[talk-au] Today's Mapping

[Nick Hocking]

Great day mapping - tons of new roads (all virgin OSM) and some fixes to
recent mappings as well.

It goes to show that rechecking others' mapping will usually help improve
the quality of the map. I'm pretty sure that I've made a few mistakes in
today's mappings, so hopefully someone can check them at some stage.
Eventually I'll get around to rechecking all my own mappings but I may make
the same mistake again, so it is always useful to have a different pair of
eyes go over the information.

Today I found more  street signs in error, to add to my list to send to the
ACT government, and in a first, for me anyway, I found a street where every
street sign has the same error (all four of them).

My new GPS camera (TZ-30) worked pretty well and snapped a few good
geotagged bridge numbers (damm - Jessie Street bridge *still* hasn't got a
bridge number).

My new data logger (I-o-data) seems good but has some issues. I have 3
different sorts on order, so soon, I'll be able to review them from the
prospective of an OSM mapper.  Today's logs come from my Garmin but since
it was on virgin roads the points were real and not "snapped". Having OSM
maps on the Garmin was invaluable in checking OSM mapping since I could
check the street signs against what was appearing on the Garmin screen and
also the track log, displayed on the screen allowed me to easily drive all
the roads currently mapped in OSM so that I could check them out.

Whilst mapping today, I was wearing my SOTM 2012 tee shirt. This shirt
created a huge amount of interest in Japan where they could read the
symbols, but weren't quite sure of the context so they had to stop us and
talk to us about it.  We made many new OSM mappers over there, I'm sure.

In Australia the Chinese folk also can read the teeshirt but have a
completely different meaning to it. - All good fun stuff.
Tomorrow I will be mapping single track mountain bike trails and also
riding a couple of new suburbs to map or check them. I'm really not sure
what to do about track logs since the new data logger just wont cough up
todays logs yet, I'm not about to take the Garmin on the bike, which I will
probably crash a couple of times, at least, and my backup logger/work phone
is somewhere between Narita airport and Canberra Airport, and my old Mio
phones have terminally ill batteries. Maybe an old Garmin Nuvi will work
out - we'll see.
Nick
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