Yesterday I did a fair chunk of Humberstone and today I did a little corner of Evington around the Waitrose that hadn't been done.

Most of today's mapping was tracing National Cycle Network route 63. We drove out eastwards to get it as far to the outskirts of Oakham, where we unfortunately lost it. Luckily, #osm was able to provide photographic evidence of its course within Oakham, courtesy of the Rutland Mapping Weekend. Later, I cycled along its course west along the former Leicester and Swannington Railway, and then as far as the Groby Road Roundabout.

On the way to Oakham, we also found where the 64 and the National Byway share part of route 63 for a while - between Goadby (where they come from the south) and Knossington (where they go off again to the west).

Yesterday my GPS logger did not write anything of my two hour tour onto the SD card for unknown reason. Could have been a software glitch or an improperly seated SD card. A short test afterwards was successful, so the device and the card are OK. So I started out again today...

Any name=fixme tags near Glasgow will be removed. I don't agree with adding incorrect data to make things to be done more obvious.

Jetzt habe ich auch gemerkt, daß man mit dem overlay "maplint annotation" in zweithöchstem Zoom sich auf informationfreeway sich anzeigen lassen kann, wenn der Parser irgendwo ein Problem sieht. In Gifhorn gibt es etliche Stellen, wo zwei Punkte auf dem gleichen Ort sind und die Straßen daher nicht verbunden. Das ist noch Arbeit, zumal das Abspeichern heute eher zögerlich reagiert.

I used to live just off what turns out to be the B170, in Belfast. So I've made sure it's mapped from start to end. It starts as the Belmont Road, from the bottom where it meets the Holywood Road, continues up past the roundabout, and up over the Craigantlet Hills, where it becomes the Ballymiscaw Road. Somewhere along that stretch it changes from being in Belfast City Council to Castlereagh: both have the road 'finishing' at that point, so from a purely administrative POV, the "direction" of the road changes at that point. I've reflected this by splitting the road at the closest point to where I can remember the council signs being. If this causes a problem in rendering, someone can always unify things.

(As an aside: we don't seem to have boundary information for the 26 councils in Northern Ireland yet. The plans to replace these with 7 "super councils" seem to have been mostly abandoned, and the current divisions are likely to be in place for at least another 3 years, so it might be worthwhile trying to source this information.)

The route then continues to the end, goes down a portion of Whinney Hill, and then the full length of the Craigantlet Road (which later becomes the Ballysallagh Road) until it meets the A2 Belfast-Bangor road.

Most of the Craigantlet/Ballysallagh Road was missing, so I filled it in, and also added a few of the connecting roads down from it into Newtownards.

...because someone might report you to the police:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/19/chicago-police-ask-y.html

I don't think new users should have to care for what things are named, especially not in English. So How do I translate Openstreetmap?

I'm slowly getting the major roads of South Eastern Victoria (Australia) added to the OSM network. The mapping is slowing down as the distances from home to unmapped area's (and fuel prices) get higher so I've started adding lakes and rivers from LanSat imagery over the last several weeks. I still have more minor roads in the area to add and will do these as time & opportunity arise.

Regards
Mike.

Tried to map these today. Accuracy of base mapping is lousy though.
I may have to go up with a GPS datalogger.

Simon.

I've heard of OpenStreetMap just one or two weeks ago. This is what I was looking for some years ago, but didn't find it back then.

Mainly I'm interested in writing Software which operates on GIS-Data, I haven't the time to do this right now.

But I had some GPX-Tracks which I recorded with my Sony Erricson V600i some months ago, and used them to map parts of my home town Wernigerode. It's kind of addictive.

Zur Feier des Tages mit dem Rad zur Arbeit gefahren Fallersleben ist fast unerschlossen, zumindest die "Fußgängerzone" (eigentlich Spielstraße) existiert jetzt, das Kino jetzt auch. Auf dem Rückweg ein wenig am Mittellandkanal entlag - eine Brücke, die in der Garmin-Topo und in Google auf dem Luftbild noch da ist, existiert nicht mehr.
Das Neubaughetto von Sülfeld habe ich auch kennengelernt.

No nyt alkaa olemaan ihan keskusta jo teitten suhteen kivalla mallilla, asutusalueista puuttuu joitain pikkuteitä ja jotain alueita en vielä ole edes aloittanut... keskustan ulkopuolelta puhumattakaan.. =)

With notebook and Hicom-GPS-mouse I did a test track driving home from work. The last waypoint seems to be wrong, no idea why. A large line is drawn from my last position in northern direction.

Finished Hamilton today.

Tomorrow I will try for the last few bits of the city centre.

If you're on an A or B road where the local council has chosen not to signpost the number (ref), find a railway bridge, and look for the little Network Rail plate saying "If you hit this bridge...". These have the number handily written on them. This is helpful.

Except in Burton, where the local scrubbers have, er, scrubbed out the number.

Even the bridge over the Trent & Mersey near Stenson has one of these: "If you see any waterborne vehicle hitting this bridge..." How much damage do they think a narrowboat travelling at 3mph is going to do?!

Woohooo... no one had done the desert road in New Zealand yet so I got to map from Levin through to Taupo. Super easy with the satellite map. This is addictive!

all visible streets in Stadtteil Hornau

Tracked and added a couple of sections of road around the outside of the town.

Added some more detail to some of the roundabouts I have already added.

Hamilton today. Got the cyclepaths that criss-cross it down (far more extensive network that I'd expected), and then mapped residential streets in the northern part.

Managed 10 miles in around 2.5 hours (not counting travel to/from), getting better.

Well, it's now possible to get to Killarney and
Killorglin, County Kerry by road from Cork.
(And back to Cork again for anyone who gets homesick).

Also possible to visit the historic towns of Kinsale and
Bandon from Cork city !!!!