OpenStreetMap
Weekend before last I spent several hours roaming Abadan and Gypjak, far western suburbs of Ashgabat, collecting street names, points of interest, and adding streets that didn’t appear on the map (unplugging the SD card from the Garmin navigator forces it to collect tracks where you actually are, rather than trying to align them to the nearest street). Those towns, while not yet complete, are in much better shape in OSM now.
The research continued on names of monuments in traffic circles within the Ashgabat city limits. I count 22 monuments inside traffic circles and believe we now have names for all of them. If you are curious, enter “binasy, Ashgabat” or “monument, Ashgabat” in the OSM search box (without the quotation marks) and see what pops up.
Construction in Ashgabat is winding down as the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games approach. They start September 17 and the city is preparing.
Discussion
Comment from Warin61 on 16 August 2017 at 00:06
On my Garmin GPS 60Cx there is a setting - ‘lock on road’ .. if you turn that off the GPX track will record where it thinks it is - rather than follow any map that is loaded to the GPS. There are also setting for the rate at which it collects points - I usually leave this on ‘automatic’ + ‘most detailed’. However when I want the most detail I set it to collect points every 10 seconds.
Comment from apm-wa on 16 August 2017 at 02:15
Thanks for that–my Garmin GPS doesn’t seem to have that software switch, so my only work around is to pull out the SD card. Next time I replace the GPS I’ll look for that feature.