User:Chas66

Chas66 submits data to OpenStreetMap under the name chas66.

This user uses or has experience with a Garmin Oregon 450 and is willing to answer questions on it from OSM users

Babel en This user is a native speaker of English.

Contents 1 About 2 Equipment 3 Garmin Legend HCx notes 3.1 General 4 Mapping Project Interests 4.1 Brisbane Valley Rail Trail 4.2 Queensland Police Stations

About

Beginning mapper, joining OSM in Dec 2009. Mapping in Australia, South East Queensland.

• twitter: @chas66
• email: chas66+osm (at) gmail (dot) com

Equipment

• Garmin Oregon 450 GPS
• Apple iPhone 4
  • iLOE app
  • OSMTrack
  • MapZen POI collector

Garmin Legend HCx notes

• Nice repeatable steps to setup a Legend to play nice with OpenStreetMap http://mapkibera.org/wiki/index.php?title=GPS_Setup - generally applies to the Oregon and Dakota too.

General

• Setup display screen
  • from map screen, menu, data fields, data field 4 (show time of day so can photograph the display for photo time correlation)
• Loading OSM maps vis micro SD card
  • Using Cloudmade errors map files - useful to show what bits are not mapped
  • Only issue I had with this is I reformatted the card on a mac. This made it FAT32 not FAT16 and the Garmin couldn't read it :-(
    • UPDATE: Fixed this by putting the micro-sd in a convertor, and then reformatting it in a camera - came out FAT 16 formatted and all was fine once I deleted the directories the camera made.
  • How to get routes (from GPSies or Bikely) onto the HCx and available for routing?

Mapping Project Interests

Brisbane Valley Rail Trail

A number of sections of the BVRT are already open http://www.brisbanevalleyrailtrail.org.au but have not yet been mapped: http://osm.org/go/ueEzWh I'd like to map them - OSM has tags for RailTrails already : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Rail_Trails - so anyone up for a bike ride?

Queensland Police Stations

The data is available online at http://www.police.qld.gov.au/station-locator/stationIndex.asp?type=Station under a liberal licence http://www.police.qld.gov.au/copyright.htm - I'd like to place these on the map, as even the commercial maps (Google, Bing, Yahoo et al) don't have some of the rural stations.