I've noticed that while the data for Guam is generally pretty good, the data for Saipan is in a pretty sad state. This is starting to create problems for folks using GPS and other tools that use OpenStreetMap as a base source.

Most of this appears to be due to bad TIGER data during the 2008 import. Back in the bad old days, Saipan and the rest of the CNMI used a variety of old datums and projections, some of which weren't clearly documented. The TIGER data was on one of these, as was a lot of our old data from USGS, and the roads and related data are offset and distorted as a result. Even Google Earth uses bad old data.

My goal over the next six months is to replace all the distorted road data with TIGER 2012 data, or with equivalent data sourced directly from the government of the CNMI (i.e. Saipan). I'm frequently on Saipan and have worked with their data and analysts, so am confident that I can make this work.

Most of the TIGER data for Saipan is unreviewed and unedited, so doing a batch replace will have limited impact on existing users' work. A similar project was done for parts of Alaska by pnorman.

Things to do: 1. Update shoreline with NOAA data 2. Update shoreline with 2013 imagery to reflect ongoing erosion 3. Locate appropriate data 4. Figure out the scope of the problem (e.g. only roads, all TIGER linework, GNIS?) 5. Make sure folks in the area/community are on-board. 6. Prioritize fixes (probably start w/ roads, as that's most annoying to me) 7. Start implementing fixes by priority 8. On-the-ground GPS work to check fixes 9. Invite other folks to review

昨天晚上跟supaplex在國家圖書館碰面，晚上在中正紀念堂旁的巧虎麵館吃晚餐後，跑去了國軍英雄館裡頭的義美食品買了順口沁涼的冰淇淋。順道在台北的老城區也就是中山堂附近畫了幾家店。忽然發覺台灣的服飾店其實還蠻多種的：訂製西服、訂製學校制服、以及量販店，不過這些可能就和書店沒有分獨立書店以及連鎖書店一樣，難以在osm標上不同的tag吧。

One of my side projects for OpenStreetMap mapping is the mapping of public transport routes in the New York region. This consists of New York City Subways (Map), Manhattan Bus Routes (Map), several Queens Bus Routes (Map) and Staten Island Bus Routes (Map). You can now view most local bus routes on the transport map and quickly locate nearby routes without navigation the maze of most local transit authorities websites.

I must also congratulate Xoan Manuel on his work on most of the Queens Bus Routes and Brooklyn Bus Routes (See Map).

The remaining items on the lists are several cross-town services, Bronx services and transportation on the New Jersey side. On a side note, an alternative rendering of the public transport map can be found at OpenPTMap, where subway lines are also rendered properly.

Poco a poco voy dibujando las calles de Aldeamayor de San Martín, en Valladolid, y sus urbanizaciones.

Al principio fue la Urbanización Aldemayor Golf, que no existía en el mapa. Poco a poco he señalado las calles de esta urbanización y algunas zonas especiales, como parques, piscinas, gasolinera, etc. Aun queda algún detalle y muchos edificios por dibujar.

También he dibujado y renombrado calles y edificios en el pueblo, Aldeamayor de San Martín. Como antes, quedan detalles.

*Cosas por hacer: Polígono el Brizo y Urbanización el Soto.

*Cosas por confirmar: Sentido del tráfico en algunas calles.

*Cosas que a lo mejor hago algún día: Caminos de tierra (que hay muchos) para pasear en bicicleta.

Firma oferuje innofacyjne farby. Mieści się koło Poznania. Szczególnie warto wypróbować ich farby i tapety natryskowe

Good news for those missing SOTM in Birmingham or living close to Baltic Sea.

For the first time ever mappers, developers and users of OpenStreetMap from Baltic States, Russia and Finland will come together to exchange knowledge, strenghten local communities and break the language barrier. Mappers from other countries are also we

State of the Map Baltics conference will be held this year on the 3-4 of August in Tartu, Estonia.

Early Bird Registration for the SOTM Baltics is open: http://sotm-baltics.org

Register before the 9th of June for just 10 Euro!

Non, la ville n'est pas dépourvue de transport en commun à présent. Au contraire : J'ai fini de le représenter (bon, oui, j'ai pas mis les déviations en cours des 23 et 26 "jusqu'à nouvel ordre", et le 1er juillet prochain, la 17 et les ise seront déviées entre Foch-Férrié et Alliés-Anatole France...). Aussi, j'ai représenté TOUTES les lignes de TC routier passant pas Grenoble (hors les Eurolines, je n'ai pas assez d'infos dessus, et les TER de remplacement/TER étudiants)

Je me lance donc dans une autre entreprise de TC : les TER Rhone-Alpes. Je Commence par "mettre à niveau" les voies : représentation de chaque voie par une ligne, et représentation des Gares avec les schéma "public transport". Avec un peu de chance, ça va me prendre jusqu'à Décembre prochain, comme ça, je pourrais représenter le Sillon Alpin actuellement en travaux =D. En parallèle, je continue un peu les Transisère (passage des Express et 6020/6070 en "route_master" + arrêt en "public transport schéma", représentation d'autres lignes) peut être aussi pour les Réseaux du Grésivaudan et du Voironnais.

Aussi, je vais continuer à avancer sur les TC du Mont Blanc (cet été, j'essayerai de contacter la SAT Mont-Blanc, ou le CG38, afin d'avoir des infos fiables et précises sur les arrêts)

我的外公外婆這幾年相繼去世，都是八九十歲的高壽辭世。而正好兩老也在台北有個靈骨塔位，所以最後都是在市立殯儀館裡頭火葬的。於是對這個平常沒什麼機會來的地方，居然也慢慢熟悉了起來。第一次到二殯的時候，印象深刻的是它家屬等待區的冷氣開的好強，儘管沒什麼人但是就是很冷很冷，看了一下週遭的介紹才知道這是用火力發電，所以這邊的冷氣的電都是焚化爐所提供的...

今天也是第一次使用新上線的iD編輯器畫圖，又漂亮又順手啊這玩意。不過也因為用了編輯器中的building:levels的key，有點搞不太清楚到底是level 0是第一層樓（平地）還是level 1是第一層樓。

It has been quite fascinating to study these huge municipal school complexes that we have in Mumbai. One of these complexes house more than one school. This means, one school name does not equal multiple school buildings. They're perhaps housed on multiple floors. The schools interested me because my bus stand in Powai is in front of one and I see this school at Passpoli, Powai quite often. This forced me to look for school complexes in my locality.

These schools also have a powerful impact on their locality by the presence of a huge ground surrounding them. At the pace of development Mumbai is undergoing, these schools may very well be in danger. Reducing funding for these schools which leads to higher dropout and lower quality of education delivered may lead to Government re-think of the need for maintaining these structures at all.

Many of them are in a dilapidated condition. There are efforts by corporates and non-profits to work with these schools. Some of them are improving through such efforts but there is not enough good news about them in the media today.

As the affordability of schools is becoming a question today, I hope we save these municipal schools for long enough because we never know the day when we might have to send our children to these schools because no other school is affordable. The rising inequality in our society means that day may not be that far away.

meistens mappt man Gebietsbezogen, auch für praktische Anwendungen wäre es manchmal gut, OSM-Daten auf eine Gemeinde herunterzubrechen und nur diese in einer Datei für JOSM oder andere Anwendungen zu haben, um damit arbeiten zu können.

Ich hatte den Gedanken, mittels XSLT einzelne Gemeinden aus größeren OSM Downloads zu extrahieren, um in einem Rutsch an den benötigten OSM-Satz zu kommen (für den Download von der OSM Webseite sind die Datenmengen der Gemeinden, vor allem wenn es sich um Städte handelt mittlerweile meist zu groß).

Nach einem genaueren Blick auf das OSM File für Niederbayern habe ich die Idee aber wegen Ineffizienz wieder verworfen. Besser wäre es wohl, einen eigenen Datenbankserver aufzusetzen und dann das Gebiet mittels SQL rauszuziehen. Aber der Installations- und Administrationsaufwand schreckt mich im Moment noch ab....

I've added support for adding turn restrictions in the branch of vespucci I've been working on, nothing fancy and rather straight forward.

Select the "from" way

Select "Add restriction" from the drop down menu

Add the "via" and the "to" elements:

Then set the restriction type and you are finished:

For those of you in Colorado, or passing through, or just interested; our local community is fantastic! No doubt there was a bit of momentum loss when the Coast's moved to the PNW, and I was totally swamped last summer with our terrible fire season; but we managed to keep rumbling along. JimmyRocks moving here gave a nice boost and we had a great group show up for the Spring Editathon, quite a few new faces have begun to appear including folks from the NPS - can't wait to hear Mamata's talk at SOTM-US - I hope they're contemplating our idea of mapping parties at national parks - let us in free and we'll map ;) - and all the sudden it seems we've got all these great ideas for meetups beyond the norm; we're going to have a SOTM-Denver (basically a recap for those who can't make it to San Fran) and what I'm really excited about, a Map/Camp-ing party later in the summer/fall. Oh, and it was a small but awesome meetup last weekend; the first event with the Coast's back in town, welcome home Hurricane!

We'd love to see more faces, so don't hesitate to join or even if you just want to see what we're up to, visit: http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/

Cheers - hope to see/meet you at SOTM-US or a Colorado mapping event, =Russ

P.S. Any Utah folks want to help plan a (probably very future) Moab Map/Camp-ing party? I love that place and it's been too long since I visited.

Updated attribute data for Modesto City-County Airport, near Modesto, California. I used to fly in and out of there in the 1990s. Great municipal airport.

Changed attribute data from Pope Air Force Base to Pope Army Airfield on Ft Bragg, North Carolina. The change happened back in 2010 and is now documented on the FAA Airfield Diagram. Also added missing geometry for Pope Army Airfield. Added the locations for Sicily, Normandy, Salerno, and Holland Drop Zones and Sicily, Falcon, and Holland Landing Zones at Ft Bragg, North Carolina. I flew C-130s at Pope AFB from 1983-1989.

Added Sandhills Community College geometry and attributes and Moore County Airport, both near Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Das momentane Wetter:

+14°C, leichter Wind.

Großteils bewölkt, aber freundlich und trocken.

Die Erde ist durch den vielen Regen in den letzten Wochen sehr schwer und klebrig, der Kaiserstühler Lösboden fühlt sich lehmig an.

Yesterday the UK government published a consultation on options for a new Thames Crossing close to where I live. The web page is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/options-for-a-new-lower-thames-crossing

Of course, I made straight for the map of the possible routes - all very broad-brush at the moment. What surprised me most was that, despite owning its own mapping agency the Ordnance Survey, the government has used an OSM Mapnik rendering for its base map! Maybe this is a regular occurrence, but it's a first for me.

Jetzt hab ich begonnen meine OSM-Karriere zu intensivieren. ;)

Nun ist der Tag 3 zuende. St.Marien ist mal soweit ansehnlich. Als nächstes hab ich mir Steyr vorgenommen. Ortskenntnis ist soweit vorhanden. Es muss endlich Schluss sein, dass mich Skobbler in der Einbahnstraße gegen die Fahrtrichtung zurück lotst.

Térképezés a Gerecse déli részén, gyalog vagy kerékpárral; beszélgetés az OSM és a Cartographia közötti együttműködésről; beszélgetés az OSMről.

2013 jún. 8-9.

https://www.facebook.com/events/464284876993603/

Carte de Soissons et de ses environs, par Cassini.

su www,deberardis.it Benvenuti nel sito dello studio tecnico dell'Ing. Bruno De Berardis, studio tecnico d'ingegneria civile che opera nel campo dell´edilizia della prevenzione incendi ed nei campi della progettazione e direzione dei lavori di opere pubbliche e private. Si occupa, inoltre, di progettazione e direzione dei lavori di opere complesse, quale edifici commerciali, ospedali, rsa, alberghi ecc. Lo studio è in grado di redigere piani di sicurezza per imprese (pos) e piani di coordinamento, nonchè di piani di emergenza e gestione della sicurezza nei luoghi di lavoro così come previsto nel DM. 10/03/1998.

ULTIMA NOVITA' Sicurezza sul Lavoro.

Adding hotels along my route in Nevada/Calif. trip