User:Uroesch
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I do pretty much all my mapping on foot or occasionally by bicycle. My base is in Futakotamagawa and the surrounding area. The streets around my base have mostly been completed. Now I'm branching out a bit further but try to stay mostly in the Setagaya-ku area.
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My Mapping Techniques
Tools
- Editor: Merkaartor
- GPS Unit (Walking): Garmin etrex Vista HCx
- GPS Unit (Riding): Holux M-241
- Conversion (Garmin): GPSbabel
- Conversion (Holux): BT747
- Garmin Maps: Home grown scripts
- Map Lint: Keep Right
Trace File Naming Conventions
I try to name my files so I can remember where and when they were taken. Since I do most of my mapping on foot the range is rather small and the method described below works for me.
<Country>_<Administrative Division>_<Place>_YYYYMMDD_HHMM.gpx
e.g.
Japan_Tokyo_Futakotamagawa_20090131_1530.gpx Switzerland_Aargau_Koblenz_20090717_1530.gpx
For Tokyo the place is the closest station as this is easier to pinpoint later where the trace started.
Mapping Guidelines
- Guideline 1
- Walk without too many turns. I think it yields a better GPS track.
- Guideline 2
- Walk the street to the end or until the next large road. That way you I don't have to come back again to finish it :)
- Guideline 3
- Map white spots and cover as much ground as possible.
- Guideline 4
- Update the map of the GPS unit daily to avoid duplication.
- Guideline 5
- Only map more details (POIs) when going back to a place regularly.
Focus Areas
Setagaya
Found a new way to map more :). These days I'm taking a detour on my way back from work and hop of at another station walk the streets that have not been surveyed yet. The limit to to the north is the Odakyu line (see picture for better overview)
Area in Setagaya-ku I'm trying to map.
Kinuta Park
My focus was on Kinuta Park in my neighbourhood which I frequent quite regularly. Recently I had not as many occasions to visit but below is a list of things that are still on my todo list.
Todo
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Dog Trail (100% done) -
Wood (100% done) -
River (100% done) - Bird Sanctuary Lake (0% done)
- Kiosks (1 missing)
- Fences (5% done)
- Playground details (0% done)
- Admin buildings (0% done)
- Labeling all the areas (10% done)
- Benches (10% done)
- Water fountains (0% done)
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Kinuta Park when taking it under my wings
Kinuta Park when I first set foot on it.
Kobe, Japan
Did some mapping in Kobe over the 2010 Golden Week vacation. Kobe is still pretty bare compared to other large cities in Japan tho.
Went back for another short vacation in June 2010 and added more details. The activities this time included a few bus rides to various places.
There is another trip planned for October 2010 so I hope to get more streets mapped.
Koblenz, AG
During my summer vacation 2009 I mapped my home town. I think the results are quite good. Still missing the house numbers and there are no good satellite images for Switzerland to really complete the job.
In 2010 I went back for another vacation and I added house numbers (with the exeption of the farmhouses) and the streams (complete with the exception of the one going into the Giritz). I also expanded largely on the power lines, poles and towers but there are still some gaps for the line from Kraftwerk Klingnau to Bad Zurzach (Kli-Zu) where only a few poles are maped.
Before / After comparison for 2009 vacation
Koblenz, Switzerland before 2009 summer vacation
Koblenz, Switzerland after 2009 summer vacation
Status
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Random Bits and Pieces
Mount Fuji
2009 Hike
Did climb Mount Fuji in August of 2009. Giving my then shiny new Garmin gear a little endurance test. During descent I took a wrong turn instead of going down the Yoshida trail I ended up on the Subashiri one. At the 5th station I was in Shizuoka prefecture rather than on the expected Yamanashi side. Luckily for OSM someone else did do the Yoshida trail around the same time so we ended up with more data :).
2010 Hike
Did another hike up Mount Fuji this time with a tad more prepration. To make the trip more useful for OSM I choose the Gotemba trail for the ascent and the Fujinomiya one for the descent. Starting at the New Gotemba 5th station there was a lot of fog which lasted nearly up 2500m above sea level and I got of the track twice. But after getting above the clouds the weather was gorgeous and the data should be very accurate.
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Hakone
Mapped some of the tourist ship routes on Lake Ashinoko during a one day trip.
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T-shirt Design
Created my first ever custom made T-shirt with a large Japanese apparel supplier. At the time of this writing I'm still waiting for the delivery but I want to share the design anyways. It's a bit of a word play in Japanese. POI when read without pronouncing each letter separately means litter in Japanese. I hope it will turn a few heads on the street. The back is having the OSM logo near the neck an the www.openstreetmap.jp URL.
For those of you that are interested the design was done in Inkscape and the fonts used are みかちゃん (Mikachan) for the front design and Inconsolata for the URL on the back of the shirt.
