Wilson, you are soooo cool. This is awesome.
-- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net Do you have a businessplan? Make your idea work: www.startyourbusiness.ug On Thursday 31 December 2009 12:04:02 Wilson Abigaba wrote: > Thanks Reinier. > > I was able to drive and record the GPS traces of the northen bypass > with help of an iPhone (powered by Orange). I haven't added the > roundabouts but the attached trace has all the details. Below is a > quick view of the road. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.3437&lon=32.5924&zoom=13&layers=B000FTF > > Perhaps, with more partcipants, we'll have a better map with even more > towns covered. > > Warm Regards, > Wilson > > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Reinier Battenberg > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Wilson, > > > > Excellent work! > > > > We can add anything we want (as long as it is truthful), and definitly > > roads as well. > > The way to do that is to click the map once and then move your mouse, and > > click another time. If you are at the last point of your road, click > > twice. > > > > If your road connects to another road in real life, try to connect it to > > the existing roads on the map as well. > > > > There are also some tools to cut roads into parts (so you can rename or > > delete the individual parts). > > > > To map the whole bypass without arial imagiry, we might have to ask Rob > > Gipmap, our GPS guy, to drive up and down the bypass one afternoon and > > track it. Rob, dont forget to round all the roundabouts in full :-) > > > > In regards of your Google question. Google's licensing scheme is quite > > different from both OSM and Yahoo. Yahoo is actually friendly enough to > > allow us to use their imagery to map OSM. Google runs a commercial > > service. They do provide more detailed satelite images, but they will not > > allow you to use their images or download your own mapping data. Once you > > plot Kamwokya, Kamwokya will be owned by Google and you will have to use > > Google services to get to your own contribution. > > With OSM you can map Kamwokya and then create any map you want with that > > data, on or offline, in paper or as JPG, as long as you pay tribute to > > OSM. > > > > -- > > rgds, > > > > Reinier Battenberg > > Director > > Mountbatten Ltd. > > +256 782 801 749 > > www.mountbatten.net > > > > Do you have a businessplan? Make your idea work: www.startyourbusiness.ug > > > > On Wednesday 30 December 2009 11:35:40 Wilson Abigaba wrote: > >> Thanks Reinier! > >> > >> I've been able to map a few places in Kamokya. > >> > >> I noted the northern bypass and some other few lanes (like the one > >> opposite kobil petrol station connecting Kira road and Bukoto street, > >> where Digital Solutions is, is either missing or badly placed). The > >> picture also looks to be so outdated, may be more than 3 years old!). > >> Is it possible to map a new road and include it? > >> > >> I wish they could use google maps instead of yahoo! > >> > >> Warm Regards, > >> Wilson > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Reinier Battenberg > >> > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > It took a while, the walking papers servers. They got a bit stuck > >> > while processing them, but, here they are: > >> > > >> > http://walking-papers.org/scan.php?id=rwdbz659 > >> > http://walking-papers.org/scan.php?id=fn86252s > >> > > >> > If you would like to start mapping based on these scans here is what > >> > you do: > >> > > >> > - goto http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new and create an account > >> > - Once your account is activated, go to one of the scans pages > >> > - In the grey area at the bottom, login with your openstreetmap > >> > account - The online editor will start > >> > - Choose Edit with Save (to be sure the first time) > >> > - You can now see the scan of your map, and the points and roads that > >> > openstreetmap already knows. > >> > - Go ahead! Add some more detail!! > >> > > >> > When you dont understand the editor, read the help, its good. Here is > >> > the startpage: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch > >> > > >> > > >> > If you think this is fun, go ahead and do your neighourhood. Here is > >> > how minister's village is getting along. Most roads were there, but I > >> > am slowly working on some more roadnames and points of interest: > >> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.35154&lon=32.61889&zoom=16&layers= > >> >B00 0FTF > >> > > >> > Have Fun! > >> > > >> > -- > >> > rgds, > >> > > >> > Reinier Battenberg > >> > Director > >> > Mountbatten Ltd. > >> > +256 782 801 749 > >> > www.mountbatten.net > >> > > >> > Do you have a businessplan? Make your idea work: > >> > www.startyourbusiness.ug > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > LUG mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >> > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > >> > > >> > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them > >> > (including attachments if any). 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