour lequel je ne connais pas assez bien la structure interne d'OSM pour trancher. Qu'en pensez-vous ?

Par ailleurs, j'ai profité de ce travail pour reprendre un peu la présentation, le contenu et la traduction de la page WikiProject http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_France/Cours_d%27eau . Je ne suis pas seul à m'y intéressé heureusement, et les discussions avec Frodrigo avancent :-) J'y reprend en partie la discussion du paragraphe précédent.

Quand à pourquoi les cours d'eau, et pourquoi la Maine en particulier, ce sera pour un autre jour ;-)

new GPS, will map!

2009-11-19T10:12:33+00:00

Finally my new GPS has arrived - Garmin etrx Legend HCx. Somewhat smaller than I thought it would be but that is a good thing.
Took it out for its virgin voyage and collected a few missing streets in central Bendigo (Australia). (Definitely no chance of hitting an iceberg today with the temperature nearly touching 40C!).
Will start picking up some more detail around home when I take the kids for a walk/ride. Hopefully the Bendigo map will change often (and not just from my contributions).

София, Люлин, Западен Парк

2009-11-19T08:45:36+00:00

Поредна редакция на алеите в западния парк. Вече добива някакъв вид. Засякох и точките на няколко кръстовища и установих със сигурност че фоновите снимки на Yahoo са изместени около 10м на запад-северозапад! Доста корекции трябва да се направят...

wrong representation of track

2009-11-19T08:33:45+00:00

I've changed the tracktype of a track from grade2 to grade1 since it is paved. However, on the map (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.87241&lon=11.68913&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF) still a short segment of the track is rendered like grade2. Looking at the data I can not see the reason for this, the whole track should be grade1. Can anybody tell me what's wrong here?

Meinolf

Joliet Area (IL)

2009-11-19T05:29:44+00:00

Most if not all of the west side of Joliet (still have a couple far west subdivisions to put in yet), Rockdale and Crest Hill have been corrected. A small part of Plainfield (south part) has been corrected as well. Now I'm focused on getting Romeoville covered (about 70% completed). After I get Romeoville taken care of, I'll finish up Plainfield and eventually update the Channahon - Minooka area.

Pine Creek Trip

2009-11-19T02:51:54+00:00

A few months ago, the Sloth and I decided to recreate last year’s PCRT camp out. Various scheduling conflicts pushed the trip back a few weeks this year, and we missed the fall leaves this time.

Mrs. Sloth kindly agreed to shuttle us up to the north end of the trail. After fiddling with our panniers for a few minutes, we were under way by about 11:00.

After a few miles, we encountered a momma bear with two cubs crossing the trail. We stopped our bikes to exchange pleasantries, but she was in rather a hurry with pre-hibernation errands to run. She led her cubs off the trail before we even had time to get our cameras out.

We spent the rest of the day rolling along, taking in the sights, shooting the breeze about various things, and taking numerous snack breaks.

Before long, it became obvious that darkness would find us before we found out camp site. We did not figure into our calculations that last year’s ride occurred before the daylight saving time change. Not that it was anything to be concerned about, since we were both rocking dynohubs. Along the way, the Sloth’s headlight cable got tangled in his spokes, which rendered his headlight unusable. We were able to find our way into camp by the light from my headlight without incident.

After we set up camp, we sat down to some fine Esbit-warmed cuisine.

With full bellies and many hours of darkness to while away before bedtime, we scavenged about for some firewood. The area around the camp site was picked pretty clean by previous campers, but we found enough to keep a small fire going until about 9:00. When the fire went out, we went to bed.

The morning sunlight revealed a huge pile of firewood in an unoccupied camp site a few yards from ours. We muttered curses under our breaths and made some breakfast and coffee. I made a pot from some Java Juice packets I brought along in an effort to save weight.

The Sloth is thankfully a bit more picky about his caffeine than I am, and produced from his panniers a french press and some freshly ground fancy-pants coffee from India. It put my java juice to shame.

We got rolling again, and passed a lot more cyclists than we had the day before. We passed a fellow heading the opposite direction, and a few seconds later, came across what appeared to be a blowdown.

Closer inspection revealed the truth. We were under attack by crazed beavers.

We moved the tree off the trail, and continued on our way.

Near the end of the trail, I was starting to have some problems with my hands and my butt. I looked down at the GPS on my handlebars (I was getting a trace for OpenStreetMap), and noticed that our moving average speed was somewhere around 10mph. It occurred to me that maybe drop-handebar touring bicycles are not the optimal equipment for a leisurely ride like this. Maybe there is a better piece of equipment for this.

I have long been of the opinion that bicycle technology was essentially perfected in the late 1970’s. I’m now hypothesising that it may, in fact, have been perfected fifty years earlier.

I’ll find out shortly.

The Waterfalls of Montezuma, Costa Rica

2009-11-18T23:42:39+00:00

I added a river to the waterfalls and some of the walking paths to get there. I'll have to go back to check it with my GPS.

I renamed Waterfalls to Upper Waterfalls and tried adding a point for Lower Waterfalls (right next to it) but that point isn't showing up (so I added another). And sometimes the upper falls still just say Waterfalls (or maybe that's a cache problem) at least on the edit screen it does sometimes.

Are there some kinds of layers with this editor for when to have things show up?

Gary
http://GarySaid.com/tags/montezuma/

Montezuma, Costa Rica

2009-11-18T23:40:16+00:00

Modified the map of the city a little bit. Added phones, church, school, football (soccer) field, pay phones, bus stop, Chico's bar and the two supermarkets.

Added the other road that goes through town, but people don't really drive though it, more to get to places. Added my favorite hotel (Montezuma Pacific) and tried to add a park but couldn't get it to show properly (it's on the edit screen).

Gary
http://GarySaid.com/tags/montezuma/

Trilj,Omiš;Zadvarje

2009-11-18T18:53:23+00:00

Dodane 4 log datoteke i ucrtano:
-cesta u gradu Trilju prema crpnoj stanici;dijelovi cikloturističke staze Zagora7,
-dio D220 od Čaporica do čvora u Bisku,
-ispravljena i dodan tag županijska cesta 6263 u Blatu na cetini,
-ispravljena kategorizacija i tag za državnu cestu D70 od čvora Blato na cetini do Omiša,
-županijska cesta 6166 od Omiša do Zadvarja,
-lokalna cesta L67123 preko Svinišča.

Log datoteke prikupljene i-gotu i automobilom.

OpenStreetMap helps free Ordnance Survey data with suicide bombing mission

2009-11-18T15:39:00+00:00

So as I talked about in my previous post, Ordnance Survey is going to make its small scale data freely available. I think that in many ways, OpenStreetMap has been a major influence in making this happen. The growth of OpenStreetMap has increased the awareness of the benefits of free geospatial data, and it was becoming apparent that there would no longer be a significant market for the Ordnance

Ordnance Survey free data: right decision, various wrong justifications cited

2009-11-18T14:07:00+00:00

So yesterday the UK government announced that some data sets (not all) from the Ordnance Survey (the UK national mapping agency) will be made available for free - 1:10,000 scale data and above is included (so this includes popular OS maps like the 1:25,000 and 1:50,000, in digital form). The more detailed maps (1:1250 and 1:2500) are not included - but I believe that issues related to derived

Newbie

2009-11-18T14:04:02+00:00

Decided to sign up to Open Street Map. I plan to do some editting of Copamnthorpe, York. I live and work here, so I should be able to add some useful information.

Stadtwald / Uniwildnis in Bremen

2009-11-18T13:38:59+00:00

Hi Folks,

ich habe mir mal die Uniwildnis und den Stadtwald in Bremen zu Herzen genommen und angefangen, die ganzen kleinen Pfade durch dieses Gebiet aufzuzeichnen und einzutragen.
Dazu benutze ich mein neues (besseres) GPS-Gerät, das auch im Wald recht genaue Ergebnisse erzielen soll.
Es fehlen noch ein paar wenige Pfade; das kommt aber noch.
Für die OSM-Cracks unter Euch habe ich ein paar Unklarheiten, bei deren Erhellung Ihr mir vielleicht helfen könnt:

- Ein großer Teil des Gebietes ist im Besitz des Vereins „Freunde der Uniwildnis e.V.“, welcher der Öffentlichkeit das Betreten erlaubt. Deren Gebiet ist hier eingezeichnet: http://www.uniwildnis.de/Plan_Uniwildnis_2004-4.jpg
Sollten wir das auch in der Karte kenntlich machen? Ich meine: eher nicht, da wir ja auch sonst keine Besitzverhältnisse einzeichnen.
Bislang ist „Uniwildnis“ nur als POI eingezeichnet.

- Der von mir „Naturcampingplatz“ genannte Campingplatz bezeichnet sich laut ein paar Zeitungsartikeln selbst so. Ist das aber wirklich der offizielle Name?
Dazu noch: ich werde die Wege auf diesem Campingplatz in nächster Zeit nicht aufzeichnen. Könnte das jemand Anderes machen? Ihr Studis habt doch öfter mal Freistunden!

- „Uniwildnis“ ist der bekanntere Name für das Gebiet zwischen Strand und Naturcampingplatz (siehe URL zum JPG oben). Der offizielle ist „Naturschutzgebiet am Stadtwaldsee“, wobei ich mir nicht sicher bin, ob das NSG sich nicht auch auf das Betreten-Verboten-Gebiet erstreckt, in dem es gar keine Pfade gibt. Sollte das NSG also auch eingezeichnet werden? Wenn ja: mit welchen Grenzen?

- Der Hundeplatz wurde von mir das „Playground“ mit Beschaffenheit „Sand“ getagged. Das ist eher falsch, da darunter ja eher Kinderspielplatz als Hundespielplatz verstanden wird, oder? Allerdings fiel mir einfach kein besser Tag dafür ein.

Dankbar für Hilfe,
Lew

Yahoo imagery less precise than multiple GPS tracks

2009-11-18T13:14:13+00:00

I have been busy mapping along the Petite Cote in Senegal. I have found numerous occurrences of Yahoo sourced roads with multiple concurring GPS tracks lying some distance away - clearly showing that the road is not following the correct path. I corrected them with the more precise path. That shows that when multiple GPS tracks are available and concur, they should be relied upon more than third party sources.

граница края из Vmap0

2009-11-18T12:20:26+00:00

Благодаря неоценимой помощи товарища DR с использованием данных Vmap0 и сервера WMS была обновлена граница края.
На подходе населенные пункты.
После обкатки технологии её можно будет применять повсеместно.
Подробности позже.

Os Maps to be free in 2010

2009-11-18T10:51:51+00:00

This will make a big change.
see http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/17/ordnance-survey-maps-online

Ordnance Survey goes free – some initial thoughts

2009-11-18T10:01:10+00:00

How about that, then? Or as the Map Room succinctly put it, “Holy shit.”

Good news for:

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft. Free maps, and unlike the US, good-quality free maps which they can start using right out the box.
Ordnance Survey. I wrote here previously that OS’s best chance of surviving was to open up street name/geometries, boundaries, postcodes, peaks, rivers and PROWs, and to keep charging for the large-scale stuff. This seems to be pretty much what’s promised. I still believe that it’s absolutely the right decision for them. (Also, I am rather smug.)
The Guardian. Launching a campaign is a risky business for any publication, especially a fairly obscure and, at times, seemingly fruitless campaign like ‘Free Our Data’. It has paid off – and of all the organisations campaigning for this, the Guardian is the only one that anyone has ever heard of.
Apple et al. Insofar as Apple ever gives a shit about anything that happens outside the US, they no longer have to depend on anyone for UK iPhone maps. Not Google, not Tele Atlas. No-one. (Incidentally, if UK mobile carriers had any brains, they would now write their own mapping app and bundle it with their iPhone contracts. Fortunately they don’t.)
Cartographers. Maps will now compete on cartography, not on data. This is an absolute shot in the arm for skilled cartographers and could go a long way to reviving the craft in the UK. With my Waterways World hat on, I’m delighted: our cruising guide maps can get better than they are now, yet anyone wanting to compete still has to learn how to produce lovely maps.
Developers. Same applies. I am really looking forward to what people come up with. If I were an iPhone dev I would start writing that killer app now, ready to release when the data arrives.
Wider Government. Full release instantly becomes the standard for public data. There is now absolutely no excuse for, say, the Environment Agency to withhold its fisheries data. That means more third-party sites that do funky things with public data. I suspect that will help in breaking the stranglehold of evil big outsourcers on Government IT projects.
This blog because I can stop writing about boring map copyright law and start writing about fun things, like canals, organs and the new William Orbit album.

Possibly good news for:

OpenStreetMap. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say this wouldn’t have happened without OSM. The inevitability that OSM would, in time, catch up with OS small-scale mapping absolutely vindicates the project. And, hey, complete data for the whole UK – what could be cooler?
But on the other hand, everyone else has it, too. How do ongoing changes get integrated into the OSM database? Will the UK community survive a sudden change in tack from surveying the basemap to becoming a provider of ‘added value’? Will smaller public domain mapping projects create an informal, developer-led community without OSM’s harsh share-alike restriction? Will UK OSM developers (who lead the project) get bored of it now there’s not such a unique need? How many questions can I get in one paragraph?
Oh, and there’s the licence. I dread to think what would happen if the chosen licence wasn’t compatible with OSM.

Bad news for:

Tele Atlas and Navteq. See G-Y-M above. On the up side, their parent companies no longer have to bother collecting UK data for their satnavs/mobile phones. But that’s like saying Tesco giving free food away is good news for Sainsbury’s, which can now take it and resell it for 1p.

OSM Coffee Mug

2009-11-18T09:28:10+00:00

Where’s yours? Get one here!

POI control map updated to current xapi rev.

2009-11-18T04:34:12+00:00

Sorry to all who tried my map program which shows individual POIs on http://www.lenz-online.de/osm.
I just found out that the xapi call had to be adapted to a new revision. :(

Paul Lenz

Starting Stonington, CT

2009-11-18T03:28:00+00:00

Hopefully a good start....with the impetus being the NY Times article of today.

Trouble in Bayswater

2009-11-18T02:00:30+00:00

I was rightly picked up on an errant Post Box reference recently, the post Box outside Bayswater Tube central London. I Cycle past it near every day, I am usually late so have little time to re check my post boxes, so today I did.

Anyway... that is not the point. Looking at the area in JOSM we have examples of recreational parks glued to streets, masking the roads - see Prince's Square just west of Bayswater ( I have not corrected it so it can serve as an example. )
To the West side of this square in the map data we have two roads overlayed over one another with different names.

Again, this is not a big deal and i have not corrected so that it can servce as an example. A street usually does not have two names ( unless there is a former and new name ).

I am not at ease with things glued to other things ( ie streets glued to parks, or rivers glued to boundaries etc ), it doesn't make sense, not in a CAD world or real world for that matter, and i usually unglue them in JOSM . A Boundary would run down the middle of a street, a park neither in a real world or any other is glued to or overlaps a street, they are distinct objects, and thus should be represented as such, especially in an electronic map / representation which has in theory an infinite degree of resolution and detail.

Hopefully i am not being a desperate pedant here, I would be glad if someone could put me straight before I run amok and start 'correcting' things in my style rather than accepted OSM style

cheers bri

Butterleigh area in Mid Devon

2009-11-18T00:08:06+00:00

I went on a circular ride around the Butterleigh area. Many steep hills and quite a few tracks to map. I did one complete track and a few parts of others. Other people seem to have mapped here with very little GPS data, so I corrected some roads which were not in the right place.

lompoc tuesday

2009-11-17T22:43:06+00:00

existing lompoc tuesday

First entry

2009-11-17T22:03:41+00:00

I'm a map lover intrigued with this new (to me) application. I bicycle everywhere so am acutely aware of minor errors in maps. Today I removed a non-existent street near my home.

Fehlende McDonalds in Deutschland

2009-11-17T21:46:20+00:00

ich habe eine Liste von McDos erzeugt, die laut mcdonalds.de existieren, ich aber nicht in OSM finden konnte.
Bitte nicht einfach eintragen, sondern nur wenn man mit GPS vor Ort war. Man muss auch nicht da essen.

http://wielandpusch.de/mcdomissing.kml

Kann man sich z.B. mit
http://maps.google.de/?q=http://wielandpusch.de/mcdomissing.kml
ansehen.