OpenStreetMap
Added a few POIs and street stubs from a short walk through Northampton at the weekend.
I still haven't done much mapping outside of yahoo covered areas. It's difficult. Much more guesswork involved. I guess uploading tracks and comparing with other user's tracks is much more important.
...and what's the tag for a bingo hall?
Discussion
Comment from chillly on 2 December 2008 at 19:07
I find mapping with a GPS on the ground much easier than tracing a Yahoo image, but that's why we need different ways for different people. Bingo hall: no idea.
Comment from Harry Wood on 3 December 2008 at 09:54
People *purely* tracing over yahoo imagery isn't really "mapping" at all. It's sketching. A minor contribution. It's easy to whack in some lines. It's difficult to be sure you're getting it right. It's impossible to arrive at a finished map (can't see street names or bollards for starters)
But my normal approach is
1) Sketch an area from yahoo imagery first (or more commonly work in an area where someone's already done it)
2) Use a GPS + take photos while surveying
3) Use JOSM photo mapping features and YWMS plugin while putting in the data.
In ares without yahoo imagery coverage I can't do step 1 and step 3 feels a lot less accurate. But then I probably just need to do step 2 more seriously, rather then just casually strolling down a main road taking snaps of the side-roads, as I was on this occasion.