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Posted by drlizau on 18 November 2007 in English.

Yesterday I took a few deviations home from work - Saturday is a half day - to fill in some tracks.
Today I set out to do some unsealed roads near home, riding about 14km on some bad surfaces. At that speed, setting the GPS to record a point every 30 secs has given me some very usable traces.
At the same time, my husband has ridden around in town and recorded another track.
Tomorrow I go to work, but I will leave my GPS with a friend who has to drive about 300km Monday and maybe 400km on Tuesday so we can get some main roads recorded.

Hy

Posted by phalox on 17 November 2007 in English.

Hello,

I was very interested in this project, so I found out a way to log my routes on a PDA (with a Bluetooth GPS unit).
But when adding it to this map, I noticed that my points aren't acurate enough (the GPS unit is an older one). This is the reason why I'm stopped now... If I ever get a new unit (SIRIFIII or better) I'll try to get back here!

Posted by Thommse on 13 November 2007 in English.

Dienstag-Abend, 13. Nov. 2007:

So langsam steige ich hinter die kleinen Geheimnisse von JOSM 417.
Nachdem ich mehrfach verzweifelt versucht habe, im Bereich "Getting started" über "Download some data from OSM server" bestehende Daten als Hintergrund für meine GPX-Files zu bekommen, weiss ich nun, dass ich erst einmal einen GPX-File laden muss, und danach(!) mit dieser Funktion bereits bestehende OSM-Daten hinzuladen kann.

A weekend away in west wales gave an opportunity to try out OSMTracker as a passenger rather than just as a driver. When it has the tiles it needs already downloaded, or where there is a good mobile phone signal it works well, but I have problems with its mapping function in new areas where mobile phone coverage is poor. Some strange things happen if it decides it needs to download a tile when there is no mobile connection. I'd really like to be able to tell it not to do any mapping anmd not to try to get data from the Internet. I really should put a note on its Wiki entry.

I took the opportunity on the way back to map the A163 between Bubwith and Holme upon Spalding Moor.

Still looking at the GPS traces from the drives back and forth between East Yorkshire and Pembrokeshire.

Posted by TomH on 13 November 2007 in English.

Made two(!) more trips to Hertford this weekend.

The first one was on Saturday when I did 25 miles approaching Hertford via Mangrove Lane and mapping pretty much everything south of the A414 before returning via the B1502 (during which descent I hit 30mph for the first time ;-)).

Having Monday off I took the train over to Hertford and did another 15 miles mapping the residential areas between the A414 and the A119 to the east of the town centre.

Location: Hertford, East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Posted by davidearl on 13 November 2007 in English.

Filled the last remaining gap west of Cambridge and east of the A1198 with the parishes of Caldecote, Bourn, and Caxton, and also the little village of Longstowe on the way. A really bright, clear winter's day. Saw a kingfisher on the bridge in Caxton, just after recording Kingfisher Way.

Location: Driftwood Farm, Bourn, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, England, CB23 2TB, United Kingdom