OpenStreetMap

Been busy lately

Posted by Polyglot on 2 December 2007 in English.

Today I took care of the E40, E314 and the N25 in the neighbourhood of greater Leuven. I've been rectifying it with help of the Yahoo! imagery, adding an extra lane to the E40 going to Brussels, that is there for a few years already now.

Thanks to Potlatch and the courtesy of Yahoo! I've been able to do a lot of work. For entering the gpx's I use JOSM and I like it. When there is Yahoo! imagery I like to make a second pass with Potlatch to make it all fit.

The last few weeks I found a new way to map: by bus. The advantage is your hands are free and you're out of the cold and the rain. The disadvantage: often it goes too fast. Most of the street signs are too far away or in the wrong angle to be readable. Anyway, I'm exploring relations to put the bus routes on OSM as well.

Usually I take the bus till the end point and then I map a few streets there until a bus goes back. Hopefully I won't get stuck one day/night, when no buses happen to go back anymore...

Anyway, I'm glad I found this project. Now I only need to be careful not to waste too much time with it. It's pretty addictive.

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