ste...@binaervarianz.de wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planing to do a longer holiday abroad and will take my GPS and > openstreetmap with me. > > I will probably find a lot of new things to map, but I won't have an > internet connection at hand. > Does anybody have some advice on how to keep track of things to add? > > I normally add points with notes directly on my GPS (eTrex), but that's > very time consuming, I can't do it while driving > and I only can add very short notes. I usually get frustrated with the > on-screen keyboard within 1 or 2 days and subsequently stop taking > notes. > > Only mark numbered points would be faster and easier, but I would have to > keep notes on another medium (paper notebook, netbook). > Merging these two data heaps will be time consuming afterwards. >
Why don't you do photo mapping [1]? You will still have to "merge" the information into osm but photos (with lat/lon in exif data) are quite easy to integrate into josm. As long as you have enough memory cards or disk space with you, you can map everything* very fast ;) best regards [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Photo_mapping * streets, foot-/cycleways, POIs, house numbers, power lines, trees, gullies, skyhooks, wormholes, black holes (are you going somewhere near CERN? take care of them), ... _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
