Re: Open Street Maps

Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
> Les Klassen Hamm wrote:
>> So I looked at the routes on my gps, and of course they are rather
>> random, have U turns, stop on a side street, etc. Is that helpful, or
>> is it best if they actually travel consistently down one street, and
>> so on?
>>
>
> It is helpful. Most of my routes so far have been me just going
> somewhere in the car. If you fire up the map editor (JOSM) and
> download all the GPS data points that have been uploaded from s'toon,
> you can clearly see the major roads that Scott and I travel on.
>
I concur. My first upload was just all my driving (when I remembered to
take the GPS) since Dec 31st. There was lots of crap in there, but the
main roads that I drove more than a few times were obvious. Strangely,
they were also the ones I knew offhand what their names were. ;-) Since
then, I've been taking roundabout routes at times just to drive on roads
I haven't already mapped. Of course, I have often forgotten the road
names by the time I get home, and looking them up on a map is a very big
no-no. (derived work...)
> Of course, it is a lot easier to get figure out the streets when I
> walk around to map out every nook and cranny of a street like the
> windy ones with all the suffixes in the 'burbs, but every bit helps. :)
>
Taking notes would be nice. Of course, it's probably not a healthy idea
while driving. Maybe a voice recorder would work.

ttyl
srw
Received on Fri Mar 2 22:46:26 2007