Although I never managed to get GPS tracks when I was living in Скопје, someone else has uploaded some tracks, and the Yahoo satellite imagery is much better now than it used to be. So I spent a couple of hours tracing out a lot of the main roads, and the streets around where I lived. If I can find the map I made for my own use whilst I was there (and some of the photos I took of the street name signs) I'll fill in names tomorrow.

mapped first streets in Hornau using Yahoo Aereal Photos.

Endlich wieder Wochenende. Weil ich heute irgendwie keine Lust mehr hatte, bis weit in die Dunkelheit zu arbeiten, um 15:00 Uhr Schluß gemacht und zu Fuß den Tankumsee umrundet, damit dieser auch endlich mal korrekt geformt ist. Danach in Isenbüttel mit dem Auto ein paar kleine Straßen gemacht und schließlich in Wasbüttel einen kleinen Umweg eingelegt.

Tuli sitten suhattua osa Voutilan teistä ja jälleen kerran rikottua muutamaa lisäkilvellistä ajoneuvolla ajo kielletty -merkkiä. Olen oikein yllättynyt, kuinka pirusti niitä Hämeenlinnan asuma-alueilta löytyykään.

Lisäksi tuli "pyöristettyä" tie nro 53 eli Lammi-Padasjoki. Joissain kohdissa tie oli aivan liian kulmikas. Liekö polkua otettu 500m välein, tms?

Huomasin sellaisen asian POI:ta lisätessäni, että seuraavat tagit ei oikein toimi

amenity=cafe symboli tulee, muttei kahvilan nimeä
ameniry=fast_food ei symbolia, eikä nimeä
amenity=museum (ei symbolia, eikä nimeä

Jos piirtäisi seuraavaksi puuttuvat Hattelmalan kylän tiet ja osan Miemalaa.

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Well, it's been a couple of months and time has zipped by. Toronto is starting to fill out nicely, and not just downtown.

Got to go to the 2nd Toronto Mapping party - that was good, as I got to meet some fellow mappers. I didn't do any mapping until Sunday though, and it's still in a backlog I'm working through.

On the upside, I figured out one way streets (yay!), I'm feeling ever so slightly more confident in JOSM and Potlatch is now looking almost like the main map.
That, and I have a huge stack of sheets with maps drawn all over them. And now, a bunch of NMEA files that I have to convert to GPX and upload.

All in all, not a bad few months.

As a map fan, and pedant, it's natural for me to poke my nose into this project.
It's made me think about getting a GPS (though to be honest I have too many gadgets as it is) to add data for the places I go that aren't mapped.

In the mean time I've played about with the editor and added a couple of streets near my home. Can't wait to see them online!

I need to find out more about the schema for road names, places of interest etc. Also plotting an area is a tricky one, not managed that.

After my first two weeks or so of intensive mapping and editing my hometown (Helsinki, Finland), I have some observations.
1. Here's plenty of unconnected ways, mostly cycleways. Not that much but something to check when editing areas.
2. Oneway attributions are quite often missing (in Eira all of them).
3. Some streets have been mapped from aerial images, which have had distortions; for example, Aleksanterinkatu is a straight line but was not such on the map.
4. I have also corrected several cycleways/pedestrian roads which were tagged as residential; routing would be a disaster if these are not fixed as many of them even have bollards to stop motorized vehicles.
5. If trams are tagged on the same ways as the underlaying highway, the tracks don't get rendered in the Mapnik layer, unlike Osmarender.
6. Yet to find a maxspeed-tag anywhere on the map. It would be possible to deduct these from country specific rules, if it weren't for the fact that Helsinki has lowered most speed limits from the 50 km/h in urban regions to 40 and 30. I, too, haven't started tagging them if I don't have any other changes to make.

The first two notions are in my opinion the most important ones: incomplete data leads to inefficient routing, which I believe to be the first major use for this map data.

I just today tried to improve the Länsi-Pasila region - tracked the roads navigable by car and marked the others as service/pedestrian/cycleway, whichever seemed most appropriate. Last edits to those ways had been made with "potlatch alpha" and no tracks existed before so I guess they were quite old.

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Habe in den letzten Monaten damit begonnen GPS-Tracks des mittleren Emslandes aufzuzeichnen, insbesondere für Meppen. Nun ist es an der Zeit, die Tracks mit einem Editor (JOSM oder Merkaartor) zu bearbeiteten.
Gibt es jemanden in der Nähe mit dem man vielleicht Freude und Frust über Editiererfolge teilen kann. Erfahrungsaustausch wäre sehr wichtig.

MfG
meppen7

Just bought a new datalogger/GPS mouse. It's a nifty little thing which has 44 channels. It's very precise. I can use the IPAQ to connect to it over bluethooth, but it can also log on its own. 330000 points.

So from now on I'll have two independent gpx tracks to work with. If only I could find a way to set its clock. All the rest, I already achieved. BT access from the IPAQ and from the portable, translating the log output with GPSbabel and uploading it with josm.

no niin eka keikka autolla takana. ajelin reilun tunnin aamupäivällä edestakaisin MÄntsälän keskustaa. MIttariin taisi tulla noin 40km matkaa. no nyt sitten laittelin teitä paikalleen Mäntsälään, toivottavasti en ole tehnyt mitään kauhean väärin.

Appelweg Amersfoort

Last few days have been tracing along and adding from memory the streets of Tabubil and the roads in the surrounding areas (PNG). Currenly these do not exist online ANYWHERE else, looking forward to seeing it rendered.

I used Potlatch's new undelete feature yesterday to bring back a trunk road in London which was deleted a month ago (I'm presuming accidentally).

That was easy.

Richard, you are a god. :-)

On a brief (cold) spin on the bike last night, I noticed an NCN sticker which wasn't there last time I cycled along that road.

Turns out NCN 54 now runs from somewhere near Burton (Etwall probably, I haven't found the start of this bit yet) to Uttoxeter. The NCN signs are fairly intermittent from Sudbury, and Uttoxeter appears to be the end of route for now. But given that route 54 also runs from Etwall via Derby to Little Eaton, and Etwall via Burton to Lichfield, either it's planned as a Y-shaped fork or a P-like loop.

Fortunately I ended up at Uttoxeter just in time to get the train back. (Back as far as Tutbury & Hatton, anyway, which is fairly near to Burton, and avoids a tedious wait for a connection at Derby.)

Have been working on more of Crawley and bits of Horsham, did a bit of tracing for the river mole. Fixed a big mess in Horley yesterday where a road had got totally screwed up. Interestingly the history of the nodes told me nothing!

Fahrt nach Bad Bergzabern dokumentiert
Einige Landes und Kreisstrassen im Bereich zwischen NW und LD dokumentiert

Good news on the green list, I've already used it to get the A811 fixed.

Got a t@h account today (thanks ojw). Started crunching the maps on my laptop and also on the quad core workstation at work. 249th place, yay :)
Tried to put together a One Click Install package of the client software for openSUSE. More about that once I get pavel to test it.

Yesterday and today ive tracked and edited the roads from Turnišče to Maribor, via Murska Sobota highway, vilagges Bučečovci, Cerkvenjak, city Lenart...
I corected some roads. Today i tracked and edited most on streets of Turnišče, its about 60% covered with streets and mnames of streets.
Edited some streets in Murska Sobota with names...

2dni sem intenzivno delal na pokrivanju cest od Turnišča do Maribora, dodal sem tudi cca.60 % ulic V Turnišču, dodal sem imena ulic, nekaj znamenitosti, ter cca.5km poljskih poti.