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New roads inside the University of the Philippines
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. :-)
Coordinates:Posted by seav at Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:21:18 +0000 in English (English)
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Cotswold AONB
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.
Posted by Alex McKee at Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:45:37 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
Travel plan to SotM2009 in Amsterdam
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?
Posted by Hiroshi Miura at Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:21:58 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
Карты под Гис Руссу
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.
Posted by Zkir at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:14:36 +0000 in Russian (русский язык)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
Straßendaten vom Kreis Siegen-Wittgentein
http://geos.kdvz.de/spcg/index.php?app=gdisw
Posted by Hansdorfff at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:14:01 +0000 in German (Deutsch)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
Edits of July 3--could use some guidance
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.
Coordinates:Posted by EdHillsman at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:14:54 +0000 in English (English)
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relation only containing relations does not get rendered
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
Posted by katpatuka at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:29:09 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
Елки-палки!
После Великой Отечественной пленные немцы столько лесу не насажали, сколько я его нарисовал за сегодня. :D
Coordinates:Posted by Kotelnikov at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:09:14 +0000 in Russian (русский язык)
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Brisbane Openstreetmap Pizza Night
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.
Coordinates:Posted by Ash Kyd at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:03:20 +0000 in English (English)
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BR-116 entre Vacaria, RS e Papanduva, SC
Estive por lá e estou corrigindo este trecho da BR-116 (passando por Lages, SC), que mapeei com GPS.
Coordinates:Posted by fbello at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:15:06 +0000 in Portuguese (Português)
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Nomes de ruas em Brochier - RS
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
Posted by Rodrigo Avila at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:25:48 +0000 in Portuguese (Português)
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У меня будет своя карта, с блэк-джеком и шлюхами!
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. :)
Posted by Kotelnikov at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:06:08 +0000 in Russian (русский язык)
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Und Los gehts
Bin schon länger an OpenStreetMap interessiert, nun werde ich auch mal aktiv versuchen beizutragen
Neozoon
Posted by Neozoon at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:30:58 +0000 in German (Deutsch)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
South Lismore
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.
Coordinates:Posted by Biogenesis_ at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:57:28 +0000 in English (English)
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Still progress on turning restrictions?
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?
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Thuis
Eindelik rust met die zieke kleine Nina
Coordinates:Posted by Zarmac at Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:17:25 +0000 in Dutch (Nederlands)
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Mont-Laurier est maintenant sur la carte
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.
Coordinates:Posted by Yan Morin at Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:02:42 +0000 in French (Français; langue française)
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Firefox 3.5 Geolocation
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
If you click at "Follow geolocation" the map center follows you if you walk around with your computer.
Have fun
Bernhard
Posted by robotnic at Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:49:14 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 4 comments
Bow meet-up
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!
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.
Coordinates:Posted by Harry Wood at Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:42:22 +0000 in English (English)
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Mapeando as ruas do Bairro da Lapa (São Paulo)
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.
Posted by vgeorge at Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:36:06 +0000 in Portuguese (Português)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
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