So today was my first day in Lismore after moving up here for study. As it stands my first lecture isn't until Thursday (and only every Thursday after that :p) so there's a fair bit of time left over for mapping :).

Today saw a few incidental bits and bobs mapped like a few lanes and the local Aldi which were cycled down on my errands. In the afternoon I headed out for a ride and ended up mapping a chunk of Lismore Heights.

I've got all sorts of plans to map the surrounding area. The most ambitious is an overnight cycling tour which will include camping in the Nightcap National Park.

After coming home and entering the collected data I spent an hour or so tracing over creeks and rivers around the place. This is a fairly high rainfall area so there are a lot of waterways around the place. Unfortunately the Yahoo and Landsat imagery is only good enough to do some of them but the ABS suburb boundaries provide a lot of good hints.

One thing that is really annoying though is JOSM randomly disconnecting ways when tracing things. For example when tracing a river it will draw several connected nodes and then randomly stop the way and draw the next node disconnected. It's like the shift key is sending phantom signals to JOSM. Anybody know why this may be? I've got the nearclick plugin installed, perhaps it's screwing things up?