User:DanielM

About me

My name is Daniel (obviously). I live in the southwest of Dortmund, Germany and work at the TU Dortmund. I use my GPS mainly for GPS-guided bicycle tours (road bike and trekking bike), but also for car navigation.

Mapping

My main focus as of now is extending the map of the area where I live. As I don't have infinite time, I will not do dedicated "mapping tours" often, but rather fill some gaps along the way. Therefore, I will be active mostly in the eastern Ruhrgebiet, especially Dortmund and Hagen (my hometown).

Personal Mapping/Tagging Standards

As OSM should be a useful data basis for navigational software or offline routing planners, I emphasize the correct capture of the following features:

• Restrictions: Access restrictions, weight limits, height limits etc.
• Speed limits: Useful for routing, obviously. Only non-standard limits should be tagged.

My personal OSM bookmarks

For personal use and as a suggestion for others, a few more or less helpful links:

• Map Features (German)
• German Road Tagging
• Karlsruhe Schema for address mapping
• "New" public transport mapping schema
• OpenStreetBugs, centered on Dortmund
• Keep Right, centered on Dortmund
• Comparison with Google Maps on sautter.com, centered on Dortmund
• Dortmund Wiki page
• OSM meeting Dortmund
• OSM, centered on Dortmund
• OpenStreetBrowser, centered on Dortmund
• OpenRouteService
• ÖPNV-Karte (public transport map), centered on Dortmund
• Map with opening hours, centered on Dortmund
• OSM maps for Garmin by Computerteddy
• All In One Garmin Map (German)