I finally moved to Leipzig into the Brunnenstraße 3 and will continue to work for OpenStreetMap in Leipzig. I already met someone from the local OpenStreetMap community.

Today I completed some missing parts of Jevenstedt. I estimate that about 90% of the named streets are now mapped. To make sure that I mapped all, I'm going to contact the public/official office (Amtsverwaltung) and ask them for a complete list of streets. Has anyone done this before, are there templates?

Moreover, I consider contacting our local trade association and ask them for a list of local companies.

Currently it's winter and a very bitter weather which makes cycling no fun. Actually I had planed to be finished with the streets in Jevenstedt by autumn, so I'm really behind the schedule.
Anyhow I have no motivation for this currently, because it would mean that I do everything by foot and that's no a pleasure, because one street takes at least ten minutes and it's becoming very unpleasant after one hour and galling if you stay out some hours longer. Maybe I'm a bit badly equipped with regard to clothing.
Additionally there currently a lot of tests and I work every often, so I have just a limited amount of time.
I hope I can start at full force in spring and get at least the streets into OpenStreetMap before I leave Jevenstedt in summer of next year. We will see.

Some days ago I wrote this little script to automatically fetch the latest version of JOSM if available:

#!/bin/sh

lastmod="`curl -q -I http://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/josm-latest.jar 2>&1 | grep Last-Modified`"

if [ ! -f ~/.josm-latest ]; then
touch ~/.josm-latest
fi

if [ "$lastmod" != "`cat ~/.josm-latest`" ]; then
wget -q -O ~/bin/josm-latest.jar http://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/josm-latest.jar
echo "$lastmod" > ~/.josm-latest
fi

java -jar ~/bin/josm-latest.jar

I didn't make a sign for a while, but I'm still alive ;). In the last days of the holidays I traced and edited the main portion of Jevenstedt, but currently I'm a bit busy, so I don't expect any major improvements during this or next week. But will continue by no later than the beginning of the autumn holidays and I hope I can finish Jevenstedt at that time (maybe some details such as roads signs will be missing). So stay tuned ;).

Today I did a long trip to Schülp by bike, recorded a lot of data and made photos of street signs. Unfortunately all data seems to be lost somehow - mtkbabel can't read any data and the Windows programme (Datalog) that is distributed with the device is buggy and spits out error messages. So don't buy an iBlue 747, it seems to be bad quality (especially the Windows programme).

After installing JOSM and Java, I experienced that JOSM is terribly slow and nearly unusable. I'm running it with jamvm currently, because all other Java virtual machines (including Sun's jre, OpenJDK and gcj) didn't work and just showed a white window. Java really sucks and is just bloated non-sense in my opinion.
Anyhow I'm using Merkaartor now which performs quite good on my computer.

Because of the bad weather I took along my GPS logger on a little trip from Jevenstedt to Rendsburg by car. I uploaded the trace, but it doesn't seem to be very usable.

While I was on Holiday in Sweden my GPS logger arrived, therefore I will start recording my first data today.

Today I finally registered on OpenStreeMap and I'm planning to extend the maps in surrounding area. For this reason I ordered a Transystem i-Blue 747, which I will use together with my bike and a digital camera for traces.
I'll post a follow-up when the device arrives.