I started to tell friends about OSM. Most of them were wondering "Why would someone need this? We have google Maps!". After a few words about Copyright most of them agreed that OSM is rather important for us all.

One of them (Uwe) instantly started to put in the name and position of his home (Kuxwinkel near Schlagenthin).

An my ohter friend (Alex) even took my GPS device, coupled it with his mobile phone, and went off to map his home village Berßel (not present until that day) which I linked below (maybe visible in the Tiles@home layer only). Impressive work if you consider it was his first day mapping!

He also implemented my idea of a virtual Tiles@home-client, so we could spread OSM even more, because setting up a render client won't be pain anymore. We are currently awaiting an accout. As soon as we got it, we will optimize the virtual client, and you all can start rendering.

There seems to be a cartographer in most of us. I'm looking forward to the future developement of OSM.