OpenStreetMap
Hi everybody,
I find the idea of OpenStreet very amazing and as I´m currently in Korea I checked the database.
Most of you discuss about closing "white areas" in case of some bicycle or hiking tracks but it seems Korea is a white spot in total.
At the moment I´m trying to collect as many tracks as possible but I´m supposed to work here and my family wants to have Daddy as well. So I´m wondering whether collecting tracks and upload will help at all.
Mapping is somehow difficult and time consuming as most of the roads are not clearly signed and if they are Hanguk letters are used!
So my question is: Is there anybody out there? I mean in South-Korea?
Best regards Dieter
Discussion
Comment from TAK-1963 on 1 July 2008 at 15:51
Hi Dieter,
yes, it will be helpful. Thereare many people looking and signing up, but do not have (yet) a gps tracker. I am living in Vietnam, here is also all white (have here a total of 4 loggers found for the whole country)and I am not travelling at all, I whish, I had more tracks.
Regards
TAk-1963
Comment from flo on 1 July 2008 at 16:23
tracks are always useful. If you don't have the time to gather tracks and are comfortable lending your GPS, you might want to give it to people that are on the road (driving schools, trucks, taxis, ...).
Comment from oyvind on 1 July 2008 at 19:55
If you set your location on your user page you can see other users nearby. Then you can send them messages and see if they are interested in helping out.
Also, on http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/web/web-osm-world-day-latest-v0-openlayers.html?zoom=7&lat=36.75649&lon=128.6499&layers=B0T you can see latest changes in your area, for the last day.
If you zoom to highest zoom-level on the osmarender layer you can see the username of the last editor of a road.
Comment from smsm1 on 2 July 2008 at 11:09
When you upload your tracks, for them to be useful to others, you need to make sure that they are set to be public. If you also tag the location, it is also helpful.