OpenStreetMap

Started Mapping :)

Posted by Stead on 28 April 2008 in English.

Started adding my first roads in last night, after waiting a good 9 hours to upload my trace, then be told its invalid then convert it to the right format and reupload again (another 9 hours!)

anyways. I've started mapping the pencoed, heol y cyw, brynna area's (heol y cyw is practically complete apart from street names which i will collect over the next few weeks), and around 2/3 small streets which you are not allowed down. also theres a lot of water works in my area so many lanes I cannot drive down as they are closed for a few more weeks for maintance (and some are just so bad i'm avoiding till last)

even got some streets that no other major map provider has (yet, and since I live in wales will proberbly be another decade away unless they use this data!)

I must admit I get a great satisfaction from adding to the maps!

Glad to be part of this project ;)

Discussion

Comment from Steve Chilton on 28 April 2008 at 16:53

Welcome to the project! The long wait for uploads is not normal, although it does tend to happen Sunday evening's when folk upload their weekend's tracks.
You don't have to wait for a track to be processed in order to map it - if you're using JOSM then you can load it in locally and if you're using Potlatch you can click on the edit link beside the track to load it straight into Potlatch.

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