On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Don Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the various replies, obviously there is sticky stuff going on so > a bit of background is useful. > In my area there are some roads that aren't mapped at all and some sections > of roads apparently not mapped so I will probably start with these. It might > be April before I get them done. > Most of what I expect to do will be straight from the GPSr. I currently use > a Etrex H (non mapping) which has a fairly small memory so will only do > relative shortish bits at a time. > Question: I use tracking settings 'auto' with a 'medium' accuracy which > looks OK when I load it up on the computer, does that sound OK? > I do have a couple of other questions but I'll firstly see if I can find the > answers on the tagging instructions page.
Hi Don, Welcome. Collecting data with a foot survey is the best way to get up-to-date data for OpenStreetMap. That's how you'll notice that one company has moved down the block and that a new one has opened in its place. Much of that information can be mapped well with nothing more exotic than paper and pencil. GPS and digital camera and other tools can be very helpful as well but don't let the lack of a large trackfile memory stop you. When you are collecting GPS data, start with the following settings. turn off "snap to road" save a data point every second Some settings like 'auto' might save you memory, but can also hide some of the data that you want to keep. Happy Mapping. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
