[talk-au] 'Break in' the list

[Brent Easton]

My Turn :)

I discovered OSM a week or so ago from references on the Tracks4Australia mailing list. I sent some tracks off to T4A 18 months ago, but it appears to have totally stalled. Fortunately, I kept all the traces and was able to process them all into OSM in a couple of days.

I live in Berry, a couple of hours south of Sydney and am working on the local towns and rural roads in between. I also travel up to Western Sydney, The Blue Mountains and Gosford semi irregularly, so will fill in the conencting roads in between. Plus geocaching trips.

I use an Etrex Legend sitting on the dash of my car and get pretty good results. I have just ordered a cable to connect it to my Palm T|X, plus power both units from the lighter socket so I can try logging the raw data. It will be interesting to see if I get more data - it tends to get a bit thin on Etrex sometimes.

I use JOSM for working with tracks and being a Java programmer, I am working on a JOSM plugin to properly duplicate ways to make divided roads easier. 

What is your experiences with the Yahoo Maps overlay in Potlatch? In my experience it appears to pretty well georefenced - Roads I have mapped by GPS sit right on the road image in the Yahoo overlay. The Landsat imagery on the other hand, I have found next to useless.

I'm also having a look at the available coastline data and have converted it to GPX so I can upload it bit by bit. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to match up too well with real life - I've done a bit of local stuff with PotLatch. Sadly, I don't have hi-res Yahoo imagery around Berry, it covers Wollongong and North and Jervis Bay, but I am setting in a lo-res blur :(

Good to here from others,
Cheers,
Brent.

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On 23/07/2007 at 6:30 PM Cameron Patrick  wrote:

>Brendan P wrote:
>
>> I thought that I might jump in and introduce myself with the hope of
>kicking 
>> off some activity and to get an idea of who else is out there and where.
>
>Ooh.  I'll do the same - the list has about a dozen members now from
>various parts of the country (and at least one furriner - hi 80n :-).
>
>I'm Cameron, from Perth on the left-hand side of the country; some may
>know me on IRC where I go by the nick 'cameron'.  I've been involved
>with openstreetmap for a few weeks now, since shortly after buying a
>GPS.  I've done a lot of the main roads around Perth - there was very
>little there when I began.  Now there's nice blocks of white space ready
>for people to fill in with roads!
>
>I also went on a 20,000km drive around Australia with a friend at the
>start of the year.  We have traces recorded on his GPS which I've used
>to add in the route across the Nullarbor (Perth to Adelaide).  I may add
>in some other major highways from there too as time and enthusiasm
>permits.  Unfortunately we had the GPS set to the least frequent logging
>interval so the traces are a bit mediocre - but it's better than a blank
>space where a highway or town should be!
>
>Oh, and yesterday I put up WikiProject Western Australia - currently
>it's a list of main roads yet to be covered:
>       
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Western_Australia
>
>Cameron
>
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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au