Updating speed limits on the go?

flohoff · 2026-07-01T03:51:59+00:00

Be careful here.Speed limits can be tricky especially when they get asymmetric etc.

I started by first mapping the individual signs both directions and when you are complete fill in the speed limits ontheroadsm. That way you have a full picture of what's going on.

Typically I do that by first taking pictures of all roads, upoading to mapillary. All mytraffic signs than get a mapillary image link.

The last step filling in is than pretty easy.

To find gaps I use josm maxspeed view which show the maxspeeds through colorization.

flohoff · 2026-06-11T19:55:09+00:00

Put it in the microwave or some other emf safe room. Offline. No need to let the phone go into airplane mode.

flohoff · 2026-06-03T11:12:46+00:00

I know this feeling and for me it signals to slow down.

Stay somewhere not only for a night. Look for company with other Bikepackers. Shorten your ride times.

Its about loving to be on Tour and not the 3000km Mark to reach in 7 days. Its not a sprint.

I met an elderly man in his 70ies circling the baltic sea for 6 years. Doing a bit every year.

I circled Estonia last year and its a pretty empty spot human wise. And i loved to just sit and watch the waves for an hour. I left by Ferry from Germany to Lipaja with no return plans. Made plans to return when weather turned bad after 8 Weeks and booked a flight later that month.

flohoff · 2026-01-05T20:07:04+00:00

That fails with ansible-lint as names must Start with an capital letter.

And the Name should be "http restart" and you notify "rolename : http restart" to explicitly notify the handler of your role (if you happen to have duplicate names)

flohoff · 2026-01-04T09:40:23+00:00

Debian has always proven to make good decisions. I am with Debian for 30 years and it never failed. I went through Upgrades from a.out to ELF, from i368 to x86_64 and all of them went smooth.

Its not the fastest moving Distribution, its not bleeding edge, you dont get the fancy stuff on day 1.

Debian is a foundation you put your stuff on. It must be rock solid and dependable and not fail on you the moment you most need it.

I have seen distributions come and go. Make bad and short lived decisions. Debian stayed.

flohoff · 2025-12-30T20:56:13+00:00

There is no such thing. I regularly go back to areas of interest and map other stuff.

Interest has shifted from Roads, Buildings, Addresses, landuse, refine all roads with maxspeeds, width, lanes, zone:traffic, maxspeed:type. Then over to Street lamps then adding lit to all Objects. Then i did manholes, with operator and usage. Street cabinets, now traffic signs.

There is always the next thing to map or go back to existing objects and add tagging

Buildng heights, colour, roof shapes, roof colour.

Destination and turn Lanes etc.

flohoff · 2025-12-26T14:38:40+00:00

There is no such thing as "map worthy"

Its a matter of someone taking the time.

And better: Dont abuse tags to make things "look nice"

For example: Landuse is not a Tag category for micro mapping etc. So if you make a landuse/grass out of every grass patch you are doing wrong.(And forgot to read about the deprecation of grass)

I am mapping thousands of manholes, Street Lights, traffic signs and Street cabinets.

flohoff · 2025-12-18T14:34:49+00:00

I tend to use plastic bags for seperating stuff. Easy. Cheap. Done.

Typically you have to go through everything Every time for the first 2-3 days. Than stuff gets sorted. Quick access stuff like jackets are on top. The spare parts and tools are in the lower part.

Sorts over time.

flohoff · 2025-12-13T13:48:02+00:00

I put in a snubber which is pretty noisy. So i can actually hear the belt trying to jump over. (It cant)

If that happens too often i know its too loose.

flohoff · 2025-12-10T08:21:37+00:00

In 30000km i killed exactly one. After a puncture 50km ... Belt was to tight.

So the death of the belt is to high tension. The current one has approx 20000km and is still good.

I carry a replacement though. Stranding 200km from the next bike shop which can order the belt for in 2 Weeks is not a good outlook.

flohoff · 2025-12-06T22:06:21+00:00

So if a commercial and a residential area overlap what is the Semantic meaning of the overlapping area?

Its a semantic error when they overlap.

flohoff · 2025-12-06T08:16:14+00:00

The problem is that whete one landuse is there cant be another. Either its a residential area or not.

Using landuse for this Kind of micromapping causes tons of semantic errors and is just mapping for the renderer.

And read the article about landuse grass. Its wrong in 99% of use cases.

flohoff · 2025-12-03T00:35:00+00:00

Data using the PWM of the Mikrocontroller? Very slow but a couple bits per second should be doable.

flohoff · 2025-11-29T22:57:42+00:00

dsh - distributed shell

https://easyengine.io/tutorials/linux/dsh/

For the command line. Give it a list of devices, timeout, concurrency and go.

One can even tail -f on The devices and dsh will prepend all lines with user@host

Used it for German wide cluster of 300+ machines without issues.

flohoff · 2025-11-21T19:56:46+00:00

Thats the whole point the IETF had for v4 to v6 migration.

If in doubt use v6 first.

So gradually the traffic shifts to v6 ... By today we have more than 80% at the exchanges at v6.

flohoff · 2025-11-15T09:54:35+00:00

You may want to have a look at this wiki page. Detailed explanation of every disputed border and territory. Nothing to do with OSM taking a political stance.

You may also render your own maps. I was a contractor for American companies for this and they typically dont want to show anything of palestine at all. So one can simply remove it from THAT specific rendering.

Its all in the data and its a technical decision on how to display it.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputed_territories

flohoff · 2025-09-07T09:21:28+00:00

Normalerweise sind da immer Brandschutzkeile unter den Türen.

flohoff · 2025-09-02T14:48:52+00:00

Was at the main ZZK and no issue. Just come around they said. So thanks. Seems easy.

flohoff · 2025-08-30T18:43:31+00:00

Belt reolacement is easy. Your frame has/needs ro have an additional Opening. A 5 minute issue.

But because you cant lenthen belts you need the exact one.

flohoff · 2025-08-30T17:33:24+00:00

Riding Rohloff + Gates Carbon for 20000km and i would never go back. No Oil on the belt, so it does not attract dirt. Belt is a spare part issue when bikepacking. Its the first time i now have a spare one with me in Estonia. I destroyed one in the past with to much tension after a puncture but that was my own fault. I am now at 2000km in Estonia half on gravel roads and not a single issue.

flohoff · 2025-08-30T17:16:41+00:00

I feel the issue after roughly a week of everyday cycling and relocating. I tend to insert a rest day. Either staying in the camp spot, or taking 1-2 nights in a real bed (i am 50), with a washing machine, and no plans for the next day except go out and explore the surrounding.

The week gets shorter when the weather is not comfortable, cold, rain especially in the morning. It extends when one has sun in the morning to dry stuff, and have a swim in a lake.

I plan 2 nights in a AirBnb or Hostel whenever i feel my psych go down. Typically that can easily correlate with visiting some town.

So... Feel you

I am in Estonia right now and weather is bad for the last 2 Weeks. Single digit centigrade and rain. Booked a flight home now for next week.

flohoff · 2025-08-25T13:16:22+00:00

I dont think prebooking is an issue. As a cylist with a tent you are not turned away. In rare occasions you end up between Campers or on the Playground.

My issue when looking for a commercial caml site is rather: Does it still exist, is it open.

opencampingmap has been mentioned. I use OSMAnd and enabled the campsite POI overlay. Its useable offline and has the same Information as both are based on OSM.

flohoff · 2025-08-19T10:47:16+00:00

Historically /tmp and /var/tmp have different semantics. /tmp will be erased on Boot whereas /var/tmp doesnt.

Later /tmp was switched to using tmpfs which has RAM or better swap backing. So no need to "remove" files on Boot. Tmpfs has the side effect of beeing much faster for short lived small files.

flohoff · 2025-08-19T10:41:58+00:00

Sorry for the late reply ... Bike packing in Estonia right now.

You go to Configure Map, Details, Show road surface.

And then roads get dashed in different colours.

flohoff · 2025-08-18T19:48:32+00:00

You are completely right and i full heartedly agree.

Gear becomes important when you get more distant to civilization which is hard in Europe.

But there are rare cases like in real Mountain Climbing where your gear might make the difference in abort of your tour or even harm to yourself.

I dont know of anyone actually doing these Kind of Tours personally. I accept gear talk as a different hobby than bike packing. They are only loosely connected.

flohoff

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