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neu neu neu :-)
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 ;)
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Why I use my GPS for other things than navigating..
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Unknown city- Ghana
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
Coordinates:Posted by zenfunk at Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:22:28 +0000 in English (English)
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Sinj-Vukoviči,Lošo
Dodana nova log datoteka i uctano:
- ulica u Karajkovi lokvi-Lošo,
-spojni zemljani put u Vukovičima.
Log datoteka prikupljena sa i-gotU i biciklom.
Coordinates:Posted by jhabijan at Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:03:46 +0000 in Croatian (Hrvatski)
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Openstreetmap in the news, 20.11.09 nytimes, guardian,
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.
Posted by h4ck3rm1k3 at Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:18:56 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 0 comments
Исправляем ошибки на Березняках
Закончил редактированием Березняков.
Coordinates:Posted by DrMasik at Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:41:16 +0000 in Russian (Русский)
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Started editing on Palawan, could need a mentor
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!
Posted by flip666 at Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:46:49 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 1 comment
My first international edits
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.
Coordinates:Posted by slashme at Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:35:45 +0000 in English (English)
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Tiger 2009 areas
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.
Coordinates:Posted by nmixter at Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:11:45 +0000 in English (English)
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Fehlende McDonalds in Deutschland 2
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.
Posted by wieland at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:40:19 +0000 in German (Deutsch)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 1 comment
Tagwatch mission complete (for now)
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
Posted by Strange but untrue at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:32:58 +0000 in English (English)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 2 comments
masts risen from obscurity
man_made:masts now seem to be rendered in Mapnik; anything else newish?
Coordinates:Posted by wilpin at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:45:23 +0000 in English (English)
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Potlatch support for NearMap & more
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:
Posted by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:47:48 +0000 in English (English)
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recién registrada
Jueves, día 19 de noviembre de 2009;
¡ A trazar mi ciudad !
Posted by lunallena at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:38:36 +0000 in Spanish (Español)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 1 comment
Anfang
Hiermit fang ich mal an. :-)
Posted by quack at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:25:19 +0000 in German (Deutsch)Comment on this entry | Reply to this entry | 1 comment
Biciklističke staze "Sinj"
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.
Posted by jhabijan at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:00:00 +0000 in Croatian (Hrvatski)
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Nearmap, meet Potlatch, meet OSM data, meet Nearmap
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!
With any luck the quality of edits will snowball in the areas Nearmap have covered.
Coordinates:Posted by morb_au at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:46:13 +0000 in English (English)
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Ma première rivière : la Maine
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 ;-)
Coordinates:Posted by Stéphane Péchard at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:55:49 +0000 in French (Français)
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new GPS, will map!
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).
Posted by Craig Feuerherdt at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:12:33 +0000 in English (English)
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София, Люлин, Западен Парк
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...
Coordinates:Posted by Anton Todorov at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:45:36 +0000 in Bulgarian (Български)
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