Street mapping Australia Rivett, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By mtrax on 09-Oct-07. Waypoint GA0896

I've not realised what you could put into OSM. And it turns out - a lot. I've begun to poke around my neighborhood and update attributes on the paths, as it seems everything else is well dialed in. I'm going to investigate desire lines now, as there a few that could be added to make navigating my neighborhood a bit easier

Smittengranny

Well I haven't mapped any OSM tracks for a while but I was quite active in Brisbane and surrounds a couple of years ago. I think I have some tracks currently on the GPS that I thought I should add also so that might add a box around Canberra. Image attached of my edit histories (from my OSM site profile). If you feel this doesn't comply with this cache's intentions e.g. not being in Canberra, or not being recent; then I can delete my log.
Thanks mtrax. OSM maps down here are very good/comprehensive really.

Found lots of the walking tracks to GCA Trigs I do don't appear in Openstreetmaps, so added them in whenever I do a walk to one.

Some I've added are:
Mt Stilwell http://geocaching.com.au/cache/tp3511.gmap
Island Bend Area http://geocaching.com.au/cache/tp1577.gmap
Mt Franklin http://geocaching.com.au/cache/tp5301.gmap

Plus some tracks around the Pinnacle in Hawker. Added Kama Nature Reserve off William Hovell Drive in Hawker, plus a walk there. Must finish mapping it all sometime.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-35.3428&lon=149.027&zoom=14

That should be the right map however can't seem to get it to show properly. Along Eucumbene Dr there is a track inside the fence and outside the fence and this trace is of the one outside the fence. It also looks like I did this over 10 months ago but didn't think it worked so gave up. Looked again tonight and the trace is there.

TFTC and the frustration (as you know from earlier discussions)

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Walked the walking trail from Kambah Pool to the Cotter (again) and uploaded my trace. Approx 3 km of the trail was gone and I relied on my GE trace I had drawn in prior to the walk to get me back to the track.

I tried to upload all my saved track files, but unfortunately saved tracks from my etrex have the timestamps removed and so they all failed.

Might be worth noting that you need to upload your active track log.

Went for a long walk this afternoon and walked most of the firetrails along Farrer Ridge and uploaded a gpx trace, which shows all the connections from the trail to the streets that aren't shown on OSM.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/winglen/traces/739178

Not sure what the process is to incorporate this into the published version of OSM, but will keep looking.

Thanks mtrax.

I've been mapping Lyneham Primary School and the Lyneham Shops. I love OSM!

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On 20/3/2010 we are having an OSM mapping party at the Botanic Gardens. Meet at the cafe area at 10am - bring along your tracking device and off we will go and map the paths around the gardens.
Register at http://mappingparty.eventwax.com/canberra-mapping-party-2/

Over the weekend I mapped a couple of walking trails near Woods Reserve/Gibraltar Falls on Corin Road, plus details of the actual campsite:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-35.48244&lon=148.93587&zoom=16&layers=B000TTF


Also did a chunk of Sale in Victoria when I was down there earlier this year:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-38.11072&lon=147.08287&zoom=15&layers=B000TTF

Added Laurel Camp Rd and some other dirt roads behind the Cotter... I uploaded a GPX file into the trace section, and could see the trace "playback" - I assume I need to wait before I see it in the main map? I haven't had a chance to identify the road type yet...

Also, I can't figure out how to download bits of the map into my GPS as GPX files...

All good fun.

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I have been adding information to OSM for around 12 months.

I originally started adding the Kangaroo Island and outback trips but my biggest effort was a large chuck of the Adelaide Hills around home.

http://openstreetmap.org/user/ScottT

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Milsons Point and Kirribilli are mostly done with streets and street names surveyed on the ground.
When I started mapping big chunks of the north side of Sydney were empty. Now everything is pretty much filled in and slowly getting surveyed. I am looking forward to the day soon that OSM maps become not only an option but the best option for my Garmins.

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I've become hooked on OSM!

I've been mapping the Launceston/Tamar Valley region as well as any small towns I go through on my frequent travels.

I've mapped some hefty chunks of Tasmania, and I'm loving it!

http://openstreetmap.org/user/CraigRat

Glenmore Park, western Sydney.

Still a work in progress, but the hard work at least has been completed. What a spaghetti maze this suburb of Sydney is. It is where my partner's parents live.

Amazed at the pace of the project since I started getting involved about 18 months ago.

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Great to get some free data,! Mabye this could be converted to a loc cache for all to enjoy... or a new one following this format?!? Below is my contribution for Katherine, NT.

OSM Katherine

Edited: Didn't realise this was canberra specific so log changed to noted.

Mapped my local area OSM Parkside

Also mapped some areas around work S34 53.800 E138 37.00, but that's still a work in progress!

Thanks for the cache.

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Over the past months, i've been adding detail to Leeton...
OSM Leeton

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2(+861=863) 7:45pm

I first heard about this and thought that this was not my cup of tea.

I can't wait for my edits to be updated on the main map server and be viewable....

Thanks mtrax

*Overall Experience: 3*
http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Rating

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FINALLY. That WAS a PAINFUL experience. I found it easier riding the required 148.1km, than the overall procedure.

Last saturday, I started off finding a GC cache in west Belconnen. I then (all on the bike of course, from home), went and circumnavigated the following lakes with the GPS tracker on: Lake Ginninderra, Yerrabi Pond, Lake Burley Griffen and finally Lake Tuggeranong, then back home, completing 148.1km for the day.
That night I loaded the gpx files into open street map, after the tricky gpxBabel conversion process.

Sunday, I was notified the tracks were successfully downloaded - indeed they were. Then drop out after drop out, unresponsiviness after unresponsiviness, their "maintenance" symbol appearing many times (which from their Help, indicates they are having problems at their end (congestion etc) ), and after 2 hrs, of hassle, I had loaded and named Yerrabi pond cycle track and Lake Ginninderra cycle track. I then gave it away for the day as it kept on telling me they were too congested.

Monday afternoon - I finished Lake Burley Griffen and Lake Tuggeranong cycle tracks super QUICK, then checked everything - and all 4 Canberra Lake cycle tracks are in, loaded and named! Yay.

Thanks mtrax for the learning and interesting experience. Not your fault they are congested our Sundays.

So, now, the cycle tracks circumnavuigating the following 4 Canberra lakes are in!
1 - Lake Ginninderra, Belconnen.
2 - Yerrabi Pond, Gunghalin.
3 - Lake Burley Griffen, including ALL the basins.
4 - Lake Tuggeranong.

Thanks mtrax, one big 148.1km Coooeeeeeeeee.

I've surveyed and mapped Campbell, bits of the Airport and Symondstown, parts of Queanbeyan and parts of the stuff to the East of it.

Also the Far South Coast and some bits of the Sunshine Coast.

I wish I'd known about this when I was driving around California, although there is one intersection of the interstates in Vegas that I wouldn't be keen to map.

I have mapped and named all the streets of Hawker and finished off the the mapping and naming of Weetangera. I also named all the streets in Cook. Looking forward to seeing the finished maps later this week when they are refreshed. My first GCA cache. Thanks mtrax

Spent a bit of time tonight entering all of Conder into the map. Yet to enter all the street names, but the roads should be there. Street names can be for another night. I love the idea of opensource information, and happy to do my bit for this one. Thanks for showing me the web site.