Opportunistic road trip to Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Some GPS tracks uploaded

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Morwen,

I believe the maximum height that can appear on a low bridge sign is 16'6" - just over 5 metres. There is a bit of tolerance allowed - so in reality - I think it's 16'9" or about 5.1m before a bridge would go unsigned.

Mostly just looked for roads that weren't joined up today that should be. Finished connecting the Antrim Coast Road up to Ballycastle, added a variety of the roads up the Islandmagee Peninsuala, dualled the trunk road from Dundonald to Newtownards, finished the road from N'ards to Comber, and added a few of the back roads around that area. And a bunch of other smaller changes I've forgotten already.

IH&T run one of the better stories I've seen about satnavs directing HGVs down little village roads.

I recently added maxweight and maxheight to the things I note down when I see them. It might be nice to get these renderered. If we just added them to the default rendering, it'd be too cluttered. Maybe the solution is something like free-map.org.uk's approach to photographs, by overlaying little triangle roadsigns near each restriction, and two boxes wherein you can type the weight and height of your vehicle such that it shows only relevant restrictions.

(i wonder if there is a expected national maximum vehicle height - ie the limit of how tall bridges have to be before they're not signed as a lowbridge?)

the DfT have sent me a spreadsheet containing detailed data about the Primary Route Network (these are the roads which are green-signed and which we mark as highway=trunk in the UK). I've done spot checks on the spreadsheet and it seems to be an ideal level of detail for cross-checking to make sure we have the Network right. Interesting, many motorways are listed. I wonder if any small stretches of motorways aren't...

I haven't yet, though, used it to alter anything in OSM, as I'm not sure if this would be ok copyrightwise. I don't intend to copy it systemically out, but to use it discover errors and missing bits in our database. So I've written back asking for specific permission to do this.

I also asked if there was a centralised list of classified roads. Apparently there is not - this is handled by the Government Office Regions in England (and I guess by the Scottish and Welsh Governments). Maybe this explains the duplicate A594s!

The surroundings of the Ládví station are unbelievably undermapped. Started to fix that, adding the library and cinema. Then went to the Prosek library and mapped the few shops in the panel jungle.

Added the name of the street where my Gran used to live in Edinburgh.

Kauriala ajeltu ja piirrelty Parolantien pohjoispuolelta Härkätielle saakka. Joitakin pikkupätkiä puuttuu lähinnä Rinkelinmäen jäähallin tienoilta.

Avui s'actualitzaran al mapa general les modificacions que estat fent aquesta setmana a veure com quedera.

I realised that I made some small mistakes while tagging some small roads around the blocks of flats. I will try to remake that part

This part of the city is not completed. Not much to say

This weekend I took advantage of a trip to Rugeley in Staffordshire to map both the A513 to the east of Rugeley as far as King's Bromley (from where it was already mapped) and the new A51 Rugeley bypass which opened two months ago on 28th September.

Mapping of the Rugeley bypass is another first for OpenStreetMap as none of the major commercial mapping sites have it mapped yet.

Progress continues naming streets in the city centre. Also identifying
the occasional street which had been missed to date.

Now we really belong to the rest of the country. Major highways in the area are nearly complete and quite a few small towns too.
Cycle work today to get some more traces in another area of town.

Since last tiles@home update there are Problems with Unicode rendering.
See:
Beijing:
http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=39.75820846018085&lon=116.57961649164565&zoom=9&layers=B000F000

Or in Laos:
http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=14.804513021757694&lon=106.78805367103163&zoom=9&layers=B000F000

I also tried to load the coastline data for South East Asia with JOSM - but no success.

Today I moved back over to East Belfast and noticed that the area between Ladas Drive and Castlereagh Road was looking very empty. So I added Orangefield Crescent and the streets off it, as well as the Alexander/Alanbrook Road. This reminds me of a Second Form Geography field trip when we had go round this area mapping out the streets and listing the various factories etc located there.

Further down towards the city centre I also added Nettlefield Primary School which I'd somehow missed when drawing all those streets a while back.

Thanks Morwen, RichardB. I'm still seeing roads rendered without casings and on top of nearby primary roads, which isn't great. I guess the casings will be sorted once people update rendering clients.

I'm quite glad to have pretty much finished that section now (using main roads to split areas into manageable bits). I think I'll start heading West/South, where I don't have to cycle as far to find dragons.

Today I took care of the E40, E314 and the N25 in the neighbourhood of greater Leuven. I've been rectifying it with help of the Yahoo! imagery, adding an extra lane to the E40 going to Brussels, that is there for a few years already now.

Thanks to Potlatch and the courtesy of Yahoo! I've been able to do a lot of work. For entering the gpx's I use JOSM and I like it. When there is Yahoo! imagery I like to make a second pass with Potlatch to make it all fit.

The last few weeks I found a new way to map: by bus. The advantage is your hands are free and you're out of the cold and the rain. The disadvantage: often it goes too fast. Most of the street signs are too far away or in the wrong angle to be readable. Anyway, I'm exploring relations to put the bus routes on OSM as well.

Usually I take the bus till the end point and then I map a few streets there until a bus goes back. Hopefully I won't get stuck one day/night, when no buses happen to go back anymore...

Anyway, I'm glad I found this project. Now I only need to be careful not to waste too much time with it. It's pretty addictive.

Saturday, warmed up for a bout of Christmas shopping by mapping a gap in national cycle route 23 through the centre of Basingstoke -- and then adding (a first draft) of some of Basingstoke's pedestrianised shopping areas.