I'll ramble a bit.

I just completed a large chunk of Newcastle in JOSM (Yahoo tracing). I finally got around to setting up my desktop computer again after the move from Lismore and since JOSM runs much faster on it than on my eeepc a lot got done.

One surprise though was the discovery of a dead mouse inside my PSU. One of our dogs was licking the back of my computer so I looked inside. Hopefully I can sleep with the smell.

I added a few cycleways around Newcastle Uni yesterday, soon it might be worth extending the cycle map up this way (2 weeks ago there was only ~5km of cycleway drawn).

There's an insane amount of name collection to do around Newcastle now. No way I'll be able to find time to do it all myself. We need more contributors! *thinks of more ways to advertise OSM*. Hopefully the increased coverage will attract more people. As the map becomes more useful it will be great to see it in more practical applications.

It'd be cool if geocaching.com.au could add OSM to their list of cache location maps, that would certainly increase the awareness of OSM anyway.

I can't wait to see this Wednesday's Mapnik update for Newcastle, so much has been added in the last week!