I didn't care before if mappers used part of a road as part of a landuse or combined it with something else. During the process of remapping non complient ways, I got a opinion now. DONT use a way for more then one map feature. Trying to untangle river banks from residential landuse which is also part of something else what a freaking mess.

I'm hoping the April 1 deletion date, gets pushed back. There are way too many red nodes to be replaced. But alas I don't think thats going to happen.

Spent the afternoon hiking / mapping the trails inside Komoka Provincal Park. Took me about 4 hours to map / explore 15 km of trails. I know I missed at least 2 trails. Going to have to go back in to double check the trail blazes. Found a supposed map of the trails on a geocities site, all it did was confuse me when I was trying to explore the trails.

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/5567/MAP.GIF

Since Sam & group is busy importing the Canvev and GeoBase data, I'm going to hit the trails and bike paths. I doubt that's in CanVec

Spend the day out geocaching and logging the trails. I forgot to turn off the track log a few time when bush wacking to the cache. I'll have to leave the task of logging the remaining side trails to someone else, unless I get out to the Ingersoll area again. It's amazing some of the scenic areas that you find while out geocaching.

I'm pleasantly surprised at the quality of London, Canada's map of the city trails. I went out for a walk to map some of the forest trails. There was a mixture of semi-gravel paths and paths that had been worn into the ground by people as a short cut from one "official path" to another. I'm thinking as I tread back and forth on "official paths" and the worn ones. that OSM will have the official city map beat. Well as you can surmise, when I got back home to check the "official trail map", the city does a pretty darn good job of their own. Those worn down trails where on the city web site. Looks like I've got my work cut out for me.

So, I added 2 roads to OSM, hit the validate button, on OMG,
1 Duplicated Node,
2 Untagged ways,
1 Node with same name,
10 Unamed ways,
and only 255 Crossing ways.

Some times I just feel like mister fix it.

Since it just too dang hot to be out mapping I decided to clean up some of the map data. Fixed at least a 100 warning in my area. I'd contact the original author but all the data is authored as anonymous. The validator plug in is just a useful tool.

I managed to flood my home town. If the little circle goes one way life is good if not, well we better give Noah a call. I just didn't catch my mistake before the rendering engine did. I guess I'll have to wait another week to see my updates. I was positive I hit that validate button before I hit the upload button, but a whole lot of water proves otherwise. I must have been inspire by all the flooding in the news lately.

When someone asks me what I did yesterday, well I just have to tell them. I spent the day making a map. I didn't think I would spend the entire day tracing GPS tracks but I did. From the first up load at noon, till the last at 9:30, It was even a nice -4 sunny day too. 32 trace files uploaded. 22,612 data points which means I just added about 226 km of new roads to OSM.

I'm even getting the hang of JOSM. I found my self fixing mistakes in the current map set. Not bad for someone who 2 weeks ago wasn't able to draw 2 sticks on the screen.

Well it's another warm -4 sunny day, time to get out and enjoy the sunshine.

TTFN

Andrew

Don't get/use a Magellan eXplorist 500 to collect data. At the most detailed setting 0.01 km, I'm limited to 20km of data points. Well lets say having to stop every 20km or so wasn't a bad thing. luckily I was mapping a secondary road that had a town every 10 km or so. So I would save the trace when I got to every new town. The bad part when opening the folder to save the new trace my GPS would get exponentially slower. By the time I had collected 20 trace files it was now taking about 5 minutes to open the folder. At the end of the day it was drive for 15 minutes stop for 5, drive for 15 stop for 5 etc.

It works great for mapping the neighbourhood.

I emailed Magellan support about this issue.

In the mean time I decided to check my google spam mail and guess what I found. Yup the reply from Magellan, go figure? There response was try a 1 gig memory card.

I'm off on another mapping mission in a few days, so we will see what happens. I'm bringing my laptop along this time as a backup data logger for this GPS.

I've got my work cut out for me. There are gaps of hundreds of kilometers that
need to be mapped. I don't even want to count the number of cities that are missing. Thankfully my job requires me to work in various places, so hopefully I will be able to connect some of the missing areas.

Stay tuned, I think part of Southwestern Ontario, Canada is going to look a little more populated.