I’ve seen others use the diary feature to good effect, so I thought I’d join in. I actually have a lot of work backlogged from when I was in Iowa in December of 2019, to the train trip to and from the Washington, D.C. area in Dec 2019/Jan 2020 for MAGFest, as well as some work in the Champaign/Urbana area, where I’m local now.

Things on my to-do list:

Iowa/Illinois (outside of Champaign/Urbana):

• Replace the intersections at the IA 58/Main St interchange in Cedar Falls, Iowa with a dogbone interchange also known as a “raindrop roundabout”

Prince George County, Maryland:

• Add stops to the NH1 and NH2 bus routes. I have GPS waypoints for these

Champaign/Urbana area:

• Extend bike lane on County Fair Drive to Prospect Avenue
• Fix Greenbelt Bikeway near Heritage Park, which right now portrays an unbroken route and paved path in an area that has neither

Completed:

Iowa/Illinois:

• Added maxspeed and maxspeed:source tags to IL 5/John Deere Road in Rock Island and Moline
• Added expressway=yes tag to U.S. 63 between Waterloo and the New Hampton freeway bypass

Now that I know about the expressway and motorroad tags I’m going to be tagging roads with them. I’ll only do this for roads I’ve actually surveyed, however, and I’ll upload my GPS traces when I do as evidence I’ve actually been there. That’s a policy of mine in general, especially when editing OSM for areas outside of my local area, but as I’ve encountered edit wars on these things in the past this is an area where I like to have evidence to back up my edits should they get reversed.