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Hrusov - home

Posted by melmoth_sk on 7 April 2010 in English.

Hrusov is village on the south of middle Slovakia quite close to Hungarian border - straight line cca 20 km.
South of Slovakia is mostly flat but our village is exception. The center of village has elevation 355 m and highest hill is 525 m above sea level.
There are around 900 inhabitants - around 10% is gypsy community.
People speak slovakian language.
Religion is Christian - catholic.
In Hrusov is long tradition of growing vine - vineyards area on the south.
Also in the village area you can see cellars where wine was stored also with seasonal vegetables and fruits. These cellars are dig in tuff-sandstone.
Still in nowadays is possible to see women wearing traditional costumes, mostly in dark colors - widow costume.
But also colorful traditional dresses are shown mostly during festivals, celebrations.
One of biggest folklore festivals in Slovakia is HONTIANSKA PARADA held in Hrusov.
It is in second half of august. This year 2010 it will be on 20th and 21st of august.
Some links:

http://www.hrusov.sk/ - official webpage in slovak

http://www.slovakia.travel/entitaview.aspx?l=2&llt=1&idp=28658 - about Hontianska Parada = Hont Parade

http://www.tourist-channel.sk/hrusov/indexen.php3 - some basic informations

Also you can find some videos on youtube.

lets start OSM

Posted by melmoth_sk on 6 April 2010 in English.

In march 2010 I got to know this OSM project and it seemed interesting to contribute, because in village where I live there were not that much data nodes saved.
I am using Garmin Legend HCx to save tracklogs and waypoints.
For editing I have started to use JOSM web-start on my Asus EEE 702 8GB netbook.
I have already put some most important objects on the OSM map but also encounter some problems.
Some objects are shawn some are not.
Still I am not sure if I am doing something wrong with editing because in JOSM everything seem ok. Maybe uploading was incorrect.
I also tried to use Garmin software packed with the unit but really was confused how to use it ( will re-try it later ).

My editing I am doing on a new layer over GPX file saved with Garmin unit.
Result of editing saving to .osm file.

Location: Hrušov, District of Veľký Krtíš, Region of Banská Bystrica, Central Slovakia, 991 42, Slovakia