[talk-au] 'Break in' the list
Andrew Loughhead
andrew at incanberra.com.au
Mon Jul 23 13:38:41 BST 2007
hi all,
I am in Canberra, have been on OSM since May 06 or a bit earlier. Did
lots of poking around nearby suburbs to collect lines before Yahoo
imagery became available. I use a GPS mouse and an old WinCE PDA on my
motor scooter, but I really want to get a NaviGPS or similar because of
the lack of wires, power cables and such.
I think the Canberra mapping is really coming along, there's a few
people now, and its interesting that people seem to work a bit
differently in complementary ways. The regional road network is largely
David Clarke's contribution, Lachlan and possibly someone else have been
doing parks and bike tracks in North Canberra and I've been doing lots
of suburban Potlatch lately. I hadn't done any parks, shops or features
apart from roads so its really nice seeing blobs of colour appearing on
the map as other people get shopping centres and similar marked in.
Where I have been a bit lazy so far is in getting street names or other
features. On the scooter voice recording or photography both seem quite
hard to organise. I am hoping to try a helmet cam over the next few
weeks. I think it is important to get primary data for street names, to
avoid any potential accusations of copyright breach. I know around
Canberra pinching data from other online sources would be fraught, just
because there are so many errors in sources like Google Maps.
John Clarke wrote:
> I used JOSM and it seemed pretty easy to use. The only thing I needed
> to do but couldn't figure out how was how to create an area (for a car
> park). Any clues would be appreciated.
>
I see Brent has already explained that - might be worth mentioning that
newer JOSMs have a "Reorder Segments" function which, applied to a way,
has the effect of pointing them all the same way.
> I have a NaviGPS (SiRF II chipset) which I find to be generally pretty
> good, except when travelling slowly.
Did you source it locally, or from Storage Depot on the web?
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