I've been wondering why Google / Yahoo has never bothered building a proper map for Jakarta. Now I know why: the city is huge and unplanned, therefore it is not an easy city to map.

I've been wanting to do this a long time. And then yesterday I stumbled upon Openstreetmap inadvertently through Flickr. All along I thought the only way to do this is through Wikimapia!

I'm learning as I go along by working in neighborhoods I'm familiar with. I hope one day we have a Jakarta map that is as detailed as some of the beautiful German maps here.