[OSM-newbies] Beginner in unmapped region - Adelaide, Australia

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Schulz" <pschulz01 at gmail.com>
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:20 PM
Subject: [OSM-newbies] Beginner in unmapped region - Adelaide, Australia


> Greetings,
>
> I have just bought myself s USB GPS receiver, and have started
> recording traces around Adelaide, South Australia. Inspired by the
> article in LinuxUser & Developer (Issue 67) I have subscribed to
> OpenStreetMap and uploaded a couple of traces, and am very keen to map
> my local area.. which is a new development and poorly services by
> existing road maps.
>
> The problem that I have now is what to do next.. there doesn't seem to
> be any background image information (I get the "...more OSI coming
> soon." image) if I zoom in too far on the map.

Paul

I've just requested an update of the tiles at home / osmarender layer for this 
area.

If you put the following URL into your browser and chose the Osmarender 
layer (expand the + sign at the top right of the map) you should see a road 
called "The Parkway" has been rendered, this appears to be the only way 
currently in the area, though I do note some more GPX traces, not yet 
converted to ways.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=-34.8121736504431&lon=138.610926069091&zoom=17

I'm afraid I can be of no help on Merkator, I use JOSM

David




> I have downloaded (compiled/installed) Merkaator, but don't understand
> what the 'Upload / Download' actions are ment to do. (Download gives
> me a map by Betje Wolffstraat, and the one used in the example in the
> Article.. nice, but how do I get started on my own area?)
>
> Is the idea for Merkaator to get the map data for the region I am
> looking at (if so how do I set that?), load my tracks and then edit
> the map (using them a a guide?) and then upload my changes?
>
> Any help/suggestions would be appriciated, otherwise I'll just keep
> creating traces :-)
>
> Cheers, thanks in advance,
> Paul (Wiki: PaulSchulz)
>
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