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Oct 2020
11:07am, 12 Oct 2020
16,680 posts
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Chrisull
Brutalist architecture one... ears prick up! That sounds the biz
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Oct 2020
11:45am, 12 Oct 2020
151 posts
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Incognito
Diogenes, I actually ran two laps of a BMX track, with jumps and everything to map the correct route (https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.61050/-1.97558).
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Oct 2020
11:47am, 12 Oct 2020
53,753 posts
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Diogenes
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Oct 2020
12:09pm, 12 Oct 2020
12,901 posts
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Markymarkmark
Nice work on OSM.
We (Aviva, my employer) have a corporate charity partnership deal with the Red Cross, and we're being encouraged to use our volunteering hours to help map (this year) an area of Niger to help humanitarian efforts (if needed) actually get to where they're needed. Apparently a humungous chunk of the globe still doesn't have relaible mapping, so it can be hard to find places, estimate how many people live there, what access i like, and so on.
Basically we get assigned a digital satellite picture, on which we then trace features (roads, watercourses, paths, buildings) onto an overlay - which is then verified and street names/buildings identified etc. by locals.
As well as doing some good, it's actually very soothing and slightly addictive!
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Oct 2020
12:14pm, 12 Oct 2020
14,257 posts
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Garfield
That sounds fascinating MMM...I might look that up to be able to use my volunteering hours on something useful.
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Oct 2020
12:41pm, 12 Oct 2020
4,077 posts
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K5 Gus
OSM editing query
I've never edited before, just done a couple of local paths that were missing, nice straightforward, straight paths. I've now got a longer, twistier track thru the forest to add. Do I just have to draw it freehand, or is there any way I can use an accurate Garmin/fetch/strava gps trace ?
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Oct 2020
1:00pm, 12 Oct 2020
4,078 posts
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K5 Gus
Just found there's a "GPS Traces" option where you can upload a GPX file.
Does this just get added to a library of "routes" you can browse in case you're visiting a new area, or can you use part of the route to add missing sections of path, as per my query above ?
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Oct 2020
1:31pm, 12 Oct 2020
152 posts
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Incognito
on OSM, there might be a better way, but for paths and things I place a node at each point it changes direction by hand and the way between the nodes becomes the path. I use JOSM so I can overlay GPX tracks to follow, but I don't know any way to do it automatically.
I think, that the GPS traces are there for mappers to download and follow when they are mapping. I've not used them myself, so I could be wrong.
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Oct 2020
1:46pm, 12 Oct 2020
562 posts
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CreatureOfTheHill
For those discovering OSM.
You can put the map data onto devices too. The old GPS for the car ran OSM.
More importantly, our Etrex 30 runs OSM maps with contour data, and kicks into the long grass paid for maps.
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Oct 2020
1:57pm, 12 Oct 2020
3,940 posts
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StuH
I've done a little editing, but not very experienced. You can show the GPS traces layer and follow them while plotting a path, don't think you can convert a trace to a path.
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