Hi Zartbitter,
Yes, I forgot about that. It is free to register and is a very very informative and friendly GPS forum to join. Lots of info relating to all forms of equipment. Worth the effort to join. The are many members from Europe and other countries on the forum.
RRover

I have an OSM sticker on my car. I designed it myself and took the design to the local vinyl sticker shop and they did a couple for me

Link to a photo of my stickers on my car

http://www.gpsaustralia.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2410&page=4&pp=15

and scroll down to post #58

RRover

Hi Dion,
You guys have been bitten by the bug. It becomes an addiction probably worse than pot. I have been doing schools, fire stations, public phones and post boxes. As I do this I see other things that need adding.My next exercise is petrol stations both new and existing. Its a sorry state when Petrol Companies don't know where their stations are.
Good luck
RRover

Welcome to the Project. We were all like you at one time. Lookout!!! it can be addictive.

Hi, good to see that you have extended the river banks at Evans Head. I was going to Evans Head for the weekend in a couple of weeks and had intended to do more of the river banks but now I will have more time for fishing. Will do a few more roads in the area by GPS.

If you do your tracking in the "raw" you get plenty of attention. Try putting clothes on before you are off tracking. The worst I have come across was an elderly women in a car with a couple of kids. They, by co-incidence , were travelling the same roads as I was tracking and she thought I was stalking her. She ended up threatening me with her mobile phone. I think she was about to ring the police. I shrugged at her and went in the opposite direction. She turned up again 3 streets later. I went home.

Hi BlueMM,

Thanks for the info. I have aerial photos of the area that I took whilst on a helicopter joy flight. I will scale them to get the correct perspective and do a trace off them to get the inlets. This way I can remove the original trace and remove any suspicion of tainted work. It certainly a minefield for the un-initiated.
But is an addictive pastime in a healthy way, gets you out of doors and the mind and legs into gear.
regards

Hi BlueMM,
Have a look at Oziexplorer here. http://www.oziexplorer.com/ It is a software package and I use Shonky's free maps which are available thru the http://www.gpsaustralia.net/forums/ . Using this setup on my laptop I can connect my Explorist 500 and have a moving map display in my vehicle and can record my tracks onto the laptop. Shonkys free maps are based on the free GA maps
Doing it this way doesn't taint the OSM project.
regards

Hi BlueMM,
Well Done, keep up the good work.
I am doing the same in the Coffs Harbour region but don't have any decent Yahoo Imagery to work with.
I was under the impression that using a resource such as Yahoo was sailing a bit close to the wind as far as copywrite is concerned. I have been using my GPS as the primary tool. If it doesn't come off the GPS it doesn't go onto OSM. The only time I have gone outside that was to trace a couple of inlets from Oziexplorer to show shorelines.

I was warned it is addictive and now I am suffering from the addiction. I do fire permits for the Rural Fire Service and use this to get some of the really out of the way places logged such as private access roads.
regards