Tuli sitten eilen ajeltua Hirsimäen asuinalue kokonaisuudessaan läpi, samoin Ahveniston asevelikylän tiet Marssitien ja Louhentien väliltä.

Paljon siellä suunnalla on vielä tekemättä, mutta ehkä joku päivä sitten kevväämmmällä :)

Ingleby Barwick and Preston Farm Business Park, Stockton-on-Tees, UK

Took a couple of different roads around town on the way to work and back to track some of the main roads that go around Ingleby. Its very satisfying to see the basic shape of the town building up.

I linked Ingleby up with the A66 the other day and today added in the main way through Preston Farm Business Park to link up with other existing roads at the other end.

This morning I finished Netherhall, and did a bit of Hamilton next to it. Then, this afternoon, the eastern part of Thurnby Lodge, east of Bowhill Grove/Willowbrook Park. Getting a bit better at hills now.

Tomorrow's plan is to do more of Hamilton. Hamilton is a new suburb north-east of Leicester, at which house-building has been going on for over ten years, and still being actively built. It still has pretty poor coverage in the TeleAtlas dataset which most online mapping is using. Shouldn't take long to better it.

A lot of mapping on this weekend... Also, I managed to create the first version of the renderer for Java... This prototype will be used to provide the interface for the cell phones... Really great weekend...

HCC Werkgroep Syllable

HCC Werkgroep Syllable

Added some cycle paths and a couple of roads that I tracked while out on my Sunday afternoon walk.

This week, I scanned wikipedia for Pretoria and Johannesburg related articles and added links to OSM where appropriate (i.e. when our map is better than the google map link provided).

The larger goal is to drive traffic to OSM (i.e. improve the Page Rank). Not only will we get more users this way, but they will be more eager to contribute, because their work will be more appreciated. There are still many avenues left to pursue :
* Get wikitravel to provide an OSM option to their mapstraction embedding.
* Export our data to html so that the search engines will index it. Brabys already does this, e.g. http://www.brabysmaps.co.za/brabys/map_search.asp?Area=&search=glen

Again mapped a part of the city while going Christmas shopping. Riding on a bus one can map quite a lot, taking notes in an atlas of 1:10000. Boldly drew lines across white plains! Almost saw lions running away. Passed the longest house in Prague along the way.

Last friday I talked to a friend about OpenStreetMap and showed him what is going on. His hometown is pretty much non-existant at the moment and he instantly favoured the idea to join and map out his home.

took the bike out for a bit of a spin today, did some of netherhall. quite light traffic so good for reacquainting myself with riding. some non-nice gradients, though.

Das Wetter genutzt, um um 8:30 von Jelpke nach Gifhorn mit dem Rad zum Gottesdienst zu fahren. Dabei sind ein paar kleine Straßen und Feldwege abgefallen. Insbesondere auf der Rückfahrt den Eyßelheideweg fast komplett gemacht, die Gifhorner Schweiz geschnitten und ein wenig am Elbe-Seiten-Kanal und Mittellandkanal entlang - ist das ein Serviceway am Rand des Kanals?

Found OpenStreetMap on the tinterweb a couple of weeks ago.
I have had a handhelp GPS since January 2002, the Garmin eTrax Legend and have random tracks and waypoints stored on it from wherever I have been since.
I had never until now downloaded any of the data from the device. I could not find the data cable I got with it bought a new one. Found one with USB to Serial all in one cable.
I looked around for some software and I am now using GPSbabel to get data of my GPS. I downloaded all my old tracks so I could clear the device.
With the device clean I have recorded two tracks and upload to the website.
I have used the editor on the website to start drawing over my tracks.
I live in Ingleby Barwick in Stockton-on-Tees in the UK and the only thing on the map for Ingleby Barwick in the place name so I am setting about mapping it.

sharon

Paul Fortuyn en Rogier Leengoed

Faced with the necessity of buying a few presents in an ugly part of Prague filled with concrete, asphalt, and shopping hangars, I decided to lighten the experience by wrapping it inside a mapping trip. Thus, it took 7.5 hours whereas a direct trip would take 2.5. A clear win :-)

Walked through the fields that still survive between the expanding suburbs and discovered abandoned orchards, as well as well hidden huts of the homeless. Observed that some suburbs manage quite well without one-way streets while others happily stick four road signs within three meters. Wasteful. Nearly got lost among dead Czech actors.

Came home tired, with a running nose, spent next 3 hours clicking up the results.

I've done about as much as I can do of Скопје for now, beyond just more tracing of the imagery. All the Bulevards are filled in around the central area, and most of the other roads and streets are marked on the journey between where I lived and the centre. I was able to get some of the road names that I wasn't sure of by searching for landmarks along them that I remember (embassies, major shops, etc). I've entered most names as English transliterations (I wanted to use name:en and name:mk for some of them but couldn't work out the magic incantations required in Potlatch to do that). Most of the streets signs are only in Cyrillic, and transliterations aren't always the same everywhere, so if there's a more "official" English version of anything, someone can change them later. There are quite a few of streets named after important dates in the country's history: 9 May, 20 October etc. These I translated directly, rather than just transliterating ("9 Maj" "20 Oktomvri").

Following a comment by Alex Willmer (moreati) on the Radio 4 PM blog, I went into Radio Oxford's studios at lunchtime today to record a few quotes for their Saturday "iPM" programme about maps in general, and OSM and npemap in particular.

Unfortunately, come the finished programme, they didn't use them - choosing instead to go with an interview with Tom Steinberg, who'd said approximately the same things as me but without the OSM/NPE references! Which is a bit exasperating.

According to the iPM blog, however, they were "short on time" and will include the quotes in the podcast version. I'm a bit of a podcastophobe (why listen when you can read something in a quarter of the time?), but would be interested to hear if anyone does download it.

Wie auf Bestellung schönstes Wetter, aber auch kalt. Die paar Stunden zwischen Aufstehen und Sonnenuntergang auf dem Rad verbracht und den neuen GPS-Halter eingeweiht. Groß Brunsrode und der Ostteil von Essenrode sowie Feldwege dazwischen sind mit unter die Räder gekommen.

Between the Dr.-Enk-Straße and Hermann-Hiller-Straße should be a small way (footpath?) under the name of Spendlingerweg. It is shown on all maps I could find, but in the real world there is only a meadow, with a fence. Therefore I think that it could be an easteregg. Or it is hopelessly outdated information.