Have been doing some mapping in New Zealand following a visit there in August. Notice that Thomas Matern is also doing some mapping there. If he reads this could he please contact me (via my user page - search for steve8) so we can collaborate.

http://www.anarchitect.org/log/2007/10/17/mapping-calgary/

I registered to have a look at the edit page, as I couldn't see the Bus Station on the map - whereas the bus stop by the station has a bus symbol. The drummer street one has no symbol.

But it looks like it is something in the renderer.

I've never used the edit interface before and found it quite confusing. I think I maybe have moved stuff for real when I didn't mean to do anything. I'd assumed there'd be a save (to not press) or an undo button, but can't see one.

How do i see what I've done and undo it?

I've recorded tracks on my journey to and from work this week (logging the data using OziExplorer CE running on an IPAQ hx2490 with a Bluetooth connection to a BT-77 GPS receiver).

Last night I converted this from OziExplorer track format to GPX using GPSBabel, uploaded it into OSM and tried out JOSM.

I couldn't get josm_latest (downloaded that night, 16th October) to retrive any data from OSM (it gave an HTTP 403 error). I also had a josm_latest that I'd downloaded on 13th October and that worked.

Puzzled when I looked at what JOSM was displaying to see that there was a lot of mapping in my home town that I wasn't seeing on the slippy map. So, anyway, I added a short stretch of track that wasn't in the existing data and tagged it highway=residential.

This morning, it's on the map! Wonderful!

I've a suspicion that the other data I was seeing in JOSM isn't on the map because it hasn't got any useful highway= tagging.

Next step is to try adding tags to some of the existing data that doesn't display on the map to see if that makes it display.

Over the past few days I had to travel to somewhere I rarely go, so I took a bit of time to do some mapping there at the same time. I got back to my computer to find that actually most of that had already been mapped by somebody else. It's a great feeling when you see that happen as it just helps emphasis how the project is really accelerating in its coverage.

Luckily there were other bits I'd noted down that I could add to that area, so all was not wasted, plus it gives you a chance to verify that existing work. Now if only we had a way of giving thumbs up to data that had been verified by another user...

I'd not done any real driving for a while, just a few tracks here and there on errands, but a missed connection visiting a sister tonight sent me off mapping some on/off ramps, and part of a new area. Still massive parts of Breiðholt to be covered, and I'm really not planning on ever doing it myself, but perhaps from time to time :) Southern Selás tonight, the northern part will get filled in next time I go to Árbærslaug I guess. And finally, I drove Naustin, downtown, though the gps reception there is pretty craptastic. That let me add a few more pubs to, though I've not seen any of them get rendered yet :)

Habe heute ein paar Tracks aus vergangenen Urlauben in den französischen Alpen und im Trentino hochgeladen, ein paar Korrekturen in anderer Leute Arbeit vorgenommen (Straßen mit mehr Stützstellen versehen, um bessere Kurvenanpassungen zu erhalten), sowie die Landstraße von Herdwangen nach Aach-Linz gezeichnet.

Demnächst will ich mein eigenes Dörfchen (gehört mir aber nicht) mit dem Rad abfahren und somit vermessen.

Habe mal zwei Strasse eingepflegt. Den ideal Editor hab ich allerdings noch nicht.

So, I got my Neo1973 and boy is it beautiful! It still doesn't work properly as a phone, but I can wait for that to come.

I've got the GPS to work, and I'm already mapping some of Odense. It is really fulfilling to see your work appear on the OSM page :)

Fortunately there's now a second person in Odense mapping the city. The city is growing on the map. Yey :)

Esben

Very recently come across Openstreetmap.

Just looking around at the moment ...

Just started with Openstreetmap, and have entered my first trace. This is from a wind turbine I visited in Texas last month. From now on, I'm going to download my GPS data all the time - and hope to have more of these posts included!

Since I entered my little bit of Abruzzo Niccolo Rigacci added in all the towns in Italy. I went to have a look at the effect on Abruzzo... and discovered someone else has started mapping there! Brilliant, wish I knew who it is (all Potlach and anonymous). My guess is it must be a Pescarese...

More streets around Weston. I've checked with the GPS and the satellite is good, so I use that for the streets. Eventually I will download to my Garmin and double-check.

It looks like the current version of JOSM is modeless. It is a step in the right direction (more user friendly) because most text editors (like the one I'm typing right now) are modeless.

The problem is that unwilling users are be bullied into using something that "should still be considered an alpha release".

The good news about API0.5 is that it simplifies things by getting rid of segments. The bad news about it is that referential integrity w.r.t. relationships may cause endless frustrations for newbies who may not know how to delete ways created in error. And some of the ways have become part of the 'multipolygon' relationship during the conversion to API0.5, so this is already a real problem.

After mapping Ware from the southern edge as far as the A119 last weekend this weekend I went back and after cycling 26 miles completed most of the western part of Ware - everything to the west of the A1170 bar a small piece at the extreme north end of the town.

As a side effect NCN61 should be marked all the way from where it leaves NCN1 somewhere (it's not entirely clear exactly where) near Hoddesdon north as far as where it goes under the A10 between Ware and Hertford.

Hi,
Last weekend i cycled more than 60 km through South-Holland. Due to reconstruction works on the Kaagbrug by Rijkswaterstaat i had to cycle a few extra kilometers but that was not a real problem, because i had beautiful weather overhere. Besides, my wife and me are very busy tracking all the smaller ways in our home-village. Once we are ready with that, we will proceed with the cyclingways in the neighborhood. It is realy fun doing this together. The tracking always takes a few hours, but i am busy with the computer only for a few (ten or twenty) minutes. So the balance is very good....!!!

Made a few measurements around the Lez bridge and roundabout to check the existing traces and the GPS/photo accuracy

In Leicester this weekend. Finished the Leicester suburban villages of Scraptoft, Thurnby, and Bushby, and did some more of Evington. Found all sorts of twiddly bits in Thurnby that we didn't know existed. Annoyingly 2036,1341 seems to be stuck in queue, although 2035,1341 - with far more stuff on it - has updated fine.

Also did a footpath, that I remember from my childhood, over fields between Evington and Thurnby. I always wondered where exactly it went. Well, I know now. Quite a short walk, and my lift had arrived at the other end only barely before I arrived (having gone the long way round).

Tagged various random county boundaries as well - Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire/South Yorkshire variously. This is traced from the NPE. Have been careful around Sheffield, since this has changed since the 1950s there - probably needs someone to survey this on the ground if possible. There is a variance around Finningley, also. Eventual aim with these boundaries is to allow the namefinder to know about them, so "pubs in Rutland" will do what you expect (without needing is_in tags filled in).

With a few free hours, I headed over the Snake Pass to Sheffield this morning. Temporary traffic lights, Nissan Micras seemingly unable to take corners above 25mph and a slightly later set off than I was hoping for meant I arrived in Sheffield pretty late. Luckily, I just caught the other mappers on their way out of the Mappin Building (quite an apt name for the project!).

Up until now, I've either used other people's public GPS traces, or the Yahoo imagery to do my mapping. Today was the first with the GPS in hand. With a quick run-through of the GPS functions, it was onto the streets.

In the morning session, I think I'd covered almost 10 km on foot, but barely covered even a quarter of the land area inside the inner-ring road. Hopefully it should be reasonably complete - apart from a couple of roads where the street name-plate looks to have been stolen for the scrap metal value.

The afternoon session seemed to have been abandoned perhaps due to poorer than expected turnouts - and the possibility of an April re-meet in Sheffield.

Anyway, good to meet a couple of other OSMers. Maybe I'll be tempted to go to the Liverpool meet in mid-November.

...more of the NCN today: Swinbrook to Asthall Leigh on Regional Route 47 (Oxfordshire). A very pleasant two miles, though, not least because the Swan in Swinbrook has Westons Organic Vintage behind the bar.

And it still makes me laugh that though OSM has become a massive world-dominating project with users from at least eight continents ("and remember - there are only seven!" [1]), I can still upload my GPS track and find it's three places in front of someone else's track captured about six miles from Charlbury.

If the weather holds, I'll get another chunk of the NCN next Saturday.

[1] sorry, obscure Monty Python reference