I'm back in London after a good Christmas holiday. I managed to progress the Holmfirth map a little bit, but perhaps more importantly I managed to teach my Dad to edit the map... maybe. It feels a little bit touch and go whether he will manage to master the technicalities of it after I've gone. It does look as though he will have the enthusiasm to go out and gather some more traces some time soon, so then hopefully he will be forced to remind himself how to edit some time in the near future. So the hope is that it will turn out like the "Teach a man to fish" proverb, except it's "teach a dad to map". This has also given me some ideas for things to explain differently in the Beginners Guide, and also some little things which could be more newbie friendly in JOSM.

I did a quick bit of mapping in Leeds, adding some bits to the little suburb of Chapel Allerton. Why is it that yahoo has no aerial imagary of this the UK's 5th biggest city? If anyone's experimenting with rocket/kite/balloon photography, this would be a good place to do it. In the meantime the Leeds community is doing an admirable job of mapping the city centre without it. Likewise in sheffield. I was able to just use the map while I was visiting there, which is always nice.

So back in London now, and it's the first London meet-up of 2009 on Wednesday.