OpenStreetMap

Went a little bit crazy recently with the mapping. It's an awesome hobby, and it's a dangerous distraction from real life.

In the past few days I've got a few more streets and names in the little pocket of Narangba I've been mapping. I've also gone through and marked out residential areas and leisure areas along the greenway in that area too.

I've added a load of residential zoning in and around Banyo, mostly from memory and local knowledge. I went as far out as I could before I started getting too fuzzy on the details so I'm not concerned there's many mistakes, especially looking at somewhere like Toowoomba where the landuse=residential has been applied liberally and without bias.

I've also been upgrading the railways with more detail. I say "upgrading" but I'm really of two minds as to whether I'm mutilating them or doing a service for railfans everywhere. I'm a bit biased in that I love the intricate details, of multiple rails, platforms, underpasses and whatnot that I'm adding but I'm not entirely sure if it's healthy for the overall map. No other map goes into such minute detail as individual lines without a good reason, so maybe in the future when the map data starts getting massive, this can be another cycle-map style spin-off, leaving the main render with a simpler version? I don't know.

I also went for a little walk around Toombul with a pal of mine and we got the same footways that David Dean added just days earlier. The minutely updated/noname tiles aren't updating any more, so I didn't know it had already been done when we set out. Still, I got some extra streets that didn't exist on the map (another living street too, second I've found in Brisbane!) and filled out some other small details.

And I just uploaded my backlog of GPS traces. I kind of doubled up on a few older ones by mistake, but it's far too much effort to work out which, and delete them manually. I ought to write a script to, though.

Discussion

Comment from RodCub on 26 May 2009 at 05:13

I have had fun doing Gosnells, WA, AU and Parmelia, WA, AU

Comment from alv on 26 May 2009 at 07:13

There's no reason not to add detail to railways, too.
http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=60.22&lon=24.944&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF
There's also a page of examples of detailed mapping of several feature classes:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sample_areas

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